Hydroxylamines azoxy compounds

In a reaction similar to 12-50, azoxy compounds can be prepared by the condensation of a nitroso compound with a hydroxylamine. The position of the oxygen in the final product is determined by the nature of the R groups, not by which R groups came from which starting compound. Both R and R can be alkyl or aryl, but when two different aryl groups are involved, mixtures of azoxy compounds (ArNONAr, ArNONAr, and Ar NONAr ) are obtained and the unsymmetrical product (ArNONAr ) is likely to be formed in the smallest amount. This behavior is probably caused by an equilibration between the starting compounds prior to the actual reaction (ArNO -I- Ar NHOH Ar NO - - ArNHOH). The mechanism has been investigated in the presence of base. Under these conditions both reactants are converted to radical anions, which couple ... 

Azoxy compounds can be obtained from nitro compounds with certain reducing agents, notably sodium arsenite, sodium ethoxide, NaTeH, NaBH4—PhTeTePh, and glucose. The most probable mechanism with most reagents is that one molecule of nitro compound is reduced to a nitroso compound and another to a hydroxylamine 119-42), and these combine (12-51). The combination step is rapid compared to the reduction process. Nitroso compounds can be reduced to azoxy compounds with triethyl phosphite or triphenylphosphine or with an alkaline aqueous solution of an alcohol. ... 

Electrosyntheses of heterocycles from nitroso derivatives prepared in a batch cell according to Scheme 34 need two conditions. The first one is a good stability of the hydroxylamine intermediate and the second one is a very fast cyclization of the nitroso compound to avoid the formation of an azoxy compound by condensation of the generated nitroso and the hydroxylamine. Electroanalytical studies using cyclic voltammetry can give information on the rate of cyclization. 

Hydrogen telluride reduces hydroxylamines to anilines, and nitroso, azo and azoxy compounds to the corresponding hydrazo compounds. - ... 

Oxidation of organonitrogen compounds is an important process from both industrial and synthetic viewpoints . N-oxides are obtained by oxidation of tertiary amines (equation 52), which in some cases may undergo further reactions like Cope elimination and Meisenheimer rearrangement . The oxygenation products of secondary amines are generally hydroxylamines, nitroxides and nitrones (equation 53), while oxidation of primary amines usually afforded oxime, nitro, nitroso derivatives and azo and azoxy compounds through coupling, as shown in Scheme 17. Product composition depends on the oxidant, catalyst and reaction conditions employed. 

A convenient synthetic procedure for the preparation of azo compounds, particularly unsymmetrically substituted ones, involves the reaction of aromatic nitroso compounds with aromatic amines [31a, b]. The reaction is of particular interest because the replacement of the amine by the corresponding hydroxylamine leads to the formation of the related azoxy compounds (see Chapter 15, Azoxy Compounds ). 

One of the reactions which has been used to prepare azoxy compounds is the condensation of C-nitroso compounds with hydroxylamines. In the aliphatic series this reaction is quite general and permits the preparation of unsym-metrical azoxy compounds. In the case of aromatic compounds, however, only symmetrical azoxy compounds can be synthesized reliably. In the reaction of dissimilar aromatic nitroso compounds and aromatic hydroxylamines, a complex mixture of azoxy products is obtained. 

Grignard reagents have reacted with diimide dioxides prepared from nitrosohydroxylamines and with toluenesulfonyl derivatives of nitroso-hydroxylamines to prepare unsymmetrical azoxy compounds, including aliphatic-aromatic types. 

It is self-evident that one of the simpler methods of preparing unsymmetrically substituted azoxy compounds must involve the condensation of two distinctly different starting materials. In principle, the reaction of C-nitroso compounds with hydroxylamines meets this requirement (Eq. 1). 

Historically this reaction developed from the assumption that the formation of azoxy compounds by the reduction of aromatic nitro compounds probably involved the intermediate formation of C-nitroso compounds and hydroxylamines. In the all-aliphatic series, this reaction appears to be quite general. Symmetrically and unsymmetrically substituted azoxy compounds have been prepared by it, the only major problems being the usual ones of developing procedures that afford good yields and of determining the exact position of the azoxy oxygen in unsymmetrically substituted products. 

