Chloromethane preparation

Chlorination of methane provides approximately one third of the annual U S pro duction of chloromethane The reaction of methanol with hydrogen chloride is the major synthetic method for the preparation of chloromethane... 

One of the chief uses of chloromethane is as a starting material from which sili cone polymers are made Dichloromethane is widely used as a paint stripper Trichloromethane was once used as an inhalation anesthetic but its toxicity caused it to be replaced by safer materials many years ago Tetrachloromethane is the starting mate rial for the preparation of several chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) at one time widely used as refrigerant gases Most of the world s industrialized nations have agreed to phase out all uses of CFCs because these compounds have been implicated m atmospheric processes that degrade the Earth s ozone layer... 

Bis(3,4-diethyl-2-pyrrolylmethyl)-3,4-dietliyl-l//-pyrrole (2), prepared in situ from the di-t-butylester of the 5,5 -dicarboxylic acid (/), reacts with 4//-1,2,4-triazole-3,5-dialdehyde (3) in di-chloromethane in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid and 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-/)-benzoquino-ne as an oxidation reagent. Dark blue crystals are obtained after chromatographic purification. The dark violet chloroform solution fluoresces purple at 360 nm and gives the NMR experiments 39. Which compound and which tautomer of it has been formed ... 

Meanwhile a stirred suspension of phosphorus pentachloride (14.99 g, 0.072 mol) in dry di-chloromethane (150 ml) was cooled to 0°C, and N,N-dimethylacetamide (27.5 ml) was added. The resulting solution was recooled to -10°C and 2-fur-2-yl)-2-methoxyiminoaceticacid (syn-isomer) (12.17 g, 0.072 mol) was added. The mixture was stirred at -10°C for 15 minutes and crushed ice (35 g) was added. The mixture was stirred at 0°C for 10 minutes, whereafter the lower dichloromethane phase was added over 10 minutes to the cephalosporin solution prepared above, cooled to -10°C so that the reaction temperature rose steadily to 0°C. The mixture was stirred at 0°C to 2°C for 1 hour, whereafter the cooling bath was removed and the reaction temperature allowed to rise to 20°C over 1 hour. The reaction mixture was then added slowly to 2 N hydrochloric acid (100 ml) diluted with cold water (1.15 C) at 5°C. The pH of the two-phase mixture was adjusted to below 2 with 2 N hydrochloric acid (10 ml), and the mixture was stirred and recooled to 5°C. The solid which precipitated was filtered, washed with dichloromethane (100 ml) and water (250 ml), and dried in vacuo at 40°C overnight to give the title compound (22.04 g, 86.6%). 

As an example of an industrially useful radical reaction, look at the chlorination of methane to yield chloromethane. This substitution reaction is the first step in the preparation of the solvents dichloromethane (CHoCl ) and chloroform (CHCI3). 

This material, normally supplied or stored in sealed ampoules and used as a paper chromatography spray reagent, is photo-sensitive. Exposure to UV light causes exothermic decomposition to acetone and chloromethane. Ampoules have burst because of pressure build-up after exposure to fluorescent or direct day light. Store cool and dark, and open ampoules with personal protection. The material also reacts violently with rubber [1,2], It should not be heated to above its boiling point [3], There is also a preparative hazard. 

Dillon, K. B. et al., J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1976, 1479 In the attempted preparation of tetrachloromethylarsinane (MeAsCU) by interaction of chlorine with the arsine while slowly warming from — 196°C, several sealed ampoules exploded at well below 0°C, probably owing to liberation of chloromethane. 

Chlorinated derivatives of methane include methyl chloride, methylene chloride, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, and several chlorofluorohydrocarbons (CFCs). We discuss carbon tetrachloride (CT) as a representative example of this group. CT was originally prepared in 1839 and was one of the first organic chemicals to be produced on a large scale by the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. CT is the most toxic of the chloromethanes and the most unstable on thermal oxidation (Holbrook 2000). 

