Reductants bisulfite

Analogously, aldehydes react with ammonia [7664-41-7] or primary amines to form Schiff bases. Subsequent reduction produces a new amine. The addition of hydrogen cyanide [74-90-8] sodium bisulfite [7631-90-5] amines, alcohols, or thiols to the carbonyl group usually requires the presence of a catalyst to assist in reaching the desired equilibrium product. 

The inorganic reductions of NaBH are numerous and varied (Table 7). Comparatively few anions are reduced, yet the reduction of bisulfite to dithionite (hydrosulfite) (25), which is used in the pulp (qv) and paper (qv), clay (see Clays), and vat dyeing industries, is an important inorganic appHcation ofNaBH,. 

Manufacture of 3-hydroxy-4-amino-l-naphthalenesulfonic acid involves the nitrosation of 2-naphthalenol, bisulfite addition, and reduction of the nitroso to the amino group by sulfur dioxide generated in situ (47). 3-Hydroxy-4-amino-l-naphthalenesulfonic acid is obtained in 80% yield. 

By the nitrosation of 2-naphthalenol and the reaction of the nitroso compound with sodium bisulfite. By nitrosation/reduction of 6-hydroxy-2-naphthalenesulfonic acid. 

Sodium Bisulfite. Sodium bisulfite [7631-90-5] NaHSO, is occasionally used to perform simultaneous reduction of a nitro group to an amine and the addition of a sulfonic acid group. For example, 4-amino-3-hydroxyl-l-naphthalenesulfonic acid [116-63-2] C qH NO S, is manufactured from 2-naphthol in a process which uses sodium bisulfite (59). The process involves nitrosation of 2-naphthol in aqueous medium, followed by addition of sodium bisulfite and acidification with sulfuric acid. 

In removing excess free chlorine from municipal or industrial water and from wastewater, sodium sulfite competes with bisulfite or sulfur dioxide. Other commercial appHcations of sodium sulfite in wastewater treatment include the reduction of hexavalent chromium to the less toxic Cr " salts as well as the precipitation of silver and mercury. 

Dithionites. Although the free-dithionous acid, H2S2O4, has never been isolated, the salts of the acid, in particular zinc [7779-86-4] and sodium dithionite [7775-14-6] have been prepared and are widely used as industrial reducing agents. The dithionite salts can be prepared by the reaction of sodium formate with sodium hydroxide and sulfur dioxide or by the reduction of sulfites, bisulfites, and sulfur dioxide with metallic substances such as zinc, iron, or zinc or sodium amalgams, or by electrolytic reduction (147). 

Cyclohexanone shows most of the typical reactions of aUphatic ketones. It reacts with hydroxjiamine, phenyUiydrazine, semicarbazide, Grignard reagents, hydrogen cyanide, sodium bisulfite, etc, to form the usual addition products, and it undergoes the various condensation reactions that are typical of ketones having cx-methylene groups. Reduction converts cyclohexanone to cyclohexanol or cyclohexane, and oxidation with nitric acid converts cyclohexanone almost quantitatively to adipic acid. 

Another important reduction process is that of aryldiazonium salts with sulfite/bisulfite at controlled pH to produce aryUiydrazines. AryUiydrazines are important intermediates for the preparation of pyrazolones and indoles. 

Recent papers by a manufacturer of sodium borohydride, NaBH (145,146), have demonstrated that excellent removal of metals and color of acid, direct, and reactive dyes for textiles and paper can be achieved with bisulfite-catalyzed borohydride reduction in combination with polymer flocculation. 

An alternate method of producing the 21-hydroxy-20-ketone consists in lithium aluminum hydride reduction of the dimethyl acetal, hydrolysis to the 20-hydroxy-21-aldehyde and rearrangement, preferably via the bisulfite addition product... 

A convenient laboratory route involves the reduction of an aqueous solution of nitrous acid or potassium nitrite with bisulfite under carefully... 

Some internal oxidation-reduction reactions have been reported with the bisulfite adducts of naphtho[l,2-c]furoxan " and some... 

Reduction by sodium dithionite. A small amount of sodium dithionite, solid or in solution, is added to a luciferase solution made with 50 mM phosphate, pH 7.0, containing 50 pM FMN. The amount of dithