Oxidation with cuprous chloride

Oxidative cleavage of the indole 2,3-double bond can be achieved with ozone, sodium periodate, potassium superoxide, " with oxygen in the presence of cuprous chloride and with oxygen, photochemi-cally in ethanolic solution. ... 

The oxidation of cuprous chloride ion with oxygen in the bulk of the solution (Step 5) ... 

In a 1 5 or 2-Utre rovmd-bottomed flask, prepare cuprous chloride from 105 g. of crystallised copper sulphate as detailed in Section 11,50,1. Either wash the precipitate once by decantation or filter it at the pump and wash it with water containing a httle sulphurous acid dissolve it in 170 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid. Stopper the flask loosely (to prevent oxidation) and cool it in an ice - salt mixture whilst the diazo-tisation is being carried out. 

Cuprous chloride, acid (for gas analysis, absorption of CO) cover the bottom of a 2-liter bottle with a layer of copper oxide % inch deep, and place a bundle of copper wire an inch thick in the bottle so that it extends from the top to the bottom. Fill the bottle with HCl (sp. gr. 1.10). The bottle is shaken occasionally, and when the solution is colorless or nearly so, it is poured into half-liter bottles containing copper wire. The large bottle may be filled with hydrochloric acid, and by adding the oxide or wire when either is exhausted, a constant supply of the reagent is available. 

Sta.rting from Phenol. Phenol can be selectively oxidized into -benzoquinone with oxygen. The reaction is catalyzed by cuprous chloride. At low catalyst concentration, the principal drawback of this method is the high pressure of oxygen that is required, leading to difficult safety procedures. It appears that a high concentration of the catalyst (50% of Cu(I)—phenol) allows the reaction to proceed at atmospheric pressure (58). 

Nitrophenylarsonic acid has been prepared by heating p-nitrobenzenediazonium chloride with arsenious acid in hydrochloric acid, by the action of -nitrobenzenediazonium chloride on sodium arsenite, by the action of sodium arsenite on sodium -nitrobenzeneisodiazo oxide, by the diazotization of -nitro-aniline in acetic acid in the presence of arsenic chloride and cuprous chloride, and by the reaction of -nitrobenzenediazonium borofluoride with sodium arsenite in the presence of cuprous chloride. ... 

Ammoniacal aiptous chloride is made as follows Eoil up copper oxide and metallic copper with cone hydrochloric acid for a short time until the liquid is nearly colourless, and pour the liquid into water. The white cuprous chloride is washed once or twice by decantation and dissolved in a strong solution of ammonium chloride. When required a little ammonia is added sufficient to give a clear blue solution... 

Benzaldehyde.—The aldehydes of the aromatic seiies may also be obtained by the oxidation of a methyl side-chain with chromium oxychloride. The solid brown product, C,H,.CH.)(CrO,CL)2, formed by adding C1O2CIJ to toluene, dissolved in carbon bisulphide, is decomposed with water, and benzaldehyde sepaiates out (Etard). Other methods for pie-paring aromatic aldehydes are (i) the Fiiedel-Crafts reaction, in which a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen chloride aie passed into the hydrocaibon in presence of aluminium chloride and a little cuprous chloride,... 

Conjugate addition of methyl magnesium iodide in the presence of cuprous chloride to the enone (91) leads to the la-methyl product mesterolone (92) Although this is the thermodynamically unfavored axially disposed product, no possibility for isomerization exists in this case, since the ketone is once removed from this center. In an interesting synthesis of an oxa steroid, the enone (91) is first oxidized with lead tetraacetate the carbon at the 2 position is lost, affording the acid aldehyde. Reduction of this intermediate, also shown in the lactol form, with sodium borohydride affords the steroid lactone oxandrolone... 

In the manufacture of printed circuit boards, the unwanted copper is etched away by acid solutions of cupric chloride (Equation 1.1). As the copper dissolves, the effectiveness of the solution tails and it must be regenerated. The traditional way of doing this is to oxidize the cuprous ion produced with acidified hydrogen peroxide. During the process the volume of solution increases steadily and the copper in the surplus liquor is precipitated as copper oxide and usually landfilled. 

The remaining cuprous chloride is oxidized and also reacts with environmental water (or water vapor) to form more cupric chloride, as well as basic cupric chloride ... 

This reaction is transformed into the catalytic process in the presence of cuprous chloride and dioxygen [247,248], The same complex was found to be oxidized by acetic acid with sodium acetate to vinyl acetate [247,249]. 

An attempt to directly convert hyellazole (245) to 6-chlorohyellazole (246) by reaction with N-chlorosuccinimide in the presence of a catalytic amount of hydrochloric acid led exclusively to 4-chlorohyellazole. On the other hand, bromination of 245 using NBS and a catalytic amount of hydrobromic acid gave only the expected 6-bromohyellazole (733). Alternatively, a direct one-pot transformation of the iron complex 725 to 6-bromohyellazole (733) was achieved by reaction with an excess of NBS and switching from oxidative cyclization conditions (basic reaction medium) to electrophilic substitution conditions (acidic reaction medium). Finally, a halogen exchange reaction with 4 equivalents of cuprous chloride in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) at reflux, transformed 6-bromohyellazole (733) into 6-chlorohyellazole (246) (602) (Scheme 5.73). 

Many binary salts, oxides, and sulphides are a little more complex, two atoms being associated with each lattice point it is necessary to discover the relative positions of the two atoms. This can be done by mere inspection of the set of structure amplitudes, and confirmed by a very moderate amount of calculation. Two examples will be given— calcium oxide and cuprous chloride. 

Cuprous chloride, CuCl, is also cubic (a = 5-41 A) with four molecules in the unit cell. Since the only reflections present on the powder photograph (Fig. 170) are those with all even or all odd indices, the lattice is, like that of calcium oxide, face-centred It is, however, immediately obvious from the photograph that the arrangement must... 

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