In trifluoroacetic acid

Cations like that present in (iv) exist in solutions of aromatic hydrocarbons in trifluoroacetic acid containing boron trifluoride, and in liquid hydrogen fluoride containing boron trifluoride. Sulphuric acid is able to protonate anthracene at a mero-position to give a similar cation. ... 

Fluoroalkjiations are frequentiy performed indirectly using tandem reactions. Arenes react with sodium borohydride in trifluoroacetic acid to afford otherwise difficult to obtain l,l,l-trifluoro-2,2-diarylethanes. Presumably sodium borohydride reacts initially with the trifluoroacetic acid to produce the trifluoroacetaldehyde or its equivalent, which rapidly undergoes Friedel-Crafts-type condensation to give an intermediate carbinol. The carbinol further alkylates ben2ene under the reaction conditions giving the observed product. The reaction with stericaHy crowded arenes such as mesitylene and durene... 

Catalytic reduction of folic acid to 5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolic acid (225) proceeds fast in trifluoroacetic acid (66HCA875), but a modified method using chemical reductants leads with sodium dithionite to 7,8-dihydrofolic acid (224). Further treatment with sodium borohydride gives (225) which has been converted into 5-formyl-(6i ,S)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-L-folic acid (leucovorin) (226) by reaction with methyl formate (equation 70) (80HCA2554). 

Surprisingly, there are very few examples of successful fV-oxidation of pyrazoles. Simple fV-alkylpyrazoles generally do not react with peracids (B-76MI40402,77JCS(P1)672). The only two positive results are the peracetic acid (hydrogen peroxide in acetic acid) transformation of 1-methylpyrazoIe into 1-methylpyrazole 2-oxide (268) in moderate yield and the peroxy-trifluoroacetic acid (90% hydrogen peroxide in trifluoroacetic acid) transformation of 5-amino-l-methylpyrazoIe into l-methyl-5-nitropyrazoIe 2-oxide (269). 

The (9-isobomyl- and (9-[l-(5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)ethyl]-derivatives do not undergo rearrangement, but are very labile in trifluoroacetic acid (100% cleaved in 5 min). The cyclohexyl and isopropyl derivatives are more stable to acid, but undergo some rearrangement. The cyclohexyl group combines minimal rearrangement with ready removal. ... 

Palladium (II) trifluoroacetate [42I96-3I-6] M 332.4, m 210"(dec). Suspend in trifluoroacetic acid and evaporate on a steam bath a couple of times. The residue is then dried in vacuum (40-80°) to a brown powder. [J Chem Soc 3632 7965 J Am Chem Soc 102 3572 1980.]... 

Potassium trifluoroacetate [2923-16-2] M 152.1, m 140-142°, pK 0.52 (for CFjCOjH). To purify dissolve the salt in trifluoroacetic acid with ca 2% of trifluoroacetic anhydride, filter and evaporate carefully to dryness (avoid over heating), and finally dry in a vacuum at 100°. It can be recrystallised from trifluoroacetic acid (solubility in the acid is ca 50.1%). [J Am Chem Soc 74 4746 1952, 76 4285 1954-, J Inorg Nucl Chem 9 166 1959.]... 

Let us now return to the question of solvolysis and how it relates to the stracture under stable-ion conditions. To relate the structural data to solvolysis conditions, the primary issues that must be considered are the extent of solvent participation in the transition state and the nature of solvation of the cationic intermediate. The extent of solvent participation has been probed by comparison of solvolysis characteristics in trifluoroacetic acid with the solvolysis in acetic acid. The exo endo reactivity ratio in trifluoroacetic acid is 1120 1, compared to 280 1 in acetic acid. Whereas the endo isomer shows solvent sensitivity typical of normal secondary tosylates, the exx> isomer reveals a reduced sensitivity. This indicates that the transition state for solvolysis of the exo isomer possesses a greater degree of charge dispersal, which would be consistent with a bridged structure. This fact, along with the rate enhancement of the exo isomer, indicates that the c participation commences prior to the transition state being attained, so that it can be concluded that bridging is a characteristic of the solvolysis intermediate, as well as of the stable-ion structure. ... 

Molecular bromine is believed to be the reactive brominating agent in uncatalyzed brominations. The brominations of benzene and toluene are first-order in both bromine and the aromatic substrate in trifluoroacetic acid solution, but the rate expressions become more complicated when these reactions take place in the presence of water. " The bromination of benzene in aqueous acetic acid exhibits a first-order dependence on bromine concentration when bromide ion is present. The observed rate is dependent on bromide ion concentration, decreasing with increasing bromide ion concentration. The detailed kinetics are consistent with a rate-determining formation of the n-complex when bromide ion concentration is low, but with a shift to reversible formation of the n-complex... 

