Benzonitrile, hydrolysis reactions

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Fig. 7.10. Partial benzonitrile hydrolysis of (A) accelerated by hydrogen peroxide under basic conditions. The intermediate E, a perimidic acid, is as suitable for the epoxidation of standard alkenes as MCPBA or HHPP (cf. Section 3.19), but unlike the latter two is also capable of epoxidizing keto alkenes (which would be oxidized by MCPBA or MMPP in the ketonic substructure in a Baeyer-Vil-liger reaction cf. Section 14.35).

Hydrolysis may be effected with 10-20 per cent, sodium hydroxide solution (see p-Tolunitrile and Benzonitrile in Section IV,66) or with 10 per cent, methyl alcoholic sodium hydroxide. For diflScult cases, e.g., a.-Naphthoniirile (Section IV,163), a mixture of 50 per cent, sulphuric acid and glacial acetic acid may be used. In alkahne hydrolysis the boiling is continued until no more ammonia is evolved. In acid hydro-lysis 2-3 hours boiling is usually sufficient the reaction product is poured into water, and the organic acid is separated from any unchanged nitrile or from amide by means of sodium carbonate solution. The resulting acid is identified as detailed in Section IV,175. 

Since the hybridization and structure of the nitrile group resemble those of alkynes, titanium carbene complexes react with nitriles in a similar fashion. Titanocene-methylidene generated from titanacyclobutane or dimethyltitanocene reacts with two equivalents of a nitrile to form a 1,3-diazatitanacyclohexadiene 81. Hydrolysis of 81 affords p-ketoena-mines 82 or 4-amino-l-azadienes 83 (Scheme 14.35) [65,78]. The formation of the azati-tanacyclobutene by the reaction of methylidene/zinc halide complex with benzonitrile has also been studied [44]. 

Capon et al., 1978. No reference bimolecular reaction is available, but o-cyanobenzoic acid is hydrolysed over 10 times faster than phthalamic acid (A.3.9), although benzonitrile is less reactive than benzamide towards acid hydrolysis. [Rate constants for hydrolysis are (1-2) x 10 s for benzonitrile in 1 M acid (Hyland and O Connor, 1973) and 3.5 x 10-4 dm3 mol-1 s 1 for benzamide (Bender et al., 1958), both measured at 100°]... 

Aromatic nitriles differ from their aliphatic cousins in that they bear no H-atoms at C(a) and, hence, cannot undergo oxidative denitrilation. Here, hydrolysis of the CN group depends on the substrate properties and on the relative efficiency of competitive reactions such as ring hydroxylation. Thus, the CN group of benzonitrile (11.87, R = H), 2- and 4-hydroxybenzonitriles (11.87, R = 2-OH or 4-OH), and 4-nitrobenzonitrile (11.87, R = 4-N02) was not hydrolyzed by rat liver subcellular preparations [124],... 

In contrast to the above benzonitriles, 2-methylbenzonitrile (11.88) did undergo cyano hydrolysis, but by a very indirect route involving cytochrome P450 catalyzed hydroxylation of the 2-Me group to form 2-(hydroxyme-thyl)benzonitrile (11.89), followed by intramolecular nucleophilic addition. The cyclization reaction yielded an unstable imino ether derivative (11.90), which hydrolyzes to phthalide (11.91). The conversion of 2-(hydroxyme-thyl)benzonitrile to phthalide followed first-order kinetics with a f1/2 value of 2.8 h at pH 7.4 and 37° [124],... 

Like acetonitrile, benzonitrile is a powerful solvent fnr many inorganic and organic materials including some polymers. It can be converted to a large number and variety of derivatives by simple syntheses e.g.. by hydrolysis, it can be converted to either benzoic acid nr benzamicle. The most important reaction is with dicyandiamide to produce 2,4-diamino-6-phenyl-l,3,5-triazine (benzogunnamine) ... 

A number of studies have also been made of the hydrolysis of nitriles in the coordination sphere of cobalt(III). Pinnell et al.3 4 found that benzonitrile and 3- and 4-cyanophenol coordinated to pentaamminecobalt(III) are hydrolyzed in basic solution to the corresponding N-bonded carboxamide (equation 22). The reaction is first order in hydroxide ion and first order in the complex with koH= 18.8M 1s 1 at 25.6 °C for the benzonitrile derivative. As fc0H for the base hydrolysis of benzonitrile is 8.2 x 10-6 M-1 s at 25.6 °C, the rate acceleration is ca. 2.3 x 106-fold. The product of hydrolysis is converted to [(NH3)5CoNH2COPh]3+ in acidic solution and the pJC of the protonated complex is 1.65 at 25 °C. Similar effects have been observed with aliphatic nitriles.315 Thus, base hydrolysis of acetonitrile to acetamide is promoted by a factor of 2 x 106 on coordination to [Co(NH3)5]3+. 

Trimethylsilyl)-l,3-oxathianyllithium 332 was obtained by deprotonation of compound 323 with s-BuLi at —78 °C and reacted with different electrophiles such as deuterium oxide, alkyl iodides, dimethyl disulfide and carbonyl compounds, providing the corresponding products 333 in moderate to good yields. However, the reaction with benzonitrile, followed by acid hydrolysis, gave 2-benzoyl-l,3-oxathiane 334 (X = H) (Scheme 87)503,504. When the last reaction was quenched with methyl iodide before... 

A cyclization reaction involving the sulfonamide 267 finalized an efficient synthetic approach to the COX-inhihitor 268 after subsequent simultaneous ester hydrolysis and detosylation (Equation 82) <2003JOC4104>. Indoles have also been prepared by reaction of (2-aminobenzyl)triphenylphosphonium salts with carboxylic acid anhydrides in the presence of a base <2002TL2885>. Exposure of o-(benzoylamino)benzonitriles to a-bromoketones under basic conditions gives 3-aminoindole derivatives <2001BML2169>. 

Acylation of (2) with benzonitrile gives an intermediate which yields acetophenone (52%) on hydrolysis with 3 M HCl. This seems to be the only recorded reaction of a boron-stabilized carbanion with a nitrile. ... 

Roberts and Whiting developed a method for effecting the anhydrous hydrolysis of esters and nitriles in DMSO. A solution of sodium methylsulfinylmethide is prepared from sodium hydride and DMSO and titrated with a solution of an appropriate amount of water in DMSO, using triphenylmethane as indicator. This produces a fine suspension of sodium hydroxide which hydrolyzes ethyl benzoate very rapidly at room temperature. As compared with reactions in hydroxylic solvents, rates are enhanced by a factor of 10 -10 . Benzonitrile is hydrolyzed to benzamide. Methyl and ethyl mesitoates are hydrolyzed readily at 25°. 

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