Hexamethylphosphoramide,

Substance Hexamethylphosphoramide (Hexamethylphosphoric triamide, HMPA, HMPT) CAS 680-31-9 

Physical Properties Colorless liquid bp 233 °C, mp 6 °C Completely miscible with water 

Toxicity Data LD50 oral (rat) 2525 mg/kg LD50 skin (rabbit) 2600 mg/kg 

Major Hazards Possible human carcinogen (OSHA select carcinogen ) 

Toxicity The acute toxicity of hexamethylphosphoramide is low. HMPA can cause irritation upon contact with the skin and eyes. Hexamethylphosphoramide has been found to cause cancer in laboratory animals exposed by inhalation and meets the criteria for classification as an OSHA select carcinogen. Chronic exposure to HMPA can cause damage to the lungs and kidneys. Reproductive effects in male animals treated with hexamethylphosphoramide have been observed. HMPA should be regarded as a substance with poor warning properties. 

Data were last reviewed in lARC (1977) and the compound was classified in lARC Monographs Supplement 7 (1987). 

680-31-9 Systematic name. Hexamethylphosphoric triamide 

2 Structural and molecular formulae and relative molecular mass 

Hexamethylphosphoramide has been produced commercially in relatively small quantities in several countries of Europe, in Japan and in the United States. It is used as a solvent for polymers, a selective solvent for gases and as a thermal and ultraviolet radiation degradation stabilizer in various polymers (lARC, 1977). 

Hexamethylphosphoramide was tested for carcinogenicity in rats, the only species tested, by inhalation in this study, which was reported as a preliminary note, it produced squamous-cell carcinomas of the nasal cavity. It has also been inadequately tested in rats by oral administration (lARC, 1977). 

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Technora. In 1985, Teijin Ltd. introduced Technora fiber, previously known as HM-50, into the high performance fiber market. Technora is based on the 1 1 copolyterephthalamide of 3,4 -diaminodiphenyl ether and/ -phenylenediamine (8). Technora is a whoUy aromatic copolyamide of PPT, modified with a crankshaft-shaped comonomer, which results in the formation of isotropic solutions that then become anisotropic during the shear alignment during spinning. The polymer is synthesized by the low temperature polymerization of/ -phenylenediamine, 3,4 -diaminophenyl ether, and terephthaloyl chloride in an amide solvent containing a small amount of an alkaU salt. Calcium chloride or lithium chloride is used as the alkaU salt. The solvents used are hexamethylphosphoramide (HMPA), A/-methyl-2-pyrrohdinone (NMP), and dimethyl acetamide (DMAc). The stmcture of Technora is as follows ... 

Mixtures of products are frequentiy observed. Oxidation by peroxycarboxylic acids usually give similar products (22). Several chemical oxidants give good yields of specific oxidation products. Dimethyl sulfoxide in aqueous acid gives oxindoles (23). In methanol, MoO HMPA (hexamethylphosphoramide) gives 3-hydroxy-2-methoxyindolines (24). 

The polyamides are soluble in high strength sulfuric acid or in mixtures of hexamethylphosphoramide, /V, /V- dim ethyl acetam i de and LiCl. In the latter, compHcated relationships exist between solvent composition and the temperature at which the Hquid crystal phase forms. The polyamide solutions show an abmpt decrease in viscosity which is characteristic of mesophase formation when a critical volume fraction of polymer ( ) is exceeded. The viscosity may decrease, however, in the Hquid crystal phase if the molecular ordering allows the rod-shaped entities to gHde past one another more easily despite the higher concentration. The Hquid crystal phase is optically anisotropic and the texture is nematic. The nematic texture can be transformed to a chiral nematic texture by adding chiral species as a dopant or incorporating a chiral unit in the main chain as a copolymer (30). 

Other Reactions. Primary amyl alcohols can be halogenated to the corresponding chlorides by reaction with hydrogen chloride in hexamethylphosphoramide (87). Neopentyl chloride [753-89-9] is formed without contamination by rearrangement products. A convenient method for preparing / f/-amyl bromide and iodide involves reaction of / f/-amyl alcohol with hydrobromic or hydroiodic acid in the presence of Li or Ca haUde (88). The metal haUdes increase the yields (85 —95%) and product purity. 

