Perbromides

The conversion of indoles to oxindoles can be achieved in several ways. Reaction of indoles with a halogenaling agent such as NCS, NBS or pyridin-ium bromide perbromide in hydroxylic solvents leads to oxindoles[l]. The reaction proceeds by nucleophilic addition to a 3-haloindolenium intermediate. 

These halogenation reactions all take place in the 5-position (408. 409. 430) even when there is a phenyl or a 2-pyridyl (382) substituent on the exocyclic nitrogen. Crystalline perbromides have been isolated (166. 320. 

The diazonium salts precursors can be aniline, o- and p-toluidine, o-and p-anisidine, o- and p-phenetidine. or 3-naphthy]amine. The resulting formazans are crystalline and inlensel> colored. They are soluble in organic solvents, giving a red-violet coloration that darkens to blue. Dehydrogeneration gives the corresponding tetrazolium salts, which are isolated as perbromides (Scheme 51. Table X-13). 

The reaction mixture thickens, owing to formation of a yellow-orange perbromide during the addition of about one-half of the bromine the first half of the bromine is added over a period of 30 minutes the second half, over a period of 15 minutes. 

Pyridine hydrobromide perbromide (pyridinium bromide perbromide) [39416-48-3] M 319.9, m 130 (dec), 132-134 (dec). It is a very good brominating agent - liberating one mol. of Br2. Purified by recrystn from glacial acetic acid (33g from lOOmL of AcOH). [Fieser and Fieser Reagents for Organic Chemistry Vol 1 967 1967.]... 

The nature of the investigation of the action of bromine on nicotine (Formula A),. So treated in acetic acid nicotine yielded a hydrobromide perbromide, C oHjjONgBr,. HBr. Br, from -which, after treatment with aqueous sulphurous acid, the free base, dibromocotinine (Formula D), C QH jONjErj,... 

For the detection and microchemical estimation of these alkaloids, the precipitation, crystalline form and melting-points of the perbromides, periodides, aurichlorides or picrates and the mydriatic test have been used. ... 

The oxidation of lupanine has been investigated by a number of w orkers. Beckel noted that d-lupaniiie formed a perbromide, which on treatment with alcohol yielded cthoxylupanine dihydrobromide, C12H23ON2. OC2H5,2HBr (colourless needles, m.p. 227-8°, [a]7° — 129-4°), from which a number of interesting substances were obtained in yields too small for characterisation. 

Bromination of 5j5-3-ketones yields the equatorial 4 -bromo compounds (22) as the thermodynamic or kinetic products,although the presence of a considerable amount of 2-bromo isomer has been reported in bromination with phenyltrimethylammonium bromide-perbromide. This is in keeping with other evidence that enolization of 5j5-3-ketones is not specifically directed to C-4. Cleaner results would probably be obtained via thermodynamic enol acelylation. ... 

Pyridine hydrobromide perbromide (Pyr HBr Br2) has been employed as a convenient, easily weighed source of bromine for small scale-reactions. The chlorine analog has also been used in this connection. 

Acetoxyandrost-5-en-17-one (59) is converted into the ethylene ketal (60) by treatment with ethylene glycol, triethylorthoformate and p-toluenesulfonic acid. The ketal is brominated with pyridinium bromide perbromide in THF and then treated with sodium iodide to remove bromine from the 5 and 6 positions. This gives the 16a-bromo compound (61) which is hydrolyzed in methanol to the free alcohol (62). Dehydrobromination is effected with potassium Fbutoxide in DMSO to give the -compound (63). Acid catalyzed hydrolysis of the ketal in aqueous acetone gives the title compound (64). ... 

Decant any liquid and warm the perbromide with a little alcolaol. Nitrogen and bromine are given off and bromobenzene is formed. 

The action of aluminium and its compounds is not fully understood. Pyridine probably acts by the intermediate formation of the perbromide, as explained. 

Treatment of 2,7-di-/ert-butylthiepin (1) either directly with bromine at — 78 °C, or with pyridinium bromide perbromide at room temperature, gives the thiophene compound 2. In contrast, bromination with bromine-1,4-dioxane complex or pyridinium bromide perbromide in the presence of acetic acid leads to the thiopyran derivative 3.87 To account for these results a homothiopyrylium ion has been proposed as a common intermediate, formed by electrophilic bromination at C4 in the first step. 

Methyl-4-phenyl-2Z/-2,3-benzodiazepin-l(5//)-one (15a) is brominated by /V-broinosuccin-imide in 10 % yield or by trimethylphenylammonium perbromide in 40 % yield to give 5-bromo-2-methyl-4-phenyl-2//-2,3-benzodiazepin-l(5//)-one (16).137... 

The synthesis of porphyrins from dipyrrylmethenes was first developed by Fischer42 and his collaborators. Different variants of this method are available. For the preparation of centrosym-metric porphyrins 7, the self-condensation of 5-bromo-5 -methyldipyrrylmethene hydrobromides or perbromides 6 in organic acid melts like succinic acid, tartaric acid or formic acid at temperatures up to 200 °C can be used. 

Attempts to brominate benzothiazoles with bromine in acetic acid at room temperature have given only perbromides, but when these were heated in ethanolic solution, products in which bromine had substituted in the benzene moiety were detected. At 100°C bromine in acetic acid gave rise to the 4,6-dibromo derivative in accord with calculated -densities (70BSF2705). Vapor-phase bromination gave the 2-bromo product (84MI27). 

When 10-phenylphenothiazine (104) (and 10-phenylphenoxazine) was brominated in acetic acid a number of products were isolated. Pyridine perbromide, though, only brominated the phenyl substituent (Scheme 47). The suggestion that acetic acid bromination might involve the radical cation of the substrate (104) was confirmed by generating the radical cation of the substrate (104) with perchloric acid prior to bromination. Again a 43% yield of the 3-bromo product and multiple bromination products were observed (Scheme 47). The reaction of 10-phenylphenoxazine with pyridine perbromide appeared to be at least partially electrophilic the products... 

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