Chlorides electrophilic reactions

Friedel-Crafts acylation of aromatic compounds (Section 12 7) Acyl chlorides and carboxylic acid anhydrides acylate aromatic rings in the presence of alumi num chloride The reaction is electrophil ic aromatic substitution in which acylium ions are generated and attack the ring... 

The earliest reported reference describing the synthesis of phenylene sulfide stmctures is that of Friedel and Crafts in 1888 (6). The electrophilic reactions studied were based on reactions of benzene and various sulfur sources. These electrophilic substitution reactions were characterized by low yields (50—80%) of rather poorly characterized products by the standards of 1990s. Products contained many by-products, such as thianthrene. Results of self-condensation of thiophenol, catalyzed by aluminum chloride and sulfuric acid (7), were analogous to those of Friedel and Crafts. 

Many other reactions of ethylene oxide are only of laboratory significance. These iaclude nucleophilic additions of amides, alkaU metal organic compounds, and pyridinyl alcohols (93), and electrophilic reactions with orthoformates, acetals, titanium tetrachloride, sulfenyl chlorides, halo-silanes, and dinitrogen tetroxide (94). 

Although it is conceivable that the nucleophilic chloride ion initiates the attack, much experience supports the classification of (1-4) as an electrophilic reaction. Of course, if is the attacking electrophile, the double bond must be functioning as a nucleophile.] Equation (1-5) shows an AdN reaction. 

Olivier and Berger335, who measured the first-order rate coefficients for the aluminium chloride-catalysed reaction of 4-nitroben2yl chloride with excess aromatic (solvent) at 30 °C and obtained the rate coefficients (lO5/ ) PhCI, 1.40 PhH, 7.50 PhMe, 17.5. These results demonstrated the electrophilic nature of the reaction and also the unselective nature of the electrophile which has been confirmed many times since. That the electrophile in these reactions is not the simple and intuitively expected free carbonium ion was indicated by the observation by Calloway that the reactivity of alkyl halides was in the order RF > RC1 > RBr > RI, which is the reverse of that for acylation by acyl halides336. The low selectivity (and high steric hindrance) of the reaction was further demonstrated by Condon337 who measured the relative rates at 40 °C, by the competition method, of isopropylation of toluene and isopropylbenzene with propene catalyzed by boron trifluoride etherate (or aluminium chloride) these were as follows PhMe, 2.09 (1.10) PhEt, 1.73 (1.81) Ph-iPr, (1.69) Ph-tBu, 1.23 (1.40). The isomer distribution in the reactions337,338 yielded partial rate factors of 2.37 /mMe, 1.80 /pMe, 4.72 /, 0.35 / , 2.2 / Pr, 2.55337 339. 

Alkenes and alkynes react with sulfur dichloride (SC12), giving 2-chloroethyl(or vinyl)sulfenyl chlorides. The reaction is an electrophilic addition to the multiple bond, and consequently the possible intermediacy of thiiranes, or thiiranium ions analogous to bromonium ions, has been... 

An alternative route to pyranthrone, involving baking 1,6-dibenzoylpyrene (6.96) with aluminium chloride, was also devised by Scholl (Scheme 6.18). The Scholl reaction is a key step in the synthesis of several polycyclic quinones the cyclisation of 1-benzoylnaphthalene to give benzanthrone (6.73) has already been mentioned. The mechanism of this cyclodehydrogenation reaction may involve an initial protonation step, if traces of water are present, or complexation with aluminium chloride. Electrophilic substitution is thereby... 

Finally, chlorination of chiral sulfinamides (185,186) which may be classified as electrophilic reaction at a tricoordinate sulfur, proceeds with retention at sulfur, yielding chiral sulfonimidoyl chlorides. This reaction is exemplified by the synthesis of sulfonimidoyl... 

Oxidation of a snlfide to sulfoxide is known to be an electrophilic reaction, in contrast with nncleophUic oxidation of sulfoxide to sulfone. Since 2-nitrobenzenesulfinyl chloride/KOi oxidizes sulfides to sulfoxides selectively, intermediate 48 must be the actual active intermediate. Moreover, in the presence of l,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2.]octane (DABCO), which is a radical capturing reagent, the oxidation of methyl phenyl sulfide to the sulfoxide was inhibited. In order to further detect the intermediate 48, pure 5,5-dimethyl-l-pyrroUne-l-oxide (DMPO) was used as a trapping reagent and spin adduct was obtained. The ESR spectrum of the DMPO spin adduct was obtained by the reaction of 02 with 2-nitrobenzenesulfinyl chloride (hyperfine coupling constants, aH = 10.0 G and aN = 12.8 G). 

With unsubstituted 5-iodouracil 336, a trimagnesiated species 337 can be formed by sequential treatment with methylmagnesium chloride and isopropylmagnesium chloride, and reaction with various electrophiles then selectively gives 5-functionalized uracil derivatives 338 <20070L1639>. The same procedure was also successfully applied to the functionalization of 6-iodouracils, including the synthesis of Emivirine and l-[(2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6-(phenylthio)thymine (ElEPT) precursors <20070L1639>. 

