Halides, aryl reaction with ammonia

The reaction with ammonia or amines, which undoubtedly proceeds by the SNAr mechanism, is catalyzed by copper8" and nickel105 salts, though these are normally used only with rather unreactive halides.106 This reaction, with phase transfer catalysis, has been used to synthesize triarylamines.107 Copper ion catalysts (especially cuprous oxide or iodide) also permit the Gabriel synthesis (0-58) to be applied to aromatic substrates. Aryl bromides or iodides are refluxed with potassium phthalimide and Cu 0 or Cul in dimethylacetamide to give N-aryl phthalimides, which can be hydrolyzed to primary aryl amines.108... 

Mechanistic features of SNAr displacement reactions involving amino nucleophiles have been the object of many investigations, a major point of interest being the occurrence of base-catalyzed paths. Strongly activated aryl halides react readily with ammonia and with primary and secondary amines to give the corresponding arylamines. Thus, for example, 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene is used to tag the amino end of a peptide or protein chain. 

A route in which a synthon for such a dialdehyde is central depends on ortho lithiation of an aryl bromide for conversion to ortho bromoaryl aldehyde, then palladium-catalysed replacement of the halide with an alkyne, subsequent reaction with ammonia producing the isoquinoline. The sequence below shows how this type of approach can be used to produce naphthyridine mono-A-oxides by reaction of the alkynyl-aldehyde with hydroxylamine instead of ammonia. 

Reaction with chlorosulphonic acid ( chlorosulphonyl-ation ). Sulphonamides. Many aryl halides, either alone or in chloroform solution, when treated with excess of chlorosulphonic acid afford the corresponding sulphonyl chlorides in good yield (compare Section IV,106) the latter may be readily converted into the aryl sulphonamides by reaction with concentrated ammonia solution or with solid ammonium carbonate. 

The factors affecting the relative reactivity of aryl halides in SrnI reactions have been analysed and compared645. Competition experiments of pairs of substrates, in photo-stimulated reactions with pinacolone enolate ion in liquid ammonia, reveal a spread of reactivity exceeding three powers of ten. The ease of formation of the radical anion of the substrate appears to dominate the overall reactivity. The rate of dehalogenation of the radical anion may become important when its stability exceeds a certain threshold. When the fragmentation rate of the radical anion intermediate is fairly slow, the overall reactivity diminishes. 

Carbanions occasionally react with aryl halides spontaneously, mostly under irradiation, or by supplying electrons either from dissolved metals or from a cathode. However, certain Fe+2 salts catalyse the S l reactions with carbanions. That was the case for the reaction of PhBr or Phi with acetone or pinacolone enolate ions in liquid ammonia or DMS0172a, as well as for the reaction of the enolate ion of several carbanions with several aryl and hetaryl halides in DMS0172b. Since these reactions are inhibited byp-DNB andp-cymene, and the relative reactivity of nucleophiles is similar to that determined in photo-stimulated or spontaneous reactions, it seems that FeCl2 initiates the S l process. 

Benzophenone imine is commercially available and serves as an ammonia surrogate that reacts with aryl halides in high yields under standard palladium-catalyzed conditions. Catalysts based on both DPPF- and BINAP-ligated palladium give essentially quantitative yields in reactions with aryl bromides (Eq. (23)). These reactions can be conducted with either CS2CO3 or NaOtBu as the base [179, 180]. The products are readily isolated by chromatographic techniques or by crystallization. Alternatively, they can be cleaved to the parent aniline by addition of hydroxylamine, acid, or Pd/C [180]. 

Aryl halides in which electron-withdrawing groups activate the halogen atom to nucleophilic displacement react directly with ammonia to produce amines. Non-activated aryl halides yield amines on reaction with sodamide through the intermediacy of an aryne intermediate (see Chapter 9). 

Sodium benzenetellurolate is arylated in liquid ammonia via photoinduced reactions with aryl halides Aryl iodides reacted with sodium benzenetellurolate in the presence of copper(I) iodide in hexamethylphosphoric triamide (but not in DMF or DMSO) to produce aryl phenyl tellurium compounds. However, lithium benzenetellurate reacted with 1,2-bromoiodobenzene and lithium methane tellurolate with 1,2-dibromobenzene in tetrahydrofuran at 20° to yield l,2-bis[organotelluro]benzenes . 

Chlorobenzene is employed in the synthesis of certain amino-containing vat dye intermediates. When reacted with phthalic anhydride, the product is 2-chloroanthraquinone, which, with ammonia, is converted readily into 2-aminoanthraquinone (61). Other routes include replacement of halogen by amino groups, with ammonia or ammonium salts of urea, and alkyl- and aryl amines to afford secondary amines. Modification of the amino group by alkylation, with dimethyl sulfate, alkyl halides or esters of toluenesul-fonic acids, is of synthetic value. Arylation of the amino groups is of importance only in the reaction between aminoanthraquinones and nitro- or chloroanthraquinones to yield dianthraquinonylamines, or anthrimides48. For example, the reaction between 62 and 63 yields 64, which can then be converted into carbazole 65, Cl Vat Brown R (Scheme 14). Amination of haloanthraquinones such as l-amino-4-bromoanthraquinone-2-sulfonic acid (bromamine acid) (66), prepared from 1-aminoanthraquinone, is of industrial use. 

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