Nitration benzaldehyde

It should be noted that aliphatic compounds (except the paraffins) are usually oxidised by concentrated nitric acid, whereas aromatic compounds (including the hydrocarbons) are usually nitrated by the concentrated acid (in the presence of sulphuric acid) and oxidised by the dilute acid. As an example of the latter, benzaldehyde, CjHsCHO, when treated with concentrated nitric acid gives ffi-nitrobenzaldehyde, N02CgH4CH0, but with dilute nitric acid gives benzoic acid, CgHgCOOH. 

Nitration using this reagent was first investigated, by Francis. He showed that benzene and some of its homologues bromobenzene, benzonitrile, benzoyl chloride, benzaldehyde and some related compounds, and phenol were mono-nitrated in solutions of benzoyl nitrate in carbon tetrachloride anilines would not react cleanly and a series of naphthols yielded dinitro compounds. Further work on the orientation of substitution associated this reagent with higher proportions of o-substitution than that brought about by nitric acid this point is discussed below ( 5.3.4). 

The behavior of aromatic aldehydes is typical Nitration of benzaldehyde takes place sev eral thousand times more slowly than that of benzene and yields m mtrobenzaldehyde as the major product... 

Ammonium nitrate and other ammonium salts Any oxidizable substance, such as ethanol, methanol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, benzaldehyde, carbon disulphide, glycerol, ethylene glycol, ethyl acetate, methyl acetate or furfural Chlorates, perchlorates, permanganates... 

The free selenazole hydrazines are solids, sometimes well crystallized compounds. They show the typical properties of hydrazines. Thus they reduce Fehling s solution on warming and liberate silver, even in the cold, from ammoniacal silver nitrate solution. Further, they react with carbonyl compounds for example, benzylidene hydrazones are formed with benzaldehyde. These are identical with the hydrazones formed by direct condensation from benzaldehyde selenosemicarbazone and the corresponding a-halogenocarbonyl compound. 2-Hydrazino-4-phenylselenazole has also been reacted with acetophenone. The 2-a-methylbenzylidenehydrazone of 4-phenyl-selenazole (2, K = CJl, R" = H, R" = NH—N CMe-aH ) forms golden yellow plates mp 171°C. ... 

The meto-oxybenzaldehyde is then nitrated and methylated, by which means para-nitrowcfa-methoxy-benzaldehyde... 

About 2 grams of benzaldehyde are heated in a retort with 40 c.c. of concentrated sulphuric acid, the fumes collected in a solution of silver nitrate, and the heating continued until no further precipitate insoluble in hot dilute nitric acid is obtained in the silver nitrate solution. This takes about three hours. 

Use of medium-scale heat flow calorimeter for separate measurement of reaction heat removed via reaction vessel walls and via reflux condenser system, under fully realistic processing conditions, with data processing of the results is reported [2], More details are given elsewhere [3], A new computer controlled reaction calorimeter is described which has been developed for the laboratory study of all process aspects on 0.5-2 1 scale. It provides precise data on reaction kinetics, thermochemistry, and heat transfer. Its features are exemplified by a study of the (exothermic) nitration of benzaldehyde [4], A more recent review of reaction safety calorimetry gives some comment on possibly deceptive results. [5],... 

Several reactions of imines of synthetic utility are reported. Nitric oxide reacts with A-benzylidene-4-methoxyaniline (18) in ether to give 4-methoxybenzenediazonium nitrate (19) and benzaldehyde. Two mechanisms are proposed, both involving nitrosodiazene (20), and the preferred route is suggested to involve direct electrophilic reaction of NO to the imine double bond, favoured by the polarity of the latter. 

A very remote secondary H/D isotope effect has been measured for the 2 + 2-cycloaddition of TCNE to 2,7-dimethylocta-2,fran -4,6-triene. The reaction of nitric oxide with iV-benzylidene-4-methoxyaniline to produce 4-methoxybenzenediazonium nitrate and benzaldehyde is thought to proceed via a 2 + 2-cycloaddition between nitric oxide and the imine double bond. A novel mechanism for the stepwise dimerization of the parent silaethylene to 1,3-disilacyclobutane involves a low-barrier [1,2]-sigmatropic shift. Density functional, correlated ab initio calculations, and frontier MO analysis support a concerted 2 + 2-pathway for the addition of SO3 to alkenes. " The enone cycloaddition reactions of dienones and quinones have been reviewed. The 2 + 2-photocycloadditions of homochiral 2(5H)-furanones to vinylene carbonate are highly diastereoisomeric. ... 

Photolytic. Synthetic air containing gaseous nitrous acid and toluene exposed to artificial sunlight (Z = 300-450 nm) yielded methyl nitrate, peroxyacetal nitrate, and a nitro aromatic compound tentatively identified as a nitrophenol or nitrocresol (Cox et al., 1980). A n-hexane solution containing toluene and spread as a thin film (4 mm) on cold water (10 °C) was irradiated by a mercury medium pressure lamp. In 3 h, 26% of the toluene photooxidized into benzaldehyde. 

Chemical/Physical. Products identified from the reaction of toluene with nitric oxide and OH radicals include benzaldehyde, benzyl alcohol, 3-nitrotoluene, p-methylbenzoquinone, and o, m, and p-cresol (Kenley et ah, 1978). Gaseous toluene reacted with nitrate radicals in purified air forming the following products benzaldehyde, benzyl alcohol, benzyl nitrate, and 2-, 3-, and 4-nitro-toluene (Chiodini et al., 1993). Under atmospheric conditions, the gas-phase reaction with OH radicals and nitrogen oxides resulted in the formation of benzaldehyde, benzyl nitrate, 3-nitrotoluene, and o-, m-, and p-cresol (Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts, 1986 Atkinson, 1990). 

Note All compounds with a 5-ethoxy group are obtained in poor yields in this nitrating step, but this step can be used to nitrate other benzaldehydes with great success. 

I have described a very good way to nitrate benzaldehydes in the first formula for 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine, JOC, 18, 1 (1953). This can be used for the next step or you may use the following nitration step given below. 

Benzaldehyde. There are many ways to make many types of benzaldehydes. Different benzal-dehydes give different products. I am giving the formula to the basic type. It can be modified to give a specific type of benzaldehyde. 50 g of benzyl chloride and 50 g of copper nitrate in 300 cc of water are refluxed together, in a current of carbon dioxide for 8Vi hours or until a sample tested contains very little chlorine. Extract the mixture with ether, remove the ether on a water bath, and stir or shake the remaining oil for 1 hour (shaking is best) with a saturated solution of sodium bisulfite. Let stand for 2 hours, filter with vacuo and wash with a little cold alcohol, then with cold ether. The washings are warmed with an excess of 10% sulfuric acid. The aldehyde... 

Some substrates like benzoic acid, benzaldehyde etc. are so deactivated that direct nitration to their trinitro derivatives is not possible. Direct nitration of benzoic acid with excess fuming nitric and concentrated sulfuric acids at a temperature of 145 °C for several hours results in the formation of 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid (54-58 %). The use of oleum in such reactions can significantly reduce the rate of nitration due to carbonyl protonation (see Section 4.3.3). Consequently, indirect routes are used for the synthesis of polynitroarylenes like 2,4,6-trinitrobenzoic acid and 2,4,6-trinitrobenzaldehyde (Section 4.9). 

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