Phenols with ceric ammonium nitrate

A series of azophenol acerands 4 was prepared by condensation of crowned benzoquinones 10 with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine in ethanol [7b], The quinone was derived from p-methoxyphenol (6) as shown in Scheme 1 [8]. By bis(hy-droxymethylation) (67% yield of 6, followed by methylation (92%) of the phenol group and Williamson-type reaction with ditosylates of oligoethyleneglycol in the presence of sodium hydride, crowned 1,4-dimethoxybenzene 9 was obtained in reasonable yields. Oxidative demethylation of 9 with ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) in aqueous acetonitrile at 50 °C gave the desired crowned benzoquinones 10 in good yields. 

Most aromatic compounds, whether of high or low reactivity, can be nitrated, because a wide variety of nitrating agents is available. For benzene, the simple alkylbenzenes, and less reactive compounds, the most common reagent is a mixture of concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids,but for active substrates, the reaction can be carried out with nitric acid alone, or in water, acetic acid, acetic anhydride, or chloroform.Nitric acid in acetic anhydride/trifluoroacetic anhydride on zeolite H-(3 was used to convert toluene to 2,4-dinitrotoluene, and AcONOi on clay converted ethylbenzene to ortho-para nitro ethylbenzene. " In fact, these milder conditions are necessary for active compounds, such as amines, phenols, and pyrroles, since reaction with mixed nitric and sulfuric acids would oxidize these substrates. With active substrates, such as amines and phenols, nitration can be accomplished by nitrosation under oxidizing conditions with a mixture of dilute nitrous and nitric acids.A mixture of N02/02/Fe(acac)3 can be used for active compounds, as can NaN02 with trichloroisocyanuric acid on wet silica gel, or N2O4 and silica acetate. Trimethoxybenzenes were nitrated easily with ceric ammonium nitrate on silica gel, and mesitylene was nitrated in an... 

The esters were prepared from the phenol and the acid chloride plus DM AP (or from the acid plus trifluoroacetic anhydride). In these esters the steric hulk of the ortho substituents protects the carhonyl from nucleophilic reagents, making them difficult hydrolyze. Although the diisopropyl derivative can be cleaved with hot aqueous NaOH, the di-f-butyl derivatives could only be cleaved with NaOMe in a mixture of toluene and HMPA. The related 2,6-di-f-butyl-4-methoxyphenyl ester can be cleaved oxidatively with ceric ammonium nitrate. These hindered esters have found utility in directing the aldol condensation. ... 

This acylation strategy was used to prepare pol5mier-supported chromium carbenes. Microwave irradiation on Wang resin shows the same regioselectivity as solution chemistry but fewer side products. The resin-bound phenol 21 is simultaneously released and oxidized to the benzoquinone 22 with ceric ammonium nitrate. Microwave irradiation has been shown to accelerate the DBR and provide high yields of benzannulated products in short reaction times (ca. 5 min). ... 

In these reactions the tested organic substance and an inorganic salt give a more or less stable strong color due to a complex salt. In Part 2 of this monograph a series of such reactions is described, such as, for example, the reaction of hydroxamic acids with ferric salts (p. 276), the reaction of phenols with ferric chloride (p. 188), the reaction of molybdenum with o-dihydro-xybenzenes (p. 191), of diacetyl dioxime with nickel salts (p. 227), of phenols with Millon s reagent (p. 196), alcohols with ceric ammonium nitrate (p. 170), alcohols with vanadium-hydroxy quinoline complex (p. 171), and the reaction of cis-enols of )5-dicarbonylic compounds and a-dicarbonyl compounds with ferric chloride, (p. 294.)... 

Oxidation of 1-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2-( -substituted phenyl) et hands, 6, by Cerium(IV). Dehydration prevented the oxidative-cleavage study of l-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-(4,-substituted phenyl)ethanols, 4, (8). As an alternative study, the oxidation of these phenolic compounds using the homolytic oxidant ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) in an acidic environment was initiated. However, preliminary oxidations of these compounds were unsuccessful due to the apparent formation of complexes of cerium(IV) with the phenolic hydroxyl groups. 

Primary TBDMS ethers can be cleaved selectively in the presence of THP ethers and ketals using ceric ammonium nitrate in methanol. Both phenolic and aliphatic TBDMS ethers undergo cleavage when exposed to catalytic amounts of PdCl2(MeCN)2 in the latter case, and with longer exposure, this also results in oxidation to the corresponding aldehyde or ketone, if the alcohol was primary or secondary, respectively. This cleavage and oxidation can be performed selectively in the presence of TIPS, TBDPS and benzyl ethers (equation 15). 

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