Nitro isomer

The case of i-methyl-4-quinolone is puzzling. The large proportion of the 3-nitro isomer formed in the nitration (table 10.3 cf. 4-hydroxyquinoline) might be a result of nitration via the free base but this is not substantiated by the acidity dependence of the rate of nitration or by the Arrhenius parameters. From r-methyl-4-quinolone the total yield of nitro-compounds was not high (table ro.3). 

Davies and Warren have investigated the nitration of naphthalene, ace-naphthene and eight dimethylnaphthalenes in acetic anhydride at o °C. Rates relative to naphthalene were determined by the competition method, and the nitro-isomers formed were separated by chromatographic and identified by spectrophotometric means. The results, which are summarised in the table, were discussed in terms of various steric effects, and the applicability of the additivity rule was examined. For the latter purpose use was made of the data of Alcorn and Wells (table 10.2) relating to the nitration of monomethyl-naphthalenes at 25 °C. The additivity rule was found to have only limited utility, and it was suggested that the discrepancies might be due in part to the... 

The nitro isomer is weaMy acidic the nitronic acid isomer (aci form) is much more acidic. A comparison of the ionisation constants of the two forms ki water at 25°C is given ki Table 4. 

The iacreased chemical stabiUty of the 6-deoxytetracyclines allows chemical modification with retention of biological activity electrophilic substitutions have been carried out at C-7 and C-9 under strongly acidic conditions (46—53). Reactions of 6-deoxy-6-demethyltetracycline [808-26-4] (16), C21H22N2O7, with electrophiles, such as nitrate ion (49), bromomium ion (46,47) (from N-bromosuccinimide), or N-hydroxymethylphthalimide (53), yielded 7-substituted tetracyclines. In the case of the nitration reaction, both the 7- and 9-nitro isomers (17, X = NO2, Y = H) and (17, X = H, Y = NO2) were obtained. 

Nitration of cinnolin-4(lFf)-one yields a mixture of the 3-nitro (0.9%), 5-nitro (0.38%), 6-nitro (58.4%), 7-nitro (0.36%) and 8-nitro (39.9%) derivatives. The 3-nitro isomer is postulated to result from nitration of the free base, while the other mononitro isomers are formed from the protonated molecule. 

Both 4-nitrocinnoline 1-oxide and the 5-nitro isomer give 4,5-dinitrocinnoline 1-oxide when treated with fuming nitric and sulfuric acids. Cinnoline 1-oxide also reacts with benzoyl chloride/silver nitrate to give 3-nitrocinnoline 1-oxide in 71% yield. 

Nitration of a series of methyl-1,2-benzisoxazoles was studied by Tahkar and Bhawal using fuming nitric acid and sulfuric acid in acetic acid at 100 °C. 3-Methyl-1,2-benzisoxazole gave a mixture of 5-nitro- and 5,7-dinitro-3-methyl-l,2-benzisoxazole, with the 5-nitro isomer predominant. The product obtained from 3,5-dimethyl-1,2-benzisoxazole was the 4-nitro derivative and not the 7-nitro compound as proposed by Lindemann (26LA(449)63). The synthesis of the 7-nitro compound by an alternative method was used as structural proof. Two products were obtained from 3,6-dimethyl-l,2-benzisoxazole and these were the 5-nitro and 5,7-dinitro derivatives. 3,7-Dimethyl-l,2-benzisoxazole was converted into the 5-nitro derivative (Scheme 25) (77lJC(B)l06l). 

The impurities present in aromatic nitro compounds depend on the aromatic portion of the molecule. Thus, benzene, phenols or anilines are probable impurities in nitrobenzene, nitrophenols and nitroanilines, respectively. Purification should be carried out accordingly. Isomeric compounds are likely to remain as impurities after the preliminary purifications to remove basic and acidic contaminants. For example, o-nitrophenol may be found in samples ofp-nitrophenol. Usually, the ri-nitro compounds are more steam volatile than the p-nitro isomers, and can be separated in this way. Polynitro impurities in mononitro compounds can be readily removed because of their relatively lower solubilities in solvents. With acidic or basic nitro compounds which cannot be separated in the above manner, advantage may be taken of their differences in pK values (see Chapter 1). The compounds can thus be purified by preliminary extractions with several sets of aqueous buffers... 

The absolute rate of dissociation of the radical anion of /i-nitrobenzyl chloride has been measured as 4 x 10 s . The w-nitro isomer does not undergo a corresponding reaction. This is because the meta nitro group provides no resonance stabilization of the benzylic radical. 

Mononitration of a mixture of J- and 4 chlorobenzotnfluondes followed by nucleophilic substitution by hydroxide, ammonia, or a primary or secondary amine in dimethylformamide, leads to 5 chloro 2 nitrobenzotrifluoride The 4-chloro-3-nitro isomer selectively reacts and can be removed as a water-soluble phenoxide [19] (equation 16)... 

An ipso attack on the fluorine carbon position of 4-fIuorophenol at -40 °C affords 4-fluoro-4-nitrocyclohexa-2 5-dienone in addtion to 2-nitrophenol The cyclodienone slowly isomenzes to the 2-nitrophenol Although ipso nitration on 4-fluorophenyl acetate furnishes the same cyclodienone the major by-product is 4 fluoro-2,6-dinitrophenol [25] Under similar conditions, 4-fluoroanisole pnmar ily yields the 2-nitro isomer and 6% of the cyclodienone The isolated 2 nitro isomer IS postulated to form by attack of the nitromum ion ipso to the fluorine with concomitant capture of the incipient carbocation by acetic acid Loss of the elements of methyl acetate follows The nitrodienone, being the keto tautomer of the nitrophenol, aromatizes to the isolated product [26] (equation 20) Intramolecular capture of the intermediate carbocation occurs in nitration of 2-(4-fluorophenoxy)-2-methyIpropanoic acid at low temperature to give the spiro products 3 3-di-methyl-8 fluoro 8 nitro-1,4 dioxaspiro[4 5]deca 6,9 dien 2 one and the 10-nitro isomer [2d] (equation 21)... 

In a synthesis of minocycline, interesting use was made of a reductive alkylation of a nitro function, accompanied by loss of a diazonium group. The sequence provides a clever way of utilizing the unwanted 9-nitro isomer that arises from nitration of 6-demethyl-6-deoxytetracycline (//). When di-azotization was complete, urea and 40% aqueous formaldehyde were added, and the entire solution was mixed with 10% palladium-on-carbon and reduced under hydrogen. No further use of this combined reaction seems to have been made. 

The hydroxypentammine is a useful starting material for the nitro and nitrito linkage isomers, the nitrito form separating under mild conditions but transforming to the nitro isomer on standing, especially when heated. 

Nitro-l,2-benzenediamine (127) gave mainly 2-decyl-6-nitroquinoxaline (128) (CioH2iCCl2CHO H20-dioxane, pH 9, by NajCOsi, reflux, 2 h 34% after separation from a little of the 7-nitro isomer). 

Nitro-l,2-benzenediamine (152) and chloroacetonitrile (153) gave 6-nitro-3,4-dihydro-2-quinoxalinamine (154), apparently without 7-nitro isomer (Et3N, p-xylene, reflux, 6 h 47%). ... 

Bis(4-methylpiperazine-l-yl)-6-nitroquinoxaline (33, R = N02) gave 2,3-bis(4-methylpiperazin-l-yl)-6-quinoxalinamine (33, R = NH2) (Pd/C, H2, 1 atm, dilute HCl, 20°C, h 60%) ° similar treatment of the 5-nitro isomer gave the 5-quinoxalinamine in 15% yield, but sulfide reduction gave a much better yield (cf. analog (45) later in this section). 

These authors observed that in 80% aqueous ethanol, the rates were pseudo first order in bromostyrene, except for the P-NO2-isomer, which did not react even at 190° C. The products of reaction in the cases where X = NH2, CH3CONH, and CH3O were exclusively the corresponding acetophenones and, for X = H, 74% acetophenone and 22% phenylacetylene. Reaction rates were found to increase with solvent polarity as well as addition of silver ion, but they were independent of added triethylamine (except in the very unreactive p-nitro isomers, where in the presence of added amine, a second-order reaction ensued that resulted exclusively in p-nitrophenylacetylene as product). 

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