Aqueous sodium hydroxide

Place I g. of benzamide and 15 ml. of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution in a 100 ml. conical flask fitted with a reflux water-condenser, and boil the mixture gently for 30 minutes, during which period ammonia is freely evolved. Now cool the solution in ice-water, and add concentrated hydrochloric acid until the mixture is strongly acid. Benzoic acid immediately separates. Allow the mixture to stand in the ice-water for a few minutes, and then filter off the benzoic add at the pump, wash with cold water, and drain. Recrystallise from hot water. The benzoic acid is obtained as colourless crystals, m.p. 121°, almost insoluble in cold water yield, o 8 g. (almost theoretical). Confirm the identity of the benzoic acid by the tests given on p. 347. 

Add I ml. (1 04 g.) of aniline to 15 ml. of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution contained in a wide-necked bottle as before, and then add 1-5 ml. (1-7 g.) of benzoyl chloride, and shake vigorously for 15-20 minutes. The mixture becomes warm, and the crude benzoyl derivative separates as a white 

Dissolve 2 g. of anthranilic acid in 12 8 ml. of 5% aqueous sodium hydroxide, or in 16 ml. of A -NaOH solution in a 50 ml. conical flask. (It is essential that the concentration of the hydroxide solution is accurately known.) Add i-6 ml. of dimethyl sulphate, and shake the securely-stoppered flask vigorously. 

Boil a mixture of 5 ml. (4 g.) of acetonitrile and 75 ml. of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution in a 200 ml. flask under a refluxwater-condenser for 30 minutes, when hydrolysis will be complete. Detach the condenser and boil the solution in the open flask for a few minutes to drive off ull free ammonia. Then cool the solution, and add dilute sulphuric acid (i volume of concentrated acid 2 volumes of water) 

Dissolve log. of powdered toluene-p-sulphonamide in 6o ml. of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide (2 5 mols.) diluted with 50 ml. of water to moderate the reaction. Then, using the same precautions as in the previous preparation, add 127 ml. (17 g., 2 3 mols.) of dimethyl sulphate and shake the mixture vigorously. The crystalline dimethylamide rapidly separates from the warm 

Place 0 5 ml. of acetone, 20 ml. of 10% aqueous potassium iodide solution and 8 ml. of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution in a 50 ml. conical flask, and then add 20 ml. of a freshly prepared molar solution of sodium hypochlorite. Well mix the contents of the flask, when the yellow iodoform will begin to separate almost immediately allow the mixture to stand at room temperature for 10 minutes, and then filter at the pump, wash with cold w ater, and drain thoroughly. Yield of Crude material, 1 4 g. Recrystallise the crude iodoform from methylated spirit. For this purpose, place the crude material in a 50 ml. round-bottomed flask fitted with a reflux water-condenser, add a small quantity of methylated spirit, and heat to boiling on a water-bath then add more methylated spirit cautiously down the condenser until all the iodoform has dissolved. Filter the hot solution through a fluted filter-paper directly into a small beaker or conical flask, and then cool in ice-water. The iodoform rapidly crystallises. Filter at the pump, drain thoroughly and dry. 

To 2 ml. of a freshly prepared dilute aqueous solution of sodium nitroprusside, add 2 drops of ethyl malonate and shake then add 2-3 drops of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution and shake again. A red coloration at once appears, but fades in a few minutes to pale brown, 

Hydrolysis of Benzonitrile. Benzonitrile is moderately readily hydrolysed by 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide, but only slowly by hydrochloric acid (cf. p. 122). Ready hydrolysis is obtained by boiling the nitrile under reflux 

In the example given below, phenylarsonic acid is reduced to dichlorophenyh arsine, Ccll jAsCl. This compound when added to aqueous sodium hydroxide and treated with benzyl chloride gives benzylphenylarsinic acid, which is readily isolated from solution. 

Example. Dissolve 0 3 g. of />-chlorobenzoic ncid in a small quantity of warm ethanol (about 10 ml.), and ctlrefully add 5 o aqueous sodium hydroxide drop- wise until the solution is just pink to phenolphthalein. Evaporate to dryness on a water-bath. Dissolve the sodium -chlorobenzoate in a minimum of water, add a solution of 0-5 g. of phenacyl bromide in ethanol (about 5 ml.), and boil the mixture under reflux for i hour, and then cool. The phenacyl ester usually ciy stallises on cooling if it does not, add water dropnise with stirring to the chilled solution until separation of the ester just begins. Filter the ester, wash on the filter with water, drain and recrystallise from ethanol m.p. 90 . The /)-bromophenacyl ester is similarly prepared, and after recrystallisation from aqueous ethanol has m.p. 128 . (M.ps., pp. 543-545.) 

