Diazonium salts, coupling with sodium nitrite

The reactivity of the 5-position of 2-aminothiophene in diazo coupling, which is present also in the acylated derivatives, complicates the formation of a diazonium salt from 2-aminothiophene. Thus Steinkopf and Miiller obtained only an azo dyestuff, although they proved, through the isolation of small amounts of 2-thienyl diazonium chloride, the diazotizability of 2-aminothiophene which had earlier been denied. However, recent Russian work claims the preparation of 2-thienyldiazonium chloride by treating the double salt in 10% hydrochloric acid with sodium nitrite. Amazingly high yields (over 90%) of azo compounds were then achieved by coupling the diazonium salt solution with y9-naphtol, w-toluidine or with the 2-aminothiophene double salt. These authors have also studied the... 

Diazotization of 4-chlorobenzenamine with sodium nitrite and hydrobromic acid yields a diazonium salt solution that couples with A/,A/-dimethylbenzenamine to give substantial amounts of 4-dimethylamino-4 -bromoazobenzene. Explain. 

Aromatic diazonium salts, obtained in titrations with sodium nitrite, can be used in azo-coupling reactions. ... 

A colorimetric method for microdetermination of sulfonamides based on diazotization of the drug with sodium nitrite and hydrochloric acid has been reported (59). The diazonium salt is then coupled with 8-hydroxyquinoline in alkaline medium and the absorbance of the developed color measured at its maximum wavelength. A similar method involves diazotization and coupling of the sulfonamide with indole in alkaline solution to form an intense yellow azo dye which exhibits maximum absorption at 449 nm. Beer s law is obeyed over the concentration range 1-32 /ig/ml with a relative standard deviation of less than 2% (60). The reaction of sulfonamides with chloramine-T in sulfuric acid gives a yellow product which is suitable for the determination of sulfonamides in different formulations. It has an accuracy similar to that of the Bratton and Marshall method (61). 

Examples of the chemical reaction method are the assay of sulfonamide by the Bratton-Marshall procedure. The drug in solution is reacted with sodium nitrite to form an unstable diazonium intermediate. This unstable salt couples with a reagent yielding a reaction product with an intense color. The dye-salt extraction method may also be exemplified by the assay of atropine. Atropine in solution reacts with bromthymol blue at an appropriate pH. After shaking, the color complex formed is extracted from the aqueous layer into the organic layer and measured quantitatively. 

The preparation of phenols by hydrolysis of benzediazonium ions is well known in the literature (ref. 10). It involves the preparation of a diazonium salt, e.g. the diazonium hydrogenosulfate by treatment of the aniline hydrogen sulphate with sodium nitrite in dilute aqueous sulphuric acid, followed by hydrolysis in more concentrated aqueous sulphuric acid. The temperature of the hydrolysis is maintained at the boiling point of the aqueous acid by proper adjustment of the concentration of the sulphuric acid and the phenol formed removed from the reaction medium by means of steam distillation in order to minimise the coupling of the formed phenol with the diazonium salt introduced. 

Synthesis. Almost without exception, azo dyes ate made by diazotization of a primary aromatic amine followed by coupling of the resultant diazonium salt with an electron-rich nucleophile. The diazotization reaction is carried out by treating the primary aromatic amine with nitrous acid, normally generated in situ with hydrochloric acid and sodium nitrite. The nitrous acid nitrosates the amine to generate the N-nitroso compound, which tautomerizes to the diazo hydroxide. 

Nitrosylsulfuric acid, prepared by dissolving sodium nitrite in concentrated sulfuric acid, is employed for amines of low basicity, whose diazonium salts will hydrolyze in dilute acid. In order to synthesize Pigment Orange 5, for instance, 2,4-dinitroaniline is dissolved in concentrated sulfuric acid and diazotized preferably with nitrosylsulfuric acid. Coupling is carried out with a (3-naphthol suspension, produced by acidifying a sodium naphtholate solution. 

In diazotizing w-nitroaniline sulfate, it is necessary to add the sodium nitrite as rapidly as possible in order to prevent any of the diazonium salt from coupling with undia/.otized m-nitroaniline and forming a yellow precipitate of diazoamino compound. The presence of the excess of sulfuric acid, which does not interfere with the formation of the t-nitrophenol, tends to avoid this same difficulty. 

Synthesis of the copper complex31 [167780-70-3] (H, Na salt) involves coupling of a diazonium compound with a hydrazone [54] 2-(3-amino-4-hydroxyphe-nylsulfonamido)chlorobenzene is dissolved in hot water, to which dilute NaOH solution is then added. After addition of sodium nitrite, the solution is cooled to -5 °C and then added to a well-stirred mixture of HC1, water, and ice. The diazonium salt suspension is neutralized with NaHC03 and combined with the weakly acidic solution of the hydrazone formed with 2-hydrazino-5-sulfobenzoic acid and benzaldehyde in water. The reaction mixture is kept at 0-10 °C, and at pH 10-12 by dropwise addition of diluted NaOH. When the coupling is complete, the pH of the formazan solution is reduced to 8 with HC1, a dilute aqueous solution of copper tetraaminosulfate is added and the solution is stirred for several hours. The copper complex 31 is precipitated at 85-90 °C with NaCl, then filtered and dried. The resulting powder colors wool in clear, fast blue tones. 

The amine is titrated with hydrochloric acid and sodium nitrite in very dilute solution, and the resulting diazonium salt is coupled with an accurately known amount of a phenol, usually SchaefiFer salt. With other compounds, such as H acid, amino R acid, etc., one sample is diazotized and another is coupled with diazotized aniline or other amine. Under some circumstances it is possible to determine two substances in mixture if one of them reacts much more rapidly than the other. Thus, with a little practice, one can determine quite accurately both G salt and R salt in mixtures of.the two. R salt couples very rapidly with diazotized aniline producing a red dye, while G salt couples more slowly and gives a yellow dye. A large number of other special methods are available which permit the determination of the individual constituents in mixtures. 

Salts of primary aromatic amines react with nitrous acid to produce diazonium salts. The reaction is usually performed by adding a cold solution of sodium nitrite to a cold solution of the arylamine in aqueous mineral acid. The end point of the reaction is conveniently determined by the detection of excess nitrous acid with potassium iodide-starch paper. Sulfamic acid has long been used both in industry and in the laboratory to remove excess nitrous acid. It has been found to react with the more active diazo compounds. In most cases, high temperatures are avoided to prevent the formation of phenols and the decomposition of the unstable nitrous acid. An excess of mineral acid is necessary to prevent coupling between the diazonium salt and unreacted amine (cf. method 494). If the amine salt is somewhat insoluble, a fine crystalline form, which is produced by rapid crystallization from a warm aqueous solution, may be employed. ... 

Aryl halides are frequently prepared from the corresponding aryldiazonium salts by diazotation procedures. However, diazonium salts can be subjected directly to very mild Heck arylation conditions, which deliver coupled products (entry 19). Preferably, the reaction is executed in nonaqueous solvents such as acetonitrile, acetone, or methylene chloride with sodium acetate as base and with palladiumbis(dibenzylideneacetone) as catalyst. Alternatively, a combination of the amine and f-butyl nitrite, in a mixture of acetic acid and monochloroacetic acid, can provide the desired product directly, which makes the isolation of a diazonium salt unnecessary (entry 20). " It is also possible to use aromatic acid anhydrides as oxidative addition precursors (entry 21). Clearly, anhydrides are very interesting starting materials for a number of Heck reactions due to price and absence of halide salt formation. 

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