Diazo reactions with

Bases, Neutral Salts.— As a base it forms salts, in which form the diazo compound is obtained by diazotization, and which though also unstable has been isolated in small quantities and the composition and properties determined. Of the three salts, the sulphate, chloride and nitrate, the first is the most stable and the last is the least stable. They are colorless crystalline neutral compounds soluble in water, difficultly soluble in alcohol and insoluble in ether. After being prepared by the ordinary diazo reaction, with sodium nitrite in cold acid water solution, they may be precipitated in crystalline form by the addition of alcohol and ether. If the diazotization is effected in alcohol solution by means of amyl nitrite or ethyl nitrite the crystals of the diazonium salt separate at once. These salts of diazo benzene all show true salt characteristics, e.g., they lower the freezing point of solutions. The diazo radical, (CeHs—N2—) is thus basic toward strong acids, and the hydroxide, the non-isolated hypothetical diazo benzene, CeHs—N2—OH, is the free base. It may be considered as the simplest aromatic diazo compound and the mother substance of all other members of the class. 

The bromination of sinomenine gives 1-bromosinomenine [5, 9, 21] [xn], the structure of which is revealed by the reduction of the compound to 1-bromodihydrosinomenine, dihydrosinomenine, and sinomenine, and by the fact that the diazo-reaction with 1-bromosinomenine is much less intense than with sinomenine [21]. A second substance is also produced by the bromination of sinomenine, but this is non-phenolic and is discussed later under 1-bromosinomeneine. 

This does not react as a diazo-compound unless a mineral acid is added to the solution. Bamberger called it an isodiazo -compound, which isomerises to a diazo-compound. By the action of hot concentrated potassium hydroxide solution on Griess s diazobenzene potassium (see p. 771), Schraube and Schmidt obtained an isomeric compound giving the diazo-reaction with acid. Von Pechmann and L. Frobenius found that the silver salt of /)-nitrodiazo-benzene with methyl iodide does not give a nitrosamine but the methyl ether CeH4(N02)-N N-0CH3, so that the nitrosamine formula appeared to represent a tautomeric form of diazobenzene. 

The diazo reaction with olefins as shown previously is still the fastest method to get hold of mixtures of diastereomers, often, however, with moderate yields due to the lack of reactivity of the olefins. Several nor-chrysanthemic esters [479], alkoxycyclopro-pane carboxylic esters [480,481], which are interesting because of their photostabihty and insecticidal activity [482], and 2,2,3,3-tetramethylcarboxyhc ester [483] were prepared by this route. Asymmetric synthesis using optically active iron carbonyl-olefin complexes afforded 1-R-configurated esters, i.e. precursors for caronaldehyde [484]. The addition of diazopropane across the double bond of olefinic esters via pyrazolines [485, 486] also provides a rapid access to sometimes more complex cyclopropane carboxylic esters with questionable purity, from which the pure compounds can be separated. 

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. 

An interesting application of the diazo reaction is to the preparation of the otherwise difficultly accessible o- and />-dinitrobenzenes o- or p-rutrophenyl-diazonium fluoborates react with sodium nitrite in the presence of copper powder to yield o- or p-dinitrobenzene ... 

Phenol may be nitrated with dilute nitric acid to 3deld a mixture of o- and nitrophenols the 3deld of p-nitrophenol is increased if a mixture of sodium nitiute and dilute sulphuric acid is employed. Upon steam distilling the mixture, the ortho isomer passes over in a substantially pure form the para isomer remains in the distillation flask, and can be readily isolated by extraction with hot 2 per cent, hydrochloric acid. The preparation of m-nitrophenol from wt-nitroaniline by means of the diazo reaction is described in Section IV,70. 

One method of preparing sulphlnic acids has already been described (diazo reaction. Section IV,65). Reduction of a sulphonyl chloride with zinc powder and water affords the zinc salt of the sulphinic acid, converted by sodium carbonate to the sodium salt (in which form it is conveniently isolated), and by hydrochloric acid into the somewhat unstable sulphinic acid, for example ... 

Diazo Coupling Reactions. Alkylphenols undergo a coupling reaction with dia2onium salts which is the basis for the preparation of a class of uv light stabilizers for polymers. The interaction of orxv i -nitrobenzenediazonium chloride with 2,4-di-/ r2 -butylphenol results in an azo-coupled product (30). Reduction of the nitro group followed by m situ cyclization affords the benzottiazole (31) (19). 