The postulated intermediates of the reaction, the 5-haloamines, can be isolated when the irradiation is performed in trifluoroacetic acid. 

Because of Us high polarity and low nucleophilicity, a trifluoroacetic acid medium is usually used for the investigation of such carbocationic processes as solvolysis, protonation of alkenes, skeletal rearrangements, and hydride shifts [22-24] It also has been used for several synthetically useful reachons, such as electrophilic aromatic substitution [25], reductions [26, 27], and oxidations [28] Trifluoroacetic acid is a good medium for the nitration of aromatic compounds Nitration of benzene or toluene with sodium nitrate in trifluoroacetic acid is almost quantitative after 4 h at room temperature [25] Under these conditions, toluene gives the usual mixture of mononitrotoluenes in an o m p ratio of 61 6 2 6 35 8 A trifluoroacetic acid medium can be used for the reduction of acids, ketones, and alcohols with sodium borohydnde [26] or triethylsilane [27] Diary Iketones are smoothly reduced by sodium borohydnde in trifluoroacetic acid to diarylmethanes (equation 13)... 

The reduction is general for a variety of substituted benzophenones Such substituents as CH3 OH, OCH3, F, Br. N(CH3)2, NO2. COOH, COOCH3, NHCOC Hreaction conditions and do not alter the course of the reduction Diarylmethanols are reduced to diarylmethanes under the same conditions and probably are the intermediates in the reduction of ketones [26] Triethylsilane also can be used as a reducing agent in trifluoroacetic acid medium [27J This reagent is used for the reduction of benzoic acid and some other carboxylic acids under mild condiUons (equation 14) Some acids (phthalic, sue cinic, and 4-nitrobenzoic) are not reduced under these conditions [27]... 

Trifluoroacetic acid is a useful medium for a number of oxidation reactions It IS highly resistant to strong oxidants, even to permanganates and chromates For instance, various alkanes, cycloalkanes, and arenes can be oxidized degradatively by potassium permanganate in trifluoroacetic acid under mild conditions [28]... 

Step n When the peptide is completely assembled, it is removed from the resin by treatment with hydrogen bromide in trifluoroacetic acid. 

Protect glycine as its Boc derivative and anchor this to the solid support. Remove the protecting group and treat with Boc-protected phenylalanine and DCCI. Remove the Boc group with HCl then treat with FIBr in trifluoroacetic acid to cleave Phe-Gly from the solid support. 

The salts of some enamines crystallize as hydrates. In such cases it is possible that they are derived from either the tautomeric carbinolamine or the amino ketone forms. Amino ketone salts (93) ( = 5, 11) can serve as examples. The proton resonance spectra of 93 show that these salts exist in the open-chain forms in trifluoroacetic acid solution, rather than in the ring-closed forms (94, n = 5, 11). The spectrum of the 6-methylamino-l-phenylhexanone cation shows a multiplet at about 2.15 ppm for phenyl, a triplet for the N-methyl centered at 7.0 ppm and overlapped by signals for the methylene protons at about 8.2 ppm. The spectrum of 93 ( = 11) was similar. These assignments were confirmed by determination of the spectrum in deuterium oxide. Here the N-methyl group of 93 showed a sharp singlet at about 7.4 ppm since the splitting in —NDjMe was much reduced from that of the undeuterated compound. 

BBr3, CH2CI2, -10°, 1 h —> 25°, 2 h, 80-100% yield. Benzyl carbamates of larger peptides can be cleaved by boron tribromide in trifluoroacetic acid, since the peptides are more soluble in acid than in methylene chloride.""... 

Phenotellurazine bis(trifluoroacetates) can be obtained by the oxidation of A-methylphenotellurazines with lead dioxide in trifluoroacetic acid solution. The... 

The irradiation of thiazole did not give any interesting products [69JCS(CC) 1018]. However, 2-, 4-, and 5-methylthiazole gave the corresponding isothiazoles in low yields when irradiated in trifluoroacetic acid (Scheme 31) (93JOC3407). 

Triazine 4-oxides 55 react with phenols (phenol, 2,6-dimethylphenol, resorcinol, 4-hexyh esorcinol) in trifluoroacetic acid in a similar way, yielding intermediate (T -adducts 5-hydroxyphenyl-4-hydroxy-4,5-dihydro-l,2,4-triazines 61. Subsequent oxidation leads to the corresponding 5-hydroxyphenyl-l,2,4-triazine 4-oxides 62 (97MC116). 

