Diazonium salts bonding

The tautomeric character of the pyrazolones is also illustrated by the mixture of products isolated after certain reactions. Thus alkylation normally takes place at C, but on occasion it is accompanied by alkylation on O and N. Similar problems can arise during acylation and carbamoylation reactions, which also favor C. Pyrazolones react with aldehydes and ketones at to form a carbon—carbon double bond, eg (41). Coupling takes place when pyrazolones react with diazonium salts to produce azo compounds, eg (42). 

GOMBERG - BACHMANN - GRAEBE - ULLMANN Arylatwn Atykaryl bond formation via diazonium salts Carbazole synthesis by intramolecular aryl-aryl bond formation. 

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. ... 

The coupling of enamines with aromatic diazonium salts has been used for the syntheses of monoarylhydrazones of a-diketones (370,488-492) and a-ketoaldehydes (488,493). Cleavage of the initial enamine double bond and formation of the phenylhydrazone of acetone and acetophenone has been reported with the enamines of isobutyraldehyde and 2-phenylpropionalde-hyde. Rearrangement of the initial coupling product to the hydrazone tautomer is not possible in these examples. 

The fonnadoo of C-N bonds can be achieved by using chkmumoe or O-methylhydrosylamine to yield primary amines aiyl diazonium salts yield azo-compounds ... 

In general, it is diffieult to prediet the outeome of eyelizations of alkynylpyrazole diazonium salts, even with elosely related arrangements of funetional groups, sinee reaetion ean oeeur at both the a- and /3-earbon atoms of the aeetylenie substituent. Moreover, it is known that the eleetrophilieity of the diazo group and the nueleophilieity of a triple bond markedly depend on their positions in the pyrazole ring and that this ean affeet both the eourse and ease of eyelization and even its viability (83IZV688). 

Aryl radicals are produced in the decomposition of alkylazobenzenes and diazonium salts, and by f)-scission of aroyloxy radicals (Scheme 3.73). Aryl radicals have been reported to react by aromatic subsitution (e.g. of Sh) or abstract hydrogen (e.g. from MMA10) in competition with adding to a monomer double bond. However, these processes typically account for <1% of the total. The degree of specificity for tail vs head addition is also very high. Significant head addition has been observed only where tail addition is retarded by sleric factors e.g. methyl crotonate10 and -substituted methyl vinyl ketones 79, 84). 

Butadienes are arylated in the 1-position and add the chlorine in the 4-position, thus yielding 2-butene derivatives. The double bond in 2-butene is much less reactive than those in 1,3-butadiene, and therefore the latter does not form diarylbutane derivatives when more than one equivalent of the diazonium salt is present. An extensive study of the effects of reaction conditions on Meerwein reactions with butadiene was made by Dombrovskii and Ganushchak (1961). 

The first diazonium-salt-crown-ether adduct was isolated and identified as a 1 1 complex by Haymore et al. (1975). Unfortunately Haymore never published the X-ray structural analysis of benzenediazonium hexafluorophosphate with 18-crown-6 which he performed in 1980. ORTEP drawings with measured bond angles and lengths from Haymore s investigation can be found in a review chapter by Bartsch (1983, p. 893). A few data from Haymore s work (e.g., R = 0.064) were also mentioned by Cram and Doxsee (1986, footnote 7). Groth (1981) published the results of his X-ray investigation of 4-methoxybenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate and 21-crown-7 (R = 0.042) and Xu et al. (1986) those of 4-methoxybenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate and dibenzo-24-crown-8 (R = 0.086). 

The new reaction appears to be a simple one-step procedure, which is particularly suitable for tertiary alkyl-aryldiazenes for which alternative synthetic routes are less convenient. However, aryl radicals or alkyl radicals in which the carbon-centered radical is bonded to an electron-withdrawing group (COOR, COR, CONR2, CN, S02R, etc.) do not add to diazonium salts or give only poor results (Citterio et al., 1982 c). This indicates that the radical must be a relatively strong nucleophile in order to be able to react with a diazonium ion. 

However, an evaluation of the observed (overall) rate constants as a function of the water concentration (5 to 25 % in acetonitrile) does not yield constant values for ki and k2/k i. This result can be tentatively explained as due to changes in the water structure. Arnett et al. (1977) have found that bulk water has an H-bond acceptor capacity towards pyridinium ions about twice that of monomeric water and twice as strong an H-bond donor property towards pyridines. In the present case this should lead to an increase in the N — H stretching frequency in the o-complex (H-acceptor effect) and possibly to increased stabilization of the incipient triazene compound (H-donor effect). Water reduces the ion pairing of the diazonium salt and therefore increases its reactivity (Penton and Zollinger, 1971 Hashida et al., 1974 Juri and Bartsch, 1980), resulting in an increase in the rate of formation of the o-complex (ik ). 

If a C—H bond is acidic enough, it couples with diazonium salts in the presence of a... 

Incidentally, 31 contributes more to the hybrid than 32, as shown by bond-distance measurements. In benzenediazonium chloride, the C—N distance is 1.42 A, and the N—N distance 1.08 A, which values lit more closely to a single and a triple bond than to two double bonds (see Table 1.5). Even aromatic diazonium salts are stable only at low temperatures, usually only below 5°C, though more stable ones, such as the diazonium salt obtained from sulfanilic acid, are stable up to 10 or 15°C. Diazonium salts are usually prepared in aqueous solution and used without isolation, though it is possible to prepare solid diazonium salts if desired (see 13-20). The stability of aryl diazonium salts can be increased by crown ether complexion. ... 

Other compounds with nitrogen-nitrogen bonds have been used instead of diazonium salts. Among these are N-nitroso amides [ArN(NO)COR], triazenes, and azo compounds. Still another method involves treatment of an aromatic primary amine directly with an alkyl nitrite in an aromatic substrate as solvent. ... 

The compound ArX can be added across double bonds, in a free-radical process, by treatment of alkenes with diazonium salts, although Meerwein arylation (substi-... 

The widespread use of aryl boronic acids or aryl boronates in various metal-catalysed C-C bond-forming reactions has created a substantial demand for these versatile nncleophiles. A general procedure for the preparation of these compounds, based on a NHC/Pd catalysed coupling, has been reported by Fiirtsner and co-workers nsing aryl chlorides and the tetraalkoxy diboron derivative 27 as conpling partners. Very good yields were obtained in several cases especially when electron poor aryls were employed [169]. Milder reaction conditions can be achieved when diazonium salts are used instead of chlorides [170] (Scheme 6.51). 

Sulfur dioxide (see above) as well as S02, SO , and SOj have been used as building blocks in three-component sulfone syntheses. It has long been known that aromatic sulfinic acids are easily available from diazonium salts and sulfur dioxide under copper catalysis . Mechanistically, aryl radicals as reactive intermediates add to sulfur dioxide generating arenesulfonyl radicals, which either take up an electron (or hydrogen) yielding a sulfinic acid or add to an olefinic double bond yielding final y -halogenated alkyl aryl sulfones (equation 78). 

As noted above, a convenient pathway to cinno-lines consists of intramolecular condensation of a diazonium group with a ketonic methyl group, or alternately with a double bond. The analogous reaction with an amide nitrogen leads to 1,2,3-benzotriazines, such as 198. Reaction of isatoic anhydride with N-aminomorpholine affords the hydrazide 196 then, treatment with nitrous acid yields initially the diazonium salt (197). Under the reaction conditions... 

Figure 6.15 Aryl diazonium salts in C-P bond formation.

Whilst azo compounds prepared from diazonium salts and phenolic or keto-enol coupling components are often depicted in the hydroxyazo form (4.11), an alternative tautomeric structure can be drawn for such compounds (Scheme 4.19). This ketohydrazone tautomer (4.21) can, in cases where the azo and hydroxy groups are located on adjacent carbon atoms, exhibit hydrogen bonding between the two groups as shown. Similar pairs of structures, but without hydrogen bonding, can be drawn for p-hydroxyazo compounds. 

Arylation of activated double bonds with diazonium salts in the presence of copper catalysts is known as the Meerwin reaction. The reaction is postulated to either proceed through an organocopper intermediate or through a chlorine atom transfer from chiral CuCl complex to the a-acyl radical intermediate. Brunner and Doyle carried out the addition of mesityldiazonium tetrafluoroborate with methyl acrylate using catalytic amounts of a Cu(I)-bisoxazoline ligand complex and were able to obtain 19.5% ee for the product (data not shown) [79]. Since the mechanism of the Meerwin reaction is unclear, it is difficult to rationalize the low ee s obtained and to plan for further modifications. 

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