Fluorine reaction with xenon

Scheme 2.76 Fluorination reactions with xenon difluoride (A = catalytic amount of SiF4 as a Lewis acid) [169-171].

Trimethylsilyl ethers of several steroidal ketones were a-fluorinated by 4-(difluoroiodo)toluene, in moderate yield because of concomitant elimination, accompanied by the formation of other by-products from nucleophilic substitution to a phenyliodonium intermediate. The analogous reaction with xenon difluoride resulted in much better yields but different stereochemistry [50],... 

The reaction of a citronellic enolate—a potential precursor to a 5-hexenyl-type radical clock—with various fluorinating agents leads exclusively to the corresponding a-fluorinated ester derivatives. The complete absence of cyclic fluorinated products is proof that the fluorination does not occur via radical intermediates, while the formation of a cyclic product in the reaction with xenon difluoride is an indication that electron transfer is a competitive process which does not give a fluorinated product31 (Scheme 9). 

Acid-catalyzed liquid-phase fluorine addition with xenon difluoride to cis and trans 1-phenylpropene resulted in the formation of vicinal difluoride in high yield63. Photo-initiated reaction in methylene chloride at 0 °C also gave vicinal difluorides in a nonstereospecific manner, and a free-radical mechanism was suggested68. Unfortunately, this radical reaction does not appear to represent a general synthesis since reaction with 1-hexene, cyclohexene and 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene does not give vicinal difluoride products68. 

Various a-fluorinated imidazolidine nitroxides have been obtained126 127 from 3-imida-zoline-3-oxide, and other five-membered N-oxide derivatives by reactions with xenon difluoride in CH2C12 (Scheme 53). 

Replacements of one or two chlorine atoms and hydrogen by fluorine were observed in various organosilicon compounds in reactions with xenon difluoride99,135, while aryl-silicon bond cleavage was observed in the presence of potassium fluoride136,137 (Scheme 57). 

Xenon difluoride is a better fluorinaling reagent for vinyltin compounds than cesium fluoroxysulfate (compare entry 1 in Tables 1 and 2). Besides this, cesium fluoroxysulfate (which can be prepared from elemental fluorine and cesium sulfate) is known to be shock sensitive and to undergo detonation upon hcaling. However, cesium fluoroxysulfate is the alternative choiee in the ease of some vinyltin compounds, such as 2- and 3-(trimethylstannyl)indolcs (Table 2, entries 5 7), whose reactions with xenon difluoride are not effective. 

Oxidative fluorination of alkyl- or aryl-phosphines R PH3 for R = Ph, C6Hu, or NCCH2CH2 occurred on reaction with xenon difluoride, but with the chlorides Ph PCl3 there was also chlorine substitution, and the products were the normal phenyl fluorophosphoranes. In the presence of PhPp4, phosphorus trifluoride can be inserted into the C—F bond of 1-adamantyl fluoride to produce the previously inaccessible l-adamantyltetrafluorophosphorane ° substitution of PF3 by Bu Pp2 or 1-adamantyldifluorophosphine led to, respectively, 1-adamantyl-t-butyl-trifluorophosphorane and bis( 1 -adamantyl)trifluorophosphorane. 

Trimethylarsine gives a 98% yield of trimethylarsine difluoride when treated with xenon difluoride [102] in fluorotrichloromelhane. and tnsfpentafluorophen-yl)arsine gives a 94% yield of tris(pentafluornphenyl)arsme difluoride after reaction with dilute fluorine in fluorotnchloromethane at 0 C [106] Other trivalent arsenic compounds have also been fluorinated with xenon difluoride [103] In addition, arsines have been oxidatively fluorinated by iodine pentafluoride [107] or electrochemically in 26-34% yield [108]... 

