Carboxylic acid anhydrides: aliphatic aromatic

The classes of compounds that are conveniently considered together as derivatives of carboxylic acids include the acyl chlorides, carboxylic acid anhydrides, esters, and amides. In the case of simple aliphatic and aromatic acids, synthetic transformations... 

Carboxylic acids, anhydrides, aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, esters, and chlorinated solvents have only a slight effect. 

In connection with the elaboration of specific procedures for the manufacture of both of the isosorbide mononitrates, methods were developed to shift, with high regioselectivity, the course of the acylation reaction either towards the 5 (endo) or the 2 (exo) position, depending on the conditions applied.104-106 Thus, isosorbide 5-acylates are obtained in 70-85% yield when 3 is treated with the appropriate acid anhydride in the presence of lead(II) oxide or acetate for 20 to 40 h at room temperature. To avoid transesterifications to the appropriate 2-acylate, the workup procedures, especially during the distillation, have to be conducted under strictly neutral conditions. The contrary effect, a remarkable enrichment by the isosorbide 2-acylate (up to 90%) is realized by a transesterification process mediated by a small proportion of sodium or potassium carbonate, hydroxide, or meth-oxide, which are added to the acylation mixture from isosorbide at HOMO0, and subsequent removal of the 2-acylate by vacuum distillation.104 These two regioselective acylation methods may be used for aliphatic, as well as for aromatic, carboxylic acid anhydrides. 

Diorgano tellurium dicarboxylates were prepared from dialkyl and diaryl tellurium derivatives. Aliphatic carboxylic acids, aromatic carboxylic acids, their sodium or silver salts, and carboxylic acid anhydrides were used as reagents. Dicarboxylic acids such as succinic acid and phthalic acid were reported to give monomeric carboxylates when... 

A large number of stable 7e-organo tellurocarboxylates were prepared from tellurolates and aliphatic or aromatic carboxylic acid chlorides or aliphatic carboxylic acid anhydrides. The tellurolates were obtained by reduction of diorgano ditelluriums with sodium borohydride. 

According to Meerwein and others,323,516 use of boron trifluoride may be valuable, since it forms well-defined molecular compounds with simple aliphatic carboxylic acids for example, aromatic and heterocyclic hydrocarbons and aryl ethers can be acetylated smoothly and in good yield by acetic anhydride and boron trifluoride.323 The preparation of boron trifluoride has been described by Krause and Nitsche and by Booth and Willson.517... 

Ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene is inert to strong mineral acids, inorganic bases, halogens, and metal salt solutions. Even carboxylic acids, anhydrides, aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, ethers, esters, chloro-carbons, and classic polymer solvents have little effect on ETFE. 

A two-component epoxy system consists of a resin and a hardener, along with possible additives such as accelerators, reactive diluents, resin modifiers, plasticizers, and fillers. Typical hardeners include aliphatic polyamines, which cure at room temperature or at slightly elevated temperatures polyamides, which provide flexibility and are widely used aromatics, which are solid and anhydrides, which require elevated temperature cure and produce thermally stable but brittle adhesives. Low molecular weight epoxies are liquid and are usually cured by amines, carboxylic acid anhydrides, and Lewis acid and base catalyst. Higher molecular weight epoxies are cured through their hydroxyl groups. Cure of epoxies involves an exothermic reaction. 

However, certain additives can decrease the rate of thermal decomposition [28]. These additives include cyclic sulfates, sulfones, sultones, aliphatic and aromatic anhydrides, and polymers with pendant carboxylic acid functional groups. Most of these materials are latent acids, which decompose on heating in the presence of moisture to form a strong acid, as shown for cyclic sulfate, 9, in Eq. 5. 

Isocyanates react with carboxylic acids to form amides, ureas, anhydrides, and carbon dioxide, depending on reaction conditions and the structure of the starting materials (Scheme 4.13). Aliphatic isocyanates more readily give amides. Aromatic isocyanates tend to react with carboxylic acids to first generate anhydrides and ureas, which at elevated temperatures (ca. 160°C) may further react to give amides. In practice, the isocyanate reaction with carboxylic acid is rarely utilized deliberately but can be an unwanted side reaction resulting from residual C02H functionality in polyester polyols. 

Anhydrides, both aliphatic and aromatic, as well as mixed anhydrides of carboxylic and carbonic acids, have been reduced to aldehydes in moderate yields with disodium tetracarbonylferrate Na2Fe(CO)4. Heating a carboxylic acid, presumably to form the anhydride, and then reaction with Na/EtOH leads to the aldehyde. 

