Group hydrogen halides

Gattermann s reaction A variation of the Sandmeyer reaction copper powder and hydrogen halide are allowed to react with the diazonium salt solution and halogen is introduced into the aromatic nucleus in place of an amino group. 

A halogen atom directly attached to a benzene ring is usually unreactive, unless it is activated by the nature and position of certain other substituent groups. It has been show n by Ullmann, however, that halogen atoms normally of low reactivity will condense with aromatic amines in the presence of an alkali carbonate (to absorb the hydrogen halide formed) and a trace of copper powder or oxide to act as a catalyst. This reaction, known as the Ullmant Condensation, is frequently used to prepare substituted diphenylamines it is exemplified... 

The reaction of an alcohol with a hydrogen halide is a substitution A halogen usually chlorine or bromine replaces a hydroxyl group as a substituent on carbon Calling the reaction a substitution tells us the relationship between the organic reactant and its prod uct but does not reveal the mechanism In developing a mechanistic picture for a par ticular reaction we combine some basic principles of chemical reactivity with experi mental observations to deduce the most likely sequence of steps... 

The reactions of alcohols with hydrogen halides to give alkyl halides (Chapter 4) are nucleophilic substitution reactions of alkyloxonium ions m which water is the leaving group Primary alcohols react by an 8 2 like displacement of water from the alkyloxonium ion by halide Sec ondary and tertiary alcohols give alkyloxonium ions which form carbo cations m an S l like process Rearrangements are possible with secondary alcohols and substitution takes place with predominant but not complete inversion of configuration... 

Hydrogen halides can, in some cases, be used to replace an atom or group by halogen Fluoropentamtrobenzene reacts with hydrogen chloride to yield 3-chloro-2,4,5,6-tetranitrofluorobenzene, but the other halopentanitrobenzenes are much less reactive [54] (equation 37)... 

Elimination of hydrogen halides from polyfluoroalkanes by bases also usually involves earbanion intermediates (ElcB mechanism) [<8/l, and orientation is there tore governed by relative C H acidities and leaving group mobility Some examples are shown in equations 16-18 [145]... 

The thermodynamic stability of the hydrogen halides decreases down the group. The AGf° values of HC1, HBr, and HI fit nicely on a straight line, whereas HF is anomalous. In other properties, HF is also the anomalous member of the group, in particular, its acidity. 

These reactions give products similar to those described in 8.3.2.1. Transition-mclal hydrido complexes react with a halogen derivative of a group-IB metal to form a hydrogen halide and the required metal-metal bond ... 

Removal of the 2 -sulfonyloxy group of 859 in a basic medium, followed by reaction with metal halides (LiBr and Nal) or hydrogen halides (HCl-1,4-dioxane, HBr-acetone, or0.1% HFin l,4-dioxane-AlF3)gave, byway of the 2,2 -anhydro intermediate 861, the 2 -halo derivatives 862-865. The 2 -deoxy analog 866 and l-(6-deoxy-6-fluoro- ff-D-mannopyranosyl)thy-mine were also prepared from 864 (R = H) and 861 (R = H), respectively. l-(4-Deoxy-4-fluoro-y -D-glucopyranosyl)thymine was obtained by the condensation method. A different kind of nucleoside, 5-(5-deoxy-5-fluoro-2,3-0-isopropylidene-a-D-ribofuranosyl)-l,3-dimethyluracil has also been prepared. ... 

Isomerically pure 1 is obtained when HMes2SiSiPh2SiPh2SiMes2H (Mes = mesityl) 5 is used as a starting material, because bonds between silicon and methyl substituted aryl groups like p-tolyl or mesityl are cleaved much faster by hydrogen halides than Si-Ph bonds [3], Further reaction of I with HCl or HBr leads to the formation of the corresponding halo-derivatives 2 and 3 ... 

Glycosyl halides, a very important group of carbohydrate derivatives, are commonly prepared14 from per-O-acylated sugars by reaction with hydrogen halides or halides of aluminum or titanium. The selection of the method depends mainly on the anomeric configuration of the substrate, the kind of its O-acyl groups, and the stability of the product to be prepared. 

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