Crystallization, fractional isomers

The second approach is limited to the synthesis of 4,4-dihalogeno-3,5-bis(halogenomethyl) derivatives of 82. Compounds 85 are obtained by electrophilic addition of tellurium tetrahalogenides to diallyl oxide, sulfide, or amine under the conditions of the double phase tellurohalogenation reaction (78KGS1212 89KGS564). The reaction follows to an anti-Markovnikov stereochemical course. The yields of the mixture of cis- and trans- isomers of compounds 85 are in the range 27-79%. By fractional crystallization the isomers of 85 (M = O, X = Br) were separated. 

The most useful and general of all methods of resolution is that which involves combination of a racemic substance with an optically active reagent (a so-called resolving agent) to give two diastereoisomeric derivatives, one derived from each of the two active components. These diastereoisomers often may be separated by conventional fractional crystallization. Each isomer then is treated to regenerate the pure active component. 

In the nmr spectrum of the crystal fraction, two peaks are observed in the HC(-Si=)3 region, which might arise from the two expected isomers of com-... 

With the methyl-butylcyclosilanes ° , Li condensation produces a nearly statistical mixture of (t-BuMeSi)4 isomers (see Table 3), together with small amounts of the (t-BuMeSi) isomers. The four-ring isomers are identified by a combination of NMR spectroscopy and x-ray crystallography. Compounds B and C can be isolated from this mixture by fractional crystallization. Equilibration with PhjSiLi converts the mixture almost entirely to the most stable all-trans isomer, A, which can then be purified by crystallization. This isomer is less crowded than the others because it can adopt a folded conformation in which each tert-butyl group is in a pseudoequatorial position (see Fig. 1)1 ... 

The less abundant isomer (m.p. 36—37 C), r-2,c-4,c-6-trimethyl-2,4,6-tris(3.3,4,4,5,5,6,6,6-nonafluorohexyDcyclotrisiloxane, was isolated by fractional crystallization fractional distillation provided 98 % pure nans material (m.p. 22-— 23 Q. Stereochemical assignments were based on dipole-moment data. 

Because of the existence of numerous isomers, hydrocarbon mixtures having a large number of carbon atoms can not be easily analyzed in detail. It is common practice either to group the constituents around key components that have large concentrations and whose properties are representative, or to use the concept of petroleum fractions. It is obvious that the grouping around a component or in a fraction can only be done if their chemical natures are similar. It should be kept in mind that the accuracy will be diminished when estimating certain properties particularly sensitive to molecular structure such as octane number or crystallization point. 

The chemist can try to separate the two isomers by careful fractional distillation but it will be next to impossible to do because both the cis and the trans have practically the same boiling point. There are a few things that the chemist can do or hope for to get rid of that cis isomer. The cis configuration is less stable than the trans and may switch over to the trans configuration with a little help. The chemist can gently heat the isosafrole oil to about 150°C for an hour or so. She can also try the same heating except have the oil mixed with some acetic acid. Also, the isosafrole can be fractionally distilled to ultra purity and then be allowed to simply sit for a couple of days. Trans isosafrole may spontaneously crystalize out while the cis form remains as an oil. They can then be separated by filtration. 

Ciyst lliz tion. Low temperature fractional crystallization was the first and for many years the only commercial technique for separating PX from mixed xylenes. As shown in Table 2, PX has a much higher freezing point than the other xylene isomers. Thus, upon cooling, a pure soHd phase of PX crystallizes first. Eventually, upon further cooling, a temperature is reached where soHd crystals of another isomer also form. This is called the eutectic point. PX crystals usually form at about —4° C and the PX-MX eutectic is reached at about —68° C. In commercial practice, PX crystallization is carried out at a temperature just above the eutectic point. At all temperatures above the eutectic point, PX is stiU soluble in the remaining Cg aromatics Hquid solution,... 

