Nitration Friedel-Crafts

We found a way to overcome charge-charge repulsion when activating the nitronium ion when Tewis acids were used instead of strong Bronsted acids. The Friedel-Crafts nitration of deactivated aromatics and some aliphatic hydrocarbons was efficiently carried out with the NO2CI/3AICI3 system. In this case, the nitronium ion is coordinated to AICI3. 

Nitryl chloride reacts with many organics forming their nitro derivatives. Such Friedel-Crafts nitration is catalyzed by a Lewis acid, such as AICI3. An example is nitration of benzene to nitrobenzene ... 

LEWIS ACID HALIDE CATALYZED FRIEDEL-CRAFTS NITRATION OF BENZENE AND TOLUENE WITH NITRYL CHLORIDE AT 25°... 

LEWIS ACID HALIDE ( ATALYZED FRIEDEL-CRAFTS NITRATION ... 

Table XII. Lewi -AiM-Catatyzed Friedel-Crafts Nitration of Toluene with Niuyl Chloride at 25°C...

The iR NMR spectrum of pyrrole is slightly less convincing as the two types of proton on the ring resonate at higher field (6.5 and 6.2 ppm) than those of benzene or pyridine but they still fall in the aromatic rather than the alkene region. Pyrrole is also more reactive towards electrophiles than benzene or pyridine, but it does the usual aromatic substitution reactions (Friedel— Crafts, nitration, halogenation) rather than addition reactions pyrrole is also aromatic. 

The nitration, sulphonation and Friedel-Crafts acylation of aromatic compounds (e.g. benzene) are typical examples of electrophilic aromatic substitution. 

In recent years the analogy between the Friedel-Crafts aeylation reaction and various nitrating systems, partieularly those in which Lewis aeids aet as catalysts, has been stressed, but this elassifieation adds nothing new in principle. 

Nitration in sulphuric acid is a reaction for which the nature and concentrations of the electrophile, the nitronium ion, are well established. In these solutions compounds reacting one or two orders of magnitude faster than benzene do so at the rate of encounter of the aromatic molecules and the nitronium ion ( 2.5). If there were a connection between selectivity and reactivity in electrophilic aromatic substitutions, then electrophiles such as those operating in mercuration and Friedel-Crafts alkylation should be subject to control by encounter at a lower threshold of substrate reactivity than in nitration this does not appear to occur. 

Friedel-Crafts acylation of benzene with benzoyl chloride (CgH5CCl) (j) Nitration of the product from part (1)... 

Electrophilic aromatic substitution (Sec tion 22 14) Arylamines are very reac tive toward electrophilic aromatic sub stitution It IS customary to protect arylamines as their N acyl derivatives before carrying out ring nitration chio rination bromination sulfonation or Friedel-Crafts reactions... 

Other typical electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions—nitration (second entry) sul fonation (fourth entry) and Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation (fifth and sixth entnes)—take place readily and are synthetically useful Phenols also undergo elec trophilic substitution reactions that are limited to only the most active aromatic com pounds these include mtrosation (third entry) and coupling with diazomum salts (sev enth entry)... 

Anthraquinone dyes are derived from several key compounds called dye intermediates, and the methods for preparing these key intermediates can be divided into two types (/) introduction of substituent(s) onto the anthraquinone nucleus, and (2) synthesis of an anthraquinone nucleus having the desired substituents, starting from benzene or naphthalene derivatives (nucleus synthesis). The principal reactions ate nitration and sulfonation, which are very important ia preparing a-substituted anthraquiaones by electrophilic substitution. Nucleus synthesis is important for the production of P-substituted anthraquiaones such as 2-methylanthraquiQone and 2-chloroanthraquiaone. Friedel-Crafts acylation usiag aluminum chloride is appHed for this purpose. Synthesis of quinizatia (1,4-dihydroxyanthraquiQone) is also important. 

Frontier orbital theory predicts that electrophilic substitution of pyrroles with soft electrophiles will be frontier controlled and occur at the 2-position, whereas electrophilic substitution with hard electrophiles will be charge controlled and occur at the 3-position. These predictions may be illustrated by the substitution behaviour of 1-benzenesulfonylpyr-role. Nitration and Friedel-Crafts acylation of this substrate occurs at the 3-position, whereas the softer electrophiles generated in the Mannich reaction (R2N=CH2), in formylation under Vilsmeier conditions (R2N=CHC1) or in formylation with dichloromethyl methyl ether and aluminum chloride (MeO=CHCl) effect substitution mainly in the 2-position (81TL4899, 81TL4901). Formylation of 2-methoxycarbonyl-l-methylpyrrole with... 

The general discussion (Section 4.02.1.4.1) on reactivity and orientation in azoles should be consulted as some of the conclusions reported therein are germane to this discussion. Pyrazole is less reactive towards electrophiles than pyrrole. As a neutral molecule it reacts as readily as benzene and, as an anion, as readily as phenol (diazo coupling, nitrosation, etc.). Pyrazole cations, formed in strong acidic media, show a pronounced deactivation (nitration, sulfonation, Friedel-Crafts reactions, etc.). For the same reasons quaternary pyrazolium salts normally do not react with electrophiles. 

Isoxazoles are presently known to undergo hydrogen exchange, nitration, sulfonation, halogenation, chloroalkylation, hydroxymethylation, Vilsmeier-Haack formylation, and mercuration. The Friedel-Crafts reaction on the isoxazole nucleus has not yet been reported. 

Benzimidazolinone, 1,3-dimethyl-Friedel-Crafts reaction, 5, 429 Benzimidazolinone, 1,3-divinyl-synthesis, 5, 393 Benzimidazolinone, 6-methyl-Friedel-Crafts reaction, 5, 429 Benzimidazolin-2-one polymers, 1, 281 Benzimidazolinones alkylation, 5, 390 Friedel-Crafts reaction, 5, 429 Mannich reaction, 5, 390 nitration, 5, 429 reactions, 5, 442... 

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