3,5-Dinitrobenzoic acid

Method 2. This preparation should be carried out in the fume cupboard since nitrous fumes are evolved. Place 62 g. of benzoic acid and 300 ml. of concentrated sulphuric acid in a 2-litre roimd-bottomed flask, warm on a water bath with shaldng until the benzoic acid dissolves, and cool to 20°. Add 100 ml. of fuming nitric acid (sp. gr. 1-54) in portions 

4 homrs considerable quantities of nitrous fumes are hberated.. Allow to cool to room temperature, preferably with mechanical stirring, when yellow crystals will separate m the solution. Add a further 75 ml. of fuming nitric acid heat the mixture on a water bath for 3 hours, then in an oil bath at 135-146 for 3 hours. AUow the reaction mixture to cool and pour it into a mixture of 800 g. of flnely-orushed ice and 800 ml. of water. Allow to stand for 30-60 minutes, filter off the crude 3 5-dinitro-benzoic acid at the pump, and wash it with water until free from sulphates. Recrystallise the crude acid (66 g. m.p. 201-202°) from 280 ml. of hot 50 per cent, alcohol. Collect the recrystallised material and dry in the steam oven. The yield of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid, m.p. 207 , is 62 g. 

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If desired, the 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid may be re crystallised from water as almost colourless rhombs, m.p. 204 . 

Assemble in a fume-cupboard the apparatus shown in Fig. 67(A). Place 15 g. of 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid and 17 g. of phosphorus pentachloride in the flask C, and heat the mixture in an oil-bath for hours. Then reverse the condenser as shown in Fig. 67(B), but replace the calcium chloride tube by a tube leading to a water-pump, the neck of the reaction-flask C being closed with a rubber stopper. Now distil off the phosphorus oxychloride under reduced pressure by heating the flask C in an oil-bath initially at 25-30, increasing this temperature ultimately to 110°. Then cool the flask, when the crude 3,5-dinitro-benzoyl chloride will solidify to a brown crystalline mass. Yield, 16 g., i.e,y almost theoretical. Recrystallise from caibon tetrachloride. The chloride is obtained as colourless crystals, m.p. 66-68°, Yield, 13 g Further recrystallisation of small quantities can be performed using petrol (b.p. 40-60°). The chloride is stable almost indefinitely if kept in a calcium chloride desiccator. 

Undergo ester interchange with 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid. 

Dinitrobenzoates. The 3,5-dinitrobenzoate of the alcohol portion of the ester may be obtained by ester interchange. Thus an ester, R -COOR, when heated with 3,5 dinitrobenzoic acid and sulphuric acid gives (N03)2CgH3C00R. 

Heat together under very efficient water reflux 1 g. of freshly fused dry powdered ZnClg, 2 ml. of diethyl ether and 0 5 g. of 3,5 -dinitrobenzoyl chloride for 2 hours. Shake the product with 5 ml. of water and ther add 10% NaOH solution until all the ZnCl, and excess of 3,5-dinitro> benzoyl chloride and 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid have gone into solution. Filter at the pump and recrystallise from petroleum (b.p. 40-60°) to obtain ethyl 3,5-dinitrobenzoate, m.p. 93°. (M ps. of other 3,5 dinitro-benzoates, p. 536.)... 

Method 1. Mix 1 0 g. of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid (Section IV,168) with 4 ml. of thionyl chloride in a dry 50 ml. conical flask fit a reflux condenser, carrying a plug of cotton wool at the upper end, into the flask and heat on a water bath for 15-30 minutes. Remove the condenser and heat the flask in a boiling water bath FUME CUPBOARD 1) until the excess of thionyl chloride has evaporated. Use the resulting 3 5-dinitrobenzoyl chloride (about 10 g.) immediately. 

Method 2. Mix 1 0 g. of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid with 1 5 g. of phosphorus pentachloride in a small, dry test-tube. Warm the mixture gently over a small smoky fiame to start the reaction when the reaction has subsided (but not before), boil for 1-2 minutes or until the solid matter has dissolved. Pour the mixture while still liquid on a dry watch glass (CAUTION the fumes are irritating to the eyes). When the product has solidified, remove the liquid by-product (phosphorus oxychloride) by transferring the pasty mixture to a pad of several thicknesses of filter paper or to a small piece of porous tile. Spread the material until the liquid has been absorbed and the residual solid is dry. Transfer the 3 5 dinitrobenzoyl chloride to a test-tube, add 0-5-1 ml. of the alcohol, and continue as in Method 1. 

