Diazonium nitro

Azo-compounds can be obtained by reduction of nitro-compounds, or by oxidation of hydrazo-compounds. They are usually prepared, however, by reacting a phenol or amine with a diazonium salt. The coupling usually takes place in the position para to the hydroxyl or amino group, but if this position is occupied it goes to the ortho position, e.g. 

This elimination of the diazonium group is therefore a very valuable reaction, as it affords almost the only method by which nitro and primary amino groups directly attached to the benzene ring can be eliminated. 

It may be mentioned that diazonium fluoborates containing the nitro group usually decompose suddenly and with violence upon heating, hence if o- or p-fluonitrobenzene are required, the fluoborates (in 10-20 g. quantities) should he mixed with 3-4 times their weight of pure dry sand (or barium sulphate or sodium fluoride) and heated cautiously until decomposition commences intermittent heating will be required to complete the reaction. 

The diazonium salts 145 are another source of arylpalladium com-plexes[114]. They are the most reactive source of arylpalladium species and the reaction can be carried out at room temperature. In addition, they can be used for alkene insertion in the absence of a phosphine ligand using Pd2(dba)3 as a catalyst. This reaction consists of the indirect substitution reaction of an aromatic nitro group with an alkene. The use of diazonium salts is more convenient and synthetically useful than the use of aryl halides, because many aryl halides are prepared from diazonium salts. Diazotization of the aniline derivative 146 in aqueous solution and subsequent insertion of acrylate catalyzed by Pd(OAc)2 by the addition of MeOH are carried out as a one-pot reaction, affording the cinnamate 147 in good yield[115]. The A-nitroso-jV-arylacetamide 148 is prepared from acetanilides and used as another precursor of arylpalladium intermediate. It is more reactive than aryl iodides and bromides and reacts with alkenes at 40 °C without addition of a phosphine ligandfl 16]. 

Primary arylamines like primary alkylammes form diazonium ion salts on nitro sation Aryl diazonium 10ns are considerably more stable than their alkyl counterparts Whereas alkyl diazonium 10ns decompose under the conditions of their formation aryl diazonium salts are stable enough to be stored m aqueous solution at 0-5°C for a rea sonable time Loss of nitrogen from an aryl diazonium ion generates an unstable aryl cation and is much slower than loss of nitrogen from an alkyl diazonium ion... 

Analytical and Test Methods. o-Nitrotoluene can be analyzed for purity and isomer content by infrared spectroscopy with an accuracy of about 1%. -Nitrotoluene content can be estimated by the decomposition of the isomeric toluene diazonium chlorides because the ortho and meta isomers decompose more readily than the para isomer. A colorimetric method for determining the content of the various isomers is based on the color which forms when the mononitrotoluenes are dissolved in sulfuric acid (45). From the absorption of the sulfuric acid solution at 436 and 305 nm, the ortho and para isomer content can be deterrnined, and the meta isomer can be obtained by difference. However, this and other colorimetric methods are subject to possible interferences from other aromatic nitro compounds. A titrimetric method, based on the reduction of the nitro group with titanium(III) sulfate or chloride, can be used to determine mononitrotoluenes (32). Chromatographic methods, eg, gas chromatography or high pressure Hquid chromatography, are well suited for the deterrnination of mononitrotoluenes as well as its individual isomers. Freezing points are used commonly as indicators of purity of the various isomers. 

Many of the pigments carry a nitro group ia the diazonium component, usually ia the ortho position (R = NO2). Among the acetoacetaryUde components the o-methoxy derivative (R2 = OCH, R3 = H) is one of the most important ia the production of azo pigments. The colors of these pigments range from red to green-shade yellows. Commercially important products ate shown ia Table 3. 

