Halogenation addition products

Constitution.—The composition of naphthalene is represented by the formula CioHg. What is its constitution In the first place it is a hydrocarbon similar in its chemical properties to benzene and not to methane. It readily forms nitro and sulphonic acid derivatives and its hydroxyl derivatives are analogom to phenols, not to alcohols. It also yields hydrogen and halogen addition products like benzene. The true constitution of the compound has been established by reactions both of decomposition and of synthesis. 

Addition Products.—The halogen addition products of naphthalene ,re more easily formed than are the substitution products. The tetra-chlor compound is of special interest and has been referred to. We have stated that naphthalene is oxidized to or//fo-phthalic acid. This oxidation was originally carried out not with naphthalene itself but with naphthalene tetra-chloride, CioHgCU. When naphthalene is treated with chlorine (potassium chlorate, KCIO3 and hydrochloric acid HCl), addition takes place and the tetra-chlor addition product is formed. By the further action of the chlorine, as an oxidizing agent, the tetra-chloride is converted into ortho-phthalic acid. 

Halogen Addition Products of the Schardinger Dextrine According to Pringsheim ... 

Conjugated dienes often give mixtures of halogen-addition products. The case... 

Another use of hydrogen fluoride, although not in halogen exchange, is the reaction with ethylenes or acetylenes to form the addition products, 1,1-difluoroethane [75-37-6] and vinyl fluoride [75-02-5]-. 

Bromination of isoprene using Br2 at —5 ° C in chloroform yields only /n j -l,4-dibromo-2-methyl-2-butene (59). Dry hydrogen chloride reacts with one-third excess of isoprene at —15 ° C to form the 1,2-addition product, 2-chloro-2-methyl-3-butene (60). When an equimolar amount of HCl is used, the principal product is the 1,4-addition product, l-chloro-3-methyl-2-butene (61). The mechanism of addition is essentially all 1,2 with a subsequent isomerization step which is catalyzed by HCl and is responsible for the formation of the 1,4-product (60). The 3,4-product, 3-bromo-2-methyl-1-butene, is obtained by the reaction of isoprene with 50% HBr in the presence of cuprous bromide (59). Isoprene reacts with the reactive halogen of 3-chlorocyclopentene (62). 

Halogenation. Depending on the conditions either substitution or addition products can be obtained by the halogenation of benzene. 

Halogenation of butadiene has also attracted a lot of interest. Both 1,2- and 1,4-isomers are formed. Since the /n j -l,4-isomer was observed from the 1,4-addition product, researchers postulate that the the electrophilic forms a 1,2-cychc intermediate and not a 1,4-cychc intermediate that would form the <7j -l,4-addition product (51,52). 

In the isomeric 2,1-benzisoxazole series halogenation also occurs in the 5-position, but it appears that an initial addition product is formed at the 4,5-positions (67AHC(8)277, p. 321). 

As with addition of other electrophiles, halogenation of conjugated dienes can give 1,2- or 1,4-addition products. When molecular bromine is used as the brominating agent in chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent, the 1,4-addition product dominates by 7 1 in the case of butadiene. ... 

Allenes react with other typical electrophiles such as the halogens and mercuric ion. In systems where bridged-ion intermediates would be expected, nucleophilic capture generally occurs at the allylic position. This pattern is revealed, for example, in the products of solvent capture in halogen additions and by the structures of mercuration products. ... 

Conjugated, cross-conjugated, and homoconjugated fluoroalkenes react with halogens to yield predominantly 1,4-adducts Results from the reactions of a series of conjugated fluoroalkenes with elemental halogens are summarized in Table 4 In nearly all cases, the fraMs-l,4-addition products are formed exclusively [Il ... 

Like simple elemental halogens, iodine monochloride reacts with conjugated fluorodienes to yield mostly 1,4-addition products. These bidirectional reactions lead to mixtures of regioisomers, as shown in Table 5 [//]. 

Because of thetr electron deficient nature, fluoroolefms are often nucleophihcally attacked by alcohols and alkoxides Ethers are commonly produced by these addition and addition-elimination reactions The wide availability of alcohols and fliioroolefins has established the generality of the nucleophilic addition reactions The mechanism of the addition reaction is generally believed to proceed by attack at a vinylic carbon to produce an intermediate fluorocarbanion as the rate-determining slow step The intermediate carbanion may react with a proton source to yield the saturated addition product Alternatively, the intermediate carbanion may, by elimination of P-halogen, lead to an unsaturated ether, often an enol or vinylic ether These addition and addition-elimination reactions have been previously reviewed [1, 2] The intermediate carbanions resulting from nucleophilic attack on fluoroolefins have also been trapped in situ with carbon dioxide, carbonates, and esters of fluorinated acids [3, 4, 5] (equations 1 and 2)... 

