Phosphorus Chloride carboxylic acid chlorides from acids

Phosphorus pentachloride acetyl chloride Carboxylic acid chlorides from carboxylic acids... 

Phosphorus oxide chloride Carboxylic acid dilorides from Na-carboxylates s. 31,773... 

Dimethyl terephthalate heated with 1 mole p-bis(tridiloromethyl)benzene in the presence of FeCla terephthaloyl chloride. Y ca. 92%. F. e. and catalysts s. V. Y. Vashchuk and V. N. Sokolenko, Izv. Vyssh. Udieb. Zaved., Khim. Khim. Tekhnol. 15, 1062 (1972) C. A. 77, 126183 with phosphorus compds, also diloro-carboxylic acid chlorides from lactones, and carboxylic acid bromides, cf. D. J. Burton and W. M. Koppes, Chem. Commun. 1973, 425. 

Thioketenes can be prepared in several ways, from carboxylic acid chlorides by thionation with phosphorus pentasulfide [1314-80-3], P2S5, from ketene dithioacetals by p-elimination, from 1,2,3-thiadiazoles with flash pyrolysis, and from alkynyl sulfides (thioacetylenes). The dimerization of thioketenes to 2,4-bis(alkylidene)-l,3-dithietane compounds occurs quickly. They can be cleaved back pyrolytically (63). For a review see Reference 18. 

Most of the conventional reagents for the synthesis of acid chlorides from carboxylic acids are unsatisfactory for the preparation of a-keto acid chlorides. For example, the reaction of pyruvic acid with phosphorus halides does not give pyruvoyl chloride7 whereas the use of phosgene8 or oxalyl chloride9,10 affords ether solutions of the acid chloride in low yield. Recently a useful preparation of pyruvoyl chloride from trimeth-ylsilyl pyruvate and oxalyl chloride has been described.11... 

Phosphorus trichloride (PC13), b.p. 74.5°, is used particularly for preparation of volatile carboxylic acid chlorides (reaction b). Usually about 1.1 moles of the carboxylic acid is allowed to react with 0.5 mole of PC13 at room temperature or with slight warming until evolution of HC1 ceases and then the acid chloride is distilled off see, for instance, the preparation of acetyl chloride from glacial acetic acid and PCl3.33b The carboxylic acid chloride can also be taken up in a solvent (benzene, light petroleum, or CS2) at the end of the reaction and used directly for further reactions ... 

A thioamide of isonicotinic acid has also shown tuberculostatic activity in the clinic. The additional substitution on the pyridine ring precludes its preparation from simple starting materials. Reaction of ethyl methyl ketone with ethyl oxalate leads to the ester-diketone, 12 (shown as its enol). Condensation of this with cyanoacetamide gives the substituted pyridone, 13, which contains both the ethyl and carboxyl groups in the desired position. The nitrile group is then excised by means of decarboxylative hydrolysis. Treatment of the pyridone (14) with phosphorus oxychloride converts that compound (after exposure to ethanol to take the acid chloride to the ester) to the chloro-pyridine, 15. The halogen is then removed by catalytic reduction (16). The ester at the 4 position is converted to the desired functionality by successive conversion to the amide (17), dehydration to the nitrile (18), and finally addition of hydrogen sulfide. There is thus obtained ethionamide (19)... 

Acid chlorides are prepared from carboxylic acids by reaction with thionyl chloride (SOCl2), as we saw in the previous section. Similar reaction of a carboxylic acid with phosphorus tribromide (PB ) yields the acid bromide. 

Nakagome and co-workers effected the successful cyclization of N-ethyl-N-arylaminomethylenemalonates (749) in poly phosphoric acid, prepared from orthophosphoric acid and phosphorus pentoxide in polyphosphate ester (PPE), prepared from phosphorus pentoxide and anhydrous diethyl ether in chloroform in phosphoryl chloride on the action of boron trifluoride etherate on the action of acetic anhydride and concentrated sulfuric acid or on the action of phosphorus pentoxide in benzene [71GEP2033971, 71JHC357 76JAP(K) 18440]. Depending on the work-up process, l-ethyl-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxylates (750, R1 = Et), l-ethyl-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxylic acids (750, R2 = H) and 3-ethoxycarbonyl-4-chloroquinolinium iodides (751) were obtained. Only the cyclization of... 

The reductive formation of C-S bonds via the reaction of carboxylic acids with phosphorus pentasulphide and red phosphorus has been utilized in the synthesis of 3-arylthiophenes starting from 2-arylsuccinic acids [66, 67]. The reaction is catalysed by benzyltriethylammonium chloride, but it has been suggested that co-catalysis with 18-crown-6 is advantageous [67]. 

Chlorinated Fatty Acids. Chlorination of carboxylic acids is much more difficult because the contribution or the carbonyl group toward proton removal is offset by the electron donation effect from the hydroxyl group. This hindrance is obviated by reaction with the acid chloride or anhydride. Chlorination is normally accomplished hy use of n catalyst, such as phosphorus trichloride. Monochloroacelic acid is an important industrial chemical. Dichloro- and trichloroacetic acids can he produced by further chlorination, although the latter can be produced convenienlly by nitric acid oxidation of chloral. Higher chlorinalcd tally acids can be produced by treatment or the hydroxy carboxylic acid or ester with HCI ur PCL ... 

General methods for the preparation of acid halides from aliphatic carboxylic acids are described in Section 5.12.1, p. 692. Phosphorus pentachloride is the preferred chlorinating agent for aromatic acids which contain electron-withdrawing substituents, and which do not react readily with thionyl chloride. The preparation of both p-nitrobenzoyl chloride and 3,5-dinitrobenzoyl chloride is described in Expt 6.161. These particular acid chlorides are valuable reagents for the characterisation of aliphatic alcohols and simple phenols, with which they form crystalline esters (see Section 9.6.4, p. 1241 and Section 9.6.6, p. 1248). 

One of the earliest attempts to prepare analogues of FA as potential inhibitors involved the synthesis of 2-amino-4,7-dihydroxypteridine-6-carboxylyl-p-ami-nobenzoic acid (612) (in which the change from the structure of FA itself is exchange of the methylene bridge for a carbonyl group, and oxidation of position 7 to a lactam). This compound, which was a surprisingly effective inhibitor, was prepared from isoxanthopterin carboxylic acid (611) by in situ conversion to its acid chloride with a mixture of phosphorus oxychloride and phosphorus pentachloride, followed by addition of p-aminobenzoylglutamic acid (Scheme 3.132) [115]. 

Ibuprofen can be synthesized from isobutylbenzene by a Friedel-Crafts acylation with acetyl chloride, followed by formation of a cyanohydrin. Treatment with hydrogen iodide and phosphorus reduces the benzylic hydroxyl to a hydrogen and hydrolyzes the nitrile to a carboxylic acid. 

Acid chlorides can be prepared from carboxylic acids using thionyl chloride (SOCl2), phosphorus trichloride (PC13), or oxalyl chloride (C1COCOC1) ... 

Because they are readily available from a number of synthetic reactions, carboxylic acids are the most common starting materials for the preparation of the other members of this family. Conversion of a carboxylic acid to an acyl chloride provides access to any of the other derivatives because the acyl chloride is at the top of the reactivity scale. Bui how can the acyl chloride be prepared from the acid when the acid is lower on the reactivity scale This can be accomplished by using an even more reactive compound to drive the equilibrium in the desired direction. The reagent that is employed in the vast majority of cases is thionyl chloride, SOCl2. Phosphorus trichloride, PC13, and phosphorus pentachloride, PC15, are also used occasionally. Examples are provided in the following equations ... 

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