Phenol aryl diazonium salts

Reaction of Diazonium Salts with Quinones and with Phenols. Aryl-diazonium salts couple with quinones in the presence of sodium acetate to... 

A reaction of aryl diazonium salts that does not involve loss of nitrogen takes place when they react with phenols and arylamines Aryl diazonium ions are relatively weak elec trophiles but have sufficient reactivity to attack strongly activated aromatic rings The reaction is known as azo coupling two aryl groups are joined together by an azo (—N=N—) function... 

Alkyl and aryl arenediazoates ( diazoethers ) are generally unstable and even explosive compounds. They are produced by interaction of alcohols with (explosive) bis(arenediazo) oxides, or of -blocked phenols with diazonium salts. The thio analogues are similar. Individually indexed compounds are ... 

Section 24.6 Table 24.3 listed the main industrial methods for the preparation of phenol. Laboratory syntheses of phenols are usually carried out by hydrolysis of aryl diazonium salts. 

J) Primary arylamines are converted to aryl diazonium salts on treatment with sodium nitrite in aqueous acid. When the aqueous acidic solution containing the diazonium salt is heated, a phenol is formed. 

A reaction of aryl diazonium salts that does not involve loss of nitrogen takes place when they react with phenols and arylamines. Aryl diazonium ions are relatively weak... 

Aryl diazonium salts can also undergo coupling reactions with phenol or aromatic amines, which possess nucleophilic OH or NH2 groups, respectively. This electrophilic substitution reaction (with the diazonium salt as the electrophile) produces highly coloured azo compounds. 

Modifications of the classical method are mainly concerned with the decomposition of the diazonium salt. Thermal [74], photochemical [75], and electrochemical [76] processes were found to be effective for the generation of the radical intermediate. Ti(III)-catalyzed Pschorr reaction of aryl diazonium salts and phenols gave symmetrical biaryls in excellent yield [77]. 

The nitrogens of an aryl diazonium salt are retained on reaction with the electron-rich ring of a phenol. Azo coupling occurs. 

Many different nucleophiles can react with aryl diazonium salts, often by different mechanisms that range Tom SnI type processes to those involving radicals.288 Heating 398 in aqueous acid generates phenol.289 This reaction is also illustrated by the conversion of 3-nitroaniline (400) to the diazonium salt (401), which was tollowed by heating in aqueous sulfuric acid to give 3-nitrophenol (402).290... 

This is most practically carried out via the use of aryl diazonium salts (Ar-N2 Cl ) which are derived from aryl amines(Ar-NH2) which are themselves produced by the catalytic reduction of aryl nitro compounds (Ar-N02). Thus, we would seem to need to put a nitro group para to the original hydroxyl group. We must be aware of phenol s immense reactivity and the subsequent danger of polynitration. To avoid this danger, we treat phenol with dilute nitric acid instead of with concentrated nitric acid and with concentrated sulfuric acid as the catalyst. 

Laboratory syntheses of phenols are usually carried out by hydrolysis of aryl diazonium salts. 

Examples of the three mechansims are, respectively (a) hydrolysis of aryl diazonium salts to phenols (b) reaction of aryl diazonium ions with Ns to give the aryl azides " and (c) the Sandmeyer reaction, involving cuprous chloride or bromide for synthesis of aryl halides. Specific synthetically important substitution processes are considered in the succeeding sections. 

When an aqueous solution of a diazonium salt is added to an alkaline solution of a phenol, coupling occurs with formation of an azo-compound (p. 188). If ho vc cr the ntiueous solution of the diazonium salt, t. . ., />-bromohenzene diazonium chloride, is mixed with an excess of an aromatic hydrocarbon, and aqueous sodium hydroxide then added to the vigorously stirred mixture, the diazotate which is formed, e.g., BrC,H N OH, dissolves in the hydrocarbon and there undergoes decomposition with the formation of nitrogen and two free radicals. The aryl free radical then reacts with the hydrocarbon to give a... 

This IS the most general method for preparing phenols It is easily performed the aque ous acidic solution m which the diazonium salt is prepared is heated and gives the phe nol directly An aryl cation is probably generated which is then captured by water acting as a nucleophile... 

Arylamines are converted by diazotization with nitrous acid into arenediazonium salts, ArN2+ X-. The diazonio group can then be replaced by many other substituents in the Sandmeyer reaction to give a wide variety of substituted aromatic compounds. Aryl chlorides, bromides, iodides, and nitriles can be prepared from arenediazonium salts, as can arenes and phenols. In addition to their reactivity toward substitution reactions, diazonium salts undergo coupling with phenols and arylamines to give brightly colored azo dyes. 

Entries 7 and 8 illustrate conversion of diazonium salts to phenols. Entries 9 and 10 use the traditional conditions for the Sandmeyer reaction. Entry 11 is a Sandmeyer reaction under in situ diazotization conditions, whereas Entry 12 involves halogen atom transfer from solvent. Entry 13 is an example of formation of an aryl iodide. Entries 14 and 15 are Schiemann reactions. The reaction in Entry 16 was used to introduce a chlorine substituent on vancomycin. Of several procedures investigated, the CuCl-CuCl2 catalysis of chlorine atom transfer form CC14 proved to be the best. The diazonium salt was isolated as the tetrafluoroborate after in situ diazotization. Entries 17 and 18 show procedures for introducing cyano and azido groups, respectively. 

Examples of the three mechanistic types are, respectively (a) hydrolysis of diazonium salts to phenols 82 (b) reaction with azide ion to form aryl azides 83 and (c) reaction with cuprous halides to form aryl chlorides or bromides.84 In the paragraphs which follow, these and other synthetically useful reactions of diazonium intermediates are considered. The reactions are organized on the basis of the group which is introduced, rather than on the mechanism involved. It will be seen that the reactions that are discussed fall into one of the three general mechanistic types. 

The published research on the photochemical decomposition of di-azonium salts suggests that the two processes, a heterocyclic and a homolytic process, analogous to those of the thermal decomposition may occur. Various workers 36 187 have reported that phenols are formed when diazonium salts are photolyzed in water and aryl ethers result when an alcohol replaces water as the solvent. Homer and Stohr122 report that a process analogous to reductive deamination occurs in preference to ether formation results in alcohols. The importance of free radical intermediates in the photodecomposition, based on magnetic susceptibility measurements, has been stressed.25 Lee and his co-workers171 have recently suggested that in ethanol the photodecomposition of a diazonium salt occurs via a radical intermediate while in water an ionic process predominates. Thus, photodecomposition of a nitrobenzene diazonium chloride in water yielded both a nitrophenol and a chloronitrobenzene in ethanol, on the other hand, the major product of photolysis was the reduction product, nitrobenzene. 

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