Reaction with ammonium bifluoride

C) for cast iron and up to 140 °F for marstenitic SS (60 °C). It is widely used where silicates are present with the iron oxides. Typically, 5 to 7.5% HC1 is employed. The ammonium bifluoride normally is present at 0.5%, but it may be increased to a maximum of 1.5% for a boiler that has not been cleaned for many years. The presence of hydrofluoric acid (HF), which is formed by the reaction of ammonium bifluoride with HC1 (see equation), tends to increase the rate of iron oxide dissolution and reduce the corrosion rate of exposed steel, when compared to using HC1 alone. This is due to the stability of the hexafluoroferric ion (FeFg3 ), which prevents the ferric ion from corroding exposed steel. 

An alternative method of HMFG preparation (Poulain and Lucas 1978) starts with less expensive metallic oxides which are converted to fluorides, usually with ammonium bifluoride NH4F HF, as in the reactions... 

Manufacture. Lithium fluoride is manufactured by the reaction of lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide with dilute hydrofluoric acid. If the lithium carbonate is converted to the soluble bicarbonate, insolubles can be removed by filtration and a purer lithium fluoride can be made on addition of hydrofluoric acid (12). High purity material can also be made from other soluble lithium salts such as the chloride or nitrate with hydrofluoric acid or ammonium bifluoride (13). 

Hydrofluoric acid may be prepared by dilution of a concentrated aqueous solution or by reaction of enough ammonium bifluoride with aqueous 15% HC1 to prepare a 12% HCl/3% HF solution. Hydrochloric - hydrofluoric acid blends have the major advantage of dissolving silicaceous mineral including clays and silica fine particles. HCl/HF blends are quite corrosive. 

The nitroaldol reaction of silyl nitronates with aldehydes promoted by ammonium fluorides, which was originally introduced by Seebach and Colvin in 1978 [24], is a useful method for the preparation of 1,2-functionalized nitroalkanols. Recently, the present authors have succeeded in developing an asymmetric version of high efficiency and stereoselectivity by using a designer chiral quaternary ammonium bifluoride of type 6 as catalyst, which was readily prepared from the corresponding bromide by the modified method C in Scheme 9.5 [25]. 

During the course of studies on these asymmetric nitroaldol reactions catalyzed by chiral ammonium bifluorides 6 (X= HF2), the reaction of 23a was attempted with trans-cinnamaldehyde, a representative a,P-unsaturated aldehyde, under the influence of (R,R)-6c (X = HF2, 2mol%) in THF at — 78 °C. The starting aldehyde was consumed within 30 min at this temperature and, surprisingly, the 1,4-addition product 25 was obtained predominantly as a diastereomeric mixture with concomitant formation of the initially expected nitroaldol (1,2-addition product) 26 [72% combined yield, 25/26 = 17 1, syn/antiof25 = 85 (4% ee) l 5 (25% ee)] (Scheme 9.13). 

Further applications of the chiral ammonium bifluoride-catalyzed enantioselective Michael addition of silyl nitronates has been shown in the reactions with nitroalkenes as a Michael acceptor (Scheme 9.17). These studies were started by examining the reaction of nitropropane-derived silyl nitronate 23b with P-nitrostyrene, using the chiral quaternary ammonium bifluoride (R,.R)-6d. When P-nitrostyrene was treated with 23b (1.2 equiv.) in the presence of (K,f )-6d (2mol%) in THF at — 78 °C, the... 

Table 4.1 The chiral ammonium bifluoride 12-catalyzed asymmetric Mukaiyama-type aldol reaction of ketene silyl acetal 13 with aldehydes. (For experimental details see Chapter 14.1.5)...

The efficient homogeneous catalysis of chiral ammonium bifluorides of type 15 has been further utilized for achieving an asymmetric Michael addition of silyl nitronates to a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes. Here, chiral ammonium bifluoride 15b bearing a 3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl group was found to be the catalyst of choice, and the reaction of 16a with trans-cinnamaldehyde under the influence of (R,R)- 15b (2 mol%) in THF at —78 °C produced the 1,4-addition product 18 predominantly (18/19 = 24 1) as a diastereomeric mixture (syn/anti = 78 22) with 85% ee of the major syn isomer (Scheme 4.9). Further, use of toluene as solvent led to almost exclusive formation of the 1,4-adduct (18/19 = 32 1) with similar diastereoselec-tivity (syn/anti = 81 19), and critical enhancement of the enantioselectivity was attained (97% ee) [15]. 

Typically, the ammonium or hydronium form of the zeolite is slurried in water and reacted with the requisite amount of the ammonium fluoride salt of either iron or titanium. Given the sparingly soluble nature of ammonium fluotitanate, the (NH )2TiF6 can be added to the zeolite slurry in slurry form, or directly as salt. Alternatively, the iron may be added to the zeolite slurry as a slurry of the ammonium fluoride salt crystals in water, or the FeF3 crystals can be mixed with a water solution of ammonium fluoride or ammonium bifluoride, such that the composition of the treatment solution contains the stoichiometry of the ammonium iron fluoride salt, (NH4)3FeF6. The (NH )3FeF6 crystals can also be added directly to the zeolite slurry. The amount of either metal ammonium fluoride salt added during the reaction is determined by the desired product composition and the anticipated completeness of the reaction. 

AMMONIUM BIFLUORIDE (1341-49-7) FiH H4N Reacts with water, forming a weak solution of hydrofluoric acid. Violent reaction with bases, releasing ammonia gas. Attacks glass, cement, and most metals in the presence of moisture. Upon contact with moisture and metal, this material may release flammable hydrogen gas which may collect in enclosed spaces. Do not use aluminum, nickel, or steel containers. When heated to deconqjosition, emits toxic and corrosive fumes of ammonia, hydrogen fluoride, and nitric oxides. 

Maruoka et al. have developed and used A-spiro C2-symmetric chiral quaternary ammonium bifluorides [151] 102, 103, and more recently 104, to promote the regio- and anti-selective Mukaiyama-Michael addition of silyl nitronates to a, 3-unsaturated aldehydes [152], cyclic a,P-unsaturated ketones [153], and nitroalk-enes [154] with good yields and enantioselectivities (Scheme 2.52). Final chiral silyl enol ethers are easily hydrolyzed to the corresponding carbonyl compounds or functionalized at the a-position by reaction with electrophiles. 

Ammonium bifluoride can be synthesized either by reaction of ammonium fluoride or ammonia with HF ... 

Name some reagent, other than ammonium bifluoride, which can complex and prevent its reaction with I. ... 

Hydrazinium bifluoride is prepared by the reaction of stoichiometric amounts of ammonium bifluoride with hydrazine hydrate in polythene cups. Ammonia evolves instantaneously. The product is crystallized from solution and dried over P2O5 in a vacuum desiccator [27] ... 

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