Aromatization with lead oxide

Donor substituents on the vinyl group further enhance reactivity towards electrophilic dienophiles. Equations 8.6 and 8.7 illustrate the use of such functionalized vinylpyrroles in indole synthesis[2,3]. In both of these examples, the use of acetyleneic dienophiles leads to fully aromatic products. Evidently this must occur as the result of oxidation by atmospheric oxygen. With vinylpyrrole 8.6A, adducts were also isolated from dienophiles such as methyl acrylate, dimethyl maleate, dimethyl fumarate, acrolein, acrylonitrile, maleic anhydride, W-methylmaleimide and naphthoquinone. These tetrahydroindole adducts could be aromatized with DDQ, although the overall yields were modest[3]. 

Oxidative Fluorination of Aromatic Hydrocarbons. The economically attractive oxidative fluorination of side chains in aromatic hydrocarbons with lead dioxide or nickel dioxide in Hquid HF stops at the ben2al fluoride stage (67% yield) (124). 

Destruction of the aromatic ring is the mam reaction in the oxidation of tetrafluoro-o phenyleiiediamine with lead tetraacetate by products are tetrafluorobenzotnazole and tetrafluorochinoxalme denvatives [92] (equation 85) Polyfluonnated benzylideneanilines are oxidized by peroxyacids to different products dependmg on reaction contitions at room temperature the benzylidene carbon is oxidized with the formation of peroxy bonds [93 94] (equation 86), whereas in refluxing agent, the azomethme bond is cleaved [93] (equation 86) Pentafluorobenzylidencanilme is oxidized by peroxyacetic acid in dichlo-romethane at room temperature to perfluorobenzoic acid in a 77% yield [93]... 

Peroxytnfluoroacetic acid is used tor numerous oxidations of saturated hydrocarbons and aromatic compounds It oxidizes alkanes, alkanols, and carboxylic acids with formation of hydroxylation products [29] Oxidation of cyclohexane with peroxytnfluoroacetic acid proceeds at room temperature and leads to cyclohexyl trifluoroacetate in 75% yield, 1-octanol under similar conditions gives a mixture of isomeric octanediols in 59% yield, and palmitic acid gives a mixture of hydroxypalmitic acids in 70% yield [29]... 

Hydroxyl elimination is necessary for the formation of benzaldehyde and benzoic acid derivatives and, ultimately, benzene and toluene (Fig. 7.46).2 It is proposed that a cleavage between the hydroxyl group and aromatic ring leads to benzenoid species which undergo further cleavage coupled with oxidation to give various decomposition products. 

The oxidation of Me2S2 in the presence of aromatics with an increased electron density at several carbons, such as acenaphthylene or phenanthrene, and pyridine leads to similar products of vicinal functionalization (Scheme 32) [128]. 

More recently, an environmentally benign method using air as oxidant has been developed for the oxidative cyclization of arylamine-substituted tricarbonyl-iron-cyclohexadiene complexes to carbazoles (Scheme 19). Reaction of methyl 4-aminosalicylate 45 with the complex salt 6a affords the iron complex 46, which on oxidation in acidic medium by air provides the tricarbonyliron-complexed 4a,9a-dihydrocarbazole 47. Aromatization with concomitant demetalation by treatment of the crude product with p-chloranil leads to mukonidine 48 [88]. The spectral data of this compound are in agreement with those reported by Wu[22j. 

Oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons with lead tetraacetate develops as the second-order reaction. Hence, the rate-determined stage consists of the transformation of Pb" to Pb" with the participation of only one molecule of the hydrocarbon (Dessau et al. 1970). The formed hydrocarbon dication can, of course, react with the uncharged hydrocarbon ArH + + ArH —> ArH+ + ArH+. ... 

Anodic oxidation in inert solvents is the most widespread method of cation-radical preparation, with the aim of investigating their stability and electron structure. However, saturated hydrocarbons cannot be oxidized in an accessible potential region. There is one exception for molecules with the weakened C—H bond, but this does not pertain to the cation-radical problem. Anodic oxidation of unsaturated hydrocarbons proceeds more easily. As usual, this oxidation is assumed to be a process including one-electron detachment from the n system with the cation-radical formation. This is the very first step of this oxidation. Certainly, the cation-radical formed is not inevitably stable. Under anodic reaction conditions, it can expel the second electron and give rise to a dication or lose a proton and form a neutral (free) radical. The latter can be either stable or complete its life at the expense of dimerization, fragmentation, etc. Nevertheless, electrochemical oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons leads to cation-radicals, the nature of which is reliably established (Mann and Barnes 1970 Chapter 3). 

