Azeotropic removal

Note 2. Prepared by azeotropic removal of water from the commercial, water-containing product by means of benzene. This solvent was removed in a water--pump vacuum and the remaining mass was powdered. The water-containing acid appeared to work much less efficiently as catalyst. 

Processes to produce boric acid esters are based on the azeotropic removal of water from a mixture of the appropriate alcohol, phenol, or glycol, and boric acid. A suitable hydrocarbon azeotroping agent is used to help remove the water. The water is removed continuously by using a condenser that allows continuous return of the solvent to the reaction vessel. Eor some borate esters, such as the glycol borates, distillation can result in decomposition. 

A -Dieiiol ethers are also formed by acid-catalyzed reaction of the steroid directly with benzyl alcohol with azeotropic removal of water/ Use of isooctane as azeotropic carrier may improve yields/ ... 

Steroidal A -dienamines are formed with a high degree of selectivity in the presence of 17- or 20-ketones. Preparation of morpholine and pyrrolidine enamines is achieved by azeotropic removal of water with or without a catalyst. Pyrrolidine enamines are also formed efficiently by addition of the base to the hot solution of the ketone in methanol followed by immediate cooling. ... 

Enamines are not easily formed from 17-ketones. A pyrrolidine enam-ine is obtained by acid catalysis accompanied by azeotropic removal of water whereas the morpholine and piperidine enamines do not form under these forcing conditions. 

Aryl bromides were also perfluoroethylated under these conditions [205] The key to improved yields was the azeotropic removal of water from the sodium perfluoroalkylcarboxylate [205] Partial success was achieved with sodium hepta-fluorobutyrate [204] Related work with halonaphthalene and anthracenes has been reported [206 207] The main limitation of this sodium perfluoroalkylcarboxylate methodology is the need for 2 to 4 equivalents of the salt to achieve reasonable yields A trifluoromethylcopper solution can be prepared by the reaction of bis(tri-fluoromethyl)mercury with copper powder in /V-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) at 140 °C [208] (equation 138) or by the reaction of N-trifluoromethyl-A-nitro-sotnfluoromethane sulfonamide with activated copper in dipolar aprotic solvents [209] This trifluoromethylcopper solution can be used to trifluoromethylate aro matic [209], benzylic [209], and heterocyclic halides [209]... 

Nitrone hydrate is converted into nitrone by boiling in benzene with azeotropic removal of water [48] (equation 50). This in situ formation of nitrone is carried out in the presence of various alkenes and alkynes, which undergo cycloaddition with the nitrone [48, 49] (equations 51 and 52). 

The synthetic utility of enamines presupposes their general accessibility. In most cases, ketones are readily converted to enamines by condensation of the carbonyl compound with a secondary amine such as pyrrolidine, morpholine, or piperidine and azeotropic removal of water with a solvent such as benzene (3-19). 

Enamines derived from aldehydes can usually be obtained by the reaction of 2 equivalents of a secondary amine with the carbonyl compound, in the presence of anhydrous potassium carbonate, followed by pyrolytic distillation of the aminal with elimination of one of the amine groups (10,15, 30-36). Ketones are directly converted to enamines under the conditions of aminal formation. The azeotropic removal of water with excess aldehyde has also been described (32,37). 

Ph2CHOH, cat. TsOH, benzene, azeotropic removal of water, 78-83% yield. ... 

Yamamoto et al. have reported a chiral helical titanium catalyst, 10, prepared from a binaphthol-derived chiral tetraol and titanium tetraisopropoxide with azeotropic removal of 2-propanol [16] (Scheme 1.22, 1.23, Table 1.9). This is one of the few catalysts which promote the Diels-Alder reaction of a-unsubstituted aldehydes such as acrolein with high enantioselectivity. Acrolein reacts not only with cyclo-pentadiene but also 1,3-cyclohexadiene and l-methoxy-l,3-cyclohexadiene to afford cycloadducts in 96, 81, and 98% ee, respectively. Another noteworthy feature of the titanium catalyst 10 is that the enantioselectivity is not greatly influenced by reaction temperature (96% ee at... 

To a solution of vanillin in toluene is added nitroethane, butylamine and glacial acetic acid. The mixture is refluxed and the water of reaction is steadily azeotropically removed by distillation. After the theoretical amount of water is distilled out, distillation Is continued to remove excess reactants. The last trace of excess reactants is then removed at room temperature under a vacuum. The product is then triturated with a hydrocarbon solvent such as Skellysolve B and is thus obtained in a crystalline state. In general, however, it is preferred to dissolve the residue directly In toluene for use in the next step, without isolating the 1-(2-nitropropen-1-y I )-4-hydroxy-3-methoxy benzene. 