The separation of the isomers is carried out by a combination of fractional distillation and crystallization. In a fractional vacuum distillation step, the distillate, obtained at a head temperature of 96—97°C at 1.6 kPa (12 mm Hg), is fairly pure o-nitrotoluene and can be purified further by crystallization. The meta isomer is distilled from a mixture of m- and -nitrotoluene and can be purified further by additional distillation and crystallization steps. The bottoms product from the distillation steps is cooled in a crystallizer to obtain nitrotoluene. 

Isomer separation beyond physical fractional crystallization has been accompHshed by derivatization using methyl formate to make /V-formyl derivatives and acetic anhydride to prepare the corresponding acetamides (1). Alkaline hydrolysis regenerates the analytically pure amine configurational isomers. 

The price of Gedarwood oil from Texas in 1995 was 7.70/kg and the price of the oil from Virginia was 15.18/kg (69). Distillation of the oil gives two main fractions, the cedrene or hydrocarbon fraction, and the alcohol fraction consisting of impure cedrol, which when purified by crystallization can be used direcdy in perfumery. Gedrenol is a product comprising a mixture of cedrol and its isomers widdrol and some ketone components. 

Chlorine and bromine add to benzene in the absence of oxygen and presence of light to yield hexachloro- [27154-44-5] and hexabromocyclohexane [30105-41-0] CgHgBr. Technical benzene hexachloride is produced by either batch or continuous methods at 15—25°C in glass reactors. Five stereoisomers are produced in the reaction and these are separated by fractional crystallization. The gamma isomer (BHC), which composes 12—14% of the reaction product, was formerly used as an insecticide. Benzene hexachloride [608-73-17, C HgCl, is converted into hexachlorobenzene [118-74-17, C Clg, upon reaction with ferric chloride in chlorobenzene solution. 

C2h isomer (8) is less well characterized but is said to result from the reaction of hexachlorobutadiene, CCI2 =CC1—CCl=CCl2, with polysulfide anions. The treatment of S2CI2 with [NBu4]2[Zn(o -C3S5)2] yields a mixture of C3Sg and C6S12 which can be separated by fractional crystallization from CS2 ... 

These percentages follow the order of the -values of the substituents. On the other hand, Raynaud and Delaby obtained a mixture of 80% 4-nitro- and 20% 5-nitro-2-cyanothiophene, upon nitration of 2-cyanothiophene, which were separated by fractional crystallization. " In the nitration of 2-nitrothiophene, 85% 2,4-dinitrothiophene and 15% 2,5-dinitrothiophene is obtained. - The erroneous statement, in Hartough s monograph, that 2,5-dinitrothiophene is the main product, should be noted. Nitration of 2-thiophenesulfonyl chloride gives about 75% of the 4-isomer and 25% of the 5-isomer/ whereas in the sulfonation of 2-nitrothiophene apparently only the 4-isomer has been isolated. ... 

Because p-xylene is the most valuable isomer for producing synthetic fibers, it is usually recovered from the xylene mixture. Fractional crystallization used to be the method for separating the isomers, but the yield was only 60%. Currently, industry uses continuous liquid-phase adsorption separation processes.The overall yield of p-xylene is increased... 

As expected, similar treatment of 3-nitroarenes furnishes mixtures of 4- and 6-substituted 3H-azepines, 54 and 55, respectively.176 Comparable yields of mixed azepines were also obtained by deoxygenation of 3-nitroarenes with alkylphophorous triamides, formed in situ from hexa-methylphosphorous triamide and excess of a secondary amine.66 In a few cases the 3//-azepines were separated by fractional crystallization of their oxalate salts66 but, in general, pure isomers were not isolated and the yields cited in the table were determined by HNMR spectroscopy. 

