Chlorobenzene, reduction

X = H, Cl, Br, Aik R = H, Aik). A convenient laboratory preparation of CI3B3N3H3 for example uses the action of ammonium chloride on boron trichloride (preferably as MeCHBQj) in chlorobenzene reduction then affords borazine itself. 

With the discontinuation of some herbicides, eg, 2,4,5-trichlorophenol [39399-44-5] based on the higher chlorinated benzenes, and DDT, based on monochlorobenzene, both for ecological reasons, the production of chlorinated benzenes has been reduced to just three with large-volume appHcations of (mono)chlorobenzene, o-dichlorobenzene, and -dichlorobenzene. Monochlorobenzene remains a large-volume product, considerably larger than the other chlorobenzenes, in spite of the reduction demanded by the discontinuation of DDT. 

Beside metal salts, a variety of other modifiers, which include amines, chlorobenzene, hydroxides (S2,S2a), and sulfur compounds, have been used. Among amines used are quinoline (SJ0J7,S4), pyridine (29,33,50,60,64), piperidine, aniline, and diethylaniline. The reduction may be quite sensitive to these modifiers for instance, one drop of quinoline was sufficient to cause hydrogenation to come to an abrupt stop after absorption of I mol of hydrogen (2a). 

Propanol with magnesium in reduction of chlorobenzene, 47, 104 Propionyl fluoride, 46, 6 n Propylamine, 46, 85 n Propylhydrazine, 46, 85 C ( Propyl) N phenylmtrone, genera tion from phenylhydroxylamme and n butyraldehyde, 46, 97 Purification of tetrahydrofuran (Warning), 46,105 4H Pyran 4-one, 2 6 dimethyl 3,5 diphenyl, 47, 54... 

Various Cu-exchanged zeolites have been examined in the nucleophilic substitution of bromo- and chlorobenzene towards aminated and oxygenated compounds (ref. 30). In amination a consecutive reaction to diphenylamine and reduction to benzene are the side-reactions (Fig. 10). 

The cyanobacteria Anflfcflenfl sp. strain PCC 7120 andNostoc ellipsosporum dechlorinated y-hexachloro[flflfleee]cyclohexane in the light in presence of nitrate to y-pentachlorocyclo-hexene (Figure 2.5), and to a mixture of chlorobenzenes (Kuritz and Wolk 1995). The reaction is dependent on the functioning of the nir operon involved in nitrite reduction (Kuritz et al. 1997). 

Holscher T, H Gorisch, L Adrian (2003) Reductive dehalogenation of chlorobenzene congeners in cell extracts of Dehalococcoides sp. strain CBDBl. Appl Environ Microbiol 69 2999-3001. 

Hydrodehalogenations of chloro-, bromo-, and iodobenzene were carried out individually as well as in competitive reactions. When the reactions were carried out separately, the reduction of chlorobenzene closely paralleled that of bromobenzene, whereas the reduction of iodobenzene was slower. When they were allowed to react competitively, the reduction was highly selective, and the reaction was delayed, but iodobenzene reacted first followed by bromobenzene and then chlorobenzene. 

In the case of cobalt ions, the inverse reaction of Co111 reduction with hydroperoxide occurs also rather rapidly (see Table 10.3). The efficiency of redox catalysis is especially pronounced if we compare the rates of thermal homolysis of hydroperoxide with the rates of its decomposition in the presence of ions, for example, cobalt decomposes 1,1-dimethylethyl hydroperoxide in a chlorobenzene solution with the rate constant kd = 3.6 x 1012exp(—138.0/ RT) = 9.0 x 10—13 s—1 (293 K). The catalytic decay of hydroperoxide with the concentration [Co2+] = 10 4M occurs with the effective rate constant Vff=VA[Co2+] = 2.2 x 10 6 s— thus, the specific decomposition rates differ by six orders of magnitude, and this difference can be increased by increasing the catalyst concentration. The kinetic difference between the homolysis of the O—O bond and redox decomposition of ROOH is reasoned by the... 

The biotransformation that has caught the imagination of many synthetic organic chemists involves the conversion of benzene and simple derivatives (toluene, chlorobenzene, etc.) into cyclohexadienediols (20) using a recombinant microorganism E. coli JM109. The one step oxidation, via reduction of the... 

Cyclizations of dihydroxystilbene 256 using 4 mol % of chiral ruthenium complexes under photolytic conditions were investigated by Katsuki et al. (Scheme 65) [167]. Coordination of alcohols/phenols to Ru(IV) species generates a cation radical with concomitant reduction of metal to Ru(III). Cycli-zation of this oxygen radical followed by another cyclization provides the product 257. Catalyst 259 provided 81% ee of the product in chlorobenzene solvent. Optimization of the solvent polarity led to a mixture of toluene and f-butanol in 2 3 ratio as the ideal solvent. Substituents on the phenyl rings led to a decrease in selectivity. Low yields were due to the by-product 258. 

The substituent effects on the photochemistry between benzene and secondary aliphatic amines53 were studied. Irradiation of toluene or chlorobenzene with diethylamine results in the formation of mixtures of addition and substitution products (equations 34 and 35). Irradiation of anisole or benzonitrile with diethylamine gives the substitution product 7V,7V-diethylaniline (equations 36 and 37). Irradiation of benzylfluoride with diethylamine results in a side-chain substitution (equation 38). The photoreaction of p-fluorotoluene with diethylamine gives both substitution and reduction products (equation 39). 

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