Method(B). Add3g. (3ml.)ofbenzonitrileto50ml.of lo-volumes hydrogen peroxide in a beaker, stir mechanically and add i ml. of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution. Warm the stirred mixture at 40° until the oily suspension of the nitrile has been completely replaced by the crystalline benzamide (45-60 minutes). Cool the solution until crystallisation of the benzamide is complete, and then filter at the pump and recrystallise as above. One recrystallisation gives the pure benza-mide, m.p. 129-130° yield of purified material, 2-2-5 S  

Since hydroxylamine is usually available only in the form of its salts, e.g., the hydrochloride or sulphate, the aqueous solution of these salts is treated with sodium acetate or hydroxide to liberate the base before treatment with the aldehyde or ketone. Most oximes are weakly amphoteric in character, and may dissolve in aqueous sodium hydroxide as the sodium salt, from which they can be liberated by the addition of a weak acid, e.g., acetic acid. 

Arsonic acids, like carboxylic and sulphonic acids (pp. 349, 353), usually give crystalline benzylthiouronium salts. Add just sufficient dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide dropwise with shaking to a suspension of 0 5 g. of phenylarsonic acid in 10 ml. of water to give a clear solution. Then add 0 5 g. of benzylthiouronium chloride dissolved in 10 ml. of water. Filter off the precipitated benzylthiouronium salt, wash with water and dry m.p. 114-117° it tends to dissociate on attempted recrystallisation. 

In the Schotten-Baumann method of benzoylation, the hydroxyl- or amino-compound (or a salt of the latter) is dissolved or suspended in an excess of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, a small excess (about 10% more than the theoretical amount) of benzoyl chloride is then added and the mixture vigorously shaken. Benzoylation proceeds smoothly under these conditions, and the solid benzoyl compound, being insoluble in water, separates out. The sodium hydroxide then hydrolyses the excess of benzoyl chloride, giving sodium 

Phenylurea Derizatives. These are prepared precisely as those from primary amines, except that the toluene-/)-sulphonyl and benzene sulphonyl derivatives are insoluble in aqueous sodium hydroxide and therefore separate on formation. (M.ps., p. 552.) 

The process may now be continued. Methylarsonic acid, when reduced by sulphur dioxide in concentrated hydrochloric acid, gives dichloromethylarsine, CHjAsCl. If this arsine is added to aqueous sodium hydroxide, it is hydrolysed to the weakly acidic methylarsenous acid, CH3As(OH)j, which in the alkali 

The phenylarsonic acid should separate from the cold stirred solution within 10-20 minutes. If separation does not occur (due to the addition of too much acid), add a few drops of dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide and again bring the solution very carefully to the desired pH. 

Hydrolysis of />-Tolunitrile. As in the case of benzonitrile, alkaline h> drolysis is preferable to hydrolysis by 70% sulphuric acid. Boil a mixture of 5 g. of p-tolunitrile, 75 ml. of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution and 15 ml. of ethanol under a reflux water-condenser. The ethanol is added partly to increase the speed of the hydrolysis, but in particular to prevent the nitrile (which volatilises in the steam) from actually crystallising in the condenser. The solution becomes clear after about i hour s heating, but the boiling should be continued for a total period of 1-5 hours to ensure complete hydrolysis. Then precipitate and isolate the p-toluic acid, CH3CgH4COOH, in precisely the same way as the benzoic acid in the above hydrolysis of benzonitrile. Yield 5 5 g. (almost theoretical). The p-toluic acid has m.p. 178°, and may be recrystallised from a mixture of equal volumes of water and rectified spirit. 

Assemble the apparatus shown in Fig. 56. F is a 200 ml. flat-bottomed flask supported on a sand-bath and connected by a glass delivery-tube to the wash-bottle B, which is about two-thirds full of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution. A second delivery-tube leads from B into a beehive stand (or between two earthenware tiles placed side by side) in a pneumatic trough T containing water. 

