Of phosphorus pentachloride

Phosphorus pentachloride adds exothermally to numerous 1-alkenes, giving products that usually afford alkenyltrichlorophosphonium hexachlorophos-phates by loss of HC1. These extremely hygroscopic products can be converted into phosphonic chlorides by phosphorus(v) oxide or, better, by sulfur dioxide. 

Styrylphosphonic dichloride 60 A solution of styrene (26 g) in benzene (50 ml) is dropped within 30 min, with stirring and exclusion of moisture, into an ice-cooled mixture of phosphorus ) chloride (104 g) and dry benzene (150 ml). The mixture is then stirred for 30 min at room temperature, after which sulfur dioxide is led until the first crystalline product has dissolved, cooling being sometimes necessary at that stage. The benzene is finally removed and the residual liquid is distilled in a vacuum, affording about 90% (about 50 g) of a product, b.p. 107-110o/0.2 mm, that later solidifies (m.p. 71-72°)  

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The replacement of the —OH group by a chlorine atom (reaction 9.4) is a very general reaction of phosphorus pentachloride. For example, if concentrated sulphuric acid is written as (H0)2S02 then its reaction with phosphorus pentachloride may be written ... 

One of the general methods for the preparation of acid chlorides is the action of phosphorus pentachloride on the corresponding carboxylic acid ... 

This preparation illustrates the use of phosphorus pentachloride for the preparation of acyl chlorides in this case no difficulty is experienced in separating the 3,5-dinitrobenzoyl chloride from the phosphorus oxychloride formed simultaneously (c/. p. 240), because the former is readily isolated as a crystalline... 

Assemble in a fume-cupboard the apparatus shown in Fig. 67(A). Place 15 g. of 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid and 17 g. of phosphorus pentachloride in the flask C, and heat the mixture in an oil-bath for hours. Then reverse the condenser as shown in Fig. 67(B), but replace the calcium chloride tube by a tube leading to a water-pump, the neck of the reaction-flask C being closed with a rubber stopper. Now distil off the phosphorus oxychloride under reduced pressure by heating the flask C in an oil-bath initially at 25-30, increasing this temperature ultimately to 110°. Then cool the flask, when the crude 3,5-dinitro-benzoyl chloride will solidify to a brown crystalline mass. Yield, 16 g., i.e,y almost theoretical. Recrystallise from caibon tetrachloride. The chloride is obtained as colourless crystals, m.p. 66-68°, Yield, 13 g Further recrystallisation of small quantities can be performed using petrol (b.p. 40-60°). The chloride is stable almost indefinitely if kept in a calcium chloride desiccator. 

B) Sulphonamides. Mix 0 5 g. of the sulphonic acid or its alkali salt with 15 g. of phosphorus pentachloride, and heat under reflux in a silicone- or oil-bath at 150° for 30 minutes then allow it to cool. 

Method 2. Mix 1 0 g. of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid with 1 5 g. of phosphorus pentachloride in a small, dry test-tube. Warm the mixture gently over a small smoky fiame to start the reaction when the reaction has subsided (but not before), boil for 1-2 minutes or until the solid matter has dissolved. Pour the mixture while still liquid on a dry watch glass (CAUTION the fumes are irritating to the eyes). When the product has solidified, remove the liquid by-product (phosphorus oxychloride) by transferring the pasty mixture to a pad of several thicknesses of filter paper or to a small piece of porous tile. Spread the material until the liquid has been absorbed and the residual solid is dry. Transfer the 3 5 dinitrobenzoyl chloride to a test-tube, add 0-5-1 ml. of the alcohol, and continue as in Method 1. 

Sulphonamides. Mix together 1 0 g. of the dry acid or 1 - 2 g. of the anhydrous salt with 2 5 g. of phosphorus pentachloride f and heat under a reflux condenser in an oil bath at 150° for 30 minutes. Cool the mixture, add 20 ml. of dry benzene, warm on a steam bath and stir the solid mass well to extract the sulphonyl chloride filter. Add the benzene solution slowly and with stirring to 10 ml. of concentrated ammonia solution. If the sulphonamide precipitates, separate it by filtration if no solid is obtained, evaporate the benzene on a steam bath. Wash the sulphonamide with a little cold water, and recrystallise from water, aqueous ethanol or ethanol to constant m.p. 