As it has been shown, there are many ways to assemble the 1,4-(oxa/thia)-2-azole ring. Most of them are performed by inter- or intramolecular cyclization of suitable acyclic precursors. Some of them are found to be suitable for the synthesis of various ring systems, by using readily available, and properly modified reactants. Of particular importance are the following (a) the cyclizations of sulfenamides leading to (oxa/thia)azolium salts (Scheme 33) (b) the cyclization of hydroxamic acids (Scheme 39) (c) the dipolar cycloaddition methodology (Scheme 40) (d) the cyclizations of chlorosulfenyl chlorides (Scheme 46) and (e) the cyclizations of chloromethane sulfonamides (Schemes 47 and 48). Other cyclizations reported are preparative ways used mainly for the synthesis of specific compounds and the scope of these reactions has not been widely studied. 

Electrochemical oxidation of cadmium in a solution of ](4-methylphenyl)sulfonyl]-2-pyridylamine] (HL) in acetonitrile/di chloromethane mixtures resulted in CdL2 complex formation [149]. The electrochemical oxidation of cadmium amalgam in nonaqueous solvents CH2CI2, 1,2-C2H4CI2, and PC was also used for the preparation of cadmium complexes with 18-membered macromonocyclic ligands, 18-06, 18-S6, I8-N2O4, and 18-N6 [150]. The stoichiometry and stability of resulted complexes were determined. The same method was used to examine the complexation of Cd(II) cation with 12-crown-4 ether, azacrown ether 1,4,8,11-tetra-azacyclotetradecane, and thiaazacrown... 

Subsequent work on the deuteration and methylation of (methylsulfinylmethyl)benzene showed indeed that the proportions of the diastereomers produced depend on many factors. The 15 1 diastereomeric mixture of (rnethvlsulfinylmethyl-J) benzene from the deuteration with re-tention/methylation with inversion of (methylsulfinylmethyl)benzenc result45 was obtained in THK with methyllithium prepared from chloromethane (low content of lithium salts). When the methyllithium w as prepared from bromomethane (one equivalent of lithium bromide is present in the mixture), the ratio was reduced to 3 151. The same effect was produced by addition of one equivalent of lithium bromide to the reaction mixture prior to the addition of methyllithium prepared from chloromethane. Excess of lithium bromide reverses the ratio to 0.45 1. 

The reagent was prepared by adding silica gel (20 g, 230-400 mesh, SRL) to a stirred solution of NaBiC>3 (6.5 g, 23.35 mmol) in 30 mL of water. After removal of water, the resulting powder was dried in an oven at 120 °C for 12 h. The reagent (2.3 g) was moistened with water (0.5 mL) and was mixed with the neat ketoxime (1 mmol) in a 25-mL Erlenmeyer flask. The flask was then placed in an alumina bath (heat sink) inside a BPL-SANYO domestic microwave oven (2450 MHz) operating at full power (1200 W) for the specified time. After completion of the reaction (monitored by TLC) the product was extracted with di-chloromethane (3x10 mL). All the compounds obtained were characterized by 1H NMR spectroscopy and by comparison with infrared spectra of authentic samples. 

Ceramides prepared in this way have been used for the partial synthesis of the a-L-fucopyranosyl ceramide (84) (a compound previously isolated from metastatic human carcinoma). Condensation [88] of 2,3,4-tri-Obenzyl-a-L-fucopyranosyl bromide (80) with an unprotected ceramide in the presence of tetraethylammonium bromide in di-chloromethane and subsequent chromatographic purification gave (81) which on catalytic hydrogenation gave the saturated fucosyl ceramide (84). The dichloroacetamido derivative (82) was prepared similarly and converted into the free sphingosine derivative (83) by the action of barium hydroxide. 

In a dichlorodifluoromethane system, frictional wear exposed fresh metal surfaces on an aluminium compressor impellor, causing an exothermic reaction which melted much of the impellor. Later tests showed similar results, decreasing in order of intensity, with tetrafluoromethane chlorodifluoromethane bromotrifluoromethane dichlorodifluoromethane 1,2-difluorotetrafluoroethane 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane [6], In similar tests, molten aluminium dropped into liquid dichlorodifluoromethane burned incandes-cently below the liquid [7]. Aluminium bearing surfaces under load react explosively with polytrifluoroethylene greases or oils. The inactive oxide film will be removed from the metal by friction, and hot spots will initiate reaction [8]. An attempt to scale up the methylation of 2-methylpropane with chloromethane in presence of aluminium chloride and aluminium went out of control and detonated, destroying the autoclave. The preparation had been done on a smaller scale on 20 previous occasions without incident [9]. 

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