Add 10 g. of the crude hydrazobenzene to 80 ml. of ethanol contained in a flask fitted with a reflux water-condenser. Heat the mixture on a water-bath until the ethanol bolls, and then add 10 g. of zinc dust and 30 ml. of 30% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution. Remove the flask from the water-bath and shake the contents vigorously from time to time. After about 10 minutes, replace the flask on the water-bath and boil the contents for 3-5 minutes. Filter the mixture at the pump, transfer the filtrate to a beaker and cool in ice-water with stirring. The hydrazobenzene separates as colourless crystals, which are filtered off at the pump and drained. A portion when dried in a desiccator has m.p. 124°. 

Z>) Toluene-p-sulphonylotion (p. 247). Proceed as in 3(a), but using 1 5 g of toluene-p-sulphonyl chloride, either finely pow dered or in concentrated acetone solution. Note. The sulphonyl derivative of a primary amine is soluble in aqueous sodium hydroxide, and the final solution must be diluted and acidified to precipitate the product. Recrystallise and take the m.p. (M.ps., pp. 550-551.) 

Although the acetylation of alcohols and amines by acetic anhydride is almost invariably carried out under anhydrous conditions owing to the ready hydrolysis of the anhydride, it has been shown by Chattaway (1931) that phenols, when dissolved in aqueous sodium hydroxide solution and shaken with acetic anhydride, undergo rapid and almost quantitative acetylation if ice is present to keep the temperature low throughout the reaction. The success of this method is due primarily to the acidic nature of the phenols, which enables them to form soluble sodium derivatives, capable of reacting with the acetic 

Why is potassium aluminium sulphate not soluble in benzene A compound M has the composition C = 50.0% H=12.5%o A1 = 37.5%. 0.360 g of M reacts with an excess of water to evolve 0.336 1 of gas N and leave a white gelatinous precipitate R. R dissolves in aqueous sodium hydroxide and in hydrochloric acid. 20 cm of N require 40 cm of oxygen for complete combustion, carbon dioxide and water being the only products. Identify compounds N and R, suggest a structural formula for M, and write an equation for the reaction of M with water. (All gas volumes were measured at s.t.p.) 

Then cool the reaction-mixture, filter it at the pump, leaving a black residue of selenium, and wash out the flask twice with 2x5 ml. of acetic acid, passing the washings also through the filter. Dilute the united filtrates with water, and make the solution alkaline with 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide, which precipitates the camphorquinone. Cool, filter off the yellow camphorquinone at the pump, wash with water and drain thoroughly. 

Transfer the diazotised solution to a 600 mi. beaker, add 150 ml. of benzene, and stir the mixture vigorously to obtain an intimate mixture of the two liquids. Then again maintain the temperature at about 5° (by ice-salt cooling because of the heat evolved) whilst 27 ml. of 20% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution are added from a dropping-fiinnel during 40-50 minutes. When the addition of the alkali is complete, remove the ice-water bath, and allow the stirred mixture to reach room temperature. 

The recrystallisation of diazoaminobenzene has to be performed with care, as the substance is freely soluble in most liquids and tends moreover to decompose if its solution is not rapidly cooled. Place 2 g. of the crude, freshly prepared, well-drained material in a boiling-tube, add about 15-20 ml. of ethanol and 1-2 drops of 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, and then heat rapidly until boiling if the solution should contain insoluble impurities, filter through a small fluted paper, and at once cool the filtrate in ice-water. The diazoaminobenzene should rapidly crystallise out from the cold and stirred solution filter the crystals rapidly at the pump whilst the solution is still cold, as 

Preparation of REAOENTS.t It is essential for this preparation that the zinc powder should be in an active condition. For this purpose, it is usually sufficient if a sample of ordinary technical zinc powder is vigorously shaken in a flask with pure ether, and then filtered off at the pump, washed once with ether, quickly drained and without delay transferred to a vacuum desiccator. If, however, an impure sample of zinc dust fails to respond to this treatment, it should be vigorously stirred in a beaker with 5% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution until an effervescence of hydrogen occurs, and then filtered at the pump, washed thoroughly with distilled water, and then rapidly with ethanol and ether, and dried as before in a vacuum desiccator. The ethyl bromoacetate (b.p. 159 ) and the benzaldehyde (b.p. 179 ) should be dried and distilled before use. 

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