This type of duality of action is presumably present in other situations, such as the Fries rearrangement (78), the Friedel-Crafts reaction with acid chlorides (65) or acid anhydrides (21), and the catalytic chlorination of nitrobenzene (17). In these reactions it appears that the uncoordinated Lewis acid is the effective catalyst. The same situation is illustrated by recent work on aromatic amination (32, 33) and halogenation (57, 58, 71) and seems to be general feature of Lewis acid-catalyzed electrophilic reactions of aromatic compounds containing suitable donor groups. 

A poly(arylene ether phenylquinoxaline) of structure 14 was prepared by the aluminum chloride catalyzed reaction of 6,6 -bis[2-(4-phenoxyphenyl)-3-phenylquinoxaline] and isophthaloyl chloride in 1,2-dichloroethane [51]. The polymer had an inherent viscosity of 1.29 dL/g and a Tg of 224 °C. A polymer of the same chemical structure was prepared from the reaction of 3,3, 4,4 -tetraaminobiphenyl with l,3-bis(phenylglyoxalyl-4-phenoxy-4 -benzoyl)-benzene that gave a Tg of 239 °C [16], significantly higher than that prepared by the electrophilic route. In addition, a polymer of the same chemical structure (third polymer in Table 3) prepared via nucleophilic substitution exhibited a Tg of 240 °C. 

The positional reactivity of dibenzofuran in electrophilic substitution reactions depends on the electrophile. Reaction occurs mostly at the 2- and 3-positions but the ratio of the two products varies (91JOC4671). The reaction of cyanogen bromide catalyzed by aluminum chloride gives an 80% yield of the 2-substituted product together with 15% of the 3-cyano-derivative (92ACS312). Oxidative acetoxylation of dibenzofuran occurs predominantly at the 3-position ( 60%) together with attack at the 1-position ( 30%) (92ACS802). In this latter reaction, the attack by acetate is on the dibenzofuranium radical cation. 

Oxymercuration of alkenes is an electrophilic reaction involving the addition of mercuric salt and of a protic solvent (alcohols) according to reaction 9. UV/VIS spectrophotometric investigation of the olefin/mercuric salt reaction mixtures in methylene chloride provides evidence of the presence of an electron donor-acceptor complex between olefin and mercuric salt110 which is considered to be on the reaction pathway of the oxymercuration. 

The production and uses of PCNs have been reviewed previously [5-7, 12,33,34] and thus are only briefly described here. PCNs were produced commercially as complex technical mixtures with trade names which included Halowaxes (USA), Seekay Waxes (UK), Nibren Waxes (Germany), and Clonacire Waxes (France). The synthesis involved the chlorination of molten naphthalene using chlorine gas and metal chlorides (iron(III) or antimony(V)) as catalysts. Reaction temperatures ranged from 80-200 °C depending on the degree of chlorination required, and proceeded as nucleophilic and electrophilic reactions favoring substitution in the a-(l,4,5,8) positions on the naphthalene molecule (Fig. 1) [6]. 

Addition of sulfur chlorides and sulfenyl halides to hydrocarbon olefins is a classic example of electrophilic reaction which usually proceeds under mild conditions and results in stereospecific trans-addition via intermediate formation of cyclic episulfonium cation [134]. Ring-opening reactions of episul-fonium cation with nucleophile is responsible for formation of regioisomers when nonsymmetrical olefins are used as substrates. 

The unsubstituted nitrogen atom in 1,2,4-dithiazolidines is more prone to electrophilic reactions. Both the potassium salt 11 and the initial product 12 can participate in alkylation and acylation reactions. Alkylation of salt 11 with alkyl halides is carried out in DMF or MeCN and compound 12 can react with alkyl halides in MeCN in the presence of inorganic bases (NaH, Bu OK, AcONa, NaHCOj, CS2CO3) NaHCO( proved to be the base of choice. Yields of alkylation products 26 in some cases reach 85-90%. Compound 12 was acylated by benzoyl chloride in pyridine to form the iV-benzoyl derivative 25 (Scheme 15) <2000SL1622, 20030BC3015>. 

If the activated aromatic compound reacts with a mixture of formalin, concentrated hydrochloric acid, and ZnCl2, the result is a so-called chloromethylation (Figure 5.29). The stable reaction product is a primary benzyl chloride. This reaction is initiated by an electrophilic substitution by protonated formaldehyde it is terminated by an SN1 reaction in which a chloride ion acts as the nucleophile. 

The yellow CpFe1 (//6-arene) salts (most commonly BF4 or PF6 ) are usually stable up to at least 200 °C, are stable in concentrated sulfuric acid, and are very resistant towards oxidation (until recently, it was believed that they could not be oxidized [23] vide infra). They are not easy to reduce either [23] (vide infra). The chloride salts [CpFe+( f -arene) Cl- are water-soluble they are formed upon hydrolysis following ligand-exchange reactions between ferrocene and the arene in the presence of aluminum chloride [21]. Such aqueous solutions may sometimes be directly used for nucleophilic reactions [22] (vide infra). The BF4- salts are also sometimes quite soluble in water, but the PF6- salts are much less so. Electrophilic reactions that are readily undergone by the free arenes, such as Friedel-Crafts reactions, are no longer possible on the CpFe+( /6-arene) complexes [19, 23]. On the other hand, a range of nucleophilic reactions that are impossible or very difficult to carry out with free arenes become possible under ambient or mild conditions with the CpFe+()/6-arene) complexes (Scheme 2) [16-20]. 

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