Lithium bromide dioxide

Bromobenzotellurophene ° A mixture of 2.0 g (19.6 mmol) of phenylacetylene, 1.0 g (6.3 mmol) of tellurium dioxide, 2.0 g (23 mmol) of lithium bromide aud 50 uiL of acetic acid is heated uuder reflux for 20 h, cooled to 20°C, aud poured iuto 150 uiL of diethyl ether. Aqueous sodium hydrogeu carbouate solutiou (5%) is added uutil all the acid has beeu ueutralized. The orgauic phase is separated, dried with auhydrous calcium chloride, fdtered aud evaporated. The browu, oily residue is dissolved iu a mixture of 30 mL of carbou tetrachloride aud 10 mL of petroleum ether (b.p. 30 0°C). Chloriue is carefully bubbled through this solutiou uutil precipitatiou of the product ceases. The yellow precipitate is filtered and recrystallized from acetonitrile. Yield 2.2 g (92%) m.p. 263-265°C. 

The trapping of lithiohalocyclopropanes by carbon dioxide, aldehydes and acid chlorides, respectively, constitutes a useful route to the corresponding cyclopropanecarboxylic acids, alcohols and ketones. In the case of ketones an intramolecular loss of lithium bromide may take place yielding spiroepoxides which in turn may be isomerized to cyclobutanones. 

Lithium-base greases, especially the stearate, are efficient over an extremely wide temperature range up to 160°C. Lithium hydroxide (LiOH) is a component of the electrolyte in alkaline storage batteries and is employed in the removal of carbon dioxide in submarines and space capsules. Lithium bromide (LiBr) brine is used for air conditioning and dehumidification. Lithium hypochlorite (LiOCl) is a dry bleach used in commercial and home laundries. Lithium chloride (LiCl) is in demand for low-temperature batteries and for aluminum brazing. Other uses of lithium compounds include catalysts, glass manufacture, and, of course, nuclear energy. 

The rrans-diacetoxycyclohexane was almost the sole product when the refluxing mixture contained tellurium dioxide and lithium bromide3. 2-Chloro-l-decyl tellurium trichloride in refluxing acetic acid in the presence of tellurium dioxide and lithium bromide formed 1,2-diacetoxydecane3. 

When tellurium dioxide, lithium bromide, and the semicarbazone of methyl phenyl ketone reacted in acetic acid, 6-bromobenzotellurophene was isolated in 9% yield1. 

Acenaphtho[l,2-c]-1,2,5-oxatellurazolium chloride was similarly prepared in 46% yield1,2. Naphtho[2,l-c]-l, 2,5-oxatellurazolium bromide was produced when the oxime of a-tetralone, tellurium dioxide, and lithium bromide were refluxed in glacial acetic acid for 20 minutes1,2. 

Li/S02 Cells Lithium/sulfur dioxide cells (Li/SC>2) are perhaps one of the most advanced lithium battery systems. They belong to the soluble cathode cells category. Liquid SO2 is used as cathode a lithium foil is used as anode, and lithium bromide dissolved in acetonitrile is used as electrolyte. The active cathode material is held on an aluminum mesh with... 

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The cells of lithium-sulfur dioxide system are largely similar to thionyl chloride-lithium cells. Similar to thionyl chloride, liquefied SO2 can simultaneously play the role of an oxidant and a solvent. However, the vapor pressure over liquefied SO2 is much higher than the vapor pressure over thionyl chloride, and dielectric permeability of SO2 is, on the contrary, lower than that of thionyl chloride. It is for this reason that the solvent used is not pure SO2, but its mixture with acetonitrile or acetonitrile and propylene carbonate. The lithium salt used is commonly bromide and, in some variants, chloroaluminate, perchlorate, tetrafluoroborate, orhexafluoroarsenate. 

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The electrolytes acting as cathodes are mixed with a suitable electrolyte salt and with or without an organic co-solvent. The most important examples are thionylchloride with lithium chloride and sulfur dioxide with acetonitrile and lithium bromide. The organic co-solvent again ensures low viscosity and low melting points for good deep temperature operation. 

FIGURE 14.6 Conductivity of acetonitrile/lithium bromide/sulfur dioxide electrolyte (70% SOj). 

The Li/S02 system uses a basic cell structure consisting of a lithium anode, a separator, and a Tetionated carbon cathode, similar to one used in the Li/SOCl2 system, which serves as the reaction site. The electrolyte solution commonly employed contains a mixture of lithium bromide (LiBr), acetonitrile (AN), and sulfur dioxide (SO2), which also serves as the active cathode material. 

Honeywell Inc. and the Mallory Battery Company in the USA have introduced lithium batteries based on the lithium-sulphur dioxide electrochemical couple. The positive active material in these batteries, liquid sulphur dioxide, is dissolved in an electrolyte of lithium bromide, acetonitrile and propylene carbonate, and is reduced at a porous carbon electrode. 

The system uses a lithium anode, a gaseous sulphur dioxide cathode (about 70% of the weight of the electrolyte depolarizer) and an electrolyte comprising lithium bromide dissolved in acetonitrile. 

Figure 24.2 The change in lithium bromide-sulphur dioxide electrolyte conductivity during discharge at 25°C (Courtesy of Honeywell)...

Honeywell have described their work on the development of an alternative electrolyte for a multi-cell lithium-sulphur dioxide resen e battery. In developing a multi-cell lithium reserve battery, the lithium bromide-sulphur dioxide acetonitrile electrolyte system used in their primary batteries was found to be unstable when stored by itself at high temperature - a functional capability required for all resen e applications. In addition to consumption of the oxidant sulphur dioxide in reactions causing instability, some of the products of electrolyte degradation arc solid, which would cause nrajor problems in activation. Primary active cells after storage do not undergo such degradation reactions. 

As lithium bromide appeared to initiate the reactions causing electrolyte instabilities, Honeywell investigated other lithium salts for use in reserve battery electrolytes and concluded that lithium hexafluoro-arsenate (LiAsFe) combined with acetonitrile and sulphur dioxide was a suitable electrolyte, which did not exhibit discoloration or deposition of solids during storage. Table 24.1 compares the performance of batteries made up using the lithium bromide- and lithium hexafluoroarsenate-based electrolytes. Clearly, the 0.5 molal lithium hexafluoroarsenate electrolyte is functionally equivalent or superior to the lithium bromide electrolyte. 

The zinc chloride is acting here as a Lewis acid. Similarly, thiirane dioxides react with metal halides such as lithium and magnesium chlorides, bromides and iodides in ether or THF to give the halo-metal sulfmates (130) in fair yields157. 

Treatment of 19b with phenylmagnesium bromide gives diphenylacetylene (66) and the salt of benzenesulfmic acid Lithium aluminium hydride reacts with 19b similarly. These ring-opening reactions are similar to the reactions of organometallic reagents with the analogous thiirane dioxides (equation 17 above). 

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