Aryldiazonium halides

It is thought that the decomposition of aryldiazonium halides by copper salts, which gives aromatic halides (Sandmeyer reaction), proceeds via a free radical mechanism and that Cu—Ar intermediates arc probably not important. It is however proposed that copper-diazo intomediates such as Ar—N=N—Cu are formed [121]. These may be compared with the aryl-diazomolybdenum and tungsten complexes jr-C5H5M(CO)2N2Ar [122]. 

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Aryldiazonium salts, usually obtained from arylamines, undergo replacement of the diazonium group with a variety of nucleophiles to provide advantageous methods for producing aryl halides, cyanides, phenols and arenes by reductive removal of the diazo group. Coupling reaction of aryldiazonium salts with phenols or arylamines give rise to the formation of azo dyes. 

The addition of aryl radicals, generated by chemical reduction of aryldiazonium salts, onto arenes in the Gomberg-Hey reaction is well established [163]. The addition of these radicals to alkenes in the Meerwein reaction is also well known [164], Aryl o-radicals generated by electrochemical reduction of aryl halides take part in similar reactions. Good yields of the products are obtained when the intermediate phenyl radical can react in an intramolecular manner. The addition step is then fast and competes successfully with further electron transfer to form the phenyl car-banion, followed by protonation. 

Other reactions with electrophiles that have been recorded are those with aryldiazonium salts, with p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde, and with alkyl halides. 

In addition to aryl halides and inflates, aryldiazonium ions can be the source of the electrophilic component in coupling with arylboronic acids139 (entries 4 and 5 in Scheme 8.11). 

Three methods are commonly employed for the in situ preparation of organopalladium derivatives (i) direct metallation of an arene or heterocyclic compound with a palladium(II) salt (ii) exchange of the organic group from a main group organometallic to a palladium(II) compound and (iii) oxidative addition of an organic halide, triflate or aryldiazonium salt to palladium(O) or a palladium(O) complex. 

Aryldiazonium salts react with bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladium to form arylpalladium salts and nitrogen. Therefore, diazonium salts may be employed to catalytically arylate alkenes under mild conditions. Since many aryl halides are made from diazonium salts this variation could even be more convenient than using aryl halides. The reaction proceeds in good to excellent yields in nonaqueous solvents, using sodium acetate as the base at room temperature with terminal alkenes and cyclopentene." Internal alkenes usually give poor yields, however. 

The reaction of compound 90 with imidoyl halides without added base gives the hydrochloride salts of 1,2,4-thiadiazol-5-imines 95. The corresponding free bases can be liberated from the salts 95 with weak bases such as bicarbonate, but these imines are labile and decompose readily to form the W-cyanamide 96 and sulfur. The free base can be treated in situ with a second electrophile, such as an acid chloride, imidoyl chloride, or aryldiazonium salt, affording pentalene derivatives 97-99. It should be noted that the compound 98 cannot be prepared in a one-pot procedure from compound 90 and 2 equiv of imidoyl chloride in the presence of base, in contrast to the corresponding dioxa compound 91 (Scheme 22) <1981BSB89, 1992JHC1317>. 

Similar reactions have been carried out with naphthalene and thiophene. The method has been employed only to a limited extent 23 since its discovery, probably because it involves the isolation of the dry diazonium salts and because a number of aryldiazonium salts (from o- and p-toluidine and /3-naphthylamine) gave no biaryls but only the corresponding aryl halides. 

Although nitriles lack an acyl group, they are considered acid derivatives because they hydrolyze to carboxylic acids. Nitriles are frequently made from carboxylic acids (with the same number of carbons) by conversion to primary amides followed by dehydration. They are also made from primary alkyl halides and tosylates (adding one carbon) by nucleophilic substitution with cyanide ion. Aryl cyanides can be made by the Sandmeyer reaction of an aryldiazonium salt with cuprous cyanide. a-Hydroxynitriles (cyanohydrins) are made by the reaction of ketones and aldehydes with HCN. 

Sandmeyer reaction (Section 24.8) a method for converting an aryldiazonium salt into an aryl halide by treatment with a cuprous halide. 

Dediazotization. Aryldiazonium ions react at 80° with this sytem to give fluoroarenes. If sodium chloride, bromide, or iodide is added haloarenes are formed in good yield with less than 10% of fluoroarenes. However, the reaction gives unexpected and novel isomer distributions of haloarenes. That is, the halide ion attacks ring positions in addition to the one (Ci) from which N2 is lost. The results are rationalized on the basis of the ambident nature of aryldia-... 

Aryl halides are frequently prepared from the corresponding aryldiazonium salts by diazotation procedures. However, diazonium salts can be subjected directly to very mild Heck arylation conditions, which deliver coupled products (entry 19). Preferably, the reaction is executed in nonaqueous solvents such as acetonitrile, acetone, or methylene chloride with sodium acetate as base and with palladiumbis(dibenzylideneacetone) as catalyst. Alternatively, a combination of the amine and f-butyl nitrite, in a mixture of acetic acid and monochloroacetic acid, can provide the desired product directly, which makes the isolation of a diazonium salt unnecessary (entry 20). " It is also possible to use aromatic acid anhydrides as oxidative addition precursors (entry 21). Clearly, anhydrides are very interesting starting materials for a number of Heck reactions due to price and absence of halide salt formation. 

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