Using hexamethylphosphoramide as the solvent, only the second reaction occurs. Disilane also reacts with potassium in 1,2-dimethoxyethane to form KS1H3, although S1H4 and nonvolatile polysHanes are also produced (28,31). Pure crystalline KSiH prepared from SiH and potassium in 1,2-dimethoxyethane has been obtained by slow evaporation of the solvent. WhenHquid ammonia is used as the solvent, only a small fraction of SiH is converted into metal salt most of the SiH undergoes ammonolysis (32). 

The degradation of VDC polymers in nonpolar solvents is comparable to degradation in the soHd state (101,125,129,130). However, these polymers are unstable in many polar solvents (131). The rate of dehydrochlorination increases markedly with solvent polarity. In strongly polar aprotic solvents, eg, hexamethylphosphoramide, dehydrochlorination proceeds readily (129,132). This reaction is cleady unlike thermal degradation and may well involve the generation of ionic species as intermediates. 

In ether or tetrahydrofuran organolithium reagents cleave the silicon-oxygen bond in hexamethylphosphoramide, they react at the carbon atom. ... 

In 1973 Du Pont commenced production of another aromatic polytunide fibre, a poly-(p-phenyleneterephthalamide) marketed as Kevlar. It is produced by the fourth method of polyamide production listed in the introductory section of this chapter, namely the reaction of a diamine with a diacid chloride. Specifically, p-phenylenediamine is treated with terephthalyl chloride in a mixture of hexamethylphosphoramide and V-methylpyrrolidone (2 1) at -10°C Figure 18.32). 

Dibromo-3-ketones may also be used as substrates for the preparation of A -3-ketones by Joly s method. " Hexamethylphosphoramide has been recommended as a medium suitable for the dehydrobromination of a-bromo ketones to give a, -unsaturated ketones in high yield without rearrange-... 

Fluorination of hexamethylphosphoramide with ammonium fluoride gives 85-90% yield of the insecticide bis(dimethylamine)fluorophosphine oxide (Dimefox) [5(1] (equation 18). 

Only 22-45% yields of m-fluoronitrobenzene are obtained from the fluoro-denitration of m dinitrobenzene by potassium fluoride in Af-methyl-2-pyrrolidone or hexamethylphosphoramide, along with significant amounts of 3,3 dinitro-diphenyl ether [107, 108, 109] (equation 32)... 

When hexamethylphosphoramide, (NMe2)3PO, is used as solvent only the second reaction occurs. The synthetic utility of KSiHa can be gauged from Table 9.7 which summarizes some of its reactions. In addition, PCI3 gives polymeric (PH) t, CO2 gives CO plus HCO2K (formate), and N2O gives N2 + H2 (plus) some Sifli in each... 

Hexamethylphosphoramide, S -2 reaction and. 371 Hexane, 1R spectrum of. 424 mass spectrum of, 413 1,3,5-Hexatriene, molecular orbitals of, 1180... 

Hexamethylphosphoramide Hoffmann, Roald, 1180 Hoffmann-I.a Roche Co., vitamin C synthesis and, 773 von Hofmann. August Wilhelm, 933 Hofmann elimination reaction. 936-938... 

Hexamethylphosphoramide, pentamethylphosphoramide, tetra-methylphosphoramide, trimethylphosphoramide, and [(CH3)2N]2 P(0)NHCH0... 

Lithiochloromethyl phenyl sulfoxide 99 was found to react with aryl or alkyl halides in the presence of one equivalent of hexamethylphosphoramide to afford alkylated products 100 in high yields135. Thermal decomposition of these products in the presence of a catalytic amount of hydroquinone in xylene gave the corresponding vinyl compounds 101. 

Hexamethylphosphoramide (HMPT), 185 HFBPA-based poly(arylene ether)s, 362 HFCs. See Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) High-impact polystyrene (HIPS), 219 High-melting polymers, 33 High-melting-point fiber-forming polyesters, 19... 

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