In additions of bromine

Considerable heat of reaction must also be removed in additions of bromine, for otherwise substitution by bromine sets in as subsequent or side reaction in the same way the hydrogen bromide formed can add to the C=C bond. It is thus important to provide cooling and to avoid an excess of bromine. 

Possible role for electrophilic properties of solvent in addition of bromine to alkenes. 

TABLE 9.2 Chemoselectivity and Regioselectivity in Addition of Bromine to Alkenes ... 

Eosin (Tetrabromofluorescein). Place 16 5 g. of powdered fluorescein and 80 ml. of rectified (or methylated) spirit in a 250 ml. flask. Support a small dropping funnel, containing 36 g. (12 ml.) of bromine, above the flask make sure that the stopcock of the funnel is well lubricated before charging the latter with bromine. Add the bromine diopwise during about 20 minutes. When half the bromine has been introduced, and the fluorescein has been converted into dibromofluor-escein, all the solid material disappears temporarily since the dibromo derivative is soluble in alcohol with further addition of bromine the tetrabromofluorescein (sparingly soluble in alcohol) separates out. Allow the reaction mixture to stand for 2 hours, filter ofiF the eosin at the pump, wash it with alcohol, and dry at 100°. The yield of eosin (orange-coloured powder) is 25 g. 

Apparatus 2-1 flask (Fig. 1) for the addition of bromine and the coupling with propargylmagnesium bromide 6-1 flask (Fig. 4) for the reaction in liquid ammonia. 

Ha.loisoquinolines, The Sandmeyer reaction is commonly used to prepare chloroisoquinolines from the amino compound. The corresponding hydroxy compounds are also used by treatment with chlorides of phosphoms. The addition of bromine to a slurry of isoquinoline hydrochloride in nitrobenzene gives a 70—80% yield of 4-bromoisoquinoline [1532-97-4J. Heating 1-chloroisoquinoline [19493-44-8] with sodium iodide andhydriodic acid gives 1-iodoisoquinoline [19658-77-6] (179). 

From acetone in water and concentrated hydrochloric acid by addition of bromine. Hughes, Watson, and Yates, J. Chem. Soc. 1931, 3322. 

Addition of bromine to the dienol acetate (49) gives the 6j5-bromo-A -3-ketone (50). Dehydrobromination of the crude bromo compound in DMF with lithium or calcium carbonate gives the title compound (51). ... 

During the preparation of the dihalo-(usually dibromo) 20-ketopregnanes, other reactive sites must be protected (e.g., addition of bromine to the A -double bond, ketal formation with a 3-ketone). An elegant method which avoids such problems has been devised by the Upjohn group in their studies on the conversion of 11-ketoprogesterone to hydrocortisone. The former is reacted with ethyl oxalate at C-2 and C-21, then addition of three moles of bromine gives a 2,21,21-tribromide. Alkaline rearrangement produces the side chain unsaturated acid, and the bromine at C-2 is subsequently removed with zinc. 

Preparation of 3a-Hydroxy-5) -pregn-17(20)-en-21-oic Acid . A solution of 15 g of 3a-acetoxy-5jS-pregnan-20-one in 290 ml of glacial acetic acid is treated with 13 g of bromine at room temperature. After complete addition of bromine the reaction mixture is heated at 40-50° for 30 min, and the product precipitated with water and filtered. The product is taken up in ethyl acetate (500-600 ml) and the resulting solution washed with dilute aqueous potassium bicarbonate. The solvent is concentrated in vacuo and the product crystallized from acetone to give 16g of dibromide mp, 173-175°. 

Additions of halogen fluorides to the more electrophilic perfluonnated olefins generally require different conditions Reactions of iodine fluoride, generated in situ from iodine and iodine pentafluoride [62 102 103, /05] or iodine, hydrogen fluoride, and parapeiiodic aud [104], with fluormated olefins (equations 8-10) are especially well studied because the perfluoroalkyl iodide products are useful precursors of surfactants and other fluorochemicals Somewhat higher temperatures are required compared with reactions with hydrocarbon olefins Additions of bromine fluoride, from bromine and bromine trifluonde, to perfluonnated olefins are also known [lOti]... 

