In diazotization

Ditrosonium hydrogen sulphate, chamber crystals, NOHSO4. White solid m.p. 73°C (decomp.). Prepared SO2 and fuming nitric acid. Used in diazotization. 

Barium nitrite [13465-94-6] Ba(N02)2, crystallines from aqueous solution as barium nitrite monohydrate [7787-38-4], Ba(N02)2 H2O, which has yellowish hexagonal crystals, sp gr 3.173, solubihty 54.8 g Ba(NO2)2/100 g H2O at 0°C, 319 g at 100°C. The monohydrate loses its water of crystallization at 116°C. Anhydrous barium nitrite, sp gr 3.234, melts at 267°C and decomposes at 270 °C into BaO, NO, and N2. Barium nitrite may be prepared by crystallization from a solution of equivalent quantities of barium chloride and sodium nitrite, by thermal decomposition of barium nitrate in an atmosphere of NO, or by treating barium hydroxide or barium carbonate with the gaseous oxidiation products of ammonia. It has been used in diazotization reactions. 

Amine oxides, prepared to protect tertiary amines during methylation and to prevent their protonation in diazotized aminopyridines, can be cleaved by reduction (e.g., SO2/H2O, 1 h, 22°, 63% yield H2/Pd-C, AcOH, AC2O, 7 h, 91% yield Zn/HCl, 30% yield). Photolytic reduction of an aromatic amine oxide has been reported [i.e., 4-nitropyridine A-oxide, 300 nm, (MeO)3PO/CH2Cl2, 15 min, 85-95% yieldl. ... 

Belyaev et al. (1989) demonstrated that weakly basic aromatic amines which have a low solubility in diazotizing systems can be diazotized smoothly and with excellent yields (>97%) in mixtures of acetic acid and polyphosphoric acid. 

It has already been pointed out that nitrosation is probably the first step in diazotization. Ingold (1952) describes the reaction as N-nitrosation and classifies it as an electrophilic substitution, together with related processes such as the formation of 4-nitrosophenol, an example of a C-nitrosation. It was probably Adamson and Kenner (1934) who first applied these ideas to diazotization and realized that in aniline itself the electron density at the nitrogen atom is greater than in the anilinium ion, so that the base is more reactive. On the other hand, the nitrosoacidium ion (3.1), the addition product of nitrous acid and a proton, is a more powerful electrophilic reagent than the HN02 molecule. They therefore represented the first step of diazotization as in Scheme 3-5. 

Analogies for such a mechanism in diazotization are found in the nitrous acid-catalyzed nitration of A,A-dimethylaniline, mesitylene, 4-nitrophenol, and some related compounds, which were investigated by 15N NMR spectroscopy in Ridd s group (Ridd and Sandall, 1981 Ridd et al., 1992 Clemens et al., 1984a, 1984b, 1985 Johnston et al., 1991 review Ridd, 1991). Ridd and coworkers were able to demonstrate clearly that not only the nitration proper, but also the preceding C-nitrosation, is accompanied by a marked 15N nuclear polarization. This was at-... 

In summary, it is now more likely that the solvated nitrosyl ion, not the nitroso-acidium ion, is the nitrosating agent in diazotizations. 

The rate-limiting step in diazotizations with nitrosyl halides can in some cases be the formation of the nitrosyl halide (Scheme 3-26) this occurs with very reactive aniline derivatives (Hughes and Ridd, 1958). Alternatively it can be the deprotona-... 

As discussed in the three preceding sections, the key intermediate in diazotizations is the A-nitroso derivative of the primary amine, the formation of which is usually the rate-determining step of diazotization. The subsequent steps are faster and therefore not easily accessible to study. The sequence of protonation, deprotonation, protonation, and dehydration in Scheme 3-36 seems to be the most reasonable mechanism. 

A quantitative determination of a heteroaromatic diazotization equilibrium has been made only recently. Diener et al. (1989) determined the equilibrium concentrations of thiazole-2-diazonium ion in diazotization of 2-aminothiazole with nitrosyl sulfuric acid in 70% H2SO4. The two reagents were applied in equimolar concentrations of 0.001, 0.01 and 0.1 m. If the concentration ratios (RNJ)oo/(RNH2) = r are... 

Bersier and coworkers29 published a list of 20 aromatic and heteroaromatic amines whose stabilities in diazotization systems have been investigated. Aqueous systems are harmless, even with amines containing one or two nitro groups (provided that they can be diazotized at all in water). In 96% sulfuric acid, diazotizations of aminoanthraquinones are not dangerous this is also the case for heteroaromatic amines in mixtures of sulfuric acid... 

The rates of diazotizations in nitrosylsulfuric acid can be increased favorably by the addition of acetic or propionic acid. A mixture of the two acids is frequently used as an additive in diazotizations of heteroaromatic amines, as it has a lower melting point than acetic acid (0 °C or lower), but little is mentioned about it in the scientific literature... 

Principally the same, but chemically simpler, sequence was used to prepare arylnitro anion-radicals from arylamines, in high yields. For instance, aqueous sodium nitrite solution was added to a mixture of ascorbic acid and sodium 3,5-dibromo-4-aminobenzenesulfonate in water. After addition of aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, the cation-radical of sodium 3,5-dibromo-4-nitro-benzenesulfonate was formed in the solution. The latter was completely characterized by its ESR spectrum. Double functions of the nitrite and ascorbic acid in the reaction should be underlined. Nitrite takes part in diazotization of the starting amine and trapping of the phenyl a-radical formed after one-electron reduction of the intermediary diazo compound. Ascorbic acid produces acidity to the reaction solution (needed for diazotization) and plays the role of a reductant when the medium becomes alkaline. The method described was proposed for ESR analytical determination of nitrite ions in water solutions (Lagercrantz 1998). 

In diazotizing w-nitroaniline sulfate, it is necessary to add the sodium nitrite as rapidly as possible in order to prevent any of the diazonium salt from coupling with undia/.otized m-nitroaniline and forming a yellow precipitate of diazoamino compound. The presence of the excess of sulfuric acid, which does not interfere with the formation of the t-nitrophenol, tends to avoid this same difficulty. 

Hetaryl-2-aminothiazoles, 178-182 Hetaryne, in diazotations, 67 Heterocyclization of 2-imino-4-thiazoline, 127... 

In 1896 Knorr and Stolz succeeded in diazotizing 4-amino-1-phenyl-2,3-dimethylpyrazole and so obtained the first diazonium salt with a pyrazole nucleus.26 Much later, Morgan and Reilly diazotized 4-amino-3,5-dimethylpyrazole and studied the reactions of the resultant diazonium salt (49).27,28 In aqueous solution it coupled with /3-naphthol and the crystalline diazonium chloride was quite stable. However, these workers did not isolate the free diazo compound. The diazo compounds can be readily obtained by treating the... 

Hydrochloric acid is usually employed in diazotizations in aqueous solutions because it gives, in general, the most soluble salts with aromatic amines. If sulfuric acid is used, only 0.5 mole is used in place of I mole of hydrochloric acid. 

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