Aromatization dehydrohalogenation

The epoxidation is generally conducted in two steps (/) the polyol is added to epichlorohydrin in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst (stannic chloride, boron triduoride) to produce the chlorohydrin intermediate, and (2) the intermediate is dehydrohalogenated with sodium hydroxide to yield the aliphatic glycidyl ether. A prominent side-reaction is the conversion of aliphatic hydroxyl groups (formed by the initial reaction) into chloromethyl groups by epichlorohydrin. The aliphatic glycidyl ether resins are used as flexibilizers for aromatic resins and as reactive diluents to reduce viscosities in resin systems. 

There have been a number of different synthetic approaches to substituted PTV derivatives proposed in the last decade. Almost all focus on the aromatic ring as the site for substitution. Some effort has been made to apply the traditional base-catalyzed dehydrohalogenation route to PTV and its substituted analogs. The methodology, however, is not as successful for PTV as it is for PPV and its derivatives because of the great tendency for the poly(u-chloro thiophene) precursor spontaneously to eliminate at room temperature. Swager and co-workers attempted this route to synthesize a PTV derivative substituted with a crown ether with potential applications as a sensory material (Scheme 1-26) [123]. The synthesis employs a Fager condensation [124] in its initial step to yield diol 78. Treatment with a ditosylate yields a crown ether-functionalized thiophene diester 79. This may be elaborated to dichloride 81, but pure material could not be isolated and the dichloride monomer had to be polymerized in situ. The polymer isolated... 

Dehydrohalogenation of the 314 proceeded in excellent yield under the action of morpholine or piperidine at rt, during double bond formation between the C-l and C-2 atoms <2003CHE640>. The active methylene group of 3,4-dihydro-1 ///>//-[ 1,4 oxazino[3,4- quinazolin-6-onc 315 readily condensed with aromatic aldehydes at 160 °C in a melt to give the 1-benzylidenes, and coupled with aryldiazonium chlorides to give the arylhydrazono derivatives <1996BMC547>. 

When phenylhydrazine is used as one of the reactants, the product is a mixed aromatic-aliphatic azo compound [41]. When methylhydrazine is used, a completely aliphatic azo compound is produced [42]. To be noted in the latter synthesis is that half of the methylhydrazine used in the reaction serves as base for the dehydrohalogenation step, which is exothermic. 

Stabilization of the cyclopropene formed during the dehydrohalogenation may also be achieved by letting its double bond become part of an aromatic system. By this approach several highly strained hydrocarbons like cyclopropabenzene, cyclopropanaphthalene etc. have been synthesized. 

Mechanism and stereochemistry of reductions of ketones, 66 Mechanism of dehydrohalogenation, 292 Mechanism of hydrogenation, 111 Mechanism of reduction of aromatic compounds, 12... 

Direct introduction of a vinyl substituent onto an aromatic ring is not a feasible reaction. p-Methoxystyrene must be prepared in an indirect way by adding an ethyl side chain and then taking advantage of the reactivity of the benzylic position by bromination (e.g., with N-bromosuccinimide) and dehydrohalogenation. 

Tokitoh and colleagues have shown that dehydrohalogenation on 9-bromo-9,10-dihydro-9-silaphenanthrene, 119, to be an efficient route to the first example of a kinetically stabilized 9-silaphenanthrene, i.e., 120 (Equation 12). Spectroscopic and X-ray diffraction studies on 120 prove the compound to be highly aromatic <20070M4048>. 

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