Dienes liquids

F. Minisci, F. Recupero, A. Cecchetto, C. Gambarotti, C. Punta, R. Paganelli, G. F. Pedulli, F. Fontana, Solvent and temperature effects in the free radical aerobic oxidation of alkyl and acyl aromatics catalysed by transition metal slats and N-hydroxyphatUmide New processes for the sysnthesis of p-hydroxybenzoic acid, diphenols, and dienes liquid for liquid crystals and cross-linked polymers, Org. Proc. Res. Devel. 8 (2004) 163. 

Liquid products from coking are very unstable (high diene contents), very olefinic, and highly contaminated by sulfur and nitrogen. The production of gas is considerable. 

We saw m Section 9 10 that the combination of a Group I metal and liquid ammonia is a powerful reducing system capable of reducing alkynes to trans alkenes In the pres ence of an alcohol this same combination reduces arenes to nonconjugated dienes Thus treatment of benzene with sodium and methanol or ethanol m liquid ammonia converts It to 1 4 cyclohexadiene... 

Section 1111 An example of a reaction m which the ring itself reacts is the Birch reduction The ring of an arene is reduced to a nonconjugated diene by treatment with a Group I metal (usually sodium) m liquid ammonia m the presence of an alcohol... 

BIRCH hOCKEL - BENKESER Reduction Reduction ol aromatics, unsaturated ketones coniugated dienes by alkali metals in liquid ammonia or amines... 

Most of the alkylations were carried out by adding a solution of 3,3-ethylenedioxypregna-5,16-dien-20-one in tetrahydrofuran to a solution of lithium in liquid ammonia to the point of color discharge. Treatment with the alkyl halide then furnishes the corresponding 17a-alkyl derivative (10). After hydrolysis of the 3-ketal group, 17a-methyl-, ethyl-, propyl-, butyl-, hexyl-, octyl-, allyl-, and benzylprogesterones are obtained. 

Preparation of cholesta-5,7-diene-ia,3/3-diol a solution of 500 mg of the 1,4-cyclized adduct of cholesta-5,7-dien-3/3-ol-ia,2a-epoxideand 4-phenyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione in 40 ml of tetrahydrofuran is added dropwise under agitation to a solution of 600 mg of lithium aluminum hydride in 30 ml of THF. Then, the reaction mixture liquid Is gently refluxed and boiled for 1 hour and cooled, and a saturated aqueous solution of sodium sulfate is added to the reaction mixture to decompose excessive lithium aluminum hydride. The organic solvent layer is separated and dried, and the solvent Is distilled. The residue Is purified by chromatography using a column packed with silica gel. Fractions eluted with ether-hexane (7 3 v/v) are collected, and recrystallization from the methanol gives 400 mg of cholesta-5,7-diene-la, 3/3-diol. 

Giirtler and Jautelat of Bayer AG have protected methods that use chloroalumi-nate(III) ionic liquids as solvents for both cyclization and polymerization reactions of acyclic dienes [52]. They employed the neutral ionic liquid [EMIM][G1-A1G13]... 

When 2,7-dimethyloxepin is treated with potassium in liquid ammonia at — 70 C, a mixture of oct-4-en-2-one (1) and octa-4,6-dien-2-one (2) in a ratio of 75 20 is obtained.203 The major product can be separated by preparative gas chromatography in 23% yield. The analogous reaction of 3-benzoxepin gives, in 30% yield, a mixture of (2-cthylphenyl)acetaldehyde (3) and (2-ethynylphenyl)acetaldehyde (4) that resists separation.203 The Latter product can be formed exclusively in 17% yield when 3-benzoxepin is treated with sodium amide in tetra-hydrofuran at 33 C for 210 minutes.203... 

The use of ultrasonic (US) radiation (typical range 20 to 850 kHz) to accelerate Diels-Alder reactions is undergoing continuous expansion. There is a parallelism between the ultrasonic and high pressure-assisted reactions. Ultrasonic radiations induce cavitation, that is, the formation and the collapse of microbubbles inside the liquid phase which is accompanied by the local generation of high temperature and high pressure [29]. Snyder and coworkers [30] published the first ultrasound-assisted Diels-Alder reactions that involved the cycloadditions of o-quinone 37 with appropriate dienes 38 to synthesize abietanoid diterpenes A-C (Scheme 4.7) isolated from the traditional Chinese medicine, Dan Shen, prepared from the roots of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge. 

The rate of the Diels-Alder reaction betweenp-benzoquinone and cyclopenta-diene was measured in SC-CO2 and subcritical CO2 [85]. Relative reaction rates at different pressures are reported in Table 6.14. On going from CO2 in the liquid phase (below 31 °Q to SC-CO2, the reactivity increased significantly only when the reaction was carried out under high pressure. At 30 °C and 60 bar the reaction was 1.36 times faster than when it was performed in diethyl ether at 30 °C and 1 bar. 

The inertness of ordinary double bonds toward metallie hydrides is quite useful, since it permits reduction of, say, a carbonyl or nitro group, without disturbing a double bond in the same molecule (see Chapter 19 for a discussion of selectivity in reduction reactions). Sodium in liquid ammonia also does not reduce ordinary double bonds, although it does reduce alkynes, allenes, conjugated dienes, and aromatic rings (15-14). 

Photooxidation of Dienes Investigated in Micro Reactors Cas/liquid reaction 24 [CL 24] Oxidation of cyclopentadiene by singlet oxygen to 2-cyclopentene-1,4-diol... 

Thompson, S. and Smith, M.T. (1985). Measurement of the diene conjugated from of linoleic acid in plasma by high performance liquid chromatography. A questionable non-invasive assay of free radical activity. Chem. Biol. Interactions 55, 357-366. 

Interaction, in presence of diluent below 0°C, with isopropylamine or isobuty-lamine caused separation of explosive liquids, and with aniline, phenylhydrazine and 1,2-diphenylhydrazine, explosive solids [1], In absence of diluents, contact with most aliphatic or non-aromatic heterocyclic amines often leads to uncontrolled oxidation and/or explosions [2], During oxidation of two steroidal dienes in dry pyridine at —35 to —40°C, on one occasion each of the reactions was accompanied by violent explosions [3],... 

The chromatograms of the liquid phase show the presence of smaller and larger hydrocarbons than the parent one. Nevertheless, the main products are n-alkanes and 1-alkenes with a carbon number between 3 to 9 and an equimolar distribution is obtained. The product distribution can be explained by the F-S-S mechanism. Between the peaks of these hydrocarbons, it is possible to observe numerous smaller peaks. They have been identified by mass spectrometry as X-alkenes, dienes and also cyclic compounds (saturated, partially saturated and aromatic). These secondary products start to appear at 400 °C. Of course, their quantities increase at 425 °C. As these hydrocarbons are not seen for the lower temperature, it is possible to imagine that they are secondary reaction products. The analysis of the gaseous phase shows the presence of hydrogen, light alkanes and 1-alkenes. 

TABLE 2. Yields of final products from radiolysis of liquid aliphatic dienes (G, molecule/100 eV)... 

Reduction of aromatic compounds to dihydro derivatives by dissolved metals in liquid ammonia (Birch reduction) is one of the fundamental reactions in organic chemistry308. When benzene derivatives are subjected to this reduction, cyclohexa-1,4-dienes are formed. The 1,4-dienes obtained from the reduction isomerize to more useful 1,3-dienes under protic conditions. A number of syntheses of natural products have been devised where the Birch reduction of a benzenoid compound to a cyclohex-1,3-diene and converting this intermediate in Diels-Alder fasion to polycyclic products is involved (equation 186)308f h. 

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