Nitro compounds partial reduction

Sulfide reduction employs sodium sulfide, sodium polysulfide, or sodium hydrosulfide. An important feature of this type of reducing system is its adaptability to bring about stepwise reduction of dinitro compounds. Partial reduction is illustrated with m-dinitro-benzene, which can be reduced to m-nitro-aniline with sodium sulfide under controlled conditions ... 

Formic acid is a good reducing agent in the presence of Pd on carbon as a catalyst. Aromatic nitro compounds are reduced to aniline with formic acid[100]. Selective reduction of one nitro group in 2,4-dinitrotoluene (112) with triethylammonium formate is possible[101]. o-Nitroacetophenone (113) is first reduced to o-aminoacetophenone, then to o-ethylaniline when an excess of formate is used[102]. Ammonium and potassium formate are also used for the reduction of aliphatic and aromatic nitro compounds. Pd on carbon is a good catalyst[103,104]. NaBH4 is also used for the Pd-catalyzed reduction of nitro compounds 105]. However, the ,/)-unsaturated nitroalkene 114 is partially reduced to the oxime 115 with ammonium formate[106]... 

The complete reduction of nitro-compounds which contain several nitro-groups is carried out in the same way as in the case of mononitro-derivatives. If, however, only partial reduction is desired, the use of ammonium hydrosulphide is advantageous. 

A special use of sodium arsenite (applied in aqueous alkaline solutions) is partial reduction of trigeminal halides to geminal halides [220] and reduction of aromatic nitro compounds to azoxy compounds [221]. 

With the exception of the nitroso stage, all the intermediate stages of the reduction of nitro compounds can be obtained by controlled catalytic hydrogenation [572], and all reduction intermediates were prepared by reduction with appropriate hydrides or complex hydrides. However, the outcome of many hydride reductions is difficult to predict. Therefore more specific reagents are preferred for partial reductions of nitro compounds. 

Six derivatives of this system have been reported. Compound (113) was obtained by successive nitration of 3,4-dimethoxyphenyl tellurium trichloride (112) and partial reduction of the resulting 6-nitro derivative of (112) (Equation (10)). Compounds (47a)-(47c) were obtained by reaction of the oximes (114a)-(114c) with tellurium dioxide (Equation (11)) <86USP4607000,87USP4661438). 

Nitro compounds in presence of carbonyl group are selectively reduced to amines in the presence of Raney nickel catalyst. Hydrazine reduces nitrdes yielding hydrazones. Under controlled reaction conditions other functional groups, including nitroso and oxime, may be reduced. Many partially hydrogenated derivatives, such as azo-, hydrazo-, and azoxy compounds may be obtained by partial reduction with hydrazine. Reaction with chlorobenzene yields benzene. 

The reduction of aromatic nitro compounds to the corresponding amines was catalyzed by [Ru3(CO)i2] in combination with aliphatic amine cocatalysts (95). A mixture of diglyme and water was used as a solvent, turnover frequencies were about 5000 h-1, and a CO partial pressure of 20-50 atm was necessary. The reaction is highly selective for aromatic amines. It was speculated that the reaction proceeds via an intramolecular hydrogen transfer in a hydrido-metal-nitrene intermediate without prior formation of H2 in the water gas shift reaction. 

Aminobenzo[6]thiophene is prepared from 7-hydroxybenzo[6]-thiophene by means of the Bucherer reaction it may be converted into 7-nitrobenzo[6]thiophene via the diazonium salt.84 5,7-Diamino-3-phenylbenzo[6]thiophene and its 2-carboxylic acid are prepared by reduction of the corresponding dinitro compound.334 Partial reduction of o,7-dinitro-3-phenylbenzo[6]thiophene-2-carboxylic acid with ethanolic ammonium sulfide affords 7-amino-5-nitro-3-phenylbenzo-[6]thiophene-2-carboxylic acid, the amino group of which may be replaced by hydrogen or iodine via the diazonium salt.334 7-Amino-4-methoxybenzo[6]thiophene is mentioned in the patent literature.560... 

