Benzhydryl compounds

As a result of the inductive and hyperconjugative effects it is to be expected that tertiary carbonium ions will be more stable than secondary carbonium ions, which in turn will be more stable than primary ions. The stabilization of the corresponding transition states for ionization should be in the same order, since the transition state will somewhat resemble the ion. Thus the first order rate constant for the solvolysis of tert-buty bromide in alkaline 80% aqueous ethanol at 55° is about 4000 times that of isopropyl bromide, while for ethyl and methyl bromides the first order contribution to the hydrolysis rate is imperceptible against the contribution from the bimolecular hydrolysis.217 Formic acid is such a good ionizing solvent that even primary alkyl bromides hydrolyze at a rate nearly independent of water concentration. The relative rates at 100° are tertiary butyl, 108 isopropyl, 44.7 ethyl, 1.71 and methyl, 1.00.218>212 One a-phenyl substituent is about as effective in accelerating the ionization as two a-alkyl groups.212 Thus the reactions of benzyl compounds, like those of secondary alkyl compounds, are of borderline mechanism, while benzhydryl compounds react by the unimolecular ionization mechanism. 

Organic selenocyanates similarly undergo facile isomerizations but very little information on this is available. Selenocyanates isomerize somewhat faster than thiocyanates and the rate is insensitive to solvent polarity for the allyl compound, but very sensitive to solvent and structure for benzhydryl compounds. It is considered that the mechanisms of rearrangement are closely parallel to those of the thiocyanates. 

This example illustrates that the relative electrophilicities of two alkylating agents can be influenced by varying the amount of Lewis acid. Figure 5 shows that the reactivity differences become quite remarkable, when the difference of stabilization of the carbenium ions increases. The phenoxy substituted benzhydryl compound, for example, is 5400 times more reactive than the dimethoxy substituted compound, when an excess of BCI3 is used, whereas a reactivity ratio of 0.016 is observed with catalytic amounts of BCI3. 

The substitution of the lone proton on the benzhydryl carbon by a methyl group again affords compounds with antihistamine activity. Reaction of an appropriate acetophenone (21) with phenyl-magnesium bromide affords the desired tertiary alcohols (22). 

The apparently loose structural requirements for antihista-iiiinic agents have already been alluded to. Thus, active compounds. ire obtained almost regardless of the nature of the atom that connects the side chain with the benzhydryl moiety. In fact, a methylene group, too, can also serve as the bridging group. Reaction of the aminoester, 95 (obtained by Michael addition of... 

This compound can be prepared by the reaction of cinnamoyl chloride with benzhydryl-piperazine. The reaction is carried out in dry benzene under reflux. The benzene is then evaporated, the residue taken up in chloroform, washed with dilute HCI and then made alkaline. 

The manufacture of a related compound is first described. 28.1 parts of p-chloro-benzhy-dryl bromide are heated to boiling, under reflux and with stirring, with 50 parts of ethylene chlorohydrin and 5.3 parts of calcined sodium carbonate. The reaction product is extracted with ether and the ethereal solution washed with water and dilute hydrochloric acid. The residue from the solution in ether boils at 134° to 137°C under 0.2 mm pressure and is p-chloro-benzhydryl-(/3-chloroethyl) ether. 

Benzhydrylamine Derivatives Attachment of piperazine nitrogen directly to a benzhydryl carbon leads to a pair of compounds which show vasodilator activity, and which should be useful in disease states marked by impaired blood circulation. Reaction of piperonyl chloride (18) with a mixture of piperazine and piperazine dihydrochloride leads to the monoalkylation product (19). (It may be supposed that the mixture of free base and salt equilibrates to the monobasic salt, thus making the second amine less nucleophilic.) Alkylation of 19 by means of benzhydryl chloride then... 

The benzhydryl group from azasugars was removed in MeOH using Pd(OH2)/C (0.03 mol Pd/mol compound) at 60 psi hydrogen overnight (Scheme 4.85).334... 

Bowden and Thomas report that the effect of methyl groups on the conductivity of trityl chloride in sulfur dioxide is in the order p>o>m> none.1 1 The trityl chloride-stannic chloride complex and a whole series of trityl bromides are strong electrolytes in sulfur dioxide.160-152 Benzhydryl chloride, ra-chlorobenzhydryl chloride, and -dimethylbenzhydryl chloride do not conduct in sulfur dioxide. Earlier reports to the contrary may have been due to the use of impure compounds.162 Dimesitylmethyl chloride has also been reported to conduct in sulfur dioxide.163... 

Besides the applications of the electrophilicity index mentioned in the review article [40], following recent applications and developments have been observed, including relationship between basicity and nucleophilicity [64], 3D-quantitative structure activity analysis [65], Quantitative Structure-Toxicity Relationship (QSTR) [66], redox potential [67,68], Woodward-Hoffmann rules [69], Michael-type reactions [70], Sn2 reactions [71], multiphilic descriptions [72], etc. Molecular systems include silylenes [73], heterocyclohexanones [74], pyrido-di-indoles [65], bipyridine [75], aromatic and heterocyclic sulfonamides [76], substituted nitrenes and phosphi-nidenes [77], first-row transition metal ions [67], triruthenium ring core structures [78], benzhydryl derivatives [79], multivalent superatoms [80], nitrobenzodifuroxan [70], dialkylpyridinium ions [81], dioxins [82], arsenosugars and thioarsenicals [83], dynamic properties of clusters and nanostructures [84], porphyrin compounds [85-87], and so on. 

The hydrolysis of diphenhydramine and analogues (11.24, Fig. 11.2) has been studied extensively [46 - 48], These compounds are essentially inert toward base-catalyzed hydrolysis, but do undergo proton-catalyzed hydrolysis, the mechanism of which is shown in Fig. 11.2. The reaction begins with protonation of the ether O-atom and continues with the irreversible heterolytic cleavage of the C-0 bond to produce the benzhydryl cation. This reaction is greatly facilitated by the weakening effect of the benzhydryl moiety on the adjacent C-0 bond. The benzhydryl cation itself is stabilized by resonance, which also explains why the reaction is facilitated. The last step is the for-... 

The method employs mild experimental conditions and is therefore competitive with the existing methods for the preparation of benzhydryl sulphides and sulphenylated -dicarbonyl compounds. ... 

Alkylation of 5-amino-1,2,4-thiadiazoles (17) with methyl iodide leads to N-4 derivatives of type (18) which undergo a Dimroth rearrangement to (110) on warming in ethanol when R = H (Scheme 26). When R = methyl, phenyl, or benzyl the reaction is severly hindered <84CHEC-I(6)463>. In contrast, benzhydryl and trityl chlorides (which are harder electrophiles) alkylate (17) at the 5-amino function to give compounds of type (109) (Scheme 26). 

The only collection of UV spectral data for derivatives of compound 1 show the effect of a 3-acyl or 3-aroyl substituent.23 A bathochromic shift of the longest wavelength absorption band can reach 20 nm with an aroyl substituent. The spectra of 2-phenyl-,1" 2-benzyl-, 2-benzoyl-, and 2-benzhydryl[l,2,4]triazolo[l,5-fl]pyridines,42 and of the mesoionic compounds 42-44,56 and 109200 are reported. On the triazolopyridine 3, substitu-... 

Interestingly, such migrations through spiro compounds (62JA788) are known for peri-benzhydryl naphthoic acids (59JA935), whereas ortho-... 

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