Nitrobenzoyl

Occasionally benzoyl chloride gives a product which does not crystallise well in such cases the difficulty may frequently be overcome by using p-nitrobenzoyl chloride, N02C,H4C0C1, or 3,5-dinitrobenzoyl chloride, (NOiljCjHjCOCl (p. 240), which usually give highly crystalline derivatives. 

A crystalline derivative of benzyl alcohol cannot be obtained by using benzoyl chloride, because the benzyl benzoate, C HiCOOCHiCaHj, so obtained has m.p. 18°, and is thus usually liquid the present preparation illustrates therefore the use of a substituted benzoyl chloride (p-nitrobenzoyl chloride, m.p. 75°) in order to obtain a crystalline derivative of suitably high m.p. 

Place I ml. of benzyl alcohol in a boiling-tube and add 6 ml. of 10% sodium hydroxide solution add also 6 ml. of water to moderate the subsequent reaction, otherwise the rise in temperature may cause hydrolysis of some of the ester produced. Now add r-q g. of finely powdered />-nitrobenzoyl chloride, and shake the well-corked tube vigorously. The mixture becomes warm, and the solid ester rapidly... 

Derivatives of higher melting point may be obtained withp-nitrobenzoyl chloride the experimental details are similar to those given above for benzoyl chloride. 3 5-Dinitrobenzoyl chloride (Section 111,27,7) may also be used glycerol gives unsatisfactory results with this reagent. 

The benzoyl compounds frequently occlude traces of unchanged benzoyl chloride, which thus escape hydrolysis by the caustic alkali it is therefore advisable, wherever possible, to recrystaUise the benzoyl derivatives from methyl, or ethyl alcohol or methylated spirit, since these solvents will esterify the unchanged chloride and so remove the latter from the recrystalKsed material. Sometimes the benzoyl compound does not crystallise well this difficulty may frequently be overcome by the use of p-nitrobenzoyl chloride or 3 5-dinitro-benzoyl chloride, which usually give highly crystalline derivatives of high melting point (see Section IV,114j. 

The esters formed with p-nitrobenzoyl chloride and 3 5-dinitrobenzoyl chloride (see Section 111,27,1 and 2 and Section IV,205) must be Includ under this heading. 

Either an oil bath (maintained at 210-215° for a pressure of 20 mm.) or an air bath must be used. If the flask is heated with a free flame, superheating will occur leading to decomposition (sometimes violent) of the p-nitrobenzoyl chloride. 

CAUTION. The preparation of o-nitrobenzoyl chloride, o-nitrophenacetyl chloride and all o nitroacid chlorides should not be attempted by the above methods a violent explosion may occur upon distilling the product or when the last traces of thionyl chloride are removed in vacuo at 100°. Perhaps the safest method is to treat the pure acid in benzene solution with 1 1 mols of thionyl chloride and to reflux until evolution of sulphur dioxide and hydrogen chloride has ceased the solution of the acid chloride in benzene may then bo employed for most reactions. 

R = cyl), eg, with -nitrobenzoyl chloride. Upon reaction with lead tetraacetate, di(hydroperoxyalkyl) peroxides can also be converted to cycHc diperoxides (4). They are also converted to symmetrical or unsymmetrical cycHc triperoxides (5) in the presence of a second ketone and a catalyst, eg, CuSO -HCl (44,119). 

Arninobenzoyl-L-glutarnic acid (12) is obtained by condensation of -nitrobenzoyl chloride [122-04-3] (18) with L-glutamic acid [56-86-0] (19) under Schotten-Baumann conditions. This is followed by reduction of the nitro group with either sodium hydrogen sulfide (29) or by electrochemical methods (30). 

An investigation of acylaziridines was carried out by comparison of IR, NMR and MS data and included some 1,2-dibenzoylaziridines as well as 2-p-nitrobenzoyl-3-phenyl-oxaziridine (68IZV1530). Amide conjugation in acylated nitrogen-containing three-membered rings is weaker than in open chain acid amides. 

In some cases acid amide formation was observed on attempted deprotonation at oxaziridine ring carbon. 2-r-Butyl-3-(4 -nitrophenyl)oxaziridine (67) was converted to the anion of acid amide (68) by sodium amide (69TL3887), while 2-(4 -nitrobenzoyl)-3-phenyl-oxaziridine (69) afforded the diacylimide (70) by addition of cyclohexylamine to its benzene solution at room temperature (67CB2593). 

Ring enlargement of A-acyl compounds, generally observed with oxaziridines, is observed only occasionally with diaziridines. Under more forced conditions of acylation with acetic anhydride, oxadiazolines like (139) were obtained (76MIP50800). A 4-nitrobenzoyl derivative rearranged at room temperature (76JOC3229). 

Nitrobenzoyl chloride [122-04-3] M 185.6, m 75 , b 155 /20mm. Crystd from dry pet ether (b 60-80°) or CCI4. Distilled under vacuum. Irritant. 

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