Naming the Benzenes

Many monosubstituted benzenes are named by adding a substituent prefix to the word 

There are three possible arrangements of disubstituted benzenes. These arrangements are designated by the prefixes 1,2- (ortho, or o-) for adjacent substituents, 1,3 (meta-, or m-) for 1,3-disubstitution, and 1,4 (para-, orp-) for 1,4-disubstimtion. The substituents are listed in alphabetical order. 

2-DichIorobenzene l-Bromo-3-mtrobenzene l-Ethyl-4-(l-methylethyl)benzene 

To name tri- and more highly substituted derivatives, the six carbons of the ring are numbered so as to give the substituents the lowest set of numbers, as in cyclohexane nomenclature. 

1 -Bromo-2,3-dimethylbenzene 1,2,4-Trinitrobenzene 1 -Ethenyl-3-ethyl-5-ethynylbenzene 

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Name the benzene ring as a substituent with the name phenyl. 

Place 100 g. of adipic acid in a 750 ml. round-bottomed flask and add successively 100 g. (127 ml.) of absolute ethyl alcohol, 250 ml. of sodium-dried benzene and 40 g. (22 ml.) of concentrated sulphuric acid (the last-named cautiously and with gentle swirling of the contents of the flask). Attach a reflux condenser and reflux the mixture gently for 5-6 hours. Pour the reaction mixture into excess of water (2-3 volumes), separate the benzene layer (1), wash it with saturated sodium bicarbonate solution until eflfervescence ceases, then with water, and dry with anhydrous magnesium or calcium sulphate. Remove most of the benzene by distillation under normal pressure until the temperature rises to 100° using the apparatus of Fig. II, 13, 4 but substituting a 250 ml. Claisen flask for the distilling flask then distil under reduced pressure and collect the ethyl adipate at 134-135°/17 mm. The yield is 130 g. 

The skeletal rearrangement of various strained cyclic compounds is carried out with a catalytic amount of soluble complexes of PdCl2. Namely, the rearrangements of bulvalene (67) to bicyclo[4.2.2]deca-2,4,7,9-tetraene (68)[54], cubane (69) to cuneane (70)[55], hexamethyl Dewar benzene (71) to hexa-methylbenzene (72)[56], and 3-oxaquadricyclanes[57] and quadricyclane (73) to norbornadiene[58-60] take place mostly at room temperature. Reaction of iodocubane (74) with a terminal alkyne catalyzed by Pd(0) and CuBr unexpectedly affords an alkynylcyclooctatetraene 75, without giving the desired cubylalkyne 76. Probably the rearrangement is a Pd-catalyzed reaction[61]. 

In these examples the base name of the benzene derivative determines the carbon at which numbering begins anisole has its methoxy group at C 1 toluene its methyl group... 

When the benzene ring is named as a substituent the word phenyl stands for CgH5— Similarly an arene named as a substituent is called an aryl group A benzyl group IS CgHjCH,—... 

An old name for benzene was phene and its hydroxyl derivative came to be called phe nol This like many other entrenched common names is an acceptable lUPAC name Likewise o m and p cresol are acceptable names for the various ring substituted hydroxyl derivatives of toluene More highly substituted compounds are named as deriv atives of phenol Numbering of the ring begins at the hydroxyl substituted carbon and proceeds m the direction that gives the lower number to the next substituted carbon Sub stituents are cited m alphabetical order... 

When side chains of two or more different kinds are attached to a cyclic component, only the senior side chain is named by the conjunctive method. The remaining side chains are named as prefixes. Likewise, when there is a choice of cyclic component, the senior is chosen. Benzene derivatives may be named by the conjunctive method only when two or more identical side chains are present. Trivial names for oxo carboxylic acids may be used for the acyclic component. If the cyclic and acyclic components are joined by a double bond, the locants of this bond are placed as superscripts to a Greek capital delta that is inserted between the two names. The locant for the cyclic component precedes that for the acyclic component, e.g., indene-A - -acetic acid. 

The first of the benzene polycarboxyUc acids to become a commercial product was phthabc acid, mosdy in the form of the anhydride. The anhydride is obtained by the catalytic vapor-phase air oxidation of o-xylene or naphthalene. The lUPAC name of phthabc anhydride is 1,3-isobenzofurandione... 

The first characterized derivative substituted in the benzene rings, namely 105c, arose ftom eleciropolymerized indole-5-carboxylic acid, and could be isolated... 

If several groups are attached to the benzene ring, their names as well as their relative positions should be indicated. For example, dimethylbenzene or xylene, CgH (CH,)2, has three geometric isomers, with prefixes ortho-, meta-, and para-, indicating the relative positions of the two methyl groups. 

