Azo group

The azo-compounds are usually very stable, and can be directly chlorinated, nitrated and sulphonated. On vigorous reduction the molecule splits at the azo group to give two molecules of primary amines, e.g. bcnzene-azophenol gives PhNH2 and p-HOC H NHa. 

The most important reaction of the diazonium salts is the condensation with phenols or aromatic amines to form the intensely coloured azo compounds. The phenol or amine is called the secondary component, and the process of coupling with a diazonium salt is the basis of manufacture of all the azo dyestuffs. The entering azo group goes into the p-position of the benzene ring if this is free, otherwise it takes up the o-position, e.g. diazotized aniline coupled with phenol gives benzeneazophenol. When only half a molecular proportion of nitrous acid is used in the diazotization of an aromatic amine a diazo-amino compound is formed. 

The most noteworthy reaction of azo-compounds is their behaviour on reduction. Prolonged reduction first saturates the azo group, giving the hydrazo derivative (C NH-NH C), and then breaks the NH NH linkage, with the formation of two primary amine molecules. If method (1) has been employed to prepare the azo-compound, these two primary amines will therefore be respectively (a) the original amine from which the diazonium salt was prepared, and (6) the amino derivative of the amine or phenol with which the diazonium salt was coupled. For example, amino-azobenzene on complete reduction gives one equivalent of aniline, and one of p-phenylene diamine, NHaCeH NH benzene-azo-2-naphthoI similarly gives one equivalent of aniline and one of... 

Only 2-aminothiazole derivatives are reactive enough toward diazonium salts to undergo the diazo-coupling reaction. The azo group fixes exclusively on the 5-position when it is free (Scheme 62) (351). 

When the parent molecules connected by the azo group are different, azo is placed between the complete names of the parent molecules, substituted or unsubstituted. Locants are placed between the affix azo and the names of the molecules to which each refers. Preference is given to the more complex parent molecule for citation as the first component, e.g., 2-aminonaphthalene-l-azo-(4 -chloro-2 -methy Ibenzene). 

The monoazo and disazo pigments contain one or more chromophoric groups usually referred to as the azo group. However, it... 

Chemically, the azo class is subdivided according to the number of azo groups present into mono-, dis-, tris-, tetrakis-, etc. Mono- and disazo dyes are essentially equal in importance, trisazo dyes are less important, and tetrakisazo dyes, except for a few, are much less important. For this reason, substances with more than three azo linkages are generally included under the heading of polyazo dyes. The Colour Index]isX.s the azo dyes as follows ... 

Certain chemical configurations required to produce suitable mordant dyes are shown ia the foUowiag examples of monoazo dyes. Substitutioa ia the two positioas ortho to the azo group may be Ulustrated by stmcture (45), ia which X represeats —OH, —OCH, —OCH2COOH, —COOH,... 

D C Red No. 36 (27) is an unsulfonated pigment. It contains no groups capable of salt formation and is thus insoluble direcdy on coupling. Its chlorine group ortho to the azo group results in a stericaHy hindered molecule with low solubiUty and excellent light stabiUty. The unsulfonated dyes Citms Red No. 2 (8) and D C Red No. 17 (20) are insoluble in water but soluble in aromatic solvents. 

Further aza substitution ortho or para in the same ring deshields the nitrogen the effect is moderate for a para-, and large for an ort/io-nitrogen. The latter is probably a special azo effect , since the nitrogens of a simple azo group absorb at still lower field (-130 p.p.m., in ether). 

Azoic dyes contain the azo group (and formic acid, caustic soda, metallic compounds, and sodium nitrate) especially for application to cotton. 

If in the last phase the different sulphonic acids of /d-naphthol are employed, arious shades of red, known as Crocci7is ate produced. Thus it appears that the colour deepens from orange to led with the introduction of a second azo-group. 

Treatment of macrocycle 278 with an excess of Caro s acid resulted in oxidation of all the sulfur atoms to sulfones and the azo group to an azoxy group (Scheme 181) (99MI4). The oxidation product 279 was formed in 42% yield. Products with smaller oxygen contents were obtained using weaker oxidizing agents. 

The treatment of 3-amino-1,2,4-triazine 2-oxides 1 or 3-amino-1,2,4-benzotri-azine 1-oxides 29 with nitrous acid proceeds as a diazotization reaction, but the diazo compounds have never been isolated owing to the easy displacement of the di-azo group with nucleophiles. Thus the reaction of 3-amino-1,2,4-triazine 2-oxides 1 with sodium nitrite in hydrochloric or hydrobromic acids leads to the corresponding 3-halogen-1,2,4-tiiazine 2-oxides 119 or 3-bromo-l,2,4-benzotriazine 1-oxides 120 (77JOC546, 82JOC3886). 

