Benzoic anhydride aromatic benzoylation

The procedures as outlined are applicable to both the aliphatic and aromatic series. They are superior to the common interchange method in that they avoid the fractional distillation which is very troublesome in the aliphatic series. They have been used in numerous instances and can be adapted to give mixed anli3"drides. Benzoic anhydride has been obtained, by closely related procedures, from benzoic acid and benzoyl chloride by heating under reduced pressure or in the presence of zinc chloride. 

Bi(OTf)3 (OTf = CF3S020) is an even more effective catalyst since it induces the acylation of benzene and even that of deactivated aromatics.53 54 When applied with benzoic anhydride, the mixed anhydride is generated, which is the active benzoylating species. Ga nonafluorobutanesulfonate has similar good characteristics.55... 

Cs2 5Ho.5PW 2040 (Cs2.5) catalyzes the acylation of aromatic compounds with benzyl chloride, benzoyl chloride, benzoic anhydride, benzoic acid, or acetic acid (214). As shown in Table XXII, H3PW 2O40 is usually less active than... 

Diarylketones are also the important fine chemical intermediates, which could be prepared by the acylation of aromatic hydrocarbon with benzoyl chloride and benzoic anhydride. The ionic liquids have also been used to catalyze the synthesis of diarylke-tone. Earle et al. [105] have reported the benzoylation of benzene, derivants of benzene (toluene, anisole, isobutyl benzene, phenyl chloride and fluoride) to synthesize the diarylketone by use of chloroindate (III) ionic liquids as the green dual catalysts and solvents. As a result, good yields (75-96%) were obtained under proper conditions with the ionic liquids as the clean reaction medium and recyclable catalysts. 

Aromatic anhydrides mostly react more slowly than aliphatic ones. For the analogous benzoylation of p-nitroaniline the amine is boiled with benzoic anhydride in benzene for 1.5 hours.720... 

Izumi et al. pioneered the use of heteropoly acids as catalysts for aromatic acylation. Silica-supported acids H4[SiWi204o] and H3[PWi204o] were found to effectively catalyse the acylation of p-xylene with benzoyl chloride. Cs2.5Ho.5[PWi204o] showed high efficiency in the acylation of activated arenes, such as p-xylene, anisole, mesitylene, etc., by acetic and benzoic anhydrides and acyl chlorides. This catalyst provided higher yields of acylated arenes than the parent acid H3[PWi204o], the latter being partly soluble in the reaction mixture. ... 

Gray s group also prepared the propanoate of (2-hydroxypropyl)cellulose (PPC or C3PC) from the esterification reaction of HPC (Mw = 100,000 g/mol) and propionyl chloride or propionic anhydride in acetone (Tseng et al. 1982). The appearance and behavior of the polymer is similar to APC, however this ester displayed iridescent colors at room temperature. In the same year (Bhadani and Gray 1982), the synthesis of the benzoic acid ester of HPC (BzPC) from the reaction of the aromatic benzoyl chloride with HPC in pyridine was described. The polymer showed a thermotropic liquid crystalline phase below 160 °C. Benzoic acid ester of HPC was fractionated from acetone solution by precipitation with methanol-water and polymers with different molecular weights were obtained (Bhadani et al. 1983). 

Electron-rich aromatic compounds such as durene, p-dimethoxybenzene, mesitylene, anisole, thiophene, and fluorene can be benzoylated or acetylated by the corresponding Af-acylimidazole in trifluoroacetic acid to give the corresponding benzophenone or acetophenone derivative in good yield (Method A). As the actual acylating agent, a mixed anhydride of trifluoroacetic acid and benzoic acid has been proposed 1973... 

As mentioned earlier, meso-inositol, and indeed all the inositols, are readily converted to aromatic compounds by oxidation. Posternak found that inosose has the tendency to form phenolic compounds under very mild conditions. On attempted acetylation of inosose with acetic anhydride in the presence of either pyridine or sodium acetate the expected pentaacetate was not obtained the product was 1,2,3,5-tetra-acetoxybenzene (XXXVII). Similarly, the treatment of inosose pentaacetate with boiling acetic anhydride and pyridine or sodium acetate gave the same product. Inosose pentabenzoate was prepared by the use of benzoyl chloride and zinc chloride. Under the influence of pyridine or sodium acetate in acetic acid the pentabenzoate lost two molecules of benzoic acid to give l-hydroxy-2,3,5-tribenzoxybenzene (XXXVIII). 

A resin with mixed carbonic-carboxylic anhydride function has been prepared and used as acylating reagent [144], Thus, the supported chloroformate 140 was obtained by reaction of hydroxymethylated polystyrene with phosgene in benzene (Scheme 7.43). Further treatment with benzoic acid in the presence of triethyl-amine in benzene gave rise to the supported mixed anhydride 141. This polymer has been used in the benzoylation of several amines, although variable amounts of benzoic acid from attack to the internal carbonyl were obtained when using aromatic amines. 

The benzoylation of both activated and deactivated aromatic compounds with benzoic acids (BACs) is achieved by using bismuth triflate (10% mol) in the presence of TFAA or heptafluorobutyric anhydride (HFBA).27 meffl-Xylene undergoes acetylation with 100% yield by using acetic acid (AAC) in the presence of TFAA under bismuth or scandium triflate catalysis (10% mol). The bismuth-triflate-catalyzed reaction can be extended to different aromatics as well as to aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acids, giving ketones in nearly quantitative yield. Benzene and chlorobenzene are benzoylated with a BAC/HFBA mixture in the presence of bismuth triflate (10% mol), giving the corresponding BPs in 90%... 

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