Arynes diazonium salts

Arynes in general are the subject of a chapter in a volume of Patai and Rappoport s series The Chemistry of Functional Groups (Gilchrist, 1983). The formation of arynes from diazonium salts is treated in three chapters of two volumes of the same series (Wulfman, 1978 Hegarty, 1978 Zollinger, 1983 a). 

There are many other reactions that possibly involve aryne intermediates. While some are of mechanistic curiosities, some have been studied in detail, although none are generally synthetically useful. Irradiation of 1,2-diiodobenzene can lead to ortho-benzyne, probably via an aryl radical intermediate resulting from cleavage of the weak C-1 bond (Scheme 7.19). Aryl cations, formed by the decomposition of diazonium salts are also possible intermediates to ortho-benzynes provided that a large ortho-substituent is present, loss of a proton to give an aryne becomes competitive with the normal nudeophihc addition to the cation. 

Other Elimination Methods. Benzenediazonium-2-carboxylates, easily accessed by diazota-tion of the readily available anthranilic acids, have been widely used for generating arynes by loss of Nj and CO molecules upon heating [14]. HowevCT, the explosive nature of diazonium salts somehow limits the utility of this approach (Schane 12.8). 

The claim for this aryne is based on the isolation of the appropriate adducts 631 or 632 when a crown-ether complex of the diazonium carboxylate potassium salt 633 is decomposed in the presence of tetracyclone (151) or the diphenyltetrazine (169). As pointed out in Section II.2.B.C, however, both of these diene traps may be ambiguous as aryne probes because of their tendency to react with the aryne precursors by an addition-elimination process via 634 and 635 rather than by an elimination-addition mechanism involving the aryne 617. The failure of several other dienes with unambiguous records as aryne traps (Section II.2.B.b.d), such as anthracene (147), to give aryne adducts with the precursor 633 tends to support the former mechanism. On the other hand. 

Hammett equation, applied to azines, 217 Hetarynes, 121-143 contrasted with arynes, 125 Heteroaromatic compounds, covalent hydration of, 1-41 "pKa generalizations for, 48-61 Heterocyclic acids, pH-rate profile for, 67 Heterocyclic diazonium compounds, 241 Heptaazanaphthalenes, 393 Hexaazanaphthalenes, 393 Hippuroflavin, 80 Hydrated salts, isolation of, 16 Hydrates, alcoholates from, 16 isolation of, 16... 

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