Cuprous chloride, reaction

Coupling of acetylenes and halides, copper-promoted, 50,100 Cuprous chloride, reaction with an organo-magnesium compound, 50,98... 

The success of the Bart reaction when applied to nuclear- substituted anilines is often much affected by the pH of the reaction-mixture. Furthermore, the yields obtained from some m-substituted anilines, which under the normal conditions are usually low, arc considerably increased by the modifications introduced by Scheller, and by Doak, in which the diazotisation is carried out in ethanolic solution followed by reaction with arsenic trichloride in the presence of a cuprous chloride or bromide catalyst. 

Cuprous cyanide solution. The most satisfactory method is to dissolve the cuprous cyanide (1 mol) in a solution of technical sodium cyanide (2 5-2-6 mols in 600 ml. of water). If it is desired to avoid the preparation of solid cuprous cyanide, the following procedure may be adopted. Cuprous chloride, prepared from 125 g. of copper sulphate crystals as described under 1 above, is suspended in 200 ml. of water contained in a 1-litre round-bottomed flask, which is fitted with a mechanical stirrer. A solution of 65 g. of technical sodium cyanide (96-98 per cent.) in 100 ml. of water is added and the mixture is stirred. The cuprous chloride passes into solution with considerable evolution of heat. As the cuprous cyanide is usually emplo3 ed in some modification of the diazo reaction, it is usual to cool the resulting solution in ice. 

The only reaction which calls for comment here is the formation of red cuprous acetylide with an ammoniacal solution of cuprous chloride ... 

Allyl Chloride. Comparatively poor yields are obtained by the zinc chloride - hydrochloric acid method, but the following procedure, which employs cuprous chloride as a catalyst, gives a yield of over 90 per cent. Place 100 ml. of allyl alcohol (Section 111,140), 150 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid and 2 g. of freshly prepared cuprous chloride (Section II,50,i one tenth scale) in a 750 ml. round-bottomed flask equipped with a reflux condenser. Cool the flask in ice and add 50 ml. of concen trated sulphuric acid dropwise through the condenser with frequent shaking of the flask. A little hydrogen chloride may be evolved towards the end of the reaction. Allow the turbid liquid to stand for 30 minutes in order to complete the separation of the allyl chloride. Remove the upper layer, wash it with twice its volume of water, and dry over anhydrous calcium chloride. Distil the allyl chloride passes over at 46-47°. 

The following mechanism of the Sandmeyer reaction has been proposed as a result of a kinetic study, and incidentally accounts for the formation of the azu compounds as by-products. The catalyst is the CuCl ion produced in the dissolution of cuprous chloride in the chloride solution ... 

By passing a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen chloride into the aromatic hydrocarbon in the presence of a mixture of cuprous chloride and aluminium chloride which acts as a catalyst (Gattermann - Koch reaction). The mixture of gases probably reacts as the equivalent of the unisolated acid chloride of formic acid (formyl chloride) ... 

The reaction occurs bypassing HCN and a 10 1 excess of acetylene into dilute hydrochloric acid at 80°C in the presence of cuprous chloride as the catalyst. 

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). 

Halophenols without 2,6-disubstitution do not polymerize under oxidative displacement conditions. Oxidative side reactions at the ortho position may consume the initiator or intermpt the propagation step of the chain process. To prepare poly(phenylene oxide)s from unsubstituted 4-halophenols, it is necessary to employ the more drastic conditions of the Ullmaim ether synthesis. A cuprous chloride—pyridine complex in 1,4-dimethoxybenzene at 200°C converts the sodium salt of 4-bromophenol to poly(phenylene oxide) (1) ... 

The palladium chloride process for oxidizing olefins to aldehydes in aqueous solution (Wacker process) apparendy involves an intermediate anionic complex such as dichloro(ethylene)hydroxopalladate(II) or else a neutral aqua complex PdCl2 (CH2=CH2)(H2 0). The coordinated PdCl2 is reduced to Pd during the olefin oxidation and is reoxidized by the cupric—cuprous chloride couple, which in turn is reoxidized by oxygen, and the net reaction for any olefin (RCH=CH2) is then... 

The reaction is carried out ia a bubble column at 120—130°C and 0.3 MPa (3 bar). Palladium chloride is reduced to palladium duriag the reaction, and then is reoxidized by cupric chloride. Oxygen converts the reduced cuprous chloride to cupric chloride. 

