Diazotization, of aromatic amines

Aromatic Hydrazines. A general synthesis for aryUiydraziaes is via diazotization of aromatic amines, followed by reduction of the resulting diazonium salt (18) ... 

Among the reagents that are classified as weak electrophiles, the best studied are the aromatic diazonium ions, which reagents react only with aromatic substrates having strong electron-donor substituents. The products are azo compounds. The aryl diazonium ions are usually generated by diazotization of aromatic amines. The mechanism of diazonium ion formation is discussed more completely in Section 11.2.1 of Part B. 

Diazotization of aromatic amines in aqueous 70% hydrogen fluoride at 0 °C followed by in situ decomposition of the arenediazonium fluorides has been replaced by diazotization in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride [52, 53] (equation 13)... 

The basic principle of all diazotizations of aromatic amines with a hydroxy- or a sulfonamido group in the 4-position relative to the amino group involves a deprotonation of the OH or NH group, respectively, after diazotization of the amino group. There is also a case of a deprotonation of a CH group in the 4-position of an aniline derivative, namely in the diazotization of 4-aminophenylmalononitrile (2.41) which, by the sequence of steps shown in Scheme 2-23, yields 3-diazo-6-dicyanomethylene-1,4-cyclohexadienone (2.42), as found by Hartzler (1964). This product can also be represented by a zwitterionic carbanion-diazonium mesomeric structure. 

Schmid (1936 a) was the first to observe a third-order reaction in the diazotization of aromatic amines in the presence of sulfuric acid, and he proposed the kinetic equation of Scheme 3-3. In subsequent work (1936b, 1937 Schmid and Muhr, 1937), he investigated the course of the reaction in dilute hydrochloric or hydrobromic acid, which could be described by incorporating an extra term for the halide ion with only a first-order dependence on (HNO2), as in Scheme 3-4. 

Several amino compounds are being used extensively in industrial processes. Most of these compounds are manufactured, except hydrazine. Azo dyes are produced by diazotization of aromatic amines and currently there are at least 3000 azo dyes in use. These dyes are used widely in textiles, leather, printing, paper making, drug and food industries. In the past three decades many food, drug and cosmetic colours have been banned from commercial use as food colourants. This section gives a brief account of adverse affects caused by the use of various amino compounds. 

Fig. 1. Diazotization of aromatic amines through the intermediate formation of nitrosyl halides (NOX). The variation of the rate coefficient k (eqn 16) with the pXa-value of the amine. The broken line indicates the expected limit for a diffusion-controlled reaction. +. .. X = Cl O X = Br...

The diazotization of aromatic amines witii a nucleophilic substituent at the ortho position is a common mediod of synthesis of benzo-fosed heterocyclic compounds with two or more contiguous nitrogen atoms. Benzotriazoles (9), benzotriazinones (10), and benzothiadiazoles (11) are examples of heterocyclic ring systems that can be prepared in tiiis way. 

Schiemann reaction. Formation of diazonium fluoborates by diazotization of aromatic amines in the presence of fluoborates, followed by their thermal decomposition to aryl fluorides. 

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