Diazonium salts, aryl reaction

The first widely used intermediates for nucleophilic aromatic substitution were the aryl diazonium salts. Aryl diazonium ions are usually prepared by reaction of an aniline with nitrous acid, which is generated in situ from a nitrite salt.81 Unlike aliphatic diazonium ions, which decompose very rapidly to molecular nitrogen and a carbocation (see Part A, Section 4.1.5), aryl diazonium ions are stable enough to exist in solution at room temperature and below. They can also be isolated as salts with nonnucleophilic anions, such as tetrafluoroborate or trifluoroacetate.82 Salts prepared with 0-benzenedisulfonimidate also appear to have potential for synthetic application.83... 

The preparation and reactions of diazonium salts. The reaction of aromatic amines with the nitrosonium ion (+NO), generated from nitrous acid (HN02), yields aryl diazonium salts, which can be converted (on loss of nitrogen) to a range of functional groups. 

Reactions with Diazonium Salts The reaction with diazonium salts of aromatic compounds yields directly arylated derivatives of carbon nanotubes (Figure 3.79). It has first been reported for HiPCo tubes as these are very reactive due to their small diameters and the related high curvature. Other nanotubes are lager in diameter and, consequently, less reactive. Hence, the reaction occurs only under more drastic conditions, but still good yields may be achieved. 

Treatment of diazonium salts with cuprous, Cu(I), salts generates aryl halides. When 398 reacts with CuCl (cuprous chloride) or CuBr (cuprous bromide), the products are chlorobenzene or bromobenzene via what is probably a radical reaction.29l jhis conversion is known as the Sandmeyer reaction. 2 The use of copper powder rather than cuprous salts for this transformation is often called the Gattermann reaction. 93,292b,c Aryl iodides are also produced from diazonium salts by reaction with potassium iodide (KI) but the actual reactive species may be l3-.294,295 Treatment of aniline derivative 403 with sodium nitrite and HCl followed by treatment with KI, for example, gave a 89% yield of 404.Aryl nitriles are generated under Sandmeyer conditions using cuprous cyanide (CuCN), as in the conversion of 405 to benzonitrile derivative 407 via diazonium chloride, 406. 

The cupric halide-catalyzed reaction of an aryl diazonium salt with an olefin-known as the Meerwein arylation-is a powerful and well-developed method for the arylation of olefins (136, 137). Good results have been obtained for olefins bearing electron-withdrawing groups such as a carbonyl, a cyano, an aryl or an alkenyl group. Depending on the nature of the olefin and the diazonium salt, the reaction can lead either to the oxidation product 88 or to the Cl-atom transfer product 89 (Equation 13.10) [138]. 

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]. 

The reaction of an aryl diazonium salt with potassium iodide is the standard method for the preparation of aryl iodides The diazonium salt is prepared from a primary aro matic amine m the usual way a solution of potassium iodide is then added and the reac tion mixture is brought to room temperature or heated to accelerate the reaction... 

Diazonium salt chemistry provides the principal synthetic method for the prepara tion of aryl fluorides through a process known as the Schiemann reaction In this pro cedure the aryl diazonium ion is isolated as its fluoroborate salt which then yields the desired aryl fluoride on being heated... 

Sodium borohydride has also been used to reduce aryl diazonium salts m reductive deam mation reactions... 

A reaction of aryl diazonium salts that does not involve loss of nitrogen takes place when they react with phenols and arylamines Aryl diazonium ions are relatively weak elec trophiles but have sufficient reactivity to attack strongly activated aromatic rings The reaction is known as azo coupling two aryl groups are joined together by an azo (—N=N—) function... 

Nitrosation (Section 22 15) Nitrosation of amines occurs when sodium nitrite is added to a solution containing an amine and an acid Primary amines y e d alkyl diazonium salts Alkyl diazonium salts are very unstable and yield carbo cation derived products Aryl diazonium salts are exceedingly useful synthetic in termediates Their reactions are de scribed in Table 22 7... 

Reaction of aryl diazonium salts with iodide ion (Section 22 17) Adding po tassium iodide to a solution of an aryl diazonium ion leads to the formation of an aryl iodide... 

Azo coupling (Section 22 18) Formation of a compound of the type ArN=NAr by reaction of an aryl diazonium salt with an arene The arene must be strongly activated toward... 

The most important synthesis of pyrazolones involves the condensation of a hydrazine with a P-ketoester such as ethyl acetoacetate. Commercially important pyrazolones carry an aryl substituent at the 1-position, mainly because the hydrazine precursors are prepared from readily available and comparatively inexpensive diazonium salts by reduction. In the first step of the synthesis the hydrazine is condensed with the P-ketoester to give a hydrazone heating with sodium carbonate then effects cyclization to the pyrazolone. In practice the condensation and cyclization reactions are usually done in one pot without isolating the hydrazone intermediate. 

Other limitations of the reaction are related to the regioselectivity of the aryl radical addition to double bond, which is mainly determined by steric and radical delocalization effects. Thus, methyl vinyl ketone gives the best results, and lower yields are observed when bulky substituents are present in the e-position of the alkene. However, the method represents complete positional selectivity because only the g-adduct radicals give reductive arylation products whereas the a-adduct radicals add to diazonium salts, because of the different nucleophilic character of the alkyl radical adduct. ... 

Preparation of aryl fluorides Addition of fluoroboric acid to a solution of a diazonium salt causes the precipitation of an aryl diazonium fluoroborate. When the dry aryl diazonium fluoroborate is heated, an aryl fluoride results. This is the Schiemann reaction it is the most general method for the preparation of aryl fluorides. 

Aryl arsonic acids can be made from a diazonium salt by the Bart reaction ... 

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