Chloronitrobenzene products

Several patents have been issued that offer improvements in chloronitrobenzene production. Most are vapor-phase nitrations using soHd catalysts. Table 8 Hsts some of these results. 

We found that, under certain conditions, with 4-chloronitrobenzene products of substitution and of reduction, are formed independently and in competition along channels b and a (Scheme I). The relative para orientation of the two functionalities is necessary to have comparable kinetic reactivities, the ortho isomer being too reactive and the meta totally unreactive in the SNAr mode. 

The experimental conditions for conducting the above reaction in the presence of dimethylformamide as a solvent are as follows. In a 250 ml. three-necked flask, equipped with a reflux condenser and a tantalum wire Hershberg-type stirrer, place 20 g. of o-chloronitrobenzene and 100 ml. of diinethylform-amide (dried over anhydrous calcium sulphate). Heat the solution to reflux and add 20 g. of activated copper bronze in one portion. Heat under reflux for 4 hours, add another 20 g. portion of copper powder, and continue refluxing for a second 4-hour period. Allow to cool, pour the reaction mixture into 2 litres of water, and filter with suction. Extract the solids with three 200 ml. portions of boiling ethanol alternatively, use 300 ml. of ethanol in a Soxhlet apparatus. Isolate the 2 2- dinitrodiphenyl from the alcoholic extracts as described above the 3ueld of product, m.p. 124-125°, is 11 - 5 g. 

Economic Aspects. U.S. production of chloronitrobenzenes in 1993 was 54,431 metric tons per year of which 19,099 metric tons were the ortho isomer and 35,332 metric tons the para isomer. The meta isomer is not isolated in U.S. production. The bulk, fob prices of o- and / -chloronitrobenzene were 1.72/kg and 2.01/kg, respectively. Chloronitrobenzenes are manufactured by Du Pont and Monsanto Co. 

In contrast to the nature of TBAF, tetrabutylammoniuin bifluoride converts benzyl bromide to its fluoride in 100% yield and 4-chloronitrobenzene to 4 fluoronitrobenzene in 70% yield 1-Bromodecane is transformed by tetrabutyl-atnmonium bifluoride to 1-fluorodecanein 88% yield, and Tchlorododecane forms 1-fluorododecane m 83% yield In neither case are significant amounts of the elimination products formed [25]... 

Compound 432, which can be easily prepared from trinitrochlorobenzene (76), treated with triethylamine in dipolar aprotic solvents provided good yield of the denitrocyclization product 433 (80JCS(P1)2205). Reaction of 2,3,5,6-tetra-chloronitrobenzene (434) with various 1,2-diamines under high pressure provided mixtures of the corresponding open products of the nitro group displacement, e.g. 435, and cyclized products, e.g. 436 (Scheme 69). Compound 436 was formed by denitrocyclization reaction, since compound 435 did not cyclize under the used conditions (94BCJ196, 95BCJ3227). 

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution occurs only if the aromatic ring has an electron-withdrawing substituent in a position ortho or para to the leaving group. The more such substituents there are, the faster the reaction. As shown in Figure 16.18, only ortho and para electron-withdrawing substituents stabilize the anion intermediate through resonance a meta substituent offers no such resonance stabilization. Thus, p-ch oronitrobenzene and o-chloronitrobenzene react with hydroxide ion at 130 °C to yield substitution products, but m-chloronitrobenzene is inert to OH-. 

Where does the hydrogen atom in the product of hydro-de-diazoniation, 2-chloro-nitrobenzene (8.66), come from in CH3OD It was found (Bunnett and Takayama, 1968 b Broxton and Bunnett, 1979) that in the reaction of Scheme 8-47 the deuterium content of 2-chloronitrobenzene was 79%, a figure which is not close to either zero or 100%. For other substituted benzenediazonium ions a very wide range of D incorporation was observed. This range is consistent with hydro-de-diazoniation by both homolytic and a competitive anionic mechanism. The anionic pathway is favored by an increase in methoxide ion concentration. 

Broxton and Bunnett (1979) determined the products of the reaction of 4-chloro-3-nitrobenzenediazonium ions with ethoxide ion in ethanol, which is exactly analogous to the reaction in methanol discussed earlier in this section. These authors found 12.8% 4-chloro-3-nitrophenetole, 83% 2-chloronitrobenzene, and 0.8% 2-nitrophenetole. When the reaction was carried out in C2H5OD, the first- and second-mentioned products contained 99% D and 69% D respectively. Dediazoniation in basic ethanol therefore results in a higher yield of hydro-de-diazoniation with this diazonium salt compared with the reaction in methanol. This is probably due to the slightly higher basicity of the ethoxide ion and to the more facile formation of the radical CH3-CHOH (Packer and Richardson, 1975). Broxton and McLeish (1983 c) measured the rates of (Z) — (E) interconversion for some substituted 2-chlorophenylazo ethyl ethers in ethanol. 

Replacement of the methylene group in 95 by oxygen results in yet another subtle qualitative change in CNS activity. The products of this replacement, such as 104 and 111, are characterized as anxiolytic agents. In the synthesis of 104 we find yet a different approach to the amidine function, beginning with reaction of 2-chloronitrobenzene with... 

Since mtro-groups in the o- and p-positions increase the mobility of halogens directly attached to the aromatic ring (p. 106), nitrophenols can also be obtained from chloronitrobenzenes. Thus p-chloronitro-benzene can be decomposed by alkalis in the autoclave, and 2 4-dinitrophenol, an important intermediate product for the manufacture of sulphur dyes, is produced from the corresponding chlorobenzene by an even milder treatment. 

