Ethylamines, oxidation

Uses Lubricant lube oil additive chemical feedstock for sulfonafion fo produce emulsifiers and conosion preventatives Cl 3-15 bishydroxy ethylamine oxide Uses Foam stabilizer for personal care prods., dishwashing detergents C14-18 alkyl benzyl dimethyl ammonium chloride CAS 68390-98-7 EINECS/ELINCS 269-916-8 Synonyms Benzylalkyl(C14-18)dimelhylammonium chloride Classification Quaternary ammonium (Chloride compd. 

C13-15 alkyl bis (2-hydroxyethyl) amine oxide C13-15 bishydroxy ethylamine oxide Esi-Terge T-60 PEG-3 cocamide Profan ME-20... 

Synthesis of (A) started with the combination of 2,4,6-trimethylphenol and allyl bromide to give the or/Ao-allyl dienone. Acid-catalyzed rearrangement and oxidative bydroboration yielded the dienone with a propanol group in porlactone ring were irons in the product as expected (see p. 275). Treatment with aqueous potassium hydroxide gave the epoxy acid, which formed a crystalline salt with (R)-l-(or-naphthyl)ethylamine. This was recrystallized to constant rotation. 

To minimize the formation of fuhninating silver, these complexes should not be prepared from strongly basic suspensions of silver oxide. Highly explosive fuhninating silver, beheved to consist of either silver nitride or silver imide, may detonate spontaneously when silver oxide is heated with ammonia or when alkaline solutions of a silver—amine complex are stored. Addition of appropriate amounts of HCl to a solution of fuhninating silver renders it harmless. Stable silver complexes are also formed from many ahphatic and aromatic amines, eg, ethylamine, aniline, and pyridine. 

Ethylamines. Mono-, di-, and triethylamines, produced by catalytic reaction of ethanol with ammonia (330), are a significant outlet for ethanol. The vapor-phase continuous process takes place at 1.38 MPa (13.6 atm) and 150—220°C over a nickel catalyst supported on alumina, siUca, or sihca—alumina. In this reductive amination under a hydrogen atmosphere, the ratio of the mono-, di-, and triethylamine product can be controlled by recycling the unwanted products. Other catalysts used include phosphoric acid and derivatives, copper and iron chlorides, sulfates, and oxides in the presence of acids or alkaline salts (331). Piperidine can be ethylated with ethanol in the presence of Raney nickel catalyst at 200°C and 10.3 MPa (102 atm), to give W-ethylpiperidine [766-09-6] (332). 

In a typical case, ethylamine is allowed to react with ethylene oxide to produce N-ethyldiethanolamine (5). The latter is then treated with additional ethylene oxide to afford N,N-di(polyoxyethylene)ethylamine (6) where the sum a -t b is 3. This material is then stirred at room temperature for 3 h with toluenesulfonyl chloride and powdered sodium hydroxide in dioxane solution. After filtration and Kugelrohr distillation, N-eth-ylmonoaza-15-crown-5 is isolated in 75% yield as illustrated below in Eq. (4.7). 

In the case of tertiary N-ethylamine derivatives the N-ethyl group is first selectively oxidized by p-chloranil to an enamino group which then condenses with excess p-chloranil to a blue aminovinylquinone derivative [7]. Secondary N-ethyl derivatives do not yield blue aminovinylquinone derivatives they probably react directly with chloranil by nucleophihc attack at one of the four chlorine atoms to yield aminoquinones of other colors [7], It has also been suggested that some classes of substances react to yield charge transfer complexes [1, 5, 8, 12],... 

Aldrich and used for all oxidation experiments. TEMPO, sodium hydroxide, sodium sulfide, formaldehyde, ethylamine and methyl-a-D-glucopyranoside were reagent grade or higher and were used as received from Sigma and Aldrich. 

Our attempts to isolate larger amounts of 6 from the solution have failed so far. The mass peak of the sodium adduct of 8 (Mg Na+ = 246.8), however, strongly supports the oxidation of 5 into 6 as a prerequisite for the subsequent formation of 8 from 7 as outlined (eqs. 6 and 7). The addition of ethylamine to capture the reactive aldehyde 6 as imine did not result in recognized reaction products. 

Dinitrobenzenes Dinitrotoluenes 1,4-Dioxane Esters Ethylamine Ethers Ethylene Nitric acid Nitric acid Silver perchlorate Nitrates Cellulose, oxidizers Oxidizing materials, boron triiodide Aluminum trichloride, carbon tetrachloride, chlorine, nitrogen oxides, tetrafluo-roethylene... 

Table 5. Oxidation potentials (half peak potentials, Epl/2) of fluoro-ethylamines and related amines...

A simple example in this class with which to begin is A,A-diethyl-m-to-luamide 0V,/V-dicthyl-3-mcthylbenzamidc, DEET, 4.82), an extensively used topical insect repellant. The hydrolysis product 3-methylbenzoic acid was detected in the urine of rats dosed intraperitoneally or topically with DEET. However, amide hydrolysis represented only a minor pathway, the major metabolites resulting from methyl oxidation and A-dealkylation [52], Treatment of rats with /V,/V-dicthylbcnzamidc (4.83), a contaminant in DEET, produced the same urinary metabolites as its secondary analogue, A-ethylbenzamide (see Sect. 4.3.1.2). This observation can be explained by invoking a metabolic pathway that involves initial oxidative mono-A-deethylation followed by enzymatic hydrolysis of the secondary amide to form ethylamine and benzoic acid [47], Since diethylamide was not detected in these experiments, it appears that A,A-diethylbenzamide cannot be hydrolyzed by amidases, perhaps due to the increased steric bulk of the tertiary amido group. 

It has been recently described [55d) that aliphatic nitrile oxides can be formed in solution by treating an aliphatic a-nitro-hydrocarbon with phenylisocyanate in the presence of a catalytic amount of tri-ethylamine. Dehydration of the nitro compounds occurs with the con-committant formation of benzoylurea. From nitroethane, the reaction is formulated as follows ... 

V,Af-Dimethylaniline A A,A, AT-Tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine Cyclic amines 4,4 -Bipyridyl Quinoline Pyridine A-oxide Pyridinium chloride Hydroxides CsOH LiOH NaOH Triton B6 Alkylamines Ammonia Methylamine Ethylamine Propylamine Butylamine Decylamine Dodecylamine Tridecylamine Tetradecylamine Pentadecylamine Hexadecylamine Heptadecylamine Octadecylamine Tributylamine Miscellaneous Ammonium acetate Hydrazine Potassium formate Guanidine... 

During the slow oxidation of triethylamine, one of the products, diethylamine, appears to inhibit reactions leading to its own formation (9). Moreover, acetaldehyde is formed in the presence of oxygen and is stable at temperatures at which it is normally oxidized readily. This result was ascribed to inhibition of acetaldehyde by both the reactant (triethylamine) and the principal nitrogenous products (diethylamine and ethylamine). These findings preceded several detailed studies of the effect of aliphatic amines on the slow oxidation and the ignition of... 

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