Generally, the addition of chlonne or bromine to tnfluoroacetonitrile leads to a mixture of partially halogenated imines, amines and azo alkanes [270, 271] In special cases, such as the HgF2-mediated addition of bromine, N,N dihaloper-fluoro-2-alkylamines can be obtained in good yields [272]... 

Table 6.3 shows that the effect of substituents on the rate of addition of bromine to alkenes is substantial and consistent with a rate-detennining step in which electrons flow from the alkene to the halogen. Alkyl groups on the carbon-carbon double bond release electrons, stabilize the transition state for bromonium ion fonrration, and increase the reaction rate. 

Solutions of the radical cations of 65b (R = H, Me, Ph) were conveniently generated by the addition of bromine to dichloromethane solutions of the correspondingTTDAF (93CC1226 94JOC2997). All radical cations exhibit similar spectra with g = 2.0071. In the case of R = H, Me, the signal con-... 

To the best of our knowledge, the hrst paper which mentioned an A-(l-haloalkyl)pyridinium compound appeared 66 years ago in the Chemische Berichte (Krohnke 33CB1386). Tlie author described the reaction of phenacyl pyridinium derivatives 1 with bromine in acetic acid to give the halides 2 (36CB2006 37CB864). Tire addition of bromine to the double bonds of A-vinylpyridinium salts 3 and 4 giving the adducts 5 and 6 has also been reported (51CB399) (Scheme 1). 

More expedient from the preparative point of view is the method based on compounds 6, which can be obtained in high yields by the addition of bromine to (3-methyltellurovinylaldehydes [96ZOK1434 97JOM(536-537)233], When treated in benzene solution with ammonia, (3-methyldibromotellurovinylaldehydes 6 afford isotellurazoles lg,h in about 70% yields [97DOK(357)504], The key step of the reaction is the elimination of a molecule of methyl bromide from the intermediate imine 7. 

However, addition of bromine is accompanied by bromination of 3,5-dimethyl-pyrazolate and pyrazolate ligands at position 4, which is blocked in 4-methyl-pyrazolate. The product of electrochemical oxidation of 175 (R -- R = Me, R = Br) is 177 (R = R = Me, R = Br, X = CIO4). Chlorination proceeds similarly to bromination. 

In reaction with an alkene, initially a three-membered ring Lewis acid/Lewis base-complex 5 is formed, where the carbon-carbon double bond donates r-electron density into the empty p-orbital of the boron center. This step resembles the formation of a bromonium ion in the electrophilic addition of bromine to an alkene ... 

Azaloxan (12) is an antidepressant agent. Its synthesis can be accomplished starting with the reaction of catechol (7) and 3,4-dibromobutyronitrile (obtained by addition of bromine to the olefin) to give l,4-benzodioxan-2-ylacetonitrile (8). A series of functional group transformations ensues [hydrolysis to the acid (9), reduction to the alcohol (10) and conversion to a tosylate (11)] culminating in an SN-2 displacement reaction on tosylate 11 with l-(4-piperidinyl)-2-imidazolidi-none to give azaloxan (12) [3]. 

Substituted and benzo-annulated oxepins readily undergo addition of bromine across the nonaromatic double bond. Bromination of 3,6-bridged oxepins can occur in two different ways, either as a 1,2-addition164 or as formal 1,4-addition to the diene system of the corresponding benzene oxide to give products i.129 138-140 164... 

Azabicyclo[4.1.0]hept-3-enes, e. g. 13, are available from 1,4-dihydrobenzenes 12 by the route indicated, and are useful precursors for the synthesis of specifically substituted 1//-azepines free from isomeric contamination.61 For example, low temperature addition of bromine to bicycle 13 yields the dibromo derivative 14 which, with powdered sodium methoxide in tet-rahydrofuran, undergoes a double dehydrobromination followed by electrocyclic ring opening of the resulting 7-azabicyclo[4.1.0]hepta-2,4-diene 15 to give methyl l//-azepine-l-carboxylate (16). 

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