Scheme 3b). It is instructive at this point to reiterate that the furan nucleus can be used in synthesis as a progenitor for a 1,4-dicarbonyl. Whereas the action of aqueous acid on a furan is known to provide direct access to a 1,4-dicarbonyl compound, exposure of a furan to an alcohol and an acid catalyst should result in the formation of a 1,4-diketal. Indeed, when a solution of intermediate 15 in benzene is treated with excess ethylene glycol, a catalytic amount of / ara-toluenesulfonic acid, and a trace of hydroquinone at reflux, bisethylene ketal 14 is formed in a yield of 71 %. The azeotropic removal of water provides a driving force for the ketalization reaction, and the presence of a trace of hydroquinone suppresses the formation of polymeric material. Through a Finkelstein reaction,14 the action of sodium iodide on primary bromide 14 results in the formation of primary iodide 23, a substance which is then treated, in crude form, with triphenylphosphine to give crystalline phosphonium iodide 24 in a yield of 93 % from 14.

An analogous reaction of (2-acylphenyl)acetic acids with hydrazine or substituted hydrazines in refluxing benzene, xylene or butanol with azeotropic removal of water gives 3//-2,3-benzo-diazepin-4(5//)-ones 3.128,129... 

Heating the components in xylene for 8 hours with azeotropic removal of the water formed gives a product which was assigned structure 6A, 2-methyl-3//-pyrido[2,3-6][l, 4]diazepin-4(5//)-one, on the basis of its H NMR spectrum an isomer, 4-methyl-l //-pyrido[2,3-fi][l,4]dia-zepin-2(3//)-one (7 A), is obtained when the components are heated without solvent at 180C for 15 minutes (no further details were reported.)... 

A solution of pyridine-2,3-diamine (1.09 g. 10 mmol) and ethyl benzoylacetate (2.88 g, 15 mmol) in xylene (80 mL) was refluxed for 4 h with azeotropic removal of H20. The solution was cooled, the precipitate was collected and was twice recrystallized (xylene) to give the pale-yellow product yield 1.5 g (65%) mp 258 C. 

A solution of pyridine-3,4-diamine (2.5 g, 23 mmol) and ethyl acetoacetate (4.55 g, 35 mmol) in toluene (180 mL) was refluxed for 5 h with azeotropic removal of H20. A mixture of I0A and I0B separated as a solid (2.42 g. 60%). Fractional recrystallization from benzene, followed by MeCN and finally EtOH/ cyclohexane gave 2-methyl-3//-pyrido[3.4-A][1,4]diazepin-4(5//)-one (10A) bright-yellow crystals mp 180-182 C. The more soluble component was 2-methyl-1 //-pyrido[3,4-6] 1,4]diazepin-4(5//)-one (10B) pale-yellow crystals mp 168-171 °C (benzene). 

Chiral oxazolidines 6, or mixtures with their corresponding imines 7, are obtained in quantitative yield from acid-catalyzed condensation of methyl ketones and ( + )- or ( )-2-amino-l-phcnylpropanol (norephedrine, 5) with azeotropic removal of water. Metalation of these chiral oxazolidines (or their imine mixtures) using lithium diisopropylamide generates lithioazaeno-lates which, upon treatment with tin(II) chloride, are converted to cyclic tin(II) azaenolates. After enantioselective reaction with a variety of aldehydes at 0°C and hydrolysis, ft-hydroxy ketones 8 are obtained in 58-86% op4. 

Hydrazine Diperchlorate (Hydrazinium Diperchlorate in Gmelin it is called Hydrazonium Hydroperchlorate, HDP). N2H4.2HCIO4, mw 232.97, OB +34.3% white crysts, mp 191°, d 2.21 g/cc (Ref 4) CA Registry No 13812-39-0 Preparation. HDP was first prepd by the interaction of equimolar amts of aq Ba perchlorate and hydrazine sulfate, the pptd Ba sulfate filtered off, and the filtrate evapd on a w bath until crystn occurs (Ref 2). It has also been prepd by the interaction of 2 moles of aq perchloric ac and 1 mole of hydrazine hydrate followed by evapn of the w or its azeotropic removal by distn with trichloroethylene (Ref 6), or by sweeping hydrazine vapors into 70% perchloric ac with dry N (Ref 7)... 

Phenol-formaldehyde reactions catalyzed by zinc acetate as opposed to strong acids have been investigated, but this results in lower yields and requires longer reaction times. The reported ortho-ortho content yield was as high as 97%. Several divalent metal species such as Ca, Ba, Sr, Mg, Zn, Co, and Pb combined with an organic acid (such as sulfonic and/or fluoroboric acid) improved the reaction efficiencies.14 The importance of an acid catalyst was attributed to facilitated decomposition of any dibenzyl ether groups formed in the process. It was also found that reaction rates could be accelerated with continuous azeotropic removal of water. 