Place a mixture of 30 g. of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid (Section IV,168 and 33 g. of phosphorus pentachloride in a Claisen flask fit a reflux condenser into the short neck and cork the other neck and side arm (compare Fig. Ill, 31, 1). Heat the mixture in an oil bath at 120-130° for 75 minutes. Allow to cool. Remove the phosphorus oxychloride by distillation under reduced pressure (25°/20 mm.) raise the temperature of the bath to 110°. The residual 3 5-dinitrobenzoyl chloride solidifies on cooling to a brown mass the yield is quantitative. Recrystallise from carbon tetrachloride the yield is 25 g., m.p. 67-68° and this is satisfactory for most purposes. Further recrystallisation from a large volume of light petroleum b.p. 40-60°, gives a perfectly pure product, m.p. 69 -6°. 

Treatment of a-thiocyanatoketones at low temperature with dry hydrogen chloride in ether solution gives satisfactory yields of 2-chloro-thiazole derivatives (188). The use of phosphorus pentachloride leads to the same results, but in this case chlorination can also occur at the 5-position (Scheme 97) (18, 68). 

V. P. Petto, Cryoscopic, Spectroscopic, and Conductimetric Study of Phosphorus Pentachloride in S electedNon Aqueous Solvent Systems, University Mictofdms, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

Nitrophenyl isocyanate has been prepared by heating -nitrophenyl carbamyl chloride. The latter has been obtained by the action of phosgene on -nitroaniline in benzene-toluene solutions, and by the action of phosphorus pentachloride on methyl jii-nitrophenylcarbamate. The preparation given above is based upon recent publications of the authors. ... 

The submitters used 1 mole of adipic acid and added 2 moles of phosphorus pentachloride in 20-g. portions over an interval of 30 minutes. 

Thirty grams (0.14 mole) of o-toluanilide (Note 1) and 20 ml. of dry benzene are placed in a 125-ml. Claisen flask which is fitted with a condenser for distillation under reduced pressure and set in a water bath. The bath is heated to 50°, and 30 g. (0.14 mole) of phosphorus pentachloride is added to the mixture over a period of 10 minutes. The bath is then, heated to 75°... 

The method is essentially that discovered by Boeseken and Prins - and studied further by Prinsd Pentachloroethane can be used in place of tetrachlorethylene, as it is converted into the unsaturated compound in the presence of aluminum chloride. irwiyw.-Heptachloropropane has been obtained also by the action of phosphorus pentachloride on pentachloroacetone, and by treating dichloroacetyl chloride with aluminum chloride. ... 

These last named materials may be considered as derivatives of the inorganic rubber, polyphosphonitrilic chloride, discovered by Stokes in 1895. This was prepared by the reaction of phosphorus pentachloride with ammonium chloride as follows ... 

Constitution. Pelletierine behaves as a secondary amine and the oxygen atom of the alkaloid is present in the form of an aldehyde group, since the base yields an oxime, convertible by the action of phosphorus pentachloride into a nitrile, b.p. 104-6°/13 mm., which is hydrolysed by caustic potash in alcohol to an acid, the ethyl ester of which is Loffler and Kaim s ethyl -2-piperidylpropionate. Pelletierine is not directly oxidisable to this acid. It also yields a liquid hydrazone, b.p. 130°/20 ram., which with sodium in alcohol at 136-70° reduces to dZ-eoniine. These reactions are explained by the following formulas, in which pelletierine is represented as -2-piperidylpropionaldehyde. 

In an effort to prepare 1 2-dihydropapaverine, Buck dehydrated with phosphoryl chloride, and subjected the product (V) to catalytic reduction, followed by the action of phosphorus pentachloride in the cold. The final product was assumed to be 1 2-dihydropapaverine but Young and Robinson interpret this synthesis differently, and their formulae (V) and (VI) are given above, the final product being 3 4-dihydropapaverine (VII), which Buck thus prepared for the first time in a crystalline condition, m.p. 97-8° picrate, m.p. 151° perchlorate, m.p. 238° dec.). 

Hydro.xycaffeine is conveited into caffeine by acting upon it with a mixture of phosphorus pentachloride and oxychloride. 