To a stirred — 78 C solution of 5.85 mL (62.5 mmol) of 3-methoxy-l-prnpene in 25 mL of THf- are added 43.1 mL (50 mmol) of 1.16 M. vcc-butyllithium in cyclohexane over a 20-25 min period. The mixture is stirred at — 78 °C for an additional 10 min, and diisopinocampheyl(methoxy)borane [50 mmol prepared from (+ )-a-pinene] in 50 mL of THF is added. This mixture is stirred for 1 h, then 8.17 mL (66.5 mmol) of boron trifluoride diethyl etherate complex are added dropwise to give a solution of diisopiuocampheyl[(Z)-3-inethoxy-2-propenyl]borane. Immediately. 2.8 mL (50 mmol) of acetaldehyde are added and the mixture is stirred for 3 h at — 78 rC and then allowed to warm to r.t. All volatile components are removed in vacuo, then the residue is dissolved in pentane. The insoluble fraction is washed with additional pentane. The combined pentane extracts are cooled to 0 JC and treated with 3.0 mL (50 mmol) of ethanolamine. The mixture is stirred for 2 h at 0rC and is then seeded with a crystal of the diisopinocampheylborane-ethanolaminc complex. The resulting crystals arc filtered and washed with cold pentane. The filtrate is carefully distilled yield 5.6 g (57%) d.r. (synjanti) >99 1 (2/ ,37 )-isomer 90% ee bp 119-120 C/745 Torr. 

Although it is claimed that the Strecker reaction of 2 results in the exclusive formation of one isomer of 3 and that selective elimination of the minor isomer during isolation of the intermediate compound 4 is not possible, it is apparent that during the workup of the hydrolysis product 4, fractional precipitation or crystallization or other separation of the diastereomers may... 

The resultant mixture can be separated by fractional crystallization as the trans-isomer is more soluble the m-isomer can be resolved into its enantiomers using optically active anions like a-bromocamphor 7r-sulphonate. These chlorides can be converted into the bromide or iodide complex by refluxing with a solution of the appropriate potassium halide. 

In the course of studying the bromination reactions of the bicyclic systems we noticed that the reaction temperature has a dramatic influence on the product distribution. Increasing of the temperature gives non-rearranged reaction products (refs. 1,2). For this reason, we submitted 1 to high temperature bromination. To a solution of 1 in decalin at 150 C was added a hot solution of bromine in decalin in one portion. The colour of bromine disappeared immediately. After silica gel chromatography followed by fractional crystallization we isolated four products 2-6 in yields 8, 35, 37, and 9 % respectively. The structure of these compounds has been elucidated on the basis of spectral data by iH NMR and NMR experiments and by comparison with those reported in the literature. Symmetrical endo-c/5-isomer 6 has been observed for the first time. Studies concerning the mechanism of syn-addition show that the syn-adduct can arise either from direct... 

Next we studied high temperature bromination of benzobarrelene at 150 C. NMR analysis indicated that the reaction mixture was very complex and consisted of at least ten products. After repeated column chromatography combined with fractional crystallization we have been able to separate 18 compounds (Scheme 6). Four of them were bromoalcohol compounds 18, 12, 22 and 2fl. After high temperature bromination we expected three isomeric non-rearranged products with benzobarrelene skeleton and isolated 22, 22, and 24 in yields of 34, 9.3, and 6.2 %, respectively. Because of the very close structural similarity we were not able to make a clear-cut differentiation between the stereochemistry of 22 and 24-Therefore, we carried out an X-ray analysis (ref. 9) of the isomer 22-... 

A pair of enantiomers can be separated in several ways, of which conversion to diastereomers and separation of these by fractional crystallization is the most often used. In this method and in some of the others, both isomers can be recovered, but in some methods it is necessary to destroy one. 

The studies show that the observed crystal volume is in fact composed of the fractional contributions from the unit cell volumes of the HS and LS isomers of the compound and a linear volume change with temperature as expressed in Eq. (128). Similarly, the observed lattice constants are formed from a deformation contribution proportional to the HS fraction and a contribution from thermal expansion following Eq. (131). This is a convincing demonstration that it is the internal variation of the molecular units occurring in the course of the spin-state transition which determines, at least in principle, the observed crystal properties. 

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