A) A solution of (SMI (320 mg) in trifluoroacetic acid (7 ml) was kept under nitrogen at room temperature for 15 minutes. Ether (100 ml) was added and the precipitate filtered, washed thoroughly with ether and dried. This material (280 mg) was added to concentrated sulfuric acid (20 ml), cooled at -20°C. The solution was kept in the dry ice-acetone bath at -20°C for 75 minutes. The sulfuric acid solution was poured into ice water (80 ml). The precipitate was centrifuged, resuspended in ice water (30 ml) and 4N sodium hydroxide was added until a clear solution was obtained. After reacidification to pH 4 with dilute sulfuric acid, the precipitate formed was centrifuged, washed twice with ice water and dried. Yield 155 mg. Chromatograph of DEAE Sephadex (with ammonium carbonate buffer) yielded the desired octa-peptide sulfate ester 30 mg. 

The bicyclic oxepin 8//-3-oxacyclohept[d]oxepin-8-one dissolved in trifluoroacetic acid undergoes a rearrangement to the expected phenol derivative 1. Substituents in the 2- and/or 7-position of the oxepin part, however, give rise to the formation of l-acylazulen-6-ols 2 by ring contraction.148 The 2,7-diphenyl derivative affords a mixture of l-benzoyl-2-phenylazulen-6-ol (37%), l-benzoyl-2-phenylazulen-6(l//)-one (35%), and 2-phenylazulen-6-ol (23%), which was presumably formed via the azulenone and a shift of the benzoyl substituent to the oxygen. 

Pyrrolo[l,2-a]azepin-5-one (11), prepared by cyclization of methyl 5-(pyrrol-2-yl)penta-2,4-dienoate (10) with sodium hydride in toluene, in trifluoroacetic acid solution forms the diatropic 5-hydroxypyrrolo[1,2-a]azepinium ion 12.216 6-Methyl-5//-pyrrolo[l,2-tf]azepin-5-one(mp41 -43 C), formed in low yield (20%) by the action of [(ethoxycarbonyl)methylene]triphenylphos-phorane on 4-(pyrrol-2-yl)but-3-en-2-one, behaves similarly. 

Also. 77/-pyrrolo[l,2-fl]azepin-7-ones, e.g. 22, available by the thermal rearrangement of 1-azaspiro[4.5]dcca-l,3,6,9-tetraen-8-ones 21, in trifluoroacetic acid form the deep-blue 7-hy-droxypyrrolo[l,2-tf]azepinium cations, e.g. 23.219 In hot 48 % hydrobromic acid, however, the spiro compound 21 is re-formed. 

On heating with sodium borohydride in glacial acetic acid. 5//-dibenz[/t,/ azepine (5) undergoes sequential acylation and reduction to yield 5-ethyl-5/7-dibcnz[A,/ ]azepine (8, R = Et).192 Similarly, reduction in trifluoroacetic acid produces the trifluoroethyl derivative 8 (R = CF3CH2 61% mp 69-70 C).193... 

In contrast to the Vilsmeier formylation the formylation with trimethyl orthoformate in trifluoroacetic acid proceeds with high selectivity so that only the /3-monoformylated deuteroporphyrin derivatives 8 are formed without any methinc substituted or diformylated products.1073 6... 

Finally, rates of mercuration have been measured using mercuric trifluoro-acetate in trifluoroacetic acid at 25 °C450. The kinetics were pure second-order, with no reaction of the salt with the solvent and no isomerisation of the reaction products rate coefficients (10 k2) are as follows benzene, 2.85 toluene, 28.2 ethylbenzene, 24.4 i-propylbenzene, 21.1 t-butylbenzene, 17.2 fluorobenzene, 0.818 chlorobenzene, 0.134 bromobenzene, 0.113. The results follow the pattern noted above in that the reaction rates are much higher (e.g. for benzene, 690,000 times faster than for mercuration with mercuric acetate in acetic acid) yet the p factor is larger (-5.7) if the pattern is followed fully, one could expect a larger... 

Kinetic isotope effects have also been measured in trifluoroacetic acid-di-chloromethane and are discussed under (d) below. 

Traditional methods for bromination of toluene with bromine and a catalyst result in relatively low / ara-selectivity. For example, bromine in acetic acid gives rise to approximately a 4 1 mixture of the para- and ort/to-bromotoluenes (ref. 4). The para-selectivity is enhanced in trifluoroacetic acid so that approximately 90 % of the para-isomer is produced, but greater selectivity than this is unusual. 

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