Azeotropic removal of water was complete when the vapor temperature reached 111 °C. 

Diketimines can be prepared by condensation of 1,2-diketones with 2 equiv of an amine, or 1 equiv of a 1,2-diamine, by azeotropic removal of water. Either a chiral diketone or a chiral amine/diamine can be used in order to obtain a chiral diimine. In both cases, the use of 1,2-diamines is expected to provide better stereocontrol, because of the rigidity of the derived cyclic diimines. For example, the reaction of camphor 1,2-diketone 275 and racemic 1,2-diphenylethylenediamine (d,l)-26 gave the diimine 276 as a mixture of two diastereomers (Scheme 45) [138]. Reduction of 276 with sodium borohydride followed by hydrogenolysis of the N substituents afforded the camphordiamine, which was isolated as the dihydrochloride... 

The closely related tributylstannyl nitronates 1120, which can be expected to react in the same way as O-silylnitronates, have been prepared by treatment of aliphatic nitro compounds 1035 with tributylstannylamine 1118 at 24°C or by heating of 1035 with tributylstannyl oxide 1119 in toluene with azeotropic removal of H2O [160] (Scheme 7.49). 

Conversion to acetals is a very general method for protecting aldehydes and ketones against nucleophilic addition or reduction.245 Ethylene glycol, which gives a cyclic dioxolane derivative, is frequently employed for this purpose. The dioxolanes are usually prepared by heating a carbonyl compound with ethylene glycol in the presence of an acid catalyst, with provision for azeotropic removal of water. 

Cul, 12mol% of 2,2 -dipyridyl, in lOvol of xylene diglyme (9 1) at 140°C with azeotropic removal of the water as it was formed. The azeotropic removal of water helped alleviate the problem of solids coating the reaction vessel walls, which led to stalling of the reaction. The reaction was complete in less than lOh, typically with 96% assay yield and 92% isolated yield for 49 after aqueous work-up and subsequent crystallization [14b-d]. It was noteworthy that this catalytic system composed of the copper(I) salt with bipyridyl ligand was recently reported to be applicable to a wide range of Ullmann-type ether formations [14d]. 

Methoxypolyethylene glycol of molecular weight 5000 (Union Carbide, 60 g, 12 mmol), dried by azeotropic removal of toluene, was dissolved in toluene/dichloromethane (3 1, 200 mL) and treated with a toluene solution of phosgene (30 mL, 57 mmol) overnight. The solution was evaporated to dryness and the remainder of phosgene was removed under vacuum. The residue was redissolved in toluene/dichloromethane (2 1, 150 mL) and treated with solid N-hydroxysuccinimide (2.1 g, 18 mmol) followed by triethylamine (1.7 mL, 12 mmol). After 3 h the solution was filtered and evaporated to dryness. The residue was dissolved in warm (50 °C) ethyl acetate (600 mL), filtered from a trace of insolubles and cooled to facilitate precipitation of the polymer. The product was collected by... 

Poly(dioxaboralane)s (82) (Fig. 51) with controllable molecular weights were reported to be readily obtained through the condensation reaction between 9,9-dihexylflourene-2,7- diboronic acid and pentaerythritol in toluene with an associated azeotropic removal of water. The molecular weights of the resulting polymers, which ranged between 10,000 and 76,900, were found to depend on the processing conditions of the polymers.117... 

In general, symmetrical oxo-squaraines having the same end-groups are synthesized by reacting squaric acid with two equivalents of quatemized indolenine, 2-methyl-substituted benzothiazole, benzoselenazole, pyridine, quinoline [39, 45, 46] (Fig. 4) in a mixture of 1-butanol - toluene or 1-butanol - benzene with azeotropic removal of water in presence [39, 45] or absence [47] of quinoline as a catalyst. Other reported solvent systems include 1-butanol - pyridine [48], 1-propanol - chlorobenzene, or a mixture of acetic acid with pyridine and acetic anhydride [49]. Low CH-acidic, heterocyclic compounds such as quatemized aryl-azoles and benzoxazole do not react, and the corresponding oxo-squaraines cannot be obtained using this method [23, 50]. 

The preparation of imines, enamines, nitroalkenes and N-sulfonylimines proceeds via the azeotropic removal of water from the intermediate in reactions that are normally catalyzed by p-toluenesulfonic acid, titanium(IV) chloride, or montmorillonite K 10 clay. A Dean-Stark apparatus is traditionally used which requires a large excess of aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene or toluene for azeotropic water elimination. 

The reaction of phenylphosphine with boric acid and 2 mol of salicylic aldehyde was carried out in the presence of pyridine with azeotropic removal of water and gave rise to the complex of pyridine with B(III) (116), bonded to three oxygen atoms (87IZV2118 89IZV946) [Eq. (75)]. 

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