Dihydro-l-oxo-3,4-benz-j8-carboline (166) reacted with phosphorus oxychloride and one mole of phosphorus pentachloride at 110° to give l-chloro-3,4-benz-j8-carboline (264). When, however, more than one mole of phosphorus pentachloride was used 265 was obtained, presumably by chlorination of 264. This chlorinating action of phosphorus pentachloride is analogous to that observed when an... 

The formation of the dichlorides is aided by increased temperature (60-80°C) and by an excess of PCI5 (2-2.3 moles/mole of 4-acetylpyrazole). With a larger excess of PCI5, further chlorination of the compounds occurs. With 3 moles of phosphorus pentachloride at 80°C in benzene, ketones 12a-d gave pyrazolyl-trichloroethylenes 16a-d in 75% yield. Then dichlorides 17a-d were converted quantitatively into pyrazolyltrichloroethylenes 16a-d in 1 h under the same conditions. 

In addition, it was clear that the presented scheme does not exhaust all the possible paths of anomalous chlorination. Thus, 4-acetyl-l,3,5-trimethylpyrazole with 4-5 moles of phosphorus pentachloride gave mainly 4-Q ,/3-dichlorovinyl-5-chloromethyl-l,3-dimethylpyrazole, and its precursor (according to GLC data) was the dichloride. It could be possible that in the case of 4-chlorovinyl derivatives of pyrazole the chlorination at the p position is facilitated by the electron-donating characteristics of the 4-pyrazolyl radical (86TH1). 

It yields a chloride, thujyl chloride, Cj H jCl, by the action of phosphorus pentachloride, which on treatment with aniline yields up HCl, with the formation of the terpene thujene. 

By the action of phosphorus pentachloride, cedrenol yields cedrenyl chloride, CisHggCl, which, when reduced by sodium and alcohol yields cedrene. 

By the action of phosphorus pentachloride it yields betulyl chloride, a partial molecular rearrangement having apparently taken place, since, on hydrolysis, it yields a tricyclic betulol which is of particular interest in that it is the first tricyclic sesquiterpene alcohol of a crystalline character to be discovered. Its characters are as follows —... 

Meanwhile a stirred suspension of phosphorus pentachloride (14.99 g, 0.072 mol) in dry di-chloromethane (150 ml) was cooled to 0°C, and N,N-dimethylacetamide (27.5 ml) was added. The resulting solution was recooled to -10°C and 2-fur-2-yl)-2-methoxyiminoaceticacid (syn-isomer) (12.17 g, 0.072 mol) was added. The mixture was stirred at -10°C for 15 minutes and crushed ice (35 g) was added. The mixture was stirred at 0°C for 10 minutes, whereafter the lower dichloromethane phase was added over 10 minutes to the cephalosporin solution prepared above, cooled to -10°C so that the reaction temperature rose steadily to 0°C. The mixture was stirred at 0°C to 2°C for 1 hour, whereafter the cooling bath was removed and the reaction temperature allowed to rise to 20°C over 1 hour. The reaction mixture was then added slowly to 2 N hydrochloric acid (100 ml) diluted with cold water (1.15 C) at 5°C. The pH of the two-phase mixture was adjusted to below 2 with 2 N hydrochloric acid (10 ml), and the mixture was stirred and recooled to 5°C. The solid which precipitated was filtered, washed with dichloromethane (100 ml) and water (250 ml), and dried in vacuo at 40°C overnight to give the title compound (22.04 g, 86.6%). 

A mixture of this crude product (approximately 302 grams, 0.92 mol) and 480 grams (2.3 mols) of phosphorus pentachloride is heated for 1 hour at 120°-140°C in a 2 liter round-bottomed flask. The resulting clear solution is poured on ice. 4,5-Dichlorobenzene-1,3-disulfonyl chloride separates immediately as a solid. It is collected by filtration and washed with water. While still moist, it is added in portions during about 20 minutes to 1 liter of concentrated ammonia water contained in a 3 liter beaker surrounded by a cold water bath. The reaction mixture is then allowed to stand for 1 hour without cooling after which it is heated on a steam bath for about 30 minutes while air is bubbled through it, in order to remove some of the excess ammonia. It is then filtered, acidified with concentrated hydrochloric acid and chilled. 

