Bromination investigation

Baar, C.A. 1965. Bromine investigations on eastern Canada salt deposits. In Rau, J.L. (ed) Second Symposium on Salt. Northern Ohio Geological Sooiety, 276-292. 

A newer and equally effective way of swapping azides with halides (bromines or iodines) is in the use of phase transfer catalysts [68]. Strike wouldn t expect an underground chemist to purchase the exotic catalyst Aliquat 336 which the investigators in this reference used to get yields approaching 100% but an alternative catalyst of... 

When unsubstituted, C-5 reacts with electrophilic reagents. Thus phosphorus pentachloride chlorinates the ring (36, 235). A hydroxy group in the 2-position activates the ring towards this reaction. 4-Methylthiazole does not react with bromine in chloroform (201, 236), whereas under the same conditions the 2-hydroxy analog reacts (55. 237-239. 557). Activation of C-5 works also for sulfonation (201. 236), nitration (201. 236. 237), Friede 1-Crafts reactions (201, 236, 237, 240-242), and acylation (243). However, iodination fails (201. 236). and the Gatterman or Reimer-Tieman reactions yield only small amounts of 4-methyl-5-carboxy-A-4-thiazoline-2-one. Recent kinetic investigations show that 2-thiazolones are nitrated via a free base mechanism. A 2-oxo substituent increases the rate of nitration at the 5-position by a factor of 9 log... 

As a further electrophilic substitution the bromination of selenazoles has been investigated. This is not as complicated as nitration. Bromination was carried out in several solvents and with various amounts of bromine. In spite of the great variation in conditions, monobromo derivatives containing the bromine atom in the 5-position are always formed. This could be established, for example, by the bromination of the 2-amino-4-p-nitrophenylselenazole (Scheme 34) and its 2-benzamino compound (98). The 2-benzamido bromo compound gives the same bromo... 

Copolymers. The copolymer of tetrabromoBPA and BPA was one of the first commercially successhil copolymers. Low levels of the brominated comonomer lead to increased flame resistance (V-0 rating by UL 94) while having htde effect on other properties. The polycarbonate of bis(4-hydtoxyphenyl)-l,l-dichlotoethylene, prepared from chloral and phenol, followed by dehydrohalogenation, was investigated as another flame-resistant polymer which retained good impact properties. 

Other flow batteries investigated for both electric vehicle appHcation and utiUty load leveling include 2inc [7440-66-6]—[7782-50-5] Zn—Q.25 and zinc—bromine [7726-95-6]., Zn—Br2, batteries (78,81,82). 

Other routes to oxocarbenes are the a-elimination of bromine from a,a-dibromo ketones (73JA2708, 73JA5416), and the elimination of CO2 or COS from dioxolenones (vinylene carbonates) or their sulfur analogues. The former reaction has not been investigated with regard to oxirene involvement the latter is discussed in Section 5.05.6.3.5. The formation of an oxocarbene from a chlorooxirane was mentioned in Section 5.05.6.3.2. 

Two approaches that have been investigated recently for disinfection are mixtures of bromine and chlorine, and mixtures containing bromide or iodide salts. Some evidence exists that mixtures of bromine and chlorine have superior germicidal properties than either halogen alone. It is believed that the increased bacterial activity of these mixtures can be attributed to the attacks by bromine on sites other than those affected by chlorine. The oxidation of bromide or iodide salts can be used to prepare interhalogen compounds or the hypollalous acid in accordance with the following reaction ... 

The nature of the investigation of the action of bromine on nicotine (Formula A),. So treated in acetic acid nicotine yielded a hydrobromide perbromide, C oHjjONgBr,. HBr. Br, from -which, after treatment with aqueous sulphurous acid, the free base, dibromocotinine (Formula D), C QH jONjErj,... 

The bromination of 4,5-j -dihydrocortisone acetate in buffered acetic acid does not proceed very cleanly (<70%) and, in an attempt to improve this step in the cortisone synthesis, Holysz ° investigated the use of dimethylformamide (DMF) as a solvent for bromination. Improved yields were obtained (although in retrospect the homogeneity and structural assignments of some products seem questionable.) It was also observed that the combination of certain metal halides, particularly lithium chloride and bromide in hot DMF was specially effective in dehydrobromination of 4-bromodihydrocortisone acetate. Other amide solvents such as dimethylacetamide (DMA) and A-formylpiperidine can be used in place of DMF. It became apparent later that this method of dehydrobromination is also prone to produce isomeric unsaturated ketones. When applied to 2,4-dibromo-3-ketones, a substantial amount of the A -isomer is formed. 

No extensive investigation of mechanism has been undertaken for any of the methods of dehydrohalogenation described. 17-Bromo-20-ketones appear to undergo preferential /ran -elimination. 2-Halo-3-ketones suffer predominant loss of the la (axial) hydrogen, but the geometry of bromine loss is not known. 7>fl -diaxial elimination has sometimes been assumed in configurational assignments, but this is not necessarily correct (see ref. 6). 

