Naphthols, tautomerism

Nitroso dyes are metal-complex derivatives of o-nitrosophenols or naphthols. Tautomerism is possible in the metal-free precursor between the nitrosohydroxy tautomer (76) and the quinoneoxime tautomer (77). 

These naphthols tautomerized via the Ullmann-Fetvadjian reaction to ketones (Scheme 82) (1903CB1027, 49JCS670, 50JCS1146, 51JCS2871,... 

Naphthalimide, methylation of, 255 Naphthols, tautomerism of, 5 Naphtho-r,2, 4,5-selenazoles, 350 Nicotinic acid derivatives, metal catalysts, action on, 183, 186 Nitrones, 84, 88, 92, 99... 

In mordant dyes, phenols, naphthols, and enolizable carbonyl compounds, such as pyrazolones, are generally the couplers. As a rule, 2 1 metal complexes are formed ia the afterchroming process. A typical example of a mordant dye is Eriochrome Black T (18b) which is made from the important dyestuff iatermediate nitro-l,2,4-acid, 4-amiQO-3-hydroxy-7-nitro-l-naphthalenesulfonic acid [6259-63-8]. Eriochrome Red B [3618-63-1] (49) (Cl Mordant Red 7 Cl 18760) (1, 2,4-acid — l-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone) is another example. The equiUbrium of the two tautomeric forms depends on the nature of the solvent. 

Heterocyclic compounds carrying hydroxyl groups may be compared with phenols. Thomson has reviewed the tautomeric behavior of phenols often both tautomeric forms of polycyclic compounds such as naphthols can be isolated. Early work on hydroxy-thiophenes and -furans was also reviewed by Thomsond but until recently their chemistry has been in a somewhat confused state. A pattern is now beginning to emerge, at least for the a-substituted compounds, which appear to exist as A -oxo derivatives and to attain equilibrium slowly with the corresponding A -oxo forms. For the a-hydroxy compounds, the equilibrium generally favors the A -oxo form. 

Naphthol 1 is initially protonated at a carbon center of high electron density (C-2 or C-4). The cationic species 3 thus formed is stabilized by resonance it can add a bisulfite anion at C-3. The addition product can tautomerize to give the more stable tetralone sulfonate 4 the tetralone carbonyl group is then attacked by a nucleophilic amine (e.g. ammonia). Subsequent dehydration leads to the cation... 

Dyes based on 4-phenylazo-l-naphthol (6) have been used extensively to study azo/hydrazone tautomerism since they exist as an equilibrium mixture of both the azo and hydrazone tautomers.8 However, they are of little use commercially and of no use whatsoever for metal complex azo dyes since the hydroxy group is not ortho to the azo group so these cannot act as chelating ligands. 

The l-phenylazo-2-naphthol (7) and particularly the 2-phenylazo-l-naphthol (8) systems are used extensively, providing many of the commercial metal complex azo colorants. Azo pigments are derived from (7) whilst azo dyes are obtained from (8). Both these types of colorant exist predominantly, if not exclusively, in the hydrazone tautomeric form.8,9... 

The solvent effect on the azo-hydrazone equilibrium of 4-phenylazo-l-naphthol has been modelled using ab initio quantum-chemical calculations. The hydrazone form is more stable in water and in methylene chloride, whereas methanol and iso-octane stabilise the azo form, The calculated results were in good agreement with the experimental data in these solvents. Similar studies of l-phenylazo-2-naphthol and 2-phenylazo-l-naphthol provided confirmation. Substituent effects in the phenyl ring were rationalised in terms of the HOMO-LUMO orbital diagrams of both tautomeric forms [53]. 

Tautomerism both in the solid state and in solution is confirmed by infrared spectroscopic measurements on all three compounds [54,55]. The highest content of ketohydrazone form within the three isomeric phenylazonaphthols occurs, in solution, with 2-phenylazo-l-naphthol [56]. A 15N-n.m.r. study of some azo dyes derived from H acid and related intermediates has confirmed the dominance of the ketohydrazone tautomer [57]. Similar findings have been obtained using high-field H- and 13C-n.m.r. spectroscopy [58]. 

In a similar investigation of the tautomeric tridentate ligand 2 -hydroxyphenylazo-2-naphthol (5.65 in Scheme 5.17), the first and second acidic dissociation constants (pKa) related to the two hydroxy groups in the parent structure (X = H) were found to be 11.0 and 13.75 respectively. On introduction of an electron-withdrawing substituent (X) the first dissociation constant decreased from 11.0 to 10.55 (X = Cl) or 7.67 (X = N02). The stability constants (log K1 1) of the derived 1 1 complexes were dependent on the metal ion introduced [46], being particularly high for nickel(n) at 19.6 and copper(II) at 23.3. 

Tautomerism exists in the case of o- and p-nitrosophenols and naphthols which exist mainly as the quinone oximes, and which also give high field shifts. The values for the oxime groups in the 1,2-naphthoquinones, for example, were 229 and 265 ppm for the 1-oxime and the 2-oxime respectively. 

The asymmetric allylic C-H activation of cyclic and acyclic silyl enol ethers furnishes 1,5-dicarbonyl compounds and represents a surrogate of the Michael reaction [136]. When sufficient size discrimination is possible the C-H insertion is highly diastereoselective, as in the case of acyclic silyl enol ether 193 (Eq. 22). Reaction of aryldia-zoacetate 192 with 193 catalyzed by Rh2(S-DOSP)4 gives the C-H insertion product 194 (>90% de) in 84% enantiomeric excess. A second example is the reaction of the silyl enol ether 195 with 192 to form 196, a product that could not be formed from the usual Michael addition because the necessary enone would be in its tautomeric naphthol form (Eq. 23). 

Routes to benzoxadiazoles are based on approaches to the tautomeric 6-diazo-2,4-cyclo-hexadienones (Scheme 11) <9UST(247)135>. The appropriate 2-aminophenol hydrochloride is diazo-tized using either sodium nitrite or isoamyl nitrite and the diazonium chloride is then carefully neutralized with sodium carbonate or potassium carbonate. An alternative approach is from the monotosylhydrazone of the appropriate o-benzoquinone. Naphthoxadiazole (6) was prepared, in a manner analogous to the first route of Scheme 11, from 3-amino-2-naphthol <91AG(E)1476>. A slightly modified preparation is described in a later paper the method was applied to the synthesis of [9a- C]naphth[2,3-( ]-l,2,3-oxadiazole from 3-amino-[2- C]-2-naphthol <92Mi 403-03>. 

The first step in either direction consists of addition of NaHSO-, to one of the double bonds of the ring, which gives an enol (or enamine) that tautomerizes to the keto (or imine) form. The conversion of 10 to 11 (or vice versa) is an example of 6-14 (or 6-2). Evidence for this mechanism was the isolation of 10 " and the demonstration that for p-naphthol treated with ammonia and HSOj. the rate of the reaction depends only on the substrate and on HSOi. indicating that ammonia is not involved in the rate-determining step.112 If the starting compound is a (i-naphthol, the intermediate is a 2-keto-4-suIfonic acid compound, so the sulfur of the bisulfite in either case attacks meta to the OH or NH2-m... 

The phenomenon of azo—hydrazone tautomerism is firmly established75 in the benzeneazo-phenol, -naphthol, and -anthranol series, the azo form predominating in the first of these (65), the hydrazone form in the second (66), whilst the third exists exclusively in the hydrazone form (67). The situation is less clear in the analogous o-aminodiarylazo series. Thus, whilst it is known that o-aminoazobenzene (68) exists exclusively in the azo form, it has not been established whether... 

Rate and equilibrium constants have been measured for representative intramolecular aldol condensations of dicarbonyls.60a For the four substrates studied (32 n = 2, R = Me n = 3, R = H/Me/Ph), results have been obtained for both the aldol addition to give ketol (33), and the elimination to the enone (34). A rate-equilibrium mismatch for the overall process is examined in the context of Baldwin s rales. The data are also compared with Richard and co-workers study of 2-(2-oxopropyl)benzaldehyde (35), for which the enone condensation product tautomerizes to the dienol60b (i.e. /(-naphthol). In all cases, Marcus theory can be applied to these intramolecular aldol reactions, and it predicts essentially the same intrinsic barrier as for their intermolecular counterparts. 

It is also possible to examine the effect of oxygen substituents on the stability of arenonium ions. Wirz has studied keto-enol equilibria for phenol,151 naphthol (Wirz J, Personal communication), and anthrol.152,153 The tautomeric constants may be combined with p/y,s for protonation of the keto tautomer and ionization of the phenol to provide pifas f°r protonation of the aromatic ring of phenol and the phenoxide ion. As illustrated in Scheme 18 the unstable keto tautomer of phenol 22 was produced by photolysis of the bicyclooctene dione 21. Except in the case of the anthrone a pA a for protonation of the keto tautomer has not been measured directly. However, values can be estimated from the pfor protonation of the 4,4-dimethylated analog136 with a correction for the substituent effect of the methyl groups. 

Azo/hydrazone tautomerism was discovered in 1884 [3], The same orange dye was obtained by coupling benzenediazonium chloride with 1-naphthol and by condensing phenylhydrazine with 1,4-naphthoquinone. The expected products were the azo dye (62) (R=H) and the hydrazone (63) (R=H). It was correctly assumed that there was an equilibrium between the two forms, i.e., tautomerism. 

Burawoy, A., and A. R. Thompson The Effect of Solvents on the Tautomeric Equilibria of 4-Arylazo-l-Naphthols and the ortho-Effect. J. chem. 

Although 2-hydroxy-5-tcrt-butylazobenzene (29) exists as a true azo compound, annelation of the benzene ring results in 1,2-naphthoquinone 1-phenylhydrazone (35, R = H) and 1,2-naphthoquinone 2-phenylhydrazone (34, R = H) being in a prevailing tautomeric form in compounds derived from 1-naphthol and 2-naphthol. 4-Hydroxyazobenzene (32) and l-hydroxy-4-phenylazonaphthalene (36, R = H) exist in DMSO as true azo compounds. Next step in annelation of the benzene ring in the passive component led to anthracene derivatives. These compounds exist almost completely in hydrazone tautomeric forms (>95%) irrespective of the fact they were formally derived from 1-hydroxyanthraquinone or 2-hydroxyanthraquinone.50 15N chemical shifts show nicely the dramatic changes for compounds 32, 36, (R = H) and 1,4-anthraquinone phenylhydrazone (44). 

Heating o-nitrosophenols with hydroxylamine is reported to give furazans, naphtho[l,2-c]furazan (95) being formed from both l-nitroso-2-naphthol and 2-nitroso-l-naphthol, presumably by oximation of the tautomeric o-naphthoquinone monooximes and subsequent dehydration. Compound (95) has also been prepared by oxidation, using alkaline ferri-cyanide or hypochlorite, of l-amino-2-nitroso- and 2-amino-l-nitroso-naphthalene. This latter approach is suitable for heterocyclic fused furazans thus 4,6-diamino-5-nitrosopyrimidine is converted into the furazanopyrimidine (96) by oxidation with lead tetraacetate (71JOC3211). In a similar reaction alkaline hypochlorite oxidizes o-nitrosoacetaniiide to benzofurazan in quantitative yield. 

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