Condensation halides

Ullman reaction The synthesis of diaryls by the condensation of aromatic halides with themselves or other aromatic halides, with the concomitant removal of halogens by a metal, e.g. copper powder thus bromobenzene gives diphenyl. The reaction may be extended to the preparation of diaryl ethers and diaryl thio-ethers by coupling a metal phenolate with an aryl halide. 

A halogen atom directly attached to a benzene ring is usually unreactive, unless it is activated by the nature and position of certain other substituent groups. It has been show n by Ullmann, however, that halogen atoms normally of low reactivity will condense with aromatic amines in the presence of an alkali carbonate (to absorb the hydrogen halide formed) and a trace of copper powder or oxide to act as a catalyst. This reaction, known as the Ullmant Condensation, is frequently used to prepare substituted diphenylamines it is exemplified... 

C) Phenacyl and p-Bromophenacyl esters. Ammonium salts in aqueous-ethanolic solution do not however usually condense satisfactorily with phenacyl and />-bromophenacyl bromide. The aqueous solution of the ammonium salt should therefore be boiled with a slight excess of sodium hydroxide to remove ammonia, and the solution then cooled, treated with hydrochloric acid until just alkaline to phenol-phthalein, and then evaporated to dryness. The sodium salt is then treated as described (p. 349) to give the ester. Filter the ester, and wash with water to remove senium halide before recrystallisation. 

Place a mixture of 0-5 g. of finely powdered thiourea, 0-5 g. of the alkyl halide and 5 ml. of alcohol in a test-tube or small flask equipped with a reflux condenser. Reflux the mixture for a j)eriod depending upon the nature of the halide primary alkyl bromides and iodides, 10-20 minutes (according to the molecular weight) secondary alkyl bromides or iodides, 2-3 hours alkyl chlorides, 3-5 hours polymethy lene dibromides or di-iodides, 20-50 minutes. Then add 0 5 g. of picric acid, boil until a clear solution is obtained, and cool. If no precipitate is obtained, add a few drops of water. RecrystaUise the resulting S-alkyl-iso-thiuronium picrate from alcohol. 

The sodio derivative, which is prepared by mixing alcoholic solutions of the ester and of sodium ethoxide, condenses with alkyl halides to yield mono-alkyl C-substituted products, for example ... 

Friedel and Crafts reaction. alkyl halide condenses with an aromatic hydrocarbon in the presence of anhydrous aluminium chloride to yield, in the first instance, a hydrocarbon in accordance with the following scheme —... 

Alkylation of Enolates (condensation of enolates with alkyl halides and epoxides) Comprehensive Organic Synthesis 1991, vol. 3, 1. 

To isomerize safrole to isosafrole one would like to have pure safrole to start with. This, usually, is not the case. Quasi-pure safrole from sassafras oil is ok. Straight-up sassafras oil is probably ok too, though not recommended. The safrole is then refluxed (boiled under a condenser) in a saturated KOHyethanoI solution for about a day and that s it. The temperature of reflux is about 120-140°C owing to the fact that the ethanol (usually boiling around 65-70°C) is saturated with the halide salt. 

Most syntheses of nitrogen heterocycles involve substitution and/or condensation reactions of nitrogen nucleophiles with difunctional halides or carbonyl compounds. Common nitrogen reagents are ... 

Many successful regioselective syntheses of heterocydes, however, are more complex than the examples given so far. They employ condensation of two different carbonyl or halide compounds with one nitrogen base or the condensation of an amino ketone with a second difunctional compound. Such reactions cannot be rationalized in a simple way, and the literature must be consulted. 

Amino-5-nitrothiazole, on treatment with arenesulfonyl halides and dimethylformamide at 140 C, gives (5-nitro-2-thiazolyl)amidme (274) (Scheme 168) (507, 508). The condensation products of the reaction of 2-aminothiazole derivatives with various aldehydes are grouped in Tables... 

In practice this reaction is difficult to carry out with simple aldehydes and ketones because aldol condensation competes with alkylation Furthermore it is not always possi ble to limit the reaction to the introduction of a single alkyl group The most successful alkylation procedures use p diketones as starting materials Because they are relatively acidic p diketones can be converted quantitatively to their enolate ions by weak bases and do not self condense Ideally the alkyl halide should be a methyl or primary alkyl halide... 