A primary allylic hydrogen at the ene 1 is especially reactive a secondary hydrogen migrates less facile, and a tertiary one is even less reactive. The enophile unit should be of an electron-poor nature it can consist of a carbon-carbon double or triple bond, a carbonyl group or an azo group. Mixtures of regioisomeric products may be obtained with substituted enophiles. The acrylic ester 6 reacts with... 

The presence of an azo group as a side group in the polymer structure can be used to produce a macroradical via its decomposition under the effect of metallic ions [3,4]. This macroradical reacts with vinyl monomers leading to grafting with a minimum amount of homopolymers. This reaction was first applied to a polymer by Chapman et al. [5]. The reaction proceeds as follows (See structure below.)... 

Macroinitiators are macromolecules having peroxygen and/or azo groups that can thermally initiate a vinyl polymerization to obtain block copolymers in one step. They can be classified as macroperoxyinitiators (MPl), macroazoinitiators (MAI), and macroazo-peroxyiniti-ators. 

Interfacial polycondensation between a diacid chloride and hexamethylenediamine in the presence of small amounts of ACPC also yield polymeric azoamid, which is a macroazo initiator.[27] In this manner, azodicarbox-ylate-functional polystyrene [28], macroazonitriles from 4,4 -azobis(4-cyano-n-pentanoyl) with diisocyanate of polyalkylene oxide [29], polymeric azo initiators with pendent azo groups [3] and polybutadiene macroazoinitiator [30] are macroazoinitiators that prepare block and graft copolymers. 

Azoperoxydic initiators are particularly important due to their capacity to decompose sequentially into free radicals and to initiate the polymerization of vinylic monomers. The azo group is thermally decomposed first to initiate a vinyl monomer and to synthesize the polymeric initiator with perester groups at the ends of polymer chain (active polymer) [31,32]. 

The crosslinked polymers also show endothermic peaks in the range of 130-140°C. These endotherms can be attributed to the decomposition of the residual azo group and the polymerization of vinyl monomers (Fig. 1). 

The thermal (or photochemical) decomposition of the azo group gives rise to a radically initiated polymerization. The reactive site F, the transformation site, however, can, depending on its chemical nature, initiate a condensation or addition type reaction. It can also start radical or ionic polymerizations. F may also terminate a polymerization or even enable the azo initiator to act as a monomer in chain polymerizations. 

Figure 1 F = Transformation site MAI = macro-azo-initiator, having at least one azo group in the main chain.

The bifunctional azo initiator can initiate a polymerization of a monomer A forming a polymeric compound containing at least one azo group in its main chain [Figure 1, Scheme (1)]. Naturally, the monomer A has to have suitable sites for reacting with the transformation site F. The azo-containing polymers obtained in Scheme... 

In a third type of block copolymer formation. Scheme (3), the initiator s azo group is decomposed in the presence of monomer A in a first step. The polymer formed contains active sites different from azo functions. These sites may, after a necessary activation step, start the polymerization of the second monomer B. Actually, route (3) of block copolymer formation is a vice versa version of type (1). It has been shown in a number of examples that one starting bifunctional azo compound can be used for block copolymer synthesis following either path. Reactions of type (3) are tackled in detail in Section III of this chapter. 

Although most examples reported in the literature used azo initiators with two transformation sites F per molecule, in a few cases block copolymer synthesis was accomplished with transfer agents containing only one reactive site. The resulting macro-azo-initiators did contain exclusively terminal azo groups. 

The incorporation of thermally labile azo groups into polymer backbones was first reported in the early 1950s [2]. Since then, numerous techniques for synthesizing azo-containing polymers have been developed. The effort to create new azo-containing polymeric materials has been reviewed by several authors [3-8]. 

The reaction of ACPC with linear aliphatic amines has been investigated in a number of Ueda s papers [17,35,36]. Thus, ACPC was used for a interfacia] polycondensation with hexamethylene diamine at room temperature [17] yielding poly(amide)s. The polymeric material formed carried one azo group per repeating unit and exhibited a high thermal reactivity. By addition of styrene and methyl methacrylate to the MAI and heating, the respective block copolymers were formed. 

When ACPC was condensed with hexamethylene diamine in the presence of two other acid chlorides (seb-acoyl or adipoyl chloride), poly(amide)s 6.6 and 6.10 with various numbers of azo groups per repeating unit (between 0.14 and 1.0, depending on the ratio of the acid chlorides used) could be obtained [35,36]. Thus, block copolymers with a controlled segment length of the poly-(amide) blocks were attainable. 

By means of a ring-opening polymerization of the condensation type Vlasov et al. [50] synthesized polypeptide based MAIs with azo groups in the polymeric backbone. The method is based on the reaction of a hydracide derivative of AIBN and a N-carboxy anhydride. Containing one central azo group in the polymer main chain, the polymeric azo initiator was used for initiating block copolymerizations of styrene and various methacrylamides. 

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