Oxidative Fluorination of Nitrones to a-Fluorosubstituted Nitroxyl Radicals Formation of nitroxyl radicals by the radical cation route was observed in reactions of various nitrones with xenon difluoride in dry methylene chloride (520, 523). In this reaction, more than 40 nitrones, including 4H -imidazole N,N -dioxides (219), 4H -imidazole TV-oxides (223) and (224), 2H -imidazole N -oxides (225), 2H -imidazole TV,TV-dioxides (226), 3,3,5,5-tetramethylpyrroline N -oxide (TMPO), derivatives of 3-imidazoline-3-oxides (231) and (232), have been examined. ESR spectra of nitroxyl radicals containing one or two fluorine atoms at a-C have been registered (Scheme 2.108) (523). In the case of... 

O O In the early 1960s, Neil Bartlett, at the University of British Columbia, was the first person to synthesize compounds of the noble gas xenon. A number of noble gas compounds (such as XeF2, XeF4, XeFe, and XeOs) have since been synthesized. Consider the reaction of xenon difluoride with fluorine gas to produce xenon tetrafluoride. 

Xenon difluoride labelled with positron-emitting F has been prepared by reaction of cyclotron produced [ F]p2 with xenon [88]. This low-yielding method requires high pressure. [ F]Xep2 was also obtained by treating sulfuryl chloride fluoride solutions of Xep2 in fluorinated ethylene propylene vessels with Bronst-... 

R.E. Ehrenkaufer, R.R. MacGregor, Synthesis of [ F]-perchloryl fluoride and its reactions with functionalized aryllithiums, Int. J. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 34(1983)613-615. R. Chirakal, G. Firnau, J.G. Schrobilgen, J. McKay, E.S. Garnett, The synthesis of [ F]xenon difluoride from [ F]fluorine gas, Int. J. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 35 (1984) 401-404. 

Pyridine is converted into perfluoropiperidine (82) in low yield by reaction with fluorine in the presence of cobalt trifluoride (50JCS1966) quinoline affords (83) under similar conditions (56JCS783). Perfluoropiperidine can be obtained electrochemically. This is useful, as it may be readily aromatized to perfluoropyridine by passing it over iron or nickel at ca. 600 °C (74HC(14-S2)407). Recently, pyridine has been treated with xenon difluoride to yield 2-fluoropyridine (35%), 3-fluoropyridine (20%) and 2,6-difluoropyridine (11%), but it is not likely that this is simply an electrophilic substitution reaction (76MI20500). 

Fluorination of tris(fluorosulfonyl)methane (10) with xenon difluoride in dichlorodifluoro-methane solution gives fluorotris(fluorosulfonyl)methane in quantitative yield.24 In contrast, no fluorination product has been obtained in the reaction of tris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)meth-ane with xenon difluoride.25... 

The hydrogen fluoride catalyzed fluorination of norbornene by xenon difluoride at room temperature leads to a mixture of at least seven components,39 but under milder conditions (— 78 to 26 C, 22 hours) the reaction affords a mixture of two main products 2-e,xo-5-cxo-difluoro-norbornane and 2-c-wfo-5- Yo-difluoronorbornane, ratio 2 1, in a total yield of 51-76%. If the same reaction is carried out in a limited temperature range between — 46 and — 39 C the yield of these products decreases, their ratio becomes equal, and the main product is 2-exo-l-ff //-difluoronorbornane (42 %).40 The structure dependence of the fluorination products of norbornene with xenon difluoride was studied. Solvent, temperature, reaction duration, catalyst (hydrogen fluoride, boron trifluoride, trifluoroacetic acid, pentafluorobenzenethiol) and the routes of product isomerization were analyzed.41-42... 

Extensive work on the interaction of aromatic compounds with xenon difluoride has been carried out in order to investigate the reaction mechanism and the scope of the fluorination depending on the substituents electronic nature.26-59 62 It has been found that benzene and substituted aromatics react with xenon difluoride at room temperature in the presence of hydrogen fluoride to form the typical products of electrophilic fluorination contaminated with low quantities of difluoro-substituted molecules. 