By use of TV-(trifluoroacetyl)- or TV-(trichloroacetyl)-imidazoleare obtained symmetric aliphatic and aromatic anhydrides even from carboxylic acids that do not form insoluble salts in benzene, ether, or THF (Table 13—1). In this case the acid is treated with the imidazolide in a 2 1 molar ratio, and an insoluble imidazolium trifluoro- or tri-chloroacetate is formed. 

Another Pd-catalyzed reaction of aryl- and alkylzinc halides used carboxylic anhydrides as starting organic compounds (Scheme 127).328 One of the advantages of this method is that anhydrides can be synthesized in situ from the corresponding sodium salts of carboxylic acids and ethyl chloroformate. The scope of the method includes aliphatic and aromatic anhydrides, phenyl-, ethyl-, isopropyl-, and n-butylzinc iodides. 

Unsaturated polyesters are prepared through a classical esterification process. Typically, a dihydroxy compound, or mixtures of dihydroxy compounds, are treated with maleic anhydride and/or together with other dicarboxylic acids such as aromatic or aliphatic dicarboxylic acids under elevated temperature to remove the water produced during esterification process. Although various catalysts will catalyze this esterification reaction, there is enough carboxylic acid in the mixture so that it is not necessary to add extra catalyst. 

This chapter deals with the kinetics and mechanisms of the hydrolysis of carboxylic acid derivatives of general formula RCOX. These include carboxylic acid halides, amides, and anhydrides with small sections on carboxylic acid cyanides etc. Many recent developments in this field have been made with acid derivatives in which R is not an aliphatic or aromatic group, for example, carbamic acid derivatives, and these are reported where relevant, as are reactions such as ethanolysis, aminolysis, etc. where they throw light on the mechanisms of hydrolysis. 

Reaction XX. (e) Action of Aliphatic or Aromatic Carboxylic Acids or their Chlorides or Anhydrides on Phenolic Compounds in presence of Zinc Chloride to yield Phenolic Ketones (Nencki). 

The simpler examples are readily hydrolysed in aqueous solution, and therefore react with sodium hydrogen carbonate and also give the ester test they may be confirmed by applying the hydroxamic ester test (Section 9.5.3, p. 1222). Carbonyl adsorption is apparent in the infrared spectrum at about 1820 cm-1 and at about 1760cm-1. It should be noted that aromatic anhydrides and higher aliphatic anhydrides are not readily hydrolysed with water and are therefore effectively neutral (Section 9.5.3, p. 1218). The final characterisation of the acid anhydride is achieved by conversion into a crystalline carboxylic acid derivative as for add halides. 

Reactions between a representative range of alkyl- and aryl-amines and of aliphatic and aromatic acids showed that the direct formation of amides from primary amines and carboxylic acids without catalyst occurs under relatively low-temperature conditions (Scheme 1). The best result obtained was a 60% yield of N-bcnzyl-4-phenylbutan-amide from benzylamine and 4-phenylbutanoic acid. For all these reactions, an anhydride intermediate was proposed. Boric and boronic acid-based catalysts improved the reaction, especially for the less reactive aromatic acids, and initial results indicated that bifunctional catalysts showed even greater potential. Again, anhydride intermediates were proposed, in these cases mixed anhydrides of carboxylic acids and arylboronic acids, e.g. (I).1... 

Food, flavors consist of numerous compounds, none of which alone is characteristic of specific food. Classes of compounds which emcompass food flavors are - hydrocarbons (aliphatic, ali-cyclic, aromatic) carbonyls (aldehydes, ketones) carboxylic acids, esters, imides, anhydrides alcohols, phenols, ethers alkylamines, alkylimines aliphatic sulfur compounds (thiols, mono-, di- and tri-sulfides) nitrogen heterocyclics (pyrroles, pyrazines, pyridines) sulfur heterocylics (thiophenes, thiazoles, trithiolane, thialidine) and oxygen-heterocyclics (lactone, pyrone, furan). Discussion will be limited to striking developments in heterocyclics. 

Esterification. Unhindered aliphatic carboxylic acids are esterified in high yield by reaction with an alkyl chloroformate, triethylamine, and a trace of 4-dimethylamino-pyridine in CH2CI2 at 0°. The reaction probably involves a mixed anhydride. Aromatic carboxylic acids are esterified by this method, bui in lower yield because of formation of the acid anhydride. 

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