Bromobenzene, amination

PMMA is not affected by most inorganic solutions, mineral oils, animal oils, low concentrations of alcohols paraffins, olefins, amines, alkyl monohahdes and ahphatic hydrocarbons and higher esters, ie, >10 carbon atoms. However, PMMA is attacked by lower esters, eg, ethyl acetate, isopropyl acetate aromatic hydrocarbons, eg, benzene, toluene, xylene phenols, eg, cresol, carboHc acid aryl hahdes, eg, chlorobenzene, bromobenzene ahphatic acids, eg, butyric acid, acetic acid alkyl polyhaHdes, eg, ethylene dichloride, methylene chloride high concentrations of alcohols, eg, methanol, ethanol 2-propanol and high concentrations of alkahes and oxidizing agents. 

Tetrasubstituted phosphinous amides of the type R2NPPh2 have been successfully arylated at phosphorus by the action of bromobenzene, in a process catalyzed by NiBr2, to give the aminophosphonium bromides [R2NPPh3] Br [109]. Other representative members of this class form phosphane-borane complexes [62], are aminated at phosphorus by chloramine to yield bis(amino)phos-phonium salts [110] and have been claimed to be protonated at phosphorus by ethereal tetrafluoroboric acid, as determined by NMR analysis [111]. 

Some of the details of the mechanism may differ for various catalytic systems. There have been kinetic studies on two of the amination systems discussed here. The results of a study of the kinetics of amination of bromobenzene using Pd2(dba)3, BINAP, and sodium r-amyloxide in toluene were consistent with the oxidative addition occurring after addition of the amine at Pd. The reductive elimination is associated with deprotonation of the animated palladium complex.166... 

For comparison, fluorous-phase-soluble Pd complexes are only 74-98% selective towards the trans product [168-170]. The isolated yields of the product approached 70% when a threefold excess of olefin to iodobenzene was used (Table 3) however, the percent yield decreased with the use of bromobenzene as expected since activation of bromine-carbon bonds is less favorable than iodo-carbon bonds. It was also possible to catalyze the reaction in the absence of additional triethylamine base (Table 3). In this case, the tertiary amines of the den-drimer most likely act as the base. The catalysts, in general, were fully recover-... 

In addition, aryl chlorides, bromides, and iodides can be converted to arene-amines ArNH2 by the conjugate bases of amines. In fact, the reaction of potassium amide with bromobenzene is extremely rapid, even at temperatures as low as —33°, with liquid ammonia as solvent ... 

The mechanism of this type of reaction has been studied extensively, and much evidence has accumulated in support of a stepwise process, which proceeds first by base-catalyzed elimination of hydrogen halide (HX) from the aryl halide—as illustrated below for the amination of bromobenzene ... 

Exercise 14-19 The intervention of benzyne in the amination of chlorobenzene, bromobenzene, and iodobenzene with sodium amide in liquid ammonia originally was demonstrated by J. D. Roberts using 14C-labeled halobenzenes. Show explicitly how the use of a chlorobenzene-14C label could differentiate between amination by addition-elimination (Section 14-6B) versus amination by elimination-addition (benzyne mechanism). 

In previous discussions (Section 14-6A) we stated that it is not possible to displace halogen from simple aryl halides such as bromobenzene by simple Sn2 reactions using amines or other weakly basic nucleophiles at ordinary temperatures ... 

Since the substitution reaction succeeded so well with olefins, the obvious extension to acetylenes was tried. Of course, only terminal acetylenes could be used if an acetylenic product was to be formed. This reaction has been found to occur but probably not by a mechanism analogous to the reaction of olefins (43,44). It was found that the more acidic acetylene phenylacetylene reacted with bromobenzene in the presence of triethylamine and a bisphos-phine-palladium complex to form diphenylacetylene, while the less acidic acetylene, 1-hexyne did not react appreciably under the same conditions. The reaction did occur when the more basic amine piperidine was used instead of triethylamine, however (43). Both reactions occur with sodium methoxide as the base (44). It therefore appears that the acetylide anion is reacting with the catalyst and that a reductive elimination of the disubstituted acetylene is... 

The efficacy of the BINAP/Pd-system to mediate C-N bond formation without stereochemical erosion has been taken advantage of by several groups. Diver and co-workers described the double amination or orfho-di-bromobenzene with (S)-a-methylbenzylamine to yield the desired C2-sym-metric diamine in 61% yield, >99% ee, and 91% de, Eq. (69) [85]. Schmalz reported a similar coupling reaction to prepare new ligands for asymmetric catalysis [45]. 

Dipheny[amine (7) is prepared industrially either by heating aniline with aniline hydrochloride at 140 °C under pressure, or by heating aniline with phenol at 260 °C in the presence of zinc chloride. The most convenient laboratory synthesis uses the Ullmann reaction (Scheme 8.9) (see Chapter 10), in which acetanilide is refluxed with bromobenzene in the presence of potassium carbonate and copper powder in nitrobenzene solvent. Triphenylamine is similarly prepared from diphenylamine and iodobenzene. 

Tin trimethyl phenyl. —Sodium trimethylstannide when treated with bromobenzene in liquid ammonia yields tin trimethyl phenyl, B.pt. 203 to 208 C., but the main product of reaction is tri (trimethyl-stannyl)-amine. This is formed according to the equation ... 

Organophosphorus compounds find wide use in the chemical industry as catalysts, intermediates, complexes, and end-use products. Arylphosphines and phosphine oxides are often produced by the reaction of a preformed Grignard reagent with a halophosphine or phosphine oxide. Yields are reduced by the production of unwanted side-reaction products such as biaryls. These unwanted products are reduced when the reaction is conducted under Barbier conditions. When alkyl and aryl halides are reacted with magnesium metal, a trihalophosphine or phosphine oxide, a metal halide or amine catalyst, in THE benzene mixtures, at reflux, good yields of phosphines or phosphine oxides are obtained [74]. For example, triphenylphosphine can be prepared in a 97.2% yield from the reaction of bromobenzene, trichlorophosphine, magnesium metal, aluminum chloride, and sodium chloride in THF-benzene at 70 80 C. 

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