Use of hyphens single- and multiple-word names. The general rule is to determine whether the parent is itself an element or compound. If so, then the name is written as a single word if not, then the name is written as multiple words. Methylbenzene is written as one word, for instance, because the parent—benzene—is itself a compound. Diethyl ether, however, is written as two words because the parent—ether—is a class name rather than a compound name. Some further examples follow ... 

Phenyl (Section 15.1) The name for the -C6H5 unit when the benzene ring is considered as a substituent. A phenyl group is abbreviated as -Ph. 

As the name suggests, LABs consist of a benzene nucleus to which an alkyl chain is bound. The alkyl chain shows a distribution of carbon chain lengths dependent on the cut of the starting material, while point of attachment to the benzene ring (phenyl isomer distribution) is governed to a large extent by the manufacturing process. 

Aromatic compounds are named by giving the substituents on the benzene ring the lowest numbers. When the benzene ring is itself named as a substituent, it is called a phenyl group. 

When the two groups in disubstituted benzenes are different, the same three isomers are possible that are possible when the substituents are the same. Compounds with two different substituents are usually named as positional derivatives of a monosubstituted (parent) compound. Above, the common (and commercial) name for methylbenzene is toluene, and the chlorinated derivatives are named as shown above. However, the same two chlorinated derivatives can also be properly named 2-chloromethylbenzene and 4-chloromethylbenzene. In this case, for naming, the parent compound is methylbenzene and it is understood that the methyl group is in the 1-position. The terms ortho- (1,2-), meta- (1,3-), and para- (1,4-) are also sometimes used for example, 2-chlorotoluene can be called ortho-c Aoioio -uene. This can be very confusing, but in the chemical industry, outside of the research labs, the common names for the parent compounds are almost always used. 

Fluoran (1) is the commonly used name for the spiro [isobenzofuran- 1,9 -xanthen]-3-one. Benzo[a]fluoran (2) has the benzene ring fused to the 1-and 2-positions of the xanthene moiety. Fusion at the 3- and 4-positions gives benzo[c]fluoran (3). Numbering of the atoms is employed as shown in 1-3. 

The kinetics of formation and dissociation of the Ca2+, Sr2+ and Ba2+ complexes of the mono- and di-benzo-substituted forms of 2.2.2, namely (214) and (285), have been studied in water (Bemtgen et al., 1984). The introduction of the benzene rings causes a progressive drop in the formation rates the dissociation rate for the Ca2+ complex remains almost constant while those for the Sr2+ and Ba2+ complexes increase. All complexes undergo first-order, proton-catalyzed dissociation with 0bs — kd + /ch[H+]. The relative degree of acid catalysis increases in the order Ba2+ < Sr2+ < Ca2+ for a given ligand. The ability of the cryptate to achieve a conformation which is accessible to proton attack appears to be inversely proportional to the size of the complexed metal cation in these cases. 

Another factor influencing the reactivities of polar particles is their nonspecific solvation. Since both the individual particles, namely phenol and peroxyl radicals and their complex are polar, rate constants must depend on the polarity of the medium, its permittivity s, in particular. This was confirmed in experiments with mixtures of benzene and methylethyl-ketone, which showed that kq diminishes as the concentration of methylethylketone decreases provided the hydrogen bonding between the benzene and methylethylketone molecules are taken into account [10]. The dependence of ogkq on the medium permittivity s is described by the formula... 

It is interesting that attachment of — ( 2)4— and —CH2CH=CHCH2— to benzene results in nearly the same enthalpy of formation change but it is not obvious how fortuitous this equality is we have reasons for considerable skepticism of its validity68. That formation of naphthalene from benzene is accompanied by a lessened enthalpy of formation increase than that of l,6-methano[10]annulene (yet another name for species 90) from tropilidene would appear to be more of a strain than a resonance derived effect. From Roth, we find the resonance energy increase on going from tropilidene to l,6-methano[10]annulene is 55 kJmol-1 and from benzene to naphthalene the increase is nearly the same, nearly 59 kJmol-1. By contrast, the l,5-methano[10]annulene (99) is less stable by 77 kJmol 1 than the species it appears most naturally to be compared with, namely the isomeric 90. 

Consider now the one ring-substituted fulvene for which we have a measured enthalpy of formation, namely the ring tetramethylated derivative 131 with its value of 83 kJ mol-1. If benzene is the appropriate paradigm for fulvene, then reaction 37 is expected to be... 

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