Dissolve 2 drops of concentrated sulphuric acid in 2 ml. of the ester and add 1 - 5 g. of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid. If the b.p. of the ester is below 150°, refiux the mixture gently if the b.p. is above 150° heat the mixture, with frequent shaking at first, in an oil bath at about 150°. If the 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid dissolves within 15 minutes, heat the mixture for 30 minutes, otherwise 60 minutes heating is required. Allow the reaction mixture to cool, dissolve it in 25 ml. of ether, and extract thoroughly with 5 per cent, sodium carbonate solution (ca. 25 ml.). Wash the ethereal solution with water, and remove the ether. Dissolve the residue (which is usually an oil) in 5 ml. of hot alcohol, add hot water cautiously until the 3 5-dinitrobenzoate commences to separate, cool and stir. Recrystallise the derivative from dilute alcohol the yield is... 

Dinitrobenzoic acid. This acid may be prepared by the nitration of benzoic acid with a mixture of concentrated sulphuric acid and fuming nitric acid under special conditions (see also Section VII,22) ... 

The reaction is illustrated by the conversion of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid into 3 5-dlnltroaniline, and of acetophenone into acetanilide ... 

Dinitroaniline from 3 5-dinItrobenzoic acid. Place a solution of 50 g. of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid (Section IV, 168) in 90 ml. of 10 per cent, oleum and 20 ml. of concentrated sulphuric acid in a 1-litre three necked flask equipped with a reflux condenser, mechanical stirrer, adropping funnel, and thermometer (FUME CUPBOARD ). Add 100 ml. of clJoroform and raise the temperature to 45°. Stir rapidly and add 17 -5g. of sodium azide in small portions whilst maintaining the temperature at 35-45°. The reaction is accompanied hy foaming, which usually commences after about 3 g. of sodium azide has been introduced. After all the sodium azide has been added raise the temperature so that the chloroform refluxes vigorously and maintain this temperature for 3 hours. Then cool the reaction mixture, pour it cautiously on to 500 g. of crushed ice, and dilute with 3 litres of water. After 1 hour, separate the yellow solid by filtration at the pump, wash well with water and dry at 100°. The yield of 3 5-dinitroaniline, m.p. 162-163°, is 39 g. The m.p. is unaffected by recrystallisation from dilute alcohol. 

Place a mixture of 30 g. of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid (Section IV,168 and 33 g. of phosphorus pentachloride in a Claisen flask fit a reflux condenser into the short neck and cork the other neck and side arm (compare Fig. Ill, 31, 1). Heat the mixture in an oil bath at 120-130° for 75 minutes. Allow to cool. Remove the phosphorus oxychloride by distillation under reduced pressure (25°/20 mm.) raise the temperature of the bath to 110°. The residual 3 5-dinitrobenzoyl chloride solidifies on cooling to a brown mass the yield is quantitative. Recrystallise from carbon tetrachloride the yield is 25 g., m.p. 67-68° and this is satisfactory for most purposes. Further recrystallisation from a large volume of light petroleum b.p. 40-60°, gives a perfectly pure product, m.p. 69 -6°. 

Dinitrobenzoyl chloride reacts readily with water and it should be kept in sealed tubes or under light petroleum. When required for qualitative organic analysis it is usually best prepared from 3 5 dinitrobenzoic acid immediately before use (see Section 111,27,2). 

Dimethyl sulfoxide 1 -Dimethyl-1,4,5,6-tetrahydro-pyrimidine Pyrantel pamoate 3,5-Dinitrobenzoic acid Diatrizoate sodium Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate Docusate calcium... 

The OH endgroups of hardly soluble polyesters of the PET family can be esterified by excess 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid in nitrobenzene and back titrated by a solution of NaOH in ethylene glycol418 or derivatized by dichloroacetyl chloride... 

The y-lactone ring of the steroid skeleton forms an intermediate cardenohde anion in alkaline medium that nucleophilically adds to the 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid in the position ortho to the two nitro groups. A mesomerically stabilized red-violet anion is produced (Meisenheimer complex). 

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