Hydriodic acid-Red phosphorus

Reduction, Reduction of the azlactone of a-benzoylaminocinnamic acid to phenylalanine is carried out by refluxing with hydriodic acid, red phosphorus, and acetic anhydride. The function of the phosphorus is to destroy iodine as formed. A... 

Hydriodic acid, red phosphorus, acetic acid (or acetic anhydride). 

Hydrogen iodide. This gas may be conveniently prepared by allowing a solution of two parts of iodine in one part of hydriodic acid, sp. gr. 1 7 (for preparation, see Section 11,49,2), to drop on to excess of red phosphorus. The evolution of hydrogen iodide takes place in the cold when the evolution of gas slackens considerably, the mixture should be gently warmed. 

It is believed that the red phosphorus is the true reducing agent and the iodine (or iodide) functions as a hydrogen carrier. This proc ure replaces the obsolete method of heating with red phosphorus and concentrated hydriodic acid in a sealed tube. 

Pentaerythrityl bromide has been prepared by the action of phosphorus tribromide on pentaerythritol, - and of an acetic acid solution of hydrobromic acid on pentaerythritol tetraacetate. The iodide has been prepared by the action of red phosphorus and hydriodic acid on pentaerythritol and by treating the bromide with sodium iodide in acetone. ... 

HjO), a picrate, m.p. 253° (dec.) and furnishes a dibenzoate, whose sulphate has [a] ° + 52-1° (EtOH) and hydrochloride, B. HCl. 2H2O, m.p. 115° or 205° (dry), + 41-8° (dilute alcohol) and nitrate, B. HNO3, m.p. 197°. On reduction with hydriodic acid and red phosphorus the dihydroxytropane is converted into tropane and on treatment with phosphorus oxychloride it yields a base, CgHjgON, b.p. 188°/752 mm., picrate, m.p. 177° (dec.). This dihydroxytropane is probably represented by formula (XIII).The dibenzoyl-derivative has local ansesthetic properties. The wovaleryl ester is the alkaloid valeroidine found in Duboisia myoporoides (p. 90). 

The action of chlorine on the aliphatic acids takes place in presence of sunlight, also on the addition of small quantities of the halogen-carriers, iodine, sulphur, and red phosphorus. By the action ofiodine, I Cl is formed, which decomposes moie readily than the molecule of chlorine, and hydriodic acid is libciatcd,... 

Preparation of the key intermediate to this series begins by reduction of the methylene phthalide, 12a, with hydriodic acid and red phosphorus. Cyclization of the acid (26) thus obtained affords the tricyclic ketone, 27. Reaction with the Grignard reagent from 3-dimethylamino-2-methylpropyl chloride affords the... 

By the reduction of cedrone by means of sodium and alcohol, there is formed dihydro-isocedrol, CijH gO, boiling at 148° to 151° C. under a pressure of 9-5 mm. When cedrene is heated at 180° to 210° C. with hydriodic acid and red phosphorus, and the product formed is reduced by sodium and alcohol, a body Cj Hjg is obtained, which Semmler describes by the name dihydro-cedrene It boils at 116° to 122° C. under 12 mm. pressure its specific gravity is 0-9052 at 15° C. 

Preparation of 3 5-diiodo-4-(4 -hydroxyphenoxy)phenylacetic acid (diac) A solution of ethyl 3 5-diiodo-4-(4 -methoxyphenoxy)phenyl acetate (9.5 g) in acetic acid (60 ml) was heated under reflux with hydriodic acid (SG 1.7, 50 ml) and red phosphorus (0.5 g) for 1 hour. The hot solution was filtered and the filtrate concentrated at 50°C and 15 mm of mercury to above 20 ml. The residue was treated with water (70 ml) containing a little sodium thiosulfate to decolorize the product. The solid was collected by filtration and purified by the method of Harington and Pitt-Rivers [Biochem. J. (1952), Vol. 50, page 438]. Yield 8,36 g (95%). After crystallization from 70% (v/v) acetic acid it melted at 219°C. 

Dining removal of free iodine from hydriodic acid by distillation from red phosphorus, phosphine was produced. When air was admixed by changing the receiver flask, an explosion occurred. Omission of distillation by boiling the reactants in inert atmosphere, and separating the phosphorus by fitration through a sintered... 

Complete reduction of sulfonyl chlorides to thiols can be achieved by lithium aluminum hydride [680,693], with zinc [696] and with hydriodic acid generated in situ from iodine and red phosphorus [230]. m-Nitrobenzenesulfonyl chloride, however, was reduced not to the thiol but to bis(m-nitrophenyl)disulfide by hydriodic acid in 86-91% yield [697]. 

Acyloins were converted to mixtures of stereoisomeric vicinal diols by catalytic hydrogenation over copper chromite [972]. More frequently they were reduced to ketones by zinc (yield 77%) [913, 914], by zinc amalgam (yields 50-60%) [975], by tin (yields 86-92%) [173], or by hydriodic acid by refluxing with 47% hydriodic acid in glacial acetic acid (yields 70-90%) [916], or by treatment with red phosphorus and iodine in carbon disulfide at room temperature (yields 80-90%) [917] Procedure 41, p. 215). Since acyloins are readily accessible by reductive condensation of esters (p. 152) the above reductions provide a very good route to ketones and the best route to macro-cyclic ketones [973]. 

Hydriodic acid in small quantities may be prepared by adding water carefully to a solid mixture of red phosphorus and iodine. 

Diphenylacetic acid has been obtained by the reduction of benzilic acid with hydriodic acid and red phosphorus 1 by the treatment of phenylbromoacetic acid with benzene and zinc dust,2 or with benzene and aluminum chloride 3 by the hydrolysis of diphenylacetonitrile 4 by heating a-diphenyldichloroethyl-ene with alcoholic sodium ethylate 5 by heating benzilic acid 6 from diphenylmethane, mercury diethyl, sodium and carbon dioxide 7 by the oxidation of a,a,5,S-tetraphenyl- 8-butine 8 by the decomposition of some complex derivatives obtained from diphenylketene 9 by the hydrolysis of diphenyl-5,5-hydan-toin 10 by the treatment of diphenylbromoacetic acid with copper 11 by the oxidation of dichlorodiphenylcrotonic acid.12... 

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