Purines, N-alkyl-N-phenyl-synthesis, 5, 576 Purines, alkylthio-hydrolysis, 5, 560 Mannich reaction, 5, 536 Michael addition reactions, 5, 536 Purines, S-alkylthio-hydrolysis, 5, 560 Purines, amino-alkylation, 5, 530, 551 IR spectra, 5, 518 reactions, 5, 551-553 with diazonium ions, 5, 538 reduction, 5, 541 UV spectra, 5, 517 Purines, N-amino-synthesis, 5, 595 Purines, aminohydroxy-hydrogenation, 5, 555 reactions, 5, 555 Purines, aminooxo-reactions, 5, 557 thiation, 5, 557 Purines, bromo-synthesis, 5, 557 Purines, chloro-synthesis, 5, 573 Purines, cyano-reactions, 5, 550 Purines, dialkoxy-rearrangement, 5, 558 Purines, diazoreactions, 5, 96 Purines, dioxo-alkylation, 5, 532 Purines, N-glycosyl-, 5, 536 Purines, halo-N-alkylation, 5, 529 hydrogenolysis, 5, 562 reactions, 5, 561-562, 564 with alkoxides, 5, 563 synthesis, 5, 556 Purines, hydrazino-reactions, 5, 553 Purines, hydroxyamino-reactions, 5, 556 Purines, 8-lithiotrimethylsilyl-nucleosides alkylation, 5, 537 Purines, N-methyl-magnetic circular dichroism, 5, 523 Purines, methylthio-bromination, 5, 559 Purines, nitro-reactions, 5, 550, 551 Purines, oxo-alkylation, 5, 532 amination, 5, 557 dipole moments, 5, 522 H NMR, 5, 512 pJfa, 5, 524 reactions, 5, 556-557 with diazonium ions, 5, 538 reduction, 5, 541 thiation, 5, 557 Purines, oxohydro-IR spectra, 5, 518 Purines, selenoxo-synthesis, 5, 597 Purines, thio-acylation, 5, 559 alkylation, 5, 559 Purines, thioxo-acetylation, 5, 559... 

Elimination of the hydroxyaminomethyl moiety from nitro oxime 15 by treatment with a diazonium salt gave hydrazone 43 (75LA1029) (Scheme 15). The same product was obtained by coupling the diazonium salt with the compound 16. On heating in aniline, oxime 15 was transformed into Schiff base 42. Acylation of the oxime 15 with benzoyl chloride in pyridine led to a mixture of furazan 44 and dinitrile 45. 

The behavior of aminopyrazole 88 (R = 4-NO2—C6H4) under these conditions was quite different diazotization using nitrous acid in concentrated hydrochloric acid afforded an alkynylpyrazole diazonium chloride, which did not participate in the Richter reaction, probably due to the electron-withdrawing effect of the nitro group. Instead, after neutralization of the hydrochloric acid with sodium hydrogen... 

In a basic medium, 5-nitro-5-hydroxymethyltetrahydro-l,3-oxazine derivatives can be coupled with aryl diazonium salts to form aryl-azo derivatives (54) with the elimination of a molecule of formaldehyde. ... 

A nitro group in the 4-position markedly increases the instability of the isoxazole ring in alkaline medium. This effect is clearly demonstrated by 3,5-dime thy 1-4-nitroisoxazole. Whereas 3,5-dimethyl-isoxazole is not affected by alkali, its 4-nitro-derivative (134) is cleaved by 2% sodium hydroxide. The structure of the product was proved by its conversion into a triazole (135) with phenyl diazonium chloride, according to the original authors. ... 

Replacement of chlorine on the pendant benzoyl group by azide is apparently consistent with antiinflammatory activity. Acylation of indomethacin intermediate with p-nitrobenzoyl chloride leads to the corresponding amide (7). Saponification ( ) followed by reduction of the nitro group gives the amine 9. The diazonium salt (10) obtained on treatment with nitrous acid is then reacted with sodium azide there is thus obtained zidomethacin (11). 

In a synthesis of minocycline, interesting use was made of a reductive alkylation of a nitro function, accompanied by loss of a diazonium group. The sequence provides a clever way of utilizing the unwanted 9-nitro isomer that arises from nitration of 6-demethyl-6-deoxytetracycline (//). When di-azotization was complete, urea and 40% aqueous formaldehyde were added, and the entire solution was mixed with 10% palladium-on-carbon and reduced under hydrogen. No further use of this combined reaction seems to have been made. 

