Ether, dehydration

The potassium benzenesulphonate is carefully dried on the water-bath, powdered, and mixed with the phosphorus pentachloride in a flask. A vigorous reaction sets in. When it hats abated, the flask is heated on the water-bath for one hour, and the mass occasionally stirred with a glass rod. The product is poured into a flask containing 200 c.c. cold water and allowed to stand an hour. The sulphonic chloride, which separates as an oil, is then extracted with ether, dehydrated over calcium chloride, decanted, and the ether removed on the water-bath. Yield, 10 grams of a light brown oil. 

Tables 1 and 2 summarise published results on the kinetics of alcohol and ether dehydration. The data are organised according to the rate equation found or assumed to be the best one. Table 1 shows that, for olefin...

Raw stock is sent to the apparatus in tanks 1 installed in the drafting device (one is shown in the figure). Then it is sent by nitrogen flow to the batch boxes trifluoromonochloropropane to batch box 2, trichlorosilane to batch box 3, ethyl bromide to batch box 4, and dibutyl ether (dehydrated with burnt calcium chloride and filtered) to batch box 5. Before the synthesis begins, working mixtures I and II are prepared in apparatus 6. Mixture I consists of trichlorosilane and ethyl bromide, and mixture II consists of trichlorosilane, dibutyl ether, trifluoromonochloropropane and ethyl bromide. Mixture I is sent to batch box 8, and mixture II is sent to batch box 9. All batch boxes and apparatus 6 have jackets or coils (on their external walls) to be cooled with Freon at -15 - -20°C. 

Mitsunobu reaction as well as by mesylation and subsequent base treatment failed, the secondary alcohol was inverted by oxidation with pyridinium dichromate and successive reduction with sodium borohydride. The inverted alcohol 454 was protected as an acetate and the acetonide was removed by acid treatment to enable conformational flexibility. Persilylation of triol 455 was succeeded by acetate cleavage with guanidine. Alcohol 456 was deprotonated to assist lactonization. Mild and short treatment with aqueous hydrogen fluoride allowed selective cleavage of the secondary silyl ether. Dehydration of the alcohol 457 was achieved by Tshugaejf vesLCtion. The final steps toward corianin (21) were deprotection of the tertiary alcohols of 458 and epoxidation with peracid. This alternative corianin synthesis needed 34 steps in 0.13% overall yield. 

Fig. 3. Insensitivity of the rate for ethanol and ethyl ether dehydration (O) on catalyst poisoning with Na ions ( and O)-...

Stevens and co-workers have also attempted to develop a fundamentally different approach to the tricyclic amino ketone 463 which is used in the Fischer cyclization approach to the Aspidosperma skeleton (240). Condensation of the aldehyde-ester 553 with protected keto amine 554 gave an imine (555) which, upon heating with ammonium chloride at 160°, afforded the 2-pyrroline ester 556 in 70% yield. Treatment with dry hydrochloric acid gas in ether was followed by acid hydrolysis of the ketal, and base-catalyzed cyclization produced a mixture of two enol ethers (557 and 558) the latter predominating. The major isomer was reduced with lithium aluminum hydride and the hydroxy enol ether dehydrated in hot... 

Ether, dehydrated over Na wire, is saturated with dry HCl, cooled and treated with Ag2N202 until the yellow color of the latter persists. Complete exclusion of atmospheric moisture is required. The solution is rapidly filtered through a dry filter... 

Partial oxidation of methanol has many commerdal appHcahons for the production of formaldehyde, methyl formate and dimethyl ether (dehydration) ... 

P. exhibit the typical chemical properties of other reducing sugars (hexoses) oxidation to the salts of the corresponding acids or their lactones, reduction to polyalcohols (pentites), substitution of the alcoholic groups by esters or ethers, dehydration splitting (water elimination) to ftirfural, fermentation by microorganisms. 

Used particularly for ethers. Cannot be used for any compound affected by alkalis, or easily subject to reduction (owing to the hydrogen evolved during dehydration). 

Metallic sodium. This metal is employed for the drying of ethers and of saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons. The bulk of the water should first be removed from the liquid or solution by a preliminary drying with anhydrous calcium chloride or magnesium sulphate. Sodium is most effective in the form of fine wire, which is forced directly into the liquid by means of a sodium press (see under Ether, Section II,47,i) a large surface is thus presented to the liquid. It cannot be used for any compound with which it reacts or which is affected by alkalis or is easily subject to reduction (due to the hydrogen evolved during the dehydration), viz., alcohols, acids, esters, organic halides, ketones, aldehydes, and some amines. 