To overcome problems associated with the removal of iodobenzene and its derivatives formed upon fluorination of arylalkenes and arylalkynes with (difluoroiodo)arenes, polymer-supported (difluoroiodo)arenes were proposed.139 With these agents, the separation procedures are reduced to filtration of the iodinated polymer. For this purpose popcorn polystyrene is io-dinated and then transformed into the difluoroiodide by treatment with xenon difluoride in the presence of hydrogen fluoride in dichloromelhane at 25 C. The amount of active fluorine bonded to iodine atoms on the polymer support is estimated by iodometric titration. The reactions with phenyl-substituted alkenes result in rearranged gew-difluorides. The procedure provides the same fluorination products as with (difluoroiodo)benzenc (see Section 4.13.) but in much higher yields, e.g. PhCF2CH2Ph (96%), PhCF2CH(Me)Ph (95%). PhCH2CF2H (86%), and l,l-difluoro-2-phenylcyclopentanc (91 %). 

Reaction of pentafluoro-substituted benzene derivatives with xenon difluoride/boron trifluoride results in 1,4- and 1,2-fluorine addition with regiospecificity depending on the substituent.41 For example, the heptafluorocyclohexa-1,4-dienes 1 can be obtained in this way in high yield. 

Investigation of the reaction of xenon difluoride and difluoroiodobenzene with aliphatic 1,3-dienes in the presence of boron trifluoride-diethyl ether complex has shown that under mild conditions this reaction proceeds with kinetic control, to form mainly the products of 1,2-addition of fluorine atoms. The ratio of product is reported in Table 5. 

Fhiorination of aromatics. The reagent reacts with toluene to form benzyl fluoride as the major product ( 65% yield). It is also useful for fluorination of phenols- and of alkyl ethers of phenols the or/Ao-isomcr is formed as the major product. Reactions with this reagent thus differ from those with xenon difluoride, which generally favors formation of paro-isomers. 

Carboxylic acids react with xenon difluoride to produce unstable xenon esters The esters decarboxylate to produce free radical intermediates, which undergo fluorination or reaction with the solvent system Thus aliphatic acids decarboxylate to produce mainly fluoroalkanes or products from abstraction of hydrogen from the solvent Perfluoro acids decarboxylate in the presence of aromatic substrates to give perfluoroalkyl aromatics Aromatic and vinylic acids do not decarboxylate [91] (equation 51)... 

Electrochemical fluorination of pyridine in the presence of a source of fluoride ion gave 2-fluoropyridine in 22% yield (85M11). With xenon difluoride, pyridine formed 2-fluoropyridine (35%), 3-fluoropyridine (20%), and 2,6-difluoropyridine (11%) in a reaction unlikely to be a conventional electrophilic substitution. Xenon hexafluoride has also been used (76JFC179). With cesium fluoroxysulfate at room temperature in ether or chloroform, the major product was 2-fluoropyridine (61 and 47%, respectively). Some 2-chloropyridine was also formed in chloroform solution. In methanol the entire product was 2-methoxypyridine (90TL775). Fluorine, diluted with argon in acetic acid, gave a 42% yield of the 5-fluoro derivative of l-methyl-2-pyridone [82H( 17)429],... 

Xenon reacts directly with fluorine to form fluorides. Other compounds of Xe can be prepared by reactions using xenon fluorides as starting materials, which fall into four main types ... 

Alkanes do not usually react with xenon difluoride at room temperature, while thermally initiated fluorinations of organic molecules have received much less attention than liquid-phase reactions. Zajc and Zupan16 have shown that several hydrocarbons react with xenon difluoride when heated to 95-120 °C. Reproducible results can be observed only when a teflon jacket is used in the stainless reactor with appropriate preconditioning. Cyclohexane is converted to fluorocyclohexane, while the reaction with -hexane gives three monofluoro-substituted products. Fluorination of adamantane results in the formation of four products, from whose distribution it is evident that the difference in the reactivity between the secondary and the tertiary carbon atom is much larger than the difference between the reactivities of the primary and secondary carbon atoms of hexane. Liquid-phase functionalization of a tertiary carbon atom is observed in reactions in carbon disulfide, where 1-fluoroadamantane is formed17. 

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