Nitrite can be deterrnined by reaction with sulfanilamide to form the diazo compound, which couples with /V-(1-naphthyl)ethylenediamine dihydrochloride to form an intensely colored red azo dye. Nitrate can be deterrnined in a similar manner after reduction to nitrite. Suitable reducing agents are cadmium filings or hydrazine. This method is useful at a nitrogen concentration of 10 -lO " M. 

Furan undergoes phenylation rather than diazo coupling on reaction with ben-zenediazonium salts, and thiophene similarly yields 2- or 2,5-diaryl derivatives rather than coupled products. However, 2,5-dimethylfuran and 2-/-butylfuran give coupled products with 2,4-dinitrobenzenediazonium ion (Scheme 26). 

Thermal conversion of diazirines to linear diazo compounds was postulated occasionally and proved by indirect methods. The existence of a diazo compound isomeric to diazirine (197) was proved spectroscopically on short thermolysis in DMSO (76JA6416). An intermediate diazoalkane was trapped by reaction with acetic acid, yielding the ester (198) (77JCS(P2)1214). 

Methylvinyldiazirine (199) rearranges at room temperature in the course of some days. Formation of the linear isomer is followed by electrocyclic ring closure to give 3-methyl-pyrazole. The linear diazo compound could be trapped by its reaction with acids to form esters, while the starting diazirine (199) is inert towards acids (B-71MI50801). 

The photolysis of chlorodiazirine was investigated in several cases. From chloromethyl-diazirine (232) vinyl chloride was formed as the stable primary product of stabilization of chloromethylcarbene, with acetylene and hydrogen chloride as secondary products. Some 1,1-dichloroethane was assumed to have been formed through a linear diazo compound by reaction with HCl. Added HBr yielded 1-bromo-l-chloroethane (76MI5Q800). 

Indolizine, hydroxy-conformations, 4, 451 GLC retention times, 4, 451 synthesis, 4, 121 tautomerism, 4, 198, 452 Indolizine, 2-hydroxy-synthesis, 4, 463 Indolizine, 8-hydroxy-conformation, 4, 452 Indolizine, 2-hydroxymethyl-synthesis, 4, 461 Indolizine, 3-hydroxymethyl-synthesis, 4, 461 Indolizine, 6-hydroxymethyl-synthesis, 4, 461 Indolizine, methyl-mass spectra, 4, 187, 450 NM 4, 448 Indolizine, 2-methyl-diazo coupling, 4, 454 mass spectra, 2, 529, 4, 450 nitration, 4, 50, 454 nitrosation, 4, 454 reaction with diaryl disulfide, 4, 460 reaction with nitroethane, 4, 460 Indolizine, 3-methyl-basicity, 4, 454 Indolizine, 5-methyl-acidity, 4, 461 synthesis, 4, 466 Indolizine, 6-methyl-mass spectra, 4, 450 Indolizine, l-methyl-2-phenyl-nitration, 4, 454 nitrosation, 4, 454, 455 Indolizine, 3-methyl-2-phenyl-reaction... 

Bromoresorcinol has been prepared by the monobromination of resorcinol monobenzoate and subsequent hydrolysis, from 2-bromo-5-aminophenol by the diazo reaction, by treating resorcinol with dichlorourea and potassium bromide, and by the bromination of 2,4-dihydroxy benzoic acid followed by decarboxylation. The above procedure is based particularly upon the observations of Rice. ... 

It is assumed that these alkaloids are formed by junetion at C that is, in the par -position to the hydroxyl group in ring I, beeause (1) the diazo-reaction in the two bimoleeular alkaloids is much less intense than with sinomenine, and (2) neither of the monobromosinomenines, in which the bromine atom is assumed to be at C, can be oxidised to a bimolecular... 

Trifluoromethyl-substituted diazonium betaines [176]. Synthetic routes to trifluoromethyl-substituted diazo alkanes, such as 2,2,2-trifluorodiazoethane [ 177, 7 78, 179] and alkyl 3,3,3-trifluoro-2-diazopropionates [24], have been developed Rhodium-catalyzed decomposition of 3,3,3-tnfluoro-2-diazopropionates offers a simple preparative route to highly reactive carbene complexes, which have an enormous synthetic potential [24] [3-1-2] Cycloaddition reactions were observed on reaction with nitnles to give 5-alkoxy-4-tnfluoromethyloxazoles [750] (equation 41)... 

With a few recent exceptions the reactions in this group have been with the a-ketocarbenes, CH COOMe, CH COOEt, and CH-COCHs, derived from the corresponding diazo compounds. Sorm and coworkers have reported the ring-opening of furan and methylfurans upon reaction with diazoacetone decomposed by copper, via attack at... 

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