The NH2 groups can be diazotized and reduced in the presence of thiosulphates and different metal ions. The effect of some metal ions, namely Fe ", Sn, Cu +, and Co on the graft yield of cotton modified with aryl diazonium groups via its reaction with 2,4-dichloro-6-(p-nitroaniline)-5-triazine in the presence of alkali and followed by reduction of nitro group was studied [4]. 

By using the same molecular proportions the following m-nitrophenols were prepared in equally good yields from the corresponding m-nitroanilincs 3-methoxy-5-nitrophenol and 3-nitro-4,6-xylenol. In the former case it is advisable to use slightly more ice in the diazotization and add the diazonium solution to a mixture of equal volumes of sulfuric acid and water. 

Fluorination. Attention has been focused on the direct fluorination of isoquinolines activated by conversion into 2-methylisocarbostyril (80). With gaseous fluorine (diluted to 10% with argon) in acetic acid a 54% yield of the 4-fluoro derivative was obtained. (Scheme 40). With methylene chloride as the solvent, only the 4-chloro analogue was formed [82H( 17)429]. Fluoroisoquinolines have also been made by displacement of nitro groups, and from diazonium fluoroborates (87JHC181). Hepta-chloroisoquinoline was converted into a perfluoro derivative by heating it in an autoclave with anhydrous potassium fluoride [66JCS(C)2328]. 

This change in editorial leadership has resulted, perhaps inevitably, in a change in editorial policy which is reflected in the contents of Volume 8. There has been a marked de-emphasis on the inclusion of organic parent compounds followed by an exhaustive and voluminous cataloging of azide, azido, azo, diazido, diazonium, diazo, nitro, dinitro, polynitro, hitr amine, nitrate (esters and salts), dinitrate, poly nitrate, nitroso, polynitroso, chlorate, perchlorate, peroxide, picrate, etc, derivatives — regardless of whether any of these derivatives exhibit documented explosive or energetic properties. Only those materials having such properties have been included in this volume... 

Needles+H20 (from aq eth), anhydr crysts (from abs eth), mp 23°. Can be prepd by adding Na azide to a soln of 4-nitro-mesityIene-diazonium chloride-(2) (Ref 2). Expls on fast heating in all org solvs. Loses 2/3 of its N content in coned sulfuric acid... 

MNN is obtained in 3—5% yield by the nitration of naphthalene and is present at this level in coml MNN. It is best prepd by indirect methods for example, by the removal of an amino group from an appropriately substituted nitro-naphthylamine. The amine is treated with Na nitrite and acid to form the diazonium salt which is replaced with a H atom by redn with EtOH (Ref 7). It may also be prepd by treatment of 6-nitro-l, 2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene with Br to form a dibromo compn (probably the 1,4-isomer), followed by removal of two moles of H bromide by distn in the presence of base (Ref 10). 2-Naphthalenediazonium fluoroborate... 

Dinitronaphthalene (1,4-DNN). Long yel needles from MeOH, mp 134° (Refs 6 34) CA Registry No 6921-26-2. It is prepd by the diazotization of 4-nitro-l-naphthylamine followed by treatment of the diazonium salt with powd Cu and Na nitrite (Ref 45)... 

Dinitronaphthalene (Delta-dinitronaphtha-lenet 1,6-DNN). Crysts from acet ac, mp 166-67°, bp at 10mm 235°, 360° with decompn (Refs 2 31) CA Registry No 60746-5. It is prepd by the nitration of 2-nitronaphtha- ene with nitric ac/sulfuric ac in hot acet ac (Ref 21) by diazotization of 5-nitro-2-naphthyl-amine followed by treatment of the diazonium salt with Na cobaltinitrite, yield 40% (Ref 36) or by removal of the amino group from 1,6-dinitro-2-naphthylamine by diazotization followed by redn (Ref 17). The temp of expin is 492°(Refl7)... 

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