Positive halogenation

The addition of mineral acids to hypohalous acids produces a large increase in the rate at which these latter acids halogenate and reaction under these conditions is usually referred to as positive haiogenation which has been subjected to intensive kinetic studies. Whilst there is ample evidence supporting the existence 

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Addition of chlorine or bromine in the presence of water can yield compounds containing haUde and hydroxyl on adjacent carbon atoms (haloalcohols or halohydrins). The same products can be obtained in the presence of methanol (13) or acetic acid (14). As expected from the halonium ion intermediate, the addition is anti. As expected from Markovnikov s rule, the positive halogen goes to the same carbon that the hydrogen of a protic reagent would. 

Af-Halogeno-, fV-nitroso- and hence fV-amino-azetidines have been prepared from azetidines by reaction with positive halogen reagents and nitrosating agents, respectively (Section 5.09.2.2.3). 

Other interactions of /3-lactams with electrophiles include the oxidative decarboxylation of the azetidin-2-one-4-carboxylic acid (85) on treatment with LTA and pyridine (81M867), and the reaction of the azetidin-2-one-4-sulfinic acid (86) with positive halogen reagents. This affords a mixture of cis- and trans-4-halogeno-/3-lactams (87), the latter undergoing cyclization to give the bicyclic /3-lactam (88) (8UOC3568). 

The interhalogen compounds are the bromine- and iodine-base materials. It is the larger, more positive halogen that is the reactive portion of the interhalogen molecule during the disinfection process. Although only used on a limited basis at present, there are members of this class that show great promise as environmentally safe disinfectants. 

The oxidizing properties of positive halogen precursors have been reviewed by Filler. Compounds which have been used in steroid hydroxyl oxidations are Wbromosuccinimide Wbromoacetamide (NBA), A-bro-... 

Although purine nucleosides can frequently be halogenated at the vacant imidazole carbon (see above), AMialogenosuccinimides in acetic acid tend to promote intramolecular cyclizations instead. It has been demonstrated that 2-bromoadenosine is not an intermediate in this process (Scheme 55), which is believed to involve initial attack by positive halogen at N-3. 

Acetoxylation is found to accompany nitration of fairly reactive aromatics by nitric acid in acetic anhydride and gives rise to zeroth-order kinetics76. The electrophile is believed to be protonated acetyl nitrate the formation of which is rate-determining, hence the kinetic order (see p. 37). Acetoxylation can also accompany halogenation by positive halogenating agents in acetic acid solvent, especially in the presence of sodium acetate137, but no kinetic studies have been carried out. 

There have been rather more kinetic studies of molecular halogenation than of positive halogenation and apart from the problems with iodination noted above, interpretation of the kinetics has presented few difficulties. 

Treatment with sodium hypochlorite or hypobromite converts primary amines into N-halo- or N,N-dihaloamines. Secondary amines can be converted to N-halo secondary amines. Similar reactions can be carried out on unsubstituted and N-substituted amides and on sulfonamides. With unsubstituted amides the N-halo-gen product is seldom isolated but usually rearranges (see 18-13) however, N-halo-N-alkyl amides and N-halo imides are quite stable. The important reagent NBS is made in this manner. N-Halogenation has also been accomplished with other reagents, (e.g., sodium bromite NaBr02) benzyltrimethylammonium tribromide (PhCH2NMe3 Br3"), and NCS. The mechanisms of these reactions involve attack by a positive halogen and are probably similar to those of 12-47 and 12-49.N-Fluorination can be accomplished by direct treatment of amines °° or... 

A variety of reagents can function as the electrophile E+ in the general mechanism. The most useful synthetic procedures for preparation of halides are based on the halogens, positive halogens sources, and diethyl azodicarboxylate. A 1 1 adduct formed from triphenylphosphine and bromine converts alcohols to bromides.15 The alcohol displaces bromide ion from the pentavalent adduct, giving an alkoxyphosphonium intermediate. The phosphonium ion intermediate then undergoes nucleophilic attack by bromide ion, forming triphenylphosphine oxide. 

Positive halogen reagents can cyclize y- and 8-hydroxyalkenes to tetrahydro-furan and tetrahydropyran derivatives, respectively.85 Iodocyclization of homoal-lylic alcohols generates 3-iodotetrahydrofiirans when conducted in anhydrous acetonitrile.86 The reactions are stereospecific, with the /(-alcohols generating the irons and the Z-isomer the cis product. These are endo-5 cyclizations, which are preferred to exo-4 reactions. 

Foucaud A (1983) Positive halogen compounds. In Pattai S, Rappoport Z (eds) The chemistry of functional groups, supplement D. Wiley, New York, pp 441-480... 

In contrast to their effect at the fl-position, halogens at the y-position deshield the CF3 group (Scheme 5.6). 

In the biosynthetic schemes proposed for some halogenated natural products, positive halogen intermediates are attacked by electrons from the n bond of an alkene or alkyne in an addition reaction. 

A-Halogeno-amides are familiar and convenient sources of positive halogen for the organic chemist, and the 2 1 complex formed in benzene between diazabicyclooctane (DABCO) and /V-bromsuccinimide (NBS) [48] (the numbers are the observed interatomic distances in angstroms) in effect shows one such reagent in action (Crowston et al., 1984). The N-Br-N angle is close to linear [175.1(2) A], and the bromine is poised almost midway between the two nitrogen atoms, which are of similar basicity. The... 

Haloperoxidases act as halide-transfer reagents in the presence of halide ions and hydrogen peroxide. In the first step, the halide ion is oxidized to a halonium-ion carrier, from which the positive halogen species is then transferred to the double bond. In an aqueous medium, the intermediary carbocation is trapped and racemic halohydrins are formed (Eq. 7). Selective examples of CPO-cata-lyzed formation of halohydrins are given in Table 9. In CPO-catalyzed reaction. 

Sodium periodate or positive halogenanting species such as A-chlorosuccinimide and f-bntyl hypochlorite" are nsefnl oxidizing reagents. 

A-Chlorohydroxamic esters (2) are universally synthesized from the parent hydroxamic esters (4) using the positive halogenation source, tert-butyl hypochlorite " . Reactions are... 

A wide variety of species can function as the electrophile E+ in the general mechanism. The most useful synthetic procedures for preparation of halides are based on the halogens, positive halogen sources, and diethyl azodicarboxylate. 

The elemental halogens are not the only source of electrophilic halogen atoms, and, for some synthetic purposes, other positive halogen compound may be preferable... 

Electrophilic iodine reagents have also been employed in iodocyclization. Several salts of pyridine complexes with I+ such as bis(pyiidinium)iodonium tetrafluoroborate and bis(collidine)iodonium hexafluorophosphate have proven especially effective.61 y-Hydroxy- and d-hydroxyalkcncs can be cyclized to tetrahydrofuran and tetrahydropyran derivatives, respectively, by positive halogen reagents.62 (see entries 6 and 8 in Scheme... 

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