The nitrosodisulfonate salts, particularly the dipotassium salt called Fremy s salt, are useful reagents for the selective oxidation of phenols and aromatic amines to quinones (the Teuber reaction). - Dipotassium nitrosodisulfonate has been prepared by the oxidation of a hydroxylaminedisulfonate salt with potassium permanganate, " with lead dioxide, or by electrolysis. This salt is also available commercially. The present procedure illustrates the electrolytic oxidation to form an alkaline aqueous solution of the relatively soluble disodium nitrosodisulfonate. This procedure avoids a preliminary filtration which is required to remove manganese dioxide formed when potassium permanganate is used as the oxidant. " ... 

Tricarbonyliron-coordinated cyclohexadienylium ions 569 were shown to be useful electrophiles for the electrophilic aromatic substitution of functionally diverse electron-rich arylamines 570. This reaction combined with the oxidative cyclization of the arylamine-substituted tricarbonyl(ri -cyclohexadiene)iron complexes 571, leads to a convergent total synthesis of a broad range of carbazole alkaloids. The overall transformation involves consecutive iron-mediated C-C and C-N bond formation followed by aromatization (8,10) (Schemes 5.24 and 5.25). 

SSRI activity is interestingly maintained even in the absence of one of the aromatic rings. Attaching the oxygen atom to an oxime leads to the antidepressant fluvoxamine. The requisite oxime (25-2) is obtained by reaction of the starting ketone (25-1) with hydroxylamine. Treatment of that intermediate with ethylene oxide adds the ether-linked side chain that will carry the amine. The hydroxyethyl product (25-3) is thus converted to its mesylate by means of methanesulfonyl chloride. This leaving group is then displaced by any one of several methods to afford the primary amine and thus fluvoxamine (25-4) [25]. 

Dopamine, the free catechol corresponding to (1-1), plays an important role as a neurotransmitter, particularly in the CNS. The synthesis of a dopamine-related sedative agent starts with the condensation of homoveratramine (1-1) with styrene oxide (1-2) to afford the carbinol (1-3). Treatment of that product with a strong acid leads to an attack on the electron-rich aromatic ring by the resulting carbocation there is thus obtained the benzazocine (1-4). The secondary amine is then methylated by reaction with formaldehyde and formic acid to yield trepipam (1-5) [1]. 

As is well known, the oxidation of aniline with various oxidizing agents leads to a variety of products, usually highly colored polymeric materials. However, the reaction with Caro s acid (permonosulfuric acid, H2SOs) with aniline produces nitrosoaniline rapidly [76]. With this reagent, many aromatic amines have been oxidized to the corresponding nitroso compounds, e.g., the three nitronitrosobenzenes were prepared from the corresponding nitroani-lines [77, 78]. The reaction is normally carried out in an aqueous medium. In... 

The oxidation of A-acyl-A-arylhydroxylamines with lead tetraacetate is very rapid even at very low temperatures. The product obtained is the corresponding aromatic nitroso compound. The most favorable reaction conditions involve propionic acid or ethanol-acetic acid as a solvent and reaction times of less than 10 sec at temperatures of —20°C or lower [87]. The use of ethanol-acetic acid is particularly recommended for several reasons. First, since the product is best isolated by steam distillation, the solvent assists in steamdistilling rapidly. The ethanol in the distillate helps minimize clogging of the condenser and also solubilizes small quantities of impurities that may be entrained. 

Oxidation with peroxydisulfate in AcOH in the presence of catalytic amounts of iron and copper salts gives benzylic acetates in good yields.785,861 The reaction of lead tetraacetate with alkylarenes in AcOH provides benzylacetates in moderate yields.693 Most of these oxidations usually involve methyl-substituted benzenes since aromatics with longer chain produce different side products. 

Reactions of 4,7-phenanthroline-5,6-dione have been the subject of considerable study. It is reduced to 5,6-dihydroxy-4,7-phenanthroline by Raney nickel hydrogenation226,249 or by aromatic thiols in benzene,262 and oxidized by permanganate to 3,3 -bipyridyl-2,2 -dicarboxylic acid.263 It forms bishemiketals with alcohols226 and diepoxides with diazomethane.226 The diepoxides by reaction with hydrochloric acid form diols of type 57, R = Cl, which on oxidation with lead tetraacetate give 3,3 -bipyridyl diketones of type 58, R = Cl. Methyl ketones of type 58, R = H, are also obtained by lead(IV) acetate oxidation of the diol 57, R = H, obtained by lithium aluminum hydride reduction of 57, R = Cl. With phenyldiazomethane and diphenyldiazomethane the dione forms 1,3-dioxole derivatives,264,265 which readily hydrolyze back to the dione with concomitant formation of benzaldehyde and benzophenone, respectively. 

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