Chlorine atoms aromatic substitution

Dinitrochlorobenzene can be manufactured by either dinitration of chlorobenzene in filming sulfuric acid or nitration ofy -nitrochlorobenzene with mixed acids. Further substitution on the aromatic ring is difficult because of the deactivating effect of the chlorine atom, but the chlorine is very reactive and is displaced even more readily than in the mononitrochlorobenzenes. 

Aromatic compounds may be chlorinated with chlorine in the presence of a catalyst such as iron, ferric chloride, or other Lewis acids. The halogenation reaction involves electrophilic displacement of the aromatic hydrogen by halogen. Introduction of a second chlorine atom into the monochloro aromatic stmcture leads to ortho and para substitution. The presence of a Lewis acid favors polarization of the chlorine molecule, thereby increasing its electrophilic character. Because the polarization does not lead to complete ionization, the reaction should be represented as shown in equation 26. 

When reacted with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, the amines produced ben-zotriazolylaminobutendioates 188 accompanied by A-benzotriazolyl substituted 2-pyridones only in the case of 5-amino-2-methyl-2//-benzotriazole, the triazolo-9,10-dihydrobenzo[d]azepine and an unusual cyclization product, triazolo-2-oxindole (convertible into 2-methyltriazolo[4,5-/]carbostyril-9-carboxylate) were formed. The quinolones 189 were aromatized to chloroesters 190 these in turn were hydrolyzed to chloroacids 191 and decarboxylated to 9-chlorotriazolo[4, 5-/]quinolines 192 (Scheme 58) (93H259). The chlorine atom could be replaced with 17 various secondary amines to give the corresponding 9-aminoalkyl(aryl) derivatives 193, some of which exhibit both cell selectivity and tumor growth inhibition activity at concentrations between 10 and 10 " M (95FA47). 

The reactions of the six-membered chlorocyclophosphazene were studied with a number of aliphatic diamines (169 175), aromatic diamines (176), aliphatic diols (177-179), aromatic diols (180,181) and compounds containing amino and hydroxyl functional groups (169,170,182). This subject has been reviewed (11,16,20). There are at least five different reaction products that are possible (Fig. 19). Replacement of two chlorine atoms from the same phosphorus atom produces a spirocyclic product. Replacement of two chlorine atoms from two different phosphorus atoms in the same molecule produces an ansa product. Reaction of only one end of the difunctional reagent, resulting in the substitution of only one chlorine atom, leads to an open-chain compound. Intermolecular bridged compounds are formed when the difunc-... 

The Claisen-Schmidt condensation of 2 -hydroxyacetophenone and different chlorinated benzaldehydes over MgO has been investigated through kinetic and FTIR spectroscopic studies. The results indicate that the position of the chlorine atom on the aromatic ring of the benzaldehyde substantially affects the rate of this reaction. In particular, the rate increases in the following order p-chlorobenzaldehyde < m-chlorobenzaldehyde < o-chlorobenzaldehyde. The difference between the meta and para-substituted benzaldehyde can be attributed to electronic effects due to the difference in the Hammett constants for these two positions. Steric effects were found to be responsible for the higher rate observed with the o-chlorobenzaldehyde. 

Sulfur atom as internal nucleophile. In this area, it has been shown that the reaction of 8-bromo-l,3-dimethyl-7-(2,3-epithiopropyl)xanthine 147 with a range of aliphatic and aromatic amines generates efficiently 2-amino-substituted 2,3-dihydro-thiazolo[2,3-/]xanthine derivatives 148. The process involves a sequential amine-induced thiirane ring opening followed by thiolate z/MYi-substitution of chlorine atom (Equation 66) <1994PCJ647>. 

Sodium fluoride does not effect any replacement of aromatic chlorine atoms with fluorine, unless they are activated by substitution of electron-withdrawing groups in the ring. Several examples are reported for heterocyclic compounds. 

A catalytic amount of tetraphenylphosphonium bromide is required for the preparation of 3,4-difluorobenzoyl fluoride (11) from 3,4-dichlorobenzoyl chloride (9) with potassium fluoride.32 While 11 is formed only in 23% yield, the partially fluorine substituted intermediate 10 can be treated again with potassi um fluoride and tetraphenylphosphonium bromide at 230 °C for 10 h. In this way besides the chlorine atom of the acid chloride in 9 both the aromatic chlorine atoms are also displaced.32... 

The chemical properties of the chlorobenzenes and chloroethylenes differ strikingly from those of saturated aliphatic chlorine compounds and of aromatic compounds with chlorine substituted in a side chain. For example, methyl chloride and benzyl chloride are hydrolyzed by boiling alkali, giving the corresponding alcohols, whereas chlorobenzene is not affected by this treatment. In general there is a pronounced diminution in reactivity of a chlorine atom adjacent to an aromatic nucleus or double bond. 

As mentioned earlier, Ding et al.15 captured a number of dichlorohetero-cyclic scaffolds where one chloro atom is prone to nucleophilic aromatic substitution onto resin-bound amine nucleophiles (Fig. 1). Even though it was demonstrated that in many cases the second chlorine may be substituted with SNAr reactions, it was pointed out that palladium-catalyzed reactions offer the most versatility in terms of substrate structure. When introducing amino, aryloxy, and aryl groups, Ding et al.15 reported Pd-catalyzed reactions as a way to overcome the lack of reactivity of chlorine at the purine C2 position and poorly reactive halides on other heterocycles (Fig. 10). 

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