Diazonium salts bromination

The diazonium salts usually decompose when warmed with water to give a phenol and nitrogen. When treated with CuCl, CuBr, KI, the diazo group is replaced by chlorine, bromine or iodine respectively (Sandmeyer reaction). A diazonium sulphate and hydroxyl-amine give an azoimide. The diazonium salt of anthranilic acid (2-aminobenzoic acid) decomposes to give benzyne. ... 

Copper 1) chloride, bromide and cyanide were used by Sandmeyer to introduce a chlorine, a bromine atom and a cyanide group respectively into a benzene ring by addition to the phenyl diazonium salt. 

Thymoquinone has been prepared directly from thymol by sulfonating and oxidizing the sulfonation mixture with manganese dioxide or potassium dichromate the same process has been successfully applied to carvacrol. The oxidation of sa ts of aminothymol with dichromate, ferric chloride, or nascent bromine also leads to satisfactory yields of thymoquinone. The above procedure is based on the observation that the diazonium salt obtained from aminothymol is almost quantitatively con-... 

The second point is somewhat less obvious but is readily illustrated by the synthesis of 1,3,5-tribromobenzene. This particular- substitution pattern cannot be obtained by direct brornination of benzene because bromine is an ortho, para director. Instead, advantage is taken of the powerful activating and ortho, para-directing effects of the fflnino group in aniline. Brornination of aniline yields 2,4,6-tribromoaniline in quantitative yield. Diazotization of the resulting 2,4,6-tribromoaniline and reduction of the diazonium salt gives the desired 1,3,5-tribromobenzene. 

Among the nucleophilic processes available for introduction of bromine to quinolines are reactions of the diazonium salts (87JHC181) and syntheses based on hydroxyquinolines or quinolones (91M935) (Scheme 36). The former processes are especially useful for making 5-, 6-, 7-, and 8-bromo derivatives. Halogen-halogen exchange reactions have also been reported, but they are not common. When perfluoroquinoline was heated... 

Bromination of 136 in methanol gave the 3-bromo derivative, identical with the product of Sandmeyer reaction of the 3-diazonium salt. When the reactive 3-position was blocked, electrophilic bromination would not take place (66JOC265). Chlorination appears to occur by addition [83AHC(34)79], and perhalides are known [84MI25 90AHC(47)1]. Activating substituents are able to induce some bromination in the pyridine ring. 

It was not possible to brominate the [l,2,4]triazolo[l,5-a]pyridine species (137) directly with bromine or NBS, but the 5- and 8-bromo (66CPB523) and 3-chloro (66JOC265) derivatives were made from the diazonium salts. More recently regiospecific 5-lithiation of 137 has provided access to the 5-bromo derivative in 94% yield (92JOC5538). 

In the isomer (156) (and its 4-amino and 4-oxo derivatives) 3-bromination also occurred [82CHE753 87AHC(41)320]. The 4-bromo compound was made in 40% yield from the diazonium salt (82CHE753), whereas a 3-oxo function was replaced by chlorine in the usual way [92JCS(P1)239]. 

Treatment of diazonium salts with cuprous chloride or bromide leads to aryl chlorides or bromides, respectively. In either case the reaction is called the Sandmeyer reaction The reaction can also be carried out with copper and HBr or HCl, in which case it is called the Gatterman reaction (not to be confused with 11-16). The Sandmeyer reaction is not useful for the preparation of fluorides or iodides, but for bromides and chlorides it is of wide scope and is probably the best way of introducing bromine or chlorine into an aromatic ring. The yields are usually high. 

CINNOLINES AND QUINOXALINES Replacement of a methine in oxolinic acid (46) by nitrogen is apparently consistent with retention of antibacterial activity. One approach begins with reduction of nitroacetophenone 144 to afford the corresponding aminoketone (145). Treatment of this intermediate with nitrous acid leads to the diazonium salt the diazonium group condenses with the ketone methylene group (as its enol form) to lead to the cyclized product, cinnoline 147. Bromination proceeds at the position adjacent the enol grouping (148) ... 

The hydroxyphenylbenzotriazole structure was constructed by a coupling of the diazonium salt of o-nitroaniline with 4-ethyl-phenol, followed by reduction of the nitro-azobenzene to the benzotriazole with zinc powder and NaOH. After blocking of the phenol by acetylation, bromination and dehydrobromination were performed as described earlier, and treatment with aqueous NaOH... 