Lithium Iodide. Lithium iodide [10377-51 -2/, Lil, is the most difficult lithium halide to prepare and has few appHcations. Aqueous solutions of the salt can be prepared by carehil neutralization of hydroiodic acid with lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide. Concentration of the aqueous solution leads successively to the trihydrate [7790-22-9] dihydrate [17023-25-5] and monohydrate [17023-24 ] which melt congmendy at 75, 79, and 130°C, respectively. The anhydrous salt can be obtained by carehil removal of water under vacuum, but because of the strong tendency to oxidize and eliminate iodine which occurs on heating the salt ia air, it is often prepared from reactions of lithium metal or lithium hydride with iodine ia organic solvents. The salt is extremely soluble ia water (62.6 wt % at 25°C) (59) and the solutions have extremely low vapor pressures (60). Lithium iodide is used as an electrolyte ia selected lithium battery appHcations, where it is formed in situ from reaction of lithium metal with iodine. It can also be a component of low melting molten salts and as a catalyst ia aldol condensations. 

Reaction with Alkyl Halide. The active methylene group of an Al-acylamino-malonic acid ester or Ai-acylamino cyanoacetic acid ester condenses readily with primary alkyl hahdes. 

Polymerization of olefins such as styrene is promoted by acid or base or sodium catalysts, and polyethylene is made with homogeneous peroxides. Condensation polymerization is catalyzed by acid-type catalysts such as metal oxides and sulfonic acids. Addition polymerization is used mainly for olefins, diolefins, and some carbonyl compounds. For these processes, initiators are coordination compounds such as Ziegler-type catalysts, of which halides of transition metals Ti, V, Mo, and W are important examples. 

Methylsuccinic acid has been prepared by the pyrolysis of tartaric acid from 1,2-dibromopropane or allyl halides by the action of potassium cyanide followed by hydrolysis by reduction of itaconic, citraconic, and mesaconic acids by hydrolysis of ketovalerolactonecarboxylic acid by decarboxylation of 1,1,2-propane tricarboxylic acid by oxidation of /3-methylcyclo-hexanone by fusion of gamboge with alkali by hydrog. nation and condensation of sodium lactate over nickel oxide from acetoacetic ester by successive alkylation with a methyl halide and a monohaloacetic ester by hydrolysis of oi-methyl-o -oxalosuccinic ester or a-methyl-a -acetosuccinic ester by action of hot, concentrated potassium hydroxide upon methyl-succinaldehyde dioxime from the ammonium salt of a-methyl-butyric acid by oxidation with. hydrogen peroxide from /9-methyllevulinic acid by oxidation with dilute nitric acid or hypobromite from /J-methyladipic acid and from the decomposition products of glyceric acid and pyruvic acid. The method described above is a modification of that of Higginbotham and Lapworth. ... 

Tetramethylsilane (TMS) [75-76-3] M 88.2, b 26.3, n 1.359, d 0.639. Distilled from cone H2SO4 (after shaking with it) or LiAlH4, through a 5ft vacuum-jacketted column packed with glass helices into an ice-cooled condenser, then percolated through silica gel to remove traces of halide. 

In the polyetherification route the condensation reaction proceeds by reactions of types (1) and (2) where M is an alkali metal and X a halide. 

Phosphorus exists as white and red phosphorus. The former allotrope may be preserved in the dark at low temperatures but otherwise reverts to the more stable red form. The white form is a waxy, translucent, crystalline, highly-toxic solid subliming at room temperature and inflaming in air at 35°C, so it is handled under water. The red form is a reddish violet crystalline solid which vaporizes if heated at atmospheric pressure and condenses to give white phosphorus. The red form ignites in air at 260°C. Both are insoluble in water, and white phosphorus can be stored beneath it. Phosphorus forms a host of compounds such as phosphine, tri- and penta-halides, tri-, tetra- and penta-oxides, oxyacids including hypophosphorous, orthophosphorous and orthophosphoric acids. 

In the first century of "organic" chemistry much attention was given to the structures of carbogens and their transformations. Reactions were classified according to the types of substrates that underwent the chemical change (for example "aromatic substitution," "carbonyl addition," "halide displacement," "ester condensation"). Chemistry was taught and learned as transformations characteristic of a structural class (e.g. phenol, aldehyde) or structural subunit... 

The cyclic sulfur imides readily undergo condensation reactions in the presence of a base, e.g., pyridine. For example, the reaction of S7NH with sulfur halides, S Cla or SOCI2, produces the series (S7N)2Sx (x = 1, 2, 3, 5), or (S7N)2S0, respectively. The bicyclic compound S11N2 (6.6) is obtained by treatment of 1,3-S6(NH)2 with The reaction... 

Monomeric thiazyl halides NSX (X = F, Cl Br) have been characterized in the gas phase, but oligomerization to cyclic species, e.g., (NSX)3 (X = F, Cl) and (NSF)4, occurs in the condensed phase (Section 8.7). These ligands can be stabilized, however, by coordination to a transition metal. The NSF complexes are conveniently prepared in SO2 (Eq. 1.6) The monomeric fluoride NSF is conveniently generated in situ by thermal decomposition of FC(0)NSF2 or Hg(NSp2)2 (Section 8.2). 

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