Aromatics activated, iodination with

It is known that certain Friedel-Crafts acylations of reactive aromatics may proceed with a small amount of catalyst or even, to some extent, with no catalyst at all.41 Effective catalysts are Fe, FeCl3, ZnCl2, iodine, and hydroiodic acid. However, satisfactory yields are usually obtained with activated and polynuclear aromatics, and heterocycles. The mixed anhydrides acyl triflates are also powerful acylating agents without catalyst.34... 

Barluenga et al.565 have reported the selective monoiodination of arenes with bis (pyridine)iodonium(I) tetrafluoroborate [I(py2)BF4] in excess superacids (2 equiv.) [Eq. (5.210)]. Comparable results were found for activated compounds with both HBF4 and triflic acid, whereas triflic acid was more effective in the iodination of deactivated aromatics. For example, nitrobenzene and methyl benzoate are unreactive in HBF4 but give the corresponding iodo derivatives in triflic acid (83% and 84% yields, respectively, in 14 h). Iodination of phenol required low temperature (-60°C). 

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As in the radical halogenation of alkanes (Section 3-8), the exothermic nature of aromatic halogenation decreases down the periodic table. Huorination is so exothermic that direct reaction of fluorine with benzene is explosive. Chlorination, on the other hand, is controllable but requires the presence of an activating catalyst, such as aluminum chloride or ferric chloride. The mechanism of this reaction is identical with that of bromination. Finally, electrophilic iodination with iodine is endothermic and thus not normally possible. Much like the radical halogenation of alkanes, electrophilic chlorination and bromination of benzene (and substituted benzenes. Chapter 16) introduces functionality that can be utilized in further reactions, in particular C-C bond formations through organometallic reagents (see Problem 54, Section 13-9, and Real Life 13-1). 

Sulfonic acids are prone to reduction with iodine [7553-56-2] in the presence of triphenylphosphine [603-35-0] to produce the corresponding iodides. This type of reduction is also facile with alkyl sulfonates (16). Aromatic sulfonic acids may also be reduced electrochemicaHy to give the parent arene. However, sulfonic acids, when reduced with iodine and phosphoms [7723-14-0] produce thiols (qv). Amination of sulfonates has also been reported, in which the carbon—sulfur bond is cleaved (17). Ortho-Hthiation of sulfonic acid lithium salts has proven to be a useful technique for organic syntheses, but has Httie commercial importance. Optically active sulfonates have been used in asymmetric syntheses to selectively O-alkylate alcohols and phenols, typically on a laboratory scale. Aromatic sulfonates are cleaved, ie, desulfonated, by uv radiation to give the parent aromatic compound and a coupling product of the aromatic compound, as shown, where Ar represents an aryl group (18). 

An unactivated aryl fluorine may be activated by complexauon with chro-mium(VI). Replacement of the fluonne in the complexed system occurs readily, and the uncomplexetl aromatic product can be generated by treatment with iodine [84] (equation 46)... 

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