The high-pressure reaction of A-methylpiperidine with 4-chloronitrobenzene yields A-(4-nitrophenyl)piperidine (equation 117) 2-chloronitrobenzene and chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene behave analogously. A-Methylpyrrolidine and 4-chloronitrobenzene afford a mixture of A-(4-nitrophenyl)pyrrolidine and the product 342 of ring scission (equation 118)385. 

Method A Aqueous NaOH (50%, 15 ml) is added portionwise to the appropriate phenylacetonitrile (50 mmol), the chloronitrobenzene (50 mmol), and TEBA-Cl (0.23 g, l mmol) in PhH (10 ml) (the solvent can be omitted with liquid chloronitrobenzenes). The mixture is stirred vigorously at 40-50°C for 3-4 h and then diluted with H20 (25 ml). The aqueous phase is separated, extracted with PhH (2 x 10 ml), and the combined PhH solutions are dried (MgS04) and evaporated to yield the product. 

This transformation avoids problems with the change of polarity during the reaction, which occurred in the telomerization, because two aromatic compounds react with each other to form a new aromatic product. The synthesis of 4-nitrodiphenylamine via a Pd-catalyzed Buchwald-Hartwig-type amina-tion from 4-chloronitrobenzene and aniline was chosen as the next test reaction in a cooperation with Lanxess as industrial partner of the network (Scheme 5). 

The ratio of products (36) and (37) from VNS of hydrogen (Pe) and substimtion of halogen (Px), respectively (Scheme 4), will depend on the strength and concentration of base, provided that the elimination is a kinetically important step in the VNS reaction, namely Pr/Px = kikE[B]/k-ikx. The influence of base will decrease until a constant value Ph/Px = k /kx is reached as kslB] k i. This has been demonstrated for 4-chloronitrobenzene, which undergoes exclusive substimtion of chlorine unless strong base is present to favour the VNS process. The deuterium isotope effect for VNS hydroxylation by Bu OOH, determined as me ratio of H versus D substitution of l-deutero-2,4-dinitrobenzene, varied from 7.0 0.3 to 0.98 0.01 as the base in NH3 was changed from NaOH to Bu OK me former value is consistent with a rate determining E2 process. 

Biological. In an anaerobic medium, the bacteria of the Paracoccus sp. converted 4-chloroaniline to l,3-bis(/t-chlorophenyl)triazene and 4-chloroacetanilide with product yields of 80 and 5%, respectively (Minard et al., 1977). In a field experiment, [ C]4-chloroaniline was applied to a soil at a depth of 10 cm. After 20 wk, 32.4% of the applied amount was recovered in soil. Metabolites identified include 4-chloroformanilide, 4-chloroacetanilide, 4-chloronitrobenzene, 4-chloronitrosobenzene, 4,4 -dichloroazoxybenzene, and 4,4 -dichloroazobenzene (Freitag et al, 1984). 

Photolytic. An aqueous solution containing p-chloronitrobenzene and a titanium dioxide (catalyst) suspension was irradiated with UV light ilk >290 nm). 2-Chloro-5-nitrophenol was the only compound identified as a minor degradation product. Continued irradiation caused additional degradation yielding carbon dioxide, water, hydrochloric and nitric acids (Hustert et al., 1987). 

Chemical. Although no products were identified, p-chloronitrobenzene (1.5 x 10 M) was reduced by iron metal (33.3 g/L acid washed 18-20 mesh) in a carbonate buffer (1.5 x 10 M) at pH 5.9 and 15 °C. Based on the pseudo-first-order disappearance rate of 0.0336/min, the half-life was 20.6 min (Agrawal and Tratnyek, 1996). 

Using these systems, the thermal decomposition of DDE, DDT, diazinon, endrin, hexachlorobenzene, Kepone, mirex, and penta-chloronitrobenzene was studied, and in several instances stable intermediate products of incomplete destruction were observed. Kepone at 400 to 500°C yielded hexachlorocyclopentadiene, hexachlorobenzene, and an unidentified chlorinated hydrocarbon, all... 

Trudell and co-workers reported the N-arylation with 2-chloro-3-nitropyridine of [l,2,3]triazolines fused onto [4,5-dpyridazine (Scheme 5) and [4,5-,yjpyrimidine (Scheme 6) <2000JHC1597>. Substitution at the 2-position of the pyridine ring was confirmed by X-ray crystallographic analysis of products 8 and 9. Similarly, [l,2,3]triazolo[4,5-,yjpyrimidine gave 10 in low yield, after nucleophilic substitution of the chloro substituent activated by the nitro group in 2-chloronitrobenzene (Scheme 6). 

For reaction (92) an ion corresponding to a C1 [C6H4(N02)2] species is observed. The actual structure of the ion is of course subject to criticism, but neutral analysis experiments confirm chloronitrobenzene as the neutral product. 

The published research on the photochemical decomposition of di-azonium salts suggests that the two processes, a heterocyclic and a homolytic process, analogous to those of the thermal decomposition may occur. Various workers 36 187 have reported that phenols are formed when diazonium salts are photolyzed in water and aryl ethers result when an alcohol replaces water as the solvent. Homer and Stohr122 report that a process analogous to reductive deamination occurs in preference to ether formation results in alcohols. The importance of free radical intermediates in the photodecomposition, based on magnetic susceptibility measurements, has been stressed.25 Lee and his co-workers171 have recently suggested that in ethanol the photodecomposition of a diazonium salt occurs via a radical intermediate while in water an ionic process predominates. Thus, photodecomposition of a nitrobenzene diazonium chloride in water yielded both a nitrophenol and a chloronitrobenzene in ethanol, on the other hand, the major product of photolysis was the reduction product, nitrobenzene. 

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