A new approach we found is based on the initial bromination of methane to methyl bromide, which can be effected with good selectivity, although still in relatively low yields. Methyl bromide is easily separated from exeess methane, whieh is readily recyeled. Hydrolysis of methyl bromide to methyl alcohol and its dehydration to dimethyl ether are readily achieved. Importantly, HBr formed as by produet ean be oxidatively reeycled into bromine, making the overall proeess cat-alytie in bromine. 

Perchloric acid Acetic acid, acetic anhydride, alcohols, antimony compounds, azo pigments, bismuth and its alloys, methanol, carbonaceous materials, carbon tetrachloride, cellulose, dehydrating agents, diethyl ether, glycols and glycolethers, HCl, HI, hypophosphites, ketones, nitric acid, pyridine, steel, sulfoxides, sulfuric acid... 

Isobutyl alcohol [78-83-1] forms a substantial fraction of the butanols produced by higher alcohol synthesis over modified copper—zinc oxide-based catalysts. Conceivably, separation of this alcohol and dehydration affords an alternative route to isobutjiene [115-11 -7] for methyl /-butyl ether [1624-04-4] (MTBE) production. MTBE is a rapidly growing constituent of reformulated gasoline, but its growth is likely to be limited by available suppHes of isobutylene. Thus higher alcohol synthesis provides a process capable of supplying all of the raw materials required for manufacture of this key fuel oxygenate (24) (see Ethers). 

Dimethyl Ether. Synthesis gas conversion to methanol is limited by equiUbrium. One way to increase conversion of synthesis gas is to remove product methanol from the equiUbrium as it is formed. Air Products and others have developed a process that accomplishes this objective by dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether [115-10-6]. Testing by Air Products at the pilot faciUty in LaPorte has demonstrated a 40% improvement in conversion. The reaction is similar to the Hquid-phase methanol process except that a soHd acid dehydration catalyst is added to the copper-based methanol catalyst slurried in an inert hydrocarbon Hquid (26). 

Mobil MTG and MTO Process. Methanol from any source can be converted to gasoline range hydrocarbons using the Mobil MTG process. This process takes advantage of the shape selective activity of ZSM-5 zeoHte catalyst to limit the size of hydrocarbons in the product. The pore size and cavity dimensions favor the production of C-5—C-10 hydrocarbons. The first step in the conversion is the acid-catalyzed dehydration of methanol to form dimethyl ether. The ether subsequendy is converted to light olefins, then heavier olefins, paraffins, and aromatics. In practice the ether formation and hydrocarbon formation reactions may be performed in separate stages to faciHtate heat removal. 

Trifluoromethanesulfonic acid is miscible in all proportions with water and is soluble in many polar organic solvents such as dimethylformamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and acetonitrile. In addition, it is soluble in alcohols, ketones, ethers, and esters, but these generally are not suitably inert solvents. The acid reacts with ethyl ether to give a colorless, Hquid oxonium complex, which on further heating gives the ethyl ester and ethylene. Reaction with ethanol gives the ester, but in addition dehydration and ether formation occurs. 

Methyl /-Butyl Ether. MTBE is produced by reaction of isobutene and methanol on acid ion-exchange resins. The supply of isobutene, obtained from hydrocarbon cracking units or by dehydration of tert-huty alcohol, is limited relative to that of methanol. The cost to produce MTBE from by-product isobutene has been estimated to be between 0.13 to 0.16/L ( 0.50—0.60/gal) (90). Direct production of isobutene by dehydrogenation of isobutane or isomerization of mixed butenes are expensive processes that have seen less commercial use in the United States. 

Bisa.codyl, 4,4 -(2-PyridyLmethylene)bisphenol diacetate [603-50-9] (Dulcolax) (9) is a white to off-white crystalline powder ia which particles of 50 p.m dia predominate. It is very soluble ia water, freely soluble ia chloroform and alcohol, soluble ia methanol and ben2ene, and slightly soluble ia diethyl ether. Bisacodyl may be prepared from 2-pyridine-carboxaldehyde by condensation with phenol and the aid of a dehydrant such as sulfuric acid. The resulting 4,4 -(pyridyLmethylene)diphenol is esterified by treatment with acetic anhydride and anhydrous sodium acetate. Crystallisation is from ethanol. 

Polyethers are also products of commercial importance. Ethers can be formed by thermal dehydration, as shown for the formation of dipropylene glycol from propylene glycol. CycHc ethers can form by elimination of water from di- or tripropylene glycol. 

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