In one of the earliest mechanistic investigations in organic chemistry, Arthur Lapworth discovered in 1904 that the rates of chlorination and bromination of acetone were the... 

The substitution reactions of 3-acetamidothiophene have been extensively investigated. From the bromination with A-bromosuc-cinimide and from the chlorination with sulfuryl chloride or A-chloro-succinimide only the 2-isomers were obtained, the structure of which... 

Further substitution of 2,4-disubstituted and most 2,3-disubstituted thiophenes occurs in the free a-position, except when a - -M-substituent in the 3-position strengthens the 4-directing power of a —1—M-sub-stituent in the 2-position. Thus methyl 3-methyl-2-thiophenecar-boxylate is brominated in the 4-position and 3-brorao-2-thiophene-aldehyde is nitrated in the 4-position. Recent investigations on the chloromethylation, sulfonation, mercuration, and nitration of 2,4-di-chlorothiophene, which without proof are assumed to occur in the 5-position serves as examples of the reactivity of a 2,4-disubstituted thiophene. Formylation with iV,A-dimethylformamide and... 

The reaction of bromine with (pyrazol-4-yl)acrylic acid and its esters and the subsequent dehydrobromination of the products have been investigated by Finar and Okoh [73JCS(P1)2008]. Attempts to dehydrobrominate bromoacrylic acids (20) to 3-( 1 -phenylpyrazol-4-yl)propiolic acids 22 failed, but were successful when bromoesters 21 were used (Scheme 32). 

Isoxazol-5-ones can exist in three different types of structures, cf. 45- 7 (R = H). Early investigators assigned structures to these compounds on the basis of unreliable chemical evidence thus the NH structure 47 was favored because the silver salt of 3-phenyl-isoxazol-5-one reacts with methyl iodide to give a product which was incorrectly (see reference 44) formulated as the iV-incthyl derivatives (cf. also reference 46). Bromine titration data led to assignment of an incorrect structure to 3,4-diphcnylisoxazol-5-one cf. article I (Volume 1), Section II,A. Comparison of the dipole moments of 3-phenyIisoxazol-5-one with those of the methyl derivatives 45 (R = Me) and 46... 

Hei tog et who investigated the bromination of 2,6-dibromopyri-dine in pumice-packed reactors. The products of the reaction at a series of temperatures are shown in Table XV. 

The finding that the anthelmintic thiazoloimidazole levamisole showed immunoregulatory activity spurred further investigation of this heterocyclic system. Synthesis of a highly modified analogue starts by displacement of bromine in keto ester 149 by sulfur in substituted benzimidazole 148. Cyclization of the product (150), leads initially to the carbinol 151. Removal of the ester group by saponification in base followed by acid-catalyzed dehydration of the carbinol affords the immune regulator tilomisole (152) [28]. 

A third, and more promising, route is currently under investigation. Bromine oxidation of an aqueous solution of 2-deoxy-D-nbo-hexose gave the hitherto unreported 2-deoxy-D-nbo-hexono-l,4-lactone, which was benzoylated to yield 3,5,6-tri-0-benzoyl-2-deoxy-D-nbo-hexono-l,4-lactone. Studies are in progress to effect a reduction of the benzoylated... 

MEM, as long as equal amounts of Br2 are added. According to these investigations the conductivities of the fused polybromide salts increase exponentially with the concentration of Br2 reaching values typical for the aqueous electrolyte phases (11-20 Q/cm) at very high bromine contents such as 3 mol Br2/mol complexing agent. 

As shown by several investigations [91], the bromine-rich polybromide phase by itself is hardly flammable and fireextinguishing properties have been reported occasionally. The formation of polybrominated dibenzo-dioxins (PBrDD) and furans (PBrDF) due to the plastic-containing housing of a zinc-flow battery cannot be totally neglected in the case of a fire, but their concentrations are far away from the tetrachloro dibenzodioxine (TCDD) toxic equivalents even in a worst-case scenario. 

X-ray reflectometry (XR) has already been described in Sect. 2.1 as a technique for polymer surface investigations. If a suitable contrast between components is present buried interfaces may also be investigated (Fig. 4d) [44,61,62]. The contrast is determined by the difference in electron density between materials. It is, in the case of interfaces between polymers, only achieved if one component contains heavy atoms (chlorine, bromine, metals, etc.). Alternatively the location of the interface may be determined by the deposition of heavy markers at the interface. 

An investigation of the relative rates of bromination of benzene, toluene, m-and p-xylene by bromine in acetic acid, catalysed by mercuric acetate, revealed relative rates almost identical with those obtained with molecular bromine322, though as in the bromination of biphenyl by bromine acetate (p. 129) it is quite inconsistent for a much more reactive electrophile to have the same selectivity. Relative rates were (molecular bromination values in parenthesis) benzene 1.0 toluene, 480 (610) p-xylene, 2.1 x 103 (2.2 x 103) m-xylene 2.0 x 10s (2.1 x 10s). 

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