Polyhalogen salts

Not all metals are capable of forming polyhalide salts. Although considerable research remains to be done in this field, it seems at the present time that in order to form a polyhalide salt the cation must have a large radius and a small charge. The best known and the most stable of the metal polyhalogen salts are those of cesium and rubidium. The potassium salts are more difficult to form and are somewhat more unstable in the solid state. The sodium and lithium polyhalides have not been prepared in anhydrous form. Polyvalent cations apparently do not yield salts with the trihalides, f However, salts of magnesium, zinc,... 

Palladium NHC systems for the hydrodehalogenation of aryl chlorides and bromides and polyhalogenated aromatic substrates originate from about the same time as the first reports on Ni chemistry, and show many similarities. Initial efforts showed that the combination of PdCdba) (2 mol%), one equivalent of imidazolium chloride and KOMe produced an effective system for the reduction of 4-chlorotolu-ene, especially upon use of SIMes HCl 2 (96% yield of toluene after 1 h at 100°C) [7]. Interestingly, higher ligand to metal ratios severely inhibited the catalysis with only 7% yield of toluene achieved in the same time in the presence of two equivalents of SIMes HCl 2. Variation of the metal source (Pd(OAc)2, Pd(CjHjCN)jClj), alkoxide (NaOMe, KO Bu, NaOH/ ec-BuOH) or imidazolium salt (IMes HCl 1, IPr HCl 3, lAd HCl, ICy HCl) all failed to give a more active catalyst. 

A multiphase system consisting of a hydrocarbon solvent, a strong alkaline solution, and a quaternary onium salt, in the presence of a Pd/C catalyst with hydrogen that was bubbled at atmospheric pressure through the organic phase, allows the rapid displacement of chlorine from polyhalogenated benzenes. The onium salt, insoluble in both phases, is localized in the interfaces, coats the Pd/C catalyst, and constitutes the phase in which the reaction takes... 

Antimony(lll) fluoride, " antiinony(lll) fluoride activated with pentavalent antimony salts [anlimony(V) fluoride, antimony(V) chloride, antimony(V) bromide, or by the addition of bromine or chlorine to form pentavalent antimony salts in situ], SbFjX, and antimony(V) fluoride substitute active halogens. In general, antimony fluorides can substitute halogens in polyhalogenated compounds when more than one possible site of fluori-natioii is present, the following order of reactivity is observed (where X = Br or C ) ... 

Aromatic systems substituted with electron-donating groups are more readily halogenated than benzene. Consequently, other synthetic routes or reagents are sometimes used to avoid polyhalogenation and the formation of isomeric mixtures. For example, the iodination of toluene gives a mixture of 2- and 4-iodotoluenes each isomer can be prepared individually from the appropriate toluidine via the diazonium salt (see Chapter 8). 

This catalytic sequence is known as Kharasch addition or atom transfer radical addition (ATRA) [4]. Various polyhalogenated compounds such as CCI4 and CCI3CO2R are used as the organic halides, and transition metal salts or complexes are used as the catalyst [3]. Intramolecular version of the Kharasch addition reaction (atom transfer radical cyclization, ATRC) has opened novel synthetic protocols to the synthesis of carbocyde or heterocyles catalyzed by transition metals [5-7], and this has become a very important field in free radical cydization in organic synthesis. Transition metal-catalyzed Kharasch reactions sometimes afford telomers or poly-... 

The rearrangement of a-halo ketones under the influence of base was first described by Favorskii in 1892, and the general scope of the reaction and the mechanistic implications have been the subject of a number of reviews. In its most generally useful form, a-halo ketones undergo skeletal rearrangement when treated with a nucleophilic base (hydroxide, alkoxide or amine) to produce salts, esters and amides respectively (Scheme 1). With polyhalogenated ketones unsaturated acid derivatives are prcxluced, as shown in Scheme 2. 

Crivello [34] patented the synthesis of triarylsulfonium polyhalogen metal salts by oxidation of a polyarylsulfide in the presence of a strong acid and under dehydrating conditions. 

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