Fnedel-Crafts reaction

Acetophenone.—The Fnedel-Crafts reaction, of which this pieparation is a type, consists in the use of anhydious aluminium chlonde for effecting combination between an aromatic hydrocarbon or its deiivative on the one hand, and a halogen i,Cl 01 Bi) compound on the othei. The leaction 13 always accompanied by the evolution of hydiochloiic or hydio-bromic acid, and the product is a compound with AlCl-j, which decomposes and yields the new substance on the addition of watei. This reaction has been utilised, as in the present case, (r) for the prepaiation of ketones, in which an acid chloiide (aliphatic or aromatic) is employed,... 

Unlike salicylic acid, m-hydroxybenzoic acid does not undergo the Fnedel-Crafts reaction, it can be converted m 80% yield to m-aminophenoi by the Schmidt reaction, which involves treating the acid with hydrazoic add in trichloroethylene in the presence of sulfuric add at 40°C. m-Hydroxybcnzoic acid is reported as an intermediate in the manufacture of germicides, preservatives, pharmaceuticals, and plastidzer. 

Tnalkylindoles undergo Fnedel-Crafts reactions at position 6, however, in tnfluoroacetic anhydride the a-methyl group of 1,2,3-trimethylindole is acylated through an intermediate enamine [41, 42] (equation 27) Similarly, tnfluoroacetic anhydnde acylates the double bond of the a-methylene compound shown [42] (equation 28)... 

Partial rate factors may be used to estimate product distributions in disubstituted benzene derivatives The reactivity of a particular position in o bromotoluene for example is given by the product of the partial rate factors for the corresponding position in toluene and bromobenzene On the basis of the partial rate factor data given here for Fnedel-Crafts acylation predict the major product of the reaction of o bromotoluene with acetyl chlonde and aluminum chloride... 

Acylation (Section 12 7 and Chapter 20) Reaction in which an acyl group becomes attached to some structural unit in a molecule Examples include the Fnedel-Crafts acylation and the conversion of amines to amides Acyl chloride (Sections 4 1 and 20 1) Compound of the type... 

Other well-known reactions are those offluorinated olefins with fluoride ion and negatively substituted aromatic compounds leading to the formation of per-fiuoroalkylated aromatic compounds The reaction may be considered an amonic version of a Fnedel Crafts process and can result in introduction of one or several perfluoroalkyl substituents [/ /] Aromatic substrates include substituted and unsuhstiluled perfiuorobenzenes [J3l, 212, 213, 214], fiuorinated heterocycles [131, 203, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223],perchlorinated heterocycles [224] (equation 44), and other activated aromatic compounds [225] (equation 45) The fluonnated olefins can be linear or cyclic [208] (equation 46)... 

The strong para-directing influence of fluorine in Fnedel-Crafts acylation is illustrated by the reaction of fluorotoluenes with acetyl chloride Treatment of 2-fluorotoluene, 3-fluorotoluene, and 2-fluoro-3-methyltoluene with acetyl chloride and aluminum chloride gives, respectively, 91, 82, and 80% substitution para to fluorine [27]... 

Unsaturated fluorocarbons are much more reactive toward nucleophiles than then hydrocarbon counterparts owing to fluorme s ability to both stabihze carban ions and mductively increase the electrophihcity of multiple bonds and aromatic nngs Nucleophihc attack dominates the chemistry of unsaturated fluorocarbons, and the role of fluonde ion in fluorocarbon chemistry is analogous to that of the proton in hydrocarbon chemistry [129] Like the related electrophilic reactions for hydrocarbons, there are fluonde-promoted isomenzations and dimenzations (equation 9), oligomenzations (equation 10), additions (equation 11), and amomc Fnedel-Crafts alkylations (equation 12) that all proceed via carbamomc intermediates [729 7 7]... 

An alternative synthesis from the Glaxo patents involves Fnedel-Crafts acylation of the 3-position of the indole intermediate 22 (Scheme 5) Reaction of hydrazine 10 with (phenylthio)acetaldehyde gave hydrazone 20, which was subjected to the Fischer indole reaction to give 3-thiophenylindole 21. It is noteworthy that this Fischer cyclization took place at room temperature because most require heat. Reductive desulfurization of 21 using Raney nickel provided indole 22. Acylation of the 3-position... 

H-ZSM-5 -Fnedel-Crafts catalyst [FRIEDEL-CRAFTS REACTIONS] (Vol 11)... 

Addition. Vinyl chloride undergoes a wide variety of addition reactions. Chlorine adds to vinyl chloride to form 1,1.2-tnchloroethane by either an ionic or a radical path. Hydrogen halides add to vinyl chloride, usually to yield the 1.1-adduct. Many other vinyl chlonde adducts can be formed under acid-catalyzed Fnedel-Crafts conditions. Vinyl chloride can be hydrogenated to ethyl chloride and ethane over a platinum on alumina catalyst. 

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