In some instances a carbon-carbon bond can be formed with C-nucleophiles. For example, 3-carboxamido-6-methylpyridazine is produced from 3-iodo-6-methylpyridazine by treatment with potassium cyanide in aqueous ethanol and l,3-dimethyl-6-oxo-l,6-dihydro-pyridazine-4-carboxylic acid from 4-chloro-l,3-dimethylpyridazin-6-(lH)-one by reaction with a mixture of cuprous chloride and potassium cyanide. Chloro-substituted pyridazines react with Grignard reagents. For example, 3,4,6-trichloropyridazine reacts with f-butyl-magnesium chloride to give 4-t-butyl-3,5,6-trichloro-l,4-dihydropyridazine (120) and 4,5-di-t-butyl-3,6-dichloro-l,4-dihydropyridazine (121) and both are converted into 4-t-butyl-3,6-dichloropyridazine (122 Scheme 38). 

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. ... 

Bromination of the enolate anion from the reaction of 3j -acetoxypregna-5,16-dien-20-one (1) with methylmagnesium bromide in the presence of cuprous chloride affords (after treatment with sodium iodide to dehalo-genate any 5,6-dibromide) a mixture of 17a-bromo- and 17)5-bromo-16a-methyl compounds (11) and (12) in a ratio 9 1. The 17a-iodides can be obtained in an analogous reaction. 

When a fourfold excess of methylmagnesium bromide and catalytic amounts of cuprous chloride in tetrahydrofuran are employed, the reaction proceeds within 30 minutes at room temperature. Under these conditions the A -l-methyl-5a-3-ketone (15) affords the 1,1-dimethyl compound (16) in 50% yield after reacetylation. The A -l-methyl-3-methylene steroid (17) is also isolated in 23% yield. 

Although cholest-4-en-3-one does not give a 1,4-addition product in the cuprous chloride-catalyzed Grignard reaction,the A ° -5a-2-ketone (35) reacts to give the 10a-methyl-5a-2-ketone (36). ... 

Reaction.—a too c.c. flask to a short upright condenser (see Fig. 86) and to the upper end of the condensei attach a vertical delivery tube, dipping into an ammoniacal cuprous chloride solution. Pour 2—3 c.c. of ethylene bromide into the flask with 4 times its volume of strong methyl alcoholic potash, which is prepared by boiling methyl alcohol with excess of caustic potash on the water-bath with upright condenser. On gently heating, a rapid evolution of acetylene occurs and the characteristic brown copper compound (C2H,Cu,HjO) is precipitated from the cuprous chloride solution. 

Some of the cuprous chloride compounds of the diazonium salts have been isolated and analysed, and coirespond to the formula CoH.-.NjCl.CuoCIo (Hantzsch). The formation of a crystalline copper compound is rendeied very evident in the present preparation.. A modification of Sandmeyer s reaction IS the introduction of precipitated metallic copper in place of the cuprous salt (Gattermann). 

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,... 

Aminocyclopropanes were prepared from enamines by the addition of Simmons-Smith reagent (688) or best through the cuprous-chloride-promoted decomposition of diazomethane (689). The reaction of an enamine with chloroform and base and opening of the resultant aminocyclopropane to an ynamine was reported (690). 

Photolytic reactions of dienes frequently give complex mixtures of rearranged products. Described here, however, is a photolytic isomerization of 1,5-cyclooctadiene (present in solution, in part, as a complex with cuprous chloride) that affords a good yield of one product. 

Many catalysts are used to effect the reaction, such as zinc chloride on pumice, cuprous chloride, and ignited alumina gel. The reaction conditions are 350°C at nearly atmospheric pressure. The yield is approximately 95%. 

The solubility product is learned from measurements of the solubility. In turn, it can be used as a basis for calculations of solubility. Suppose we wish to know how much cuprous chloride, CuCl, will dissolve in one liter of water. We begin by writing the balanced equation for the reaction ... 

Expression (25) indicates that cuprous chloride dissolves, according to reaction (25), until the molar concentrations of cuprous ion and chloride ion rise enough to make their product equal to 3.2 X 10-7. 

When aqueous solutions of aromatic and heteroaromatic diazonium salts are treated with cuprous chloride, -bromide, or -cyanide, the corresponding aromatic chlorides, bromides, or cyanides are formed, respectively. In many cases the anions mentioned must be present in excess. This reaction, the Sandmeyer reaction, was discovered by Sandmeyer in 1884. A variant carried out with copper powder and HBr or HC1 was for many years called the Gattermann reaction (Gattermann, 1890). As it is often confused with the Gattermann-Koch reaction (ArH + CO + HC1 ArCHO), and as it is mechanistically not significantly different from Sandmeyer s procedure, the name Gattermann reaction should be avoided. 

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