Bases carboxylic acids reaction with

TETRINE ACID (60-00-4) CioH.sNjOg A weak organic (carboxylic) acid. Reaction with dithiocarbamates, isocyanates, mercaptans, nitrides, nitrites, sulfides, forms flammable and/or toxic gases + heat. Incompatible with acids, azo compounds, epoxides and other polymerizable compounds oxidizers, sulfuric acid, reducing agents bases, ammonia, aliphatic amines alkanolamines, alkylene oxides cyanide salts and cyanide solutions (forms... 

The most widely practiced reactions convert carboxylic acids into esters, amides, carboxylate salts, acid chlorides, and alcohols. Carboxylic acids react with bases to form carboxylate salts, in which the hydrogen of the hydroxyl (-OH) group is replaced with a metal cation. Thus, acetic acid found in vinegar reacts with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) to form sodium acetate, carbon dioxide, and water ... 

Carboxylic acids react with butadiene as alkali metal carboxylates. A mixture of isomeric 1- and 3-acetoxyoctadienes (39 and 40) is formed by the reaction of acetic acid[13]. The reaction is very slow in acetic acid alone. It is accelerated by forming acetate by the addition of a base[40]. Addition of an equal amount of triethylamine achieved complete conversion at 80 C after 2 h. AcONa or AcOK also can be used as a base. Trimethylolpropane phosphite (TMPP) completely eliminates the formation of 1,3,7-octatriene, and the acetoxyocta-dienes 39 and 40 are obtained in 81% and 9% yields by using N.N.N M -tetramethyl-l,3-diaminobutane at 50 in a 2 h reaction. These two isomers undergo Pd-catalyzed allylic rearrangement with each other. 

Equation 20 is the rate-controlling step. The reaction rate of the hydrophobes decreases in the order primary alcohols > phenols > carboxylic acids (84). With alkylphenols and carboxylates, buildup of polyadducts begins after the starting material has been completely converted to the monoadduct, reflecting the increased acid strengths of these hydrophobes over the alcohols. Polymerization continues until all ethylene oxide has reacted. Beyond formation of the monoadduct, reactivity is essentially independent of chain length. The effectiveness of ethoxylation catalysts increases with base strength. In practice, ratios of 0.005—0.05 1 mol of NaOH, KOH, or NaOCH to alcohol are frequendy used. 

A final method for the preparation of pyrido[2,3-carboxylic acid chlorides with enamines in the presence of base to give 6,7,8-trisubstituted 5-ones (253 254)... 

The treatment of 3-benzoyl-2-phenylisoxazolidine with strong base generated an aldehyde and a ketimine <74X1121). Under these conditions dimethyl 2-a-methoxyisoxazolidine-3,3-dicarboxylic acid (186) produced isoxazoline-2-carboxylic acid. Reaction of the monomethyl amide (187) gave the corresponding isoxazoline-2-carboxamide (Scheme 60). CD was used in the conformational studies <79X213). 

Aldehydes 1 that have no a-hydrogen give the Cannizzaro reaction upon treatment with a strong base, e.g. an alkali hydroxide.In this disproportionation reaction one molecule is reduced to the corresponding alcohol 2, while a second one is oxidized to the carboxylic acid 3. With aldehydes that do have a-hydrogens, the aldol reaction takes place preferentially. 

While the stoichiometric salt formations with HX are clear-cut if the acid cannot be removed simply by evacuation, there may be questions of salt formation versus complexation in solid-solid reactions between acids and bases. This point has been suitably addressed with IR spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction studies of solid carboxylic acids and amine bases of varying strengths that were ground or milled together [34]. Yields are not given, but it may be assumed that quantitative reactions occurred in all stoichiometric mixtures. 

Zirconium and hafnium tetraalkoxides are highly reactive compounds. They react with water, alcohols, silanols, hydrogen halides, acetyl halides, certain Lewis bases, aryl isocyanates and other metal alkoxides. With chelating hydroxylic compounds HL, such as j8-diketones, carboxylic acids and Schiff bases, they give complexes of the type ML (OR)4 these reactions are discussed in the sections dealing with the chelating ligand. 

Carboxylic acids react with aryl isocyanates, at elevated temperatures to yield anhydrides. The anhydrides subsequently evolve carbon dioxide to yield amines at elevated temperatures (70—72). The aromatic amines are further converted into amides by reaction with excess anhydride. Ortho diacids, such as phthalic acid [88-99-3], react with aryl isocyanates to yield the corresponding N-aryl phthalimides (73). Reactions with carboxylic acids are irreversible and commercially used to prepare polyamides and polyimides, two classes of high performance polymers for high temperature applications where chemical resistance is important. Base catalysis is recommended to reduce the formation of substituted urea by-products (74). 

Fig. 13.10. Formation of carboxylate enolates ("carboxylic acid dianions") by reaction of carboxylic acid salts with strong bases.

It is often very useful to be able to alkylate a readily available chiral a-hetero-substitut-ed carboxylic acid in an enantiospecific manner, as a means of using the chiral center and at the same time building-up the rest of the target carbon skeleton. Such a reaction has been devised by Seebach and coworkers524. In this process a-hydroxy- and a-mercaptocar-boxylic acids were first reacted with pivaldehyde, to produce a 1,3-dioxolanone or 1,3-oxathiolanone. This was followed by reaction with base and alkylation by an alkyl halide and subsequent hydrolysis to regenerate the hydroxyl or mercapto group (equation 70). The product was obtained in greater than 95% ee. Similar reactions with other electrophiles were also successful. 

Reaction of this carboxylic acid (C5H8O2) with bromine in the presence of dibenzoyl peroxide gives an unstable compound (CsHgB C ) that gives a stable compound (CsHsBrC ) on treatment with base. The stable compound has IR 1735 and 1645 cm-1 and NMR 5h (p.p.m.) 6.18 (1H, s), 5.00 (2H, s), and 4.18 (2H, s). What is the structure of the stable product Deduce the structure of the unstable compound and mechanisms for the reactions. 

According to Bredereck et al.,17,18 the reaction of carboxylic acid amides with dialkyl sulfates proceeds via the intermediate ambident cation such as (5). In the case of caprolactam, when excess dialkyl sulfate is taken, the A,(9-dialkyl derivative (6) is formed, which with base forms 3 (Scheme 1). 

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