Phenyldiazonium Perbromide.—To a fresh ice-cold solution of one of the solid diazonium salts, prepared as described above, or to the diazo-solution from 2 g. of aniline, there is added the solution of 1-5 c.c. of bromine in 15 c.c. of potassium bromide solution (25 per cent), with ice cooling, until precipitation of dark-coloured oil ceases. The aqueous solution is then decanted when the residual perbromide is washed a few times with ice-water it crystallises. 

The mechanism of the reaction with ammonia is as follows. The perbromide bromine is converted into hypobromite and at the same time the diazonium salt undergoes rearrangement to syre-diazohydroxide, which immediately couples with NHS to give phenyltriazene ( diazo-benzeneamide ). The latter is then dehydrogenated by the hypobromite yielding phenyl azide (Dimroth) ... 

These agents would be used as adjuncts to beta lactams since they have no antibacterial activity in their own right. A key reaction in the synthesis of each compound involves the replacement of the amine at 6 and the protection of that position as a mono- or di-halide. Thus reaction of 6-APA (2-4) with nitrous acid gives the diazonium salt (9-1) this is converted to the dibromide (9-2) on treatment with bromine. The ring sulfur is then oxidized with permanganate to the sulfone (9-3). Hydrogenolysis of the product replaces the two bromine atoms by hydrogen to afford sulbactam (9-4) [13]. 

Benzodiazepines do not show the high reactivity to electrophilic substitution exhibted by (204) but they can be brominated and coupled with diazonium salts at the 3-position. Treatment with sodamide and methyl iodide gives the 3-methyl derivative and by similar means the diazepinone (170) can be alkylated at the 5-position. 

Amino- and 7-aminothiocoumarin have been thoroughly explored as useful precursors to a wide variety of thiocoumarins. Thus, substituents such as Cl, Br, I, SCN, CN, OH, and OMe have been introduced by way of the Sandmeyer reaction. 6-Aminothiocoumarin is brominated in the 5-posi-tion, whereby 5-bromo- or 5,6-dibromothiocoumarin may be made by way of the corresponding diazonium salt, using hypophosphorous acid or cuprous bromide, respectively. Alternatively, 6-acetylaminothiocoumarin may be nitrated in the 5-position and thus 5-nitro-, 5-amino-, 5,6-diamino-, or 6-chloro-5-nitrothiocoumarins can be prepared by classical syntheses. These derivatives are useful intermediates for the synthesis of further fused thiocoumarins (e.g., 23, 24 and 25 ). 

Amino-substituted selenophenes are in general unstable compounds, and are conveniently isolated as IV-acetyl or iV-formyl derivatives. An ortho situated electron-attracting substituent such as acetyl, formyl or nitro renders the amino compounds stable. Derivatives of this type can be diazolized and the resulting diazonium salts converted into azides (by reaction with azide ion) (75CR(C)(281)317) and selenocyanates (by reaction with selenocyanide ion) (79BSF(2)237). 3-Acetamidoselenophene can be thiocyanated or selenocyanated in the 2-position by treatment with bromine and potassium thiocyanate or potassium selenocyanate, respectively (78TL1797). 

Exercise 26-16 Reduction of 9,10-anthracenedione with tin and hydrochloric acid in ethanoic acid produces a solid, pale-yellow ketone (mp 156°), which has the formula C14H10O. This ketone is not soluble in cold alkali but does dissolve when heated with alkali. Acidification of cooled alkaline solutions of the ketone precipitates a brown-yellow isomer of the ketone (mp 120°), which gives a color with ferric chloride, couples with diazonium salts (Section 23-1OC), reacts with bromine, and slowly reverts to the isomeric ketone. 

It has been demonstrated that the presence of chlorine or bromine in the nucleus facilitates replacement of the diazo group by hydrogen little or no ether formation occurs.26 Apparently iodine also favors the redudng action of alcohols, but this point has not been investigated carefully.26 27 No attempts to deaminate fluorinated amines are recorded. Representative of the effitiency with which ethanol reduces diazonium salts derived from halogenated amines are the deaminations of m-chloroaniline 26 (87% yield), of 2-bromo-4-methylaniline 28 (67% yield), of 2,4,6-tribfomoaniline 29 (ca. 80% yield), and of 2-carboxy-4-iodoaniline30 (ca. 45% yield) in the biphenyl series the deamination of VIII in 53% yield 31 may be dted. 

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