Phosgene oxalyl chloride

The Vilsmeier-Haack formylation procedure (Scheme 24) provides the most effective synthesis of formylpyrroles and indoles. Reaction of the heterocycles with the immonium cation (72), derived from DMF or (V-methylformanilide with an acid chloride, such as phosphorus oxychloride, thionyl chloride, phosgene, oxalyl chloride, benzoyl chloride or bromotriphenylphosphonium bromide, yields the intermediate heteroarylimmonium salt (73). Under suitable reaction conditions, this salt may be isolated from the reaction involving phosphorus oxychloride as an impure chlorophosphate (78TH30500) or precipitated from the reaction system as the thermally unstable perchlorate by the addition of sodium... 

Direct introduction of the carboxyl group into an aromatic ring is accomplished with urea hydrochloride, phosgene, oxalyl chloride, or carbon dioxide. Carboxylation of benzene is effected in 15-58% yields by treating with liquid phosgene and aluminum chloride. No catalyst is required in the conversion of dimethylaniline and phosgene to p-dimethyl-aminobenzoic acid (50%). 9-Anthroic acid (67%) is prepared from anthracene by heating to 240° with oxalyl chloride and nitrobenzene. ... 

Preparation of acid chlorides. The thionyl chloride method of preparing acid chlorides fails with some carboxylic acids (e.g., p-NOjCsHaCOzH) and with all sulfonic acids. Bosshard and co-workers" found that dimethylformamide catalyzes both reactions, either when used as solvent or when employed in catalytic amount in an inert solvent. The reactive, hygroscopic intermediate dimethylformirainium chloride was isolated from one equivalent each of dimethylformamide and thionyl chloride, and also obtained by reaction of dimethylformamide with phosgene, oxalyl chloride, or phosphorus pentachloride. It reacts with an acid with regeneration of dimethylformamide, the catalyst. In one example, 0.3 mole of p-nitrobenzoic acid was heated briefly at 90-95° with 0.315 mole of thionyl chloride and 0.03 mole... 

A large number of acid chlorides have been used to convert formamide derivatives into their corresponding chloromethyleneiminium salts (13). These include POCI3 (the most popular), SOCI2, phosgene, oxalyl chloride and many others. 

Phosgene Oxalyl Chloride, and Maleyl Chloride. Phosgene reacts with trialkyl phosphite esters to yield, not the expected acylphosphonate as erroneously reported (148), but instead the phosphorochloridate and carbon monoxide (102,149,243,264). The logical explanation is that... 

Acid chlorides are made from fatty acids by reaction with phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus penta-chloride, phosphorus oxychloride, phosgene, oxalyl chloride, thionyl chloride or triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrachloride. Phosphorus trichloride is probably the most economical reagent for large-scale reaction. Improved yields have been claimed when the reaction is carried out in the absence of oxygen. The most common laboratory procedures require the acid to stand at room temperature for... 

Preparation of Arylcarboxylic Acids and Derivatives. The general Friedel-Crafts acylation principle can be successfully appHed to the preparation of aromatic carboxyUc acids. Carbonyl haUdes (phosgene, carbonyl chloride fluoride, or carbonyl fluoride) [353-50-4] are diacyl haUdes of carbonic acid. Phosgene [75-44-5] or oxalyl chloride [79-37-8] react with aromatic hydrocarbons to give aroyl chlorides that yield acids on hydrolysis (133) ... 

Specialty Isocyanates. Acyl isocyanates, extensively used in synthetic appHcations, caimot be direcdy synthesized from amides and phosgene. Reactions of acid haUdes with cyanates have been suggested. However, the dominant commercial process utilizes the reaction of carboxamides with oxalyl chloride [79-37-8]. CycHc intermediates have been observed in these reactions which generally give a high yield of the desired products (86). 

Commercially important arenesulfonyl isocyanates are not directly accessible from the corresponding sulfonamides via phosgenation due to lack of reactivity or by-product formation at elevated temperatures. A convenient method for their preparation consists of the reaction of alkyl isocyanates with sulfonamides to produce mixed ureas which, upon phosgenation, yield a mixture of alkyl and arenesulfonyl isocyanates. The desired product can be obtained by simple distillation (16). Optionally, the oxalyl chloride route has been employed for the synthesis of arenesulfonyl isocyanate (87). 

Depending on the reagent ratio, oxalyl chloride reacts with fluorobenzene m the presence of aluminum chloride to afford either 4-fluorobenzoyl chloride or 4,4 -difluorobenzophenone [ii] (equation 22). Phosgene, detected by infrared spectroscopy, is an intermediate. 

Many procedures for the formation of carboxylic acid amides are known in the literature. The most widely practiced method employs carboxylic acid chlorides as the electrophiles which react with the amine in the presence of an acid scavenger. Despite its wide scope, this protocol suffers from several drawbacks. Most notable are the limited stability of many acid chlorides and the need for hazardous reagents for their preparation (thionyl chloride, oxalyl chloride, phosgene etc.) which release corrosive and volatile by-products. Moreover, almost any other functional group in either reaction partner needs to be protected to ensure chemoselective amide formation.2 The procedure outlined above presents a convenient and catalytic alternative to this standard protocol. 

Diesters of phosphoramidic acid are converted to the corresponding isocyanates by phosgene but with A-substituted derivatives the phosphoramidic chlorides are formed. In a similar reaction oxalyl chloride... 

Interaction of the two compounds led to the evolution of a toxic gas thought to be chlorine [1], It is the far more poisonous phosgene, arising from the known base-catalysed disproportionation of the carbonate to oxalyl chloride and phosgene, which occurs even at ambient temperature [2], (The editor knows that amides, too, catalyse this rearrangement and suspects that Lewis acids will also)... 

FIGURE 7.18 Preparation of Fmoc-amino-acid chlorides by reaction (A) of thionyl chloride,47 phosgene from triphosgene,54 l-chloro-2,A7,A7-trimethyl-l-propene- 1-amine, [Schmidt et al., 1988] or oxalyl chloride, [Rodriguez, 1997] with the parent acid and (B) of hydrogen chloride with the mixed anhydride.51... 

N,N-Dimethylisobutyramide (Gavrilov, N. Koperina, A. Klutcharova, M. Hull., soc. Chim. France 1945, 12, 773) was converted to l-chloro-N,N,2-11 imrUiylproponylaraine according to the procedure of Org. Synth. 1979, 55, 26, In nl% yield, bp 118-121 C. Freshly-distilled oxalyl chloride was used iir.iKiid of phosgene. The propenylamine should be handled carefully in a vytltii i 1.0 avoid its rapid hydrolysis by moisture. 

Amide chlorides are readily available from amides via phosgenation but other reactive acid halides are equally used (thionyl chloride, oxalyl chloride, phosphorus pentachloride and oxychloride, pyrocatechol phosphorus trichloride) (37) 69). 

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