A reaction of 4-nitro-l,2-phenylendiamine with benzotrichloride in the presence of sodium methylate [367] has been described. In this case 2-phenyl-5(6)-nitroben-zimidazole is obtained without preliminary extraction of the ortho-ester of benzoic acid. Sometimes acylated polynitroanilines, with one of the groups in the orthoposition to the amino group, are used as the initial products. On partial reduction of such compounds the cyclization to benzimidazoles takes place [85, 368], For example, the reduction of 2,4-dinitroacetanilyde with ammonium sulfide has afforded 2-methyl-5(6)-nitrobenzimidazole (Scheme 2.41) [85],... 

With dinitro compounds in which the nitro groups are in the 2 and 4 positions relative to an alkyl, hydroiqrl, alkoxy, or amino group, partial reduction usually leads to reduction of the 2-nitro group. 

Analogous Sulfonations. Exactly the same method can be used for sulfonating p-nitrochlorobenzene, p-nitrotoluene, o-m trochlorobenzene, chlorobenzene, and many other compounds. On the other hand, it is usually not possible to sulfonate dinitaro compounds in this way. Dinitrochlorobenzene and dinitrotoluene are decomposed explosively by treatment with fuming sulfuric acid. If dinitrochloro-benzenesulfoitic acid is to be prepared, for example, one starts with p-nitrochloro-benzene/ This is sulfonated, as described previously, and the sulfonic acid is converted to dinitrochlorobenzenesulfonic acid by treatment with mixed acid (50 50 sulfuric and nitric acids) at low temperatures. This product yields, on replacement of the chlorine by —OH and partial reduction, 4-nitro-2-aminophenol-6-sulfonic acid (nitro acid III), which is used in preparing chrome dyes. 

Iron is not a suitable reducing agent for use when only one of several nitro groups present is to be reduced, or when a nitro compound is to be reduced without altering azo groups which are present. These partial reductions are usually carried out technically with hydrogen sulfide in the form of sodium sulfide (NaaS) or sodium hydrosulfide (NaSH). This reduction method is not limited to partial reductions it frequently finds use in the anthraquinone series for reducing... 

Partial reduction of aromatic polynitro compounds leads to nitro amines. The most successful reagents are the alkali metal or ammonium sulfides in aqueous alcoholIn some instances, sodium bicarbonate combined with sodium sulfide gives better results because of the formation of sodium hydrosulfide, which is believed to be the main reducing agent. Also, aqueous methanol is preferred to aqueous ethanol. Nitro compounds that are sparingly soluble in alcohol solutions may be reduced by hydrogen sulfide in pyridine solution. ... 

An example of nucleophilic substitution combined with a partial reduction of the nitro group was given by Davis and co-workers (74 -76 J. They examined the action of phenylacetonitryl anion on nitrobenzene and found that it formed a substitution compound with a p-quinoid ring according to scheme (14) ... 

Manufacture of many important amino intermediates used for dyes and other purposes is usually by conversion or replacement of a substituent. For example, as already mentioned, in substituted nitro compounds, the nitro groups may be reduced with iron/hydrochloric acid, hydrogen and catalyst, or zinc in aqueous alkali. Partial reductions can be brought about with sodium sulfide. Amino groups may be introduced by replacing halogens in the aromatic ring. Another approach to amination is by attack on a substituted aromatic compound with ammonia or amines. Thus, for example, direct amination of p-chloronitrobenzene (15a) in the presence of a copper catalyst affords p-nitroaniline (15b) in almost quantitative yield l,4-dichloro-2-nitrobenzene (16) is converted in a similar way to 4-chloro-2-nitroaniline (17). Reactions of ammonia with carboxylic acids or anhydrides are carried out on an industrial scale. 

Under the influence of suitable reducing agents, nitro-compounds undergo a partial reduction in such a way that two molecules enter into combination. There are thus obtained first the azoxy-, then the azo-, and finally the hydrazo-compound, which in order to distinguish them from the compounds obtained in Reaction 3 may be called dimolecular intermediate reduction products. ... 

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