Chloro-4-Carbethoxy-6-Ethyl-Pyridine 26 grams of the product just obtained are treated with 81 grams of phosphorus pentachloride in 45 cc of phosphorus oxychloride. The phosphorus oxychloride is distiiled off in a vacuum and the residue is treated with absoiute aicohoi. After distillation there are obtained 24 grams of product having a boiling point of 127° to 131°C/8 mm. 

In a 2-1 three-necked flask equipped with a stirrer, a reflux condenser, and a dropping funnel (Note 1) 832 g (4 0 moles) of phosphorus pentachloride is stirred with 250 ml. of phosphorus oxychloride (Note 2) To this is added with stirring 264 g (272 ml, 4 4 moles) of methyl formate (Note 3). During the addition the reaction vessel is cooled in an ice bath to maintain a reaction temperature of 10-20° The addition requires about 1.75 hours When the addition is complete, the solution is stirred at a temperature under 30° until all the phosphorus pentachloride has dissolved (about 1 hour) Then the stirrer is removed, the reflux condenser is replaced by a distilling head, and the reaction... 

To a suspension of 6.31 g (0.025 mol) of methyl A-benzyloxycarbonyl-2-methoxyglycinate in 125 mL or dry (Tl4 is added 8.3 g (0.04 mol) of phosphorus pentachloride. The mixture is stirred at 20 rC until the phosphorus pentachloride disappears (48 h). The solution is concentrated in vacuo and the solid residue is triturated overnight with dry light petroleum and then filtered through a glass sinter to give the product as a white solid yield 5.31 g (83%) mp 69-70 C. 

Protocatechualdehyde has been made by a variety of methods, but is usually prepared from catechol by the Reimer-Tiemann method 1 by demethylation of vanillin,2 or veratric aldehyde 3 or from piperonal by the action of phosphorus pentachloride followed by hydrolysis.4... 

A suspension of 100 g (0 48 mole, 33% excess) of phosphorus pentachloride in 800 ml of carbon tetrachloride is prepared in a 1-1 flask equipped with an efficient stirrer and an exit valve for the hydrogen chloride that is evolved ( ote 1) Tropilidene (cycloheptatriene, 24.2 g of 91% mateiial, 0.24 mole) (Note 2)... 

An interesting feature of phosphorus pentachloride is that it is an ionic solid of tetrahedral PC14+ cations and octahedral PC16 anions, but it vaporizes to a gas of trigonal bipyramidal PC15 molecules (see Section 2.10). Phosphorus pentabromide is also molecular in the vapor and ionic as the solid but, in the solid, the anions are simply Br ions, presumably because six bulky Br atoms simply do not fit around a central P atom. 

The stereochemistry of the addition of phosphorus pentachloride to isolated acetylenes in non-polar solvents has been shown by n.m.r. to be CIS, as illustrated for the adduct (46) from propyne. This observation has been explained in terms of a four-centre process. Contrary to a previous report, the reaction of triphenylphosphine hydrobromide with phenyl-acetylene carboxylic acid (47) yields both the trans- and the known c/5-adducts. 

The reactions of phosphorus pentachloride and diphenyltrichloro-phosphorane with amines and related compounds are reported in Chapter 9. The n.m.r. spectra of phosphine-phosphorus pentafluoride adducts have been described (see Chapter 11 for details). 

A. Nucleophilic Reactions of the P=0 Group.—Tris(trifluoromethyl)-phosphine oxide (33) reacts with hexamethyldisiloxane to give a phos-phorane, whose n.m.r. spectrum at — 140 °C shows non-equivalent trifluoromethyl groups. Although this unusual reaction clearly involves nucleophilic attack of the phosphoryl oxygen on silicon at some stage of the reaction, a full study of the mechanism has not been published. Tertiary phosphine oxides can be converted cleanly into dichlorophos-phoranes (34) by treatment with two moles of phosphorus pentachloride. Alkylation of the sodium salt of tetraphenylmethylenediphosphine dioxide (35) with alkyl halides, in dimethyl sulphoxide, has been reported to... 

With one mole of phosphorus pentachloride, MeNHa.BFa gives a series of mixed halides (13) of which only one (/i = 1) was isolated. In each halide the fluorine atoms were shown to be bonded to boron by the appearance of iiB-isp and absence of spin-spin coupling. An analogous A-phenyl... 

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