The known chemistry of the bisftrifluoromethyOnitroxyl [3i, 34] includes additions to both olefins [75, 36 37] and fluoroolefins [iaddition products with chlorotnfluoroethene or tetrafluoroethene [39] The nitroso denvative, (Cp3)3NONO, reacts with a liimted set of halogenated olefins to add the (CF3)2NO and NO moieties [40]... 

When the halogenation reaction is carried out on a cycloalkene, such as cyclopentene, only the trews stereoisomer of the dihalide addition product is formed rather than the mixture of cis and trans isomers that might have been expected if a planar carbocation intermediate were involved. We say that the reaction occurs with anti stereochemistry, meaning that the two bromine atoms come from opposite faces of the double bond—one from the top face and one from the bottom face. 

HC1, HBr, and HI add to alkenes by a two-step electrophilic addition mechanism. Initial reaction of the nucleophilic double bond with H+ gives a carbo-cation intermediate, which then reacts with halide ion. Bromine and chlorine add to alkenes via three-membered-ring bromonium ion or chloronium ion intermediates to give addition products having anti stereochemistry. If water is present during the halogen addition reaction, a halohydrin is formed. 

The hydration reaction just described is typical of what happens when an aldehyde ot ketone is treated with a nucleophile of the type H-Y, where the Y atom is electronegative and can stabilize a negative charge (oxygen, halogen, or sulfur, for instance). In such reactions, the nucleophilic addition is reversible, with the equilibrium generally favoring the carbonyl reactant rather than the tetrahedral addition product. In other words, treatment of an aldehyde or... 

With bromine monochloride at 0°C in a variety of solvents, 1 was converted into addition products, the product distribution being a function of solvent. A change in halogenating agent also altered the product ratio. (Scheme 4) Nucleophilic displacement reactions between these products and silver fluoride was found to cause preferential bromine substitution (83G149). 

Like tellurophene the fused compound forms 1,1-addition products with halogens (73BSF2468), but further bromination of such a 1,1-dibromo species gave 1,1,2-tribromobenzo[/>]tellurophene, which was able to be reduced to 2-bromobenzo[b]tellurophene. The 3-chloro and -bromo compounds were isolated following reaction of triphenylphosphine and the appropriate carbon tetrahalide with 2,3-dihydro-3-oxobenzo[b]telluro-phene (80BSB763). 

As with the isomers, 5-halogenation of 2,1-benzisoxazoles is favored, but this may be a consequence of an initially formed 4,5-addition product. Such an adduct has been isolated during chlorination [66T(S7)49 67AHC(8)277]. When 6-nitro-2,l-benzisoxazole-3-carboxylic acid (38)... 

Compounds having divalent sulfur and selenium atoms bound to more electronegative elements react with alkenes to give addition products. The mechanism is similar to that in halogenation and involves of bridged cationic intermediates. 

As we have seen already (p. 104) secondary carbocations are more stable than primary, and in so far as this also applies to the transition states that precede them, (24) will be formed in preference to (23). In fact it appears to be formed exclusively, as the only addition product obtained is 2-bromopropane (25). Addition, as here, in which halogen (or the more negative moiety of any other unsymmetrical adduct) becomes attached to the more highly substituted of the two alkene carbon atoms is known as Markownikov addition. 

In marked contrast to the majority of activated metals prepared by the reduction process, cobalt showed limited reactivity toward oxidative addition with carbon halogen bonds. Iodopentafluorobenzene reacted with 2 to give the solvated oxidative addition products CoL and Co(C,F5)2 or Co(C F )L The compound CoiOJF 2PEt, was isolated in 54% yield by addition of triethylphosphine to tne solvated materials. This compound was also prepared in comparable yield from 1 by a similar procedure. This compound had previously been prepared by the reaction of cobalt atom vapor with C6F5I(81). 

In the biosynthetic schemes proposed for some halogenated natural products, positive halogen intermediates are attacked by electrons from the n bond of an alkene or alkyne in an addition reaction. 

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