Dinitrobenzenes, separation

Preparation of Dinitrobemene. A mixture of 25 grams of concentrated sulfuric acid (d. 1.84) and 15 grams of nitric acid (d. 1.52) is heated in an open flask in the boiling water bath in the hood, and 10 grams of nitrobenzene is added gradually during the course of half an hour. The mixture is cooled somewhatp and drowned in cold water. The dinitrobenzene separates as a solid. It is crushed with water, washed with water, and recrystallized from alcohol or from nitric acid. Dinitrobenzene crystallizes from nitric acid in beautiful needles which are practically colorless, m.p. 90°. 

Nitrobenzene. Nitrobenzene, of analytical reagent quality, is satisfactory for most purposes. The technical product may contain dinitrobenzene and other impurities, whilst the recovered solvent may be contaminated with aniline. Most of the impurities may be removed by steam distillation after the addition of dilute sulphuric acid the nitrobenzene in the distillate is separated, dried with calcium chloride and distilled. The pure substance has b.p. 210°/760 mm. and m.p. 5 -7°. 

It is convenient to include under Aromatic Amines the preparation of m-nitroaniline as an example of the selective reduction of one group in a polynitro compound. When wt-dinitrobenzene is allowed to react with sodium polysulphide (or ammonium sulphide) solution, only one of the nitro groups is reduced and m-nitroanUine results. Some sulphur separates, but the main reaction is represented by ... 

In azole chemistry the total effect of the several heteroatoms in one ring approximates the superposition of their separate effects. It is found that pyrazole, imidazole and isoxazole undergo nitration and sulfonation about as readily as nitrobenzene thiazole and isothiazole react less readily ica. equal to m-dinitrobenzene), and oxadiazoles, thiadiazoles, triazoles, etc. with great difficulty. In each case, halogenation is easier than the corresponding nitration or sulfonation. Strong electron-donor substituents help the reaction. 

The acids are mixed in a flask (500 c.c.), and the nitrobenzene added in portions of 5—10 c.c. at a time. Heat is evolved, and the mass becomes somewhat deeper in colour. When the nitrobenzene has been added, the flask is heated for a shoit time on the water-bath. K few drops are then potiied into a test-tube of water. The dinitrobenzene should, if the reaction is complete, separate out as a hard pale yellow cake If it is semi-sohd, the heating" must be continued. The contents of the flask are then poured, whilst warm, into a large quantity of water. The dinitrobenzene, which separates out, is filteied at the punap and well washed with water. It is then dried. The yield is nearly theoretical. A few grams should be recrystallised from spirit. The remainder may be used for the next preparation without further puiification. 

The separation was achieved on an Apiezon L grease SCOT glass capillary column. Complete separation of six dinitrobenzene isomers took 8 min. 

B. 2,4-Dinitrobenzenesulfenyl chloride. Dry 2,4-dinitrophenyl benzyl sulfide (232 g., 0.80 mole) and 400 ml. of dry ethylene chloride are placed in a 2-1., one-necked, round-bottomed flask equipped with a stirrer (Note 3). Sulfuryl chloride (119 g., 0.88 mole) (Note 4) is added to the resulting suspension at room temperature. A mildly exothermic reaction causes the solid to dissolve quickly, usually within 1 to 2 minutes, with a temperature rise of 10-15° (Note 5). The resulting clear yellow solution is concentrated to an oil by heating under aspirator vacuum on a steam bath (Note 6). Caution Do not heat with gas or electricity because the product, like many nitro compounds, can explode if overheated.) The residual oil is cooled to 50-60°, and 3-4 volumes of dry petroleum ether (b.p. 30-60°) are added with vigorous handswirling. The oil quickly crystallizes. The mixture is cooled to room temperature and filtered to separate 2,4-dinitrobenzene-sulfenyl chloride as a yellow crystalline solid. The sulfenyl chloride is washed well with dry petroleum ether and dried at 60-80° (Note 7) weight 150-170 g. (80-90%) m.p. 95-96° (Notes 8, 9). 

Bilikova and Kuthan [87] developed a gas chromatographic method for the determination of submicrogram concentrations of Carbofuran (2,3-dihydro-2, 2,-dimethylbenzofuran-7-yl-methyl carbamate) in soils. Soil samples are mixed with methanol-water (80 20) and water samples are extracted with chloroform. After separation of the chloroform, and weak alkaline hydrolysis, derivatization is performed with l-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene. The ester produced is isolated from benzene and cleaned up with acetone. The acetone extract is used to determine Carbofuran by gas chromatography with a nitrogen-specific detector. 

The study of molecular complexation was then extended to other aromatic nitro derivatives125. Although, as was described before, one of the more frequent methods of studying the formation of molecular complexes is by UV-visible spectrophotometry, the author did not observe detectable differences in the UV-visible absorbance spectra between the 2-hydroxypyridine-l-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (FDNB) mixtures and the sum of their separate components. The author observed that the signals of the 1II NMR spectra of FDNB in apolar solvents were shifted downward by the addition of 2-hydroxypyridine from solutions where [2-hydroxypyridine] [FDNB] he calculated the apparent stability constants, which are shown in Table 13. 

Aliquat (0.2 g, 0.5 mmol) is added to the amine (l 4.5 mmol) in H20 (25 ml) and 1,2,3,4-tetrachloro-5,6-dinitrobenzene (2.0 g, 6.5 mmol) in PhMe (25 ml). The two-phase system is stirred under reflux for ca. 1 h and then cooled. The organic phase is separated, dried (MgS04), and evaporated. Chromatography of the residue from silica gives the aniline. 

The dipole moment is a property of the molecule that results from charge separations like those discussed above. However, it is not possible to measure the dipole moment of an individual bond within a molecule we can measure only the total moment of the molecule, which is the vectorial sum of the individual bond moments.32 These individual moments are roughly the same from molecule to molecule,33 but this constancy is by no means universal. Thus, from the dipole moments of toluene and nitrobenzene (Figure 1.10)34 we should expect the moment of p-nitrotoluene to be about 4.36 D. The actual value 4.39 D is reasonable. However, the moment of p-cresol (1.57 D) is quite far from the predicted value of 1.11 D. In some cases, molecules may have substantial individual bond moments but no total moments at all because the individual moments are canceled out by the overall symmetry of the molecule. Some examples are CC14, tr[Pg.16]

FigurB 25-26 Application of the method development triangle to the separation of seven aromatic compounds by HPLC. Column 0.46 x 25 cm Hypersil ODS (C)e on 5-(j.m silica) at ambient temperature ( 22°C). Elution rate was 1.0 mL/min with the following solvents (A) 30 vol% acetonitrile/70 vol% buffer (B) 40% methanol/60% buffer (C) 32% tetrahydrofuran/68% buffer. The aqueous buffer contained 25 mM KH2P04 plus 0.1 g/L NaN3 adjusted to pH 3.5 with HCI. Points D, E, and F are midway between the vertices (D) 15% acetonitrile/20% methanol/65% buffer (E) 15% acetonitrile/16% tetrahydrofuran/69% buffer (F) 20% methanol/16% tetrahydrofuran/64% buffer. Point G at the center of the triangle is an equal blend of A, B, and C with the composition 10% acetonitrile/13% methanol/11% tetrahydro-furan/66% buffer. The negative dip in C between peaks 3 and 1 is associated with the solvent front. Peak identities were tracked with a photodiode array ultraviolet spectrophotometer (1) benzyl alcohol (2) phenol (3) 3, 4 -dimethoxyacetophenone (4) m-dinitrobenzene (5) p-dinitrobenzene ...

Equip a 1-litre three-necked flask with a reflux condenser and a sealed mechanical stirrer. Dissolve 50.5 g (0.25 mol) of commercial l-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (1) in 250 ml of rectified spirit in the flask, add the hydrazine solution and reflux the mixture with stirring for an hour. Most of the reaction product separates during the first 10 minutes. Cool, filter with suction and... 

In a 1-litre round-bottomed flask equipped with a reflux condenser place a solution of 62.5 g (0.6 mol) of anhydrous sodium carbonate in 500 ml of water and add 50 g (0.25 mol) of commercial l-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene. Reflux the mixture for 24 hours or until the oil passes into solution. Acidify the yellow solution with hydrochloric acid and, when cold, filter the crystalline dinitrophenol which has separated. Dry the product upon filter paper in the air. The yield is 42 g (91%). If the m.p. differs appreciably from 114°C, recrystallise from ethanol or from water. 

Cohen and Wheals [185] used a gas chromatograph equipped with an electron capture detector to determine 10 substituted urea and carbamate herbicides in river water, soil and plant materials in amounts down to 0.001-0.05ppm. The methods are applicable to those urea and carbamate herbicides that can be hydrolysed to yield an aromatic amine. A solution of the herbicide is first spotted on to a silica gel G plate together with herbicide standards (5-10pg) and developed with chloroform or hexane-acetone (5 1). The plate containing the separated herbicide or the free amines is sprayed with 1-fluoro-1,4-dinitrobenzene (4% in acetone) and heated at 190°C for 40min to produce the 2,4-dinitrophenyl derivative of the herbicide amine moiety. Acetone extracts of the areas of interest are subjected to gas chromatography on a column of 1% of XE-60 and 0.1% of Epikote 1001 on Chromosorb C (AE-DCMS) (60-80 mesh) at 215°C. 

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