The oxidation of aromatic hydroxylamines with peracids in the presence of cupric ions produces nitroso compounds. In the rigorous absence of metallic ions, azoxy compounds are formed [32]. On the other hand, the air oxidation is strongly accelerated by metals, the approximate order of activity based on a kinetic study being cupric s ferric > manganous > nickel chromic > cobaltous ions. Silver and stannous ions appear to have no effect [33]. 

The reduction of aromatic nitro compounds is believed to proceed to an intermediate mixture of nitroso compounds and substituted hydroxylamines which are not isolated but condense to form an azoxy compound which, in turn, is reduced to an azo compound. Contributing evidence to substantiate this mechanism is that the reduction of a mixture of two aromatic nitro compounds leads to a mixture of azo compounds consistent with that predicted if each of the nitro compounds were reduced to a nitroso compound and a hydroxylamine and these, in turn, reacted with each other in all possible combinations. This observation also implies that the bimolecular reduction of nitro compounds is practical only from the preparative standpoint for the production of symmetrically substituted azo compounds. Spectrophotometric studies of the reaction kinetics of the reduction of variously substituted nitro compounds may, however, uncover reasonable procedures for the synthesis of unsymmetrical azo compounds. 

Aromatic hydroxylamines, oxidized in the presence of metallic ions, are converted into nitroso compounds. In the absence of such ions, azoxy compounds form. 

Supplement 1951 2085-2358 Diazobenzene, 428. Azoxy Compounds. Azoxybenzene, 621. Nitramines and Nitroso-hydroxylamines., Phenylnitramine, 661. Triazines. Diazoaminobenzene, 687. Phosphorus Compounds. Triphenylphosphine, 759. Arsenic Compounds. Triphenylarsine, 828. Phenylarsonic acid, 868. Antimony Compounds, 891. Bi, Si, Sn, Pb, B, Tl, Mg, Ca, Hg, Na, Pt. 

The reduction of N-nitroso derivatives was discussed in Part I C-nitroso compounds are generally reduced to the hydroxylamine, which in alkaline solution may react with the nitroso compound to form an azoxy compound, possibly through an electron transfer from the hydroxylamine to the nitroso compound. Nitrosoquinoxaline (276) behaves as an a,/l-unsaturated nitroso compound on reduction the primarily formed hydroxylamine tautomerizes to an oxime427 [Eq. (143)]. 

The reaction of nitroalkanes and dinitroalkanes with sodium hydrogen telluride gives nitrosoalkane dimers and olefins, respectively.96 The reduction of other nitrogenated species such as hydroxylamines, azides, nitroso, azo, and azoxy compounds can also be performed by using tellurium reagents.6,11,12... 

Aromatic and aliphatic primary amines can be oxidized to the corresponding nitro compounds by peroxy acids and by a number of other reagents. The peroxy acid oxidations probably go by way of intermediate hydroxylamines and nitroso compounds (Scheme 2). Various side reactions can therefore take place, the nature of which depends upon the structure of the starting amine and the reaction conditions. For example, aromatic amines can give azoxy compounds by reaction of nitroso compounds with hy-droxylamine intermediates aliphatic amines can give nitroso dimers or oximes formed by acid-catalyz rearrangement of the intermediate nitrosoalkanes (Scheme 3). 

Catalytic hydrogenation is a heterogeneous reaction which occurs at the surface of the catalyst. The mechanism is complex and proceeds through the nitroso and hydroxylamine derivatives minor by-products such as the azo and azoxy compounds occasionally appear. 

In a reaction similar to 13-24, azoxy compounds can be prepared by the condensation of a nitroso compound with a hydroxylamine. The position of the oxygen in the final product is determined by the nature of the R groups, not by which R groups came from which starting compound. Both R and R can be alkyl or aryl, but when two different aryl groups are involved, mixtures of azoxy compounds... 

In a related reaction, primary aromatic amines have been oxidized to azo compounds by a variety of oxidizing agents, among them Mn02, lead tetraacetate, O2 and a base, barium permanganate, and sodium perborate in acetic acid. tert-Butyl hydroperoxide has been used to oxidize certain primary amines to azoxy compounds. " Aromatic hydroxylamines (Ar—NH—OH) are easily oxidized to nitroso compounds (Ar—N=0), most commonly by acid dichromate. Oximes of... 

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