Nucleophilic aromatic substitution nitrobenzene

C-Methylation products, o-nitrotoluene and p-nitrotoluene, were obtained when nitrobenzene was treated with dimethylsulfoxonium methylide (I)." The ratio for the ortho and para-methylation products was about 10-15 1 for the aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction. The reaction appeared to proceed via the single-electron transfer (SET) mechanism according to ESR studies. 

Arylations of nitro compounds can be achieved by aromatic nucleophilic substitution using aromatic nitro compounds, as discussed in Chapter 9.100 Komblum and coworkers reported displacement of the nitro group of nitrobenzenes by the anion of nitroalkanes. The reactions are usually carried out in dipolar aprotic solvents such as DMSO or HMPA, and nitroaromatic rings are substituted by a variety of electron-withdrawing groups (see Eq. 5.63).101... 

The regioselective functionalization of nitrobenzene and benzonitrile derivatives has been performed via nucleophilic aromatic substitution of hydrogen by phosphorus-stabilized carbanions.41 Lithium phosphazenes have been found to be the most suitable nucleophiles for the substitution of hydrogen in nitrobenzene. This method represents a convenient alternative to the vicarious nucleophilic substitution for the synthesis of benzylic phosphorus derivatives using phosphorus-stabilized anions that do not bear a leaving group at the carbanionic centre. 

I In electrophilic and nucleophilic substitution of aromatic nitro compounds different directing effects are dictated by electron distribution. The simple case of nitrobenzene rr-electron distribution is given in diagram Fig. 14a [2],and the Ifree valence of aromatic cations of nitrobenzene C KsNOi is given in Fig. I4h... 

A variety of methods for the direct amination of nitrobenzene, that do not require halogenated aromatic compounds, have been reported, including both vicarious (eliminative) [16, 17,19,42] and oxidative versions of nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen. Recently, we have described the aminatimi of 1,3-dinitrobenzene promoted by fluoride ions through photochemical activation [43], Also, the use of KMn04 as oxidant is of great practical value [3,44]. 

Figure 11.5 Aromatic nucleophilic substitution of 1-fluoro-4-nitrobenzene with cyclic amines in a microreactor setup. (Reproduced with permission from Ref [25]. Copyright 2005, the Royal Society of Chemistry.)...

Angrish et al. (2005) reported a rapid and efficient method for aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction of chloronitrobenzene with number of substituted amines in presence of l-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid (green reaction media) to give N-substituted nitrobenzene under microwave irradiation. 

Amination of aromatic nitro compounds is a very important process in both industry and laboratory. A simple synthesis of 4-aminodiphenyl amine (4-ADPA) has been achieved by utilizing a nucleophilic aromatic substitution. 4-ADPA is a key intermediate in the rubber chemical family of antioxidants. By means of a nucleophibc attack of the anilide anion on a nitrobenzene, a o-complex is formed first, which is then converted into 4-nitrosodiphenylamine and 4-nitrodiphenylamine by intra- and intermolecular oxidation. Catalytic hydrogenation finally affords 4-ADPA. Azobenzene, which is formed as a by-product, can be hydrogenated to aniline and thus recycled into the process. Switching this new atom-economy route allows for a dramatic reduction of chemical waste (Scheme 9.9).73 The United States Environmental Protection Agency gave the Green Chemistry Award for this process in 1998.74... 

For liquid-phase reactions it is known that they may be enhanced by applying higher pressures if the activation volumes are strongly negative, for example, with Diels-Alder reactions. At pressures up to 600 bar (6 x 10 Pa), Benito-Lopez et al. used fiber-based on-line UV-vis spectroscopy to monitor the nucleophilic aromatic substitution of l-fluoro-4-nitrobenzene with a ten-fold excess of pyrrolidine. ... 

An alternate and more controlled approach to the synthesis of phenothiazines involves sequential aromatic nucleophilic displacement reactions. This alternate scheme avoids the formation of the isomeric products that are sometimes observed to form from the sulfuration reaction when using substituted aryl rings. The first step in this sequence consists of the displacement of the activated chlorine in nitrobenzene (30-1) by the salt from orf/io-bromothiophenol (30-2) to give the thioether (30-3). The nitro group is then reduced to form aniline (30-4). Heating that compound in a solvent such as DMF leads to the internal displacement of bromine by amino nitrogen and the formation of the chlorophenothiazine (30-4). Alkylation of the anion from that intermediate with 3-chloro-l-dimethylaminopropane affords chlorpromazine (30-5) [31]. 

Fluorinated nitrobenzenes are highly activated electrophiles, and have been used in PTC-catalyzed nucleophilic aromatic substitution by Jorgensen and colleagues [44,45]. The arylation ratio at C- or O- is heavily dependent on the catalyst structure, counter anion and reaction temperature, and the reaction of ketoesters... 

Sonochemistry has been applied to acceleration of the Reformatsky reaction, Diels-Alder reactions, the arylation of active methylene compounds nucleophilic aromatic substitution of haloarenes, and to hydrostannation and tin hydride reduction. " Other sonochemical applications involve the reaction of benzyl chloride and nitrobenzene, a Sr I reaction in liquid ammonia at room temperature, and Knoevenagel condensation of aromatic aldehydes. lodination of aliphatic hydrocarbons can be accelerated, and oxyallyl cations have been prepared from ot,ot -diiodoketones using sonochemistry. Sonochemistry has been applied to the preparation of carbohydrate compounds.When sonochemistry is an important feature of a chemical reaction, this fact will be noted in the reactions presented in Chapters 10-19. 

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