Nickel substituents

Gassman and co-workers developed a synthetic route from anilines to indoles and oxindoles which involves [2.3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of anilinosul-fonium ylides. These can be prepared from Ai-chloroanilines and ot-thiomcthyl-ketones or from an aniline and a chlorosulfonium salt[l]. The latter sequence is preferable for anilines with ER substituents. Rearrangement and cyclizalion occurs on treatment of the anilinosulfonium salts with EtjN. The initial cyclization product is a 3-(methylthio)indole and these can be desulfurized with Raney nickel. Use of 2-(methylthio)acetaldehyde generates 2,3-unsubstituled indoles after desulfurization[2]. Treatment of 3-methylthioindoles with tri-fiuoroacetic acid/thiosalieylie acid is a possible alternative to Raney nickel for desulfurization[3]. 

Fig. 3. Liquidus isotherms of gold—cooper—nickel alloys and phase diagrams of the binary substituents (85).

Several types of nitrogen substituents occur in known dye stmetures. The most useful are the acid-substituted alkyl N-substituents such as sulfopropyl, which provide desirable solubiUty and adsorption characteristics for practical cyanine and merocyanine sensitizers. Patents in this area are numerous. Other types of substituents include N-aryl groups, heterocycHc substituents, and complexes of dye bases with metal ions (iridium, platinum, zinc, copper, nickel). Heteroatom substituents directly bonded to nitrogen (N—O, N—NR2, N—OR) provide photochemically reactive dyes. 

The anticonvulsant primidone (1035) resembles phenobarbital but lacks the 2-oxo substituent. It was introduced in 1952 and has remained a valuable drug for controlling grand mal and psychomotor epilepsy. As might be expected, primidone is metabolized to yield phenobarbital (1034 X = 0) and C-ethyl-C-phenylmalondiamide (1036), both of which have marked anticonvulsant properties however, primidone does have intrinsic activity and an appropriate mixture of its metabolites has only a fraction of its activity (73MI21303). Primidone may be made in several ways, of which desulfurization by Raney nickel of the 2-thiobarbiturate (1034 X = S) or treatment of the diamide (1036) with formic acid (at 190 °C) seem to be the most satisfactory (54JCS3263). 

Reduction of the halogen substituent has been carried out by different procedures such as catalytic hydrogenation using palladium-carbon or Raney nickel, red phosphorus and hydroiodic acid, and zinc and sulfuric acid (66AHQ6)347). 3-Deuteropyrazole has been... 

Inspection of Table I shows that the yields of 2,2 -bipyridines obtainable from a substituted pyridine in the reaction with degassed Raney nickel depend on the nature of the substituents and their positions in the ring. 

Dinitroarenes containing substituents such as hydroxyl or amino groups are reduced with 3 mol equiv of hydrazine hydrate in the presence of Raney nickel to afford selectively a compound in which only one nitro group is reduced. In general, the main product is derived by reduction of the more hindered nitro function. For example,... 

Nucleoside N -oxides have proved useful in preventing intramolecular cyclizations during manipulation of the sugar moiety. A key step is the reductive removal of the oxide when needed. In the presence of Raney nickel, the oxide can be reduced selectively even when such easily reduced substituents as iodo are present. Azides, however, are reduced concomitantly with the oxide 105). 

Nickel and palladium react with a number of olefins other than ethylene, to afford a wide range of binary complexes. With styrene (11), Ni atoms react at 77 K to form tris(styrene)Ni(0), a red-brown solid that decomposes at -20 °C. The ability of nickel atoms to coordinate three olefins with a bulky phenyl substituent illustrates that the steric and electronic effects (54,141) responsible for the stability of a tris (planar) coordination are not sufficiently great to preclude formation of a tris complex rather than a bis (olefin) species as the highest-stoichiometry complex. In contrast to the nickel-atom reaction, chromium atoms react (11) with styrene, to form both polystyrene and an intractable material in which chromium is bonded to polystyrene. It would be interesting to ascertain whether such a polymeric material might have any catal3dic activity, in view of the current interest in polymer-sup-ported catalysts (51). 

The systematic synthesis and spectral examination of a large series of complexes, M(ol)n, ra = 1-3, M = Ni or Pd, has been performed (140 -142), with special reference to the optical spectra of the products, again affirming the usefulness of the technique for observing spectral trends as a function of substituent (see later). A number of interesting points emerged from this study, some of which have already been alluded to. The optical data for the nickel and palladium complexes respectively are reported in Tables XVI and XVII. 

The reaction of alcohols with arylbromides and nickel or copper catalysts, in presence of base, has been investigated comparatively in regard to the influence of the metals, of the ligands, of the base, of the primary or secondary alcohols and of the substituents on the arylbromide. The best conditions, with bipyNiBr2 in presence of KHCO3 at 125°C, afford quantitative yields in the phenylalkyl ethers from the primary alcohols. 

In a few cases, it is possible to remove an oxygen substituent directly from the aromatic ring. Treatment of an aryl mesylate (ArOMs) with a nickel catalyst in DMF, for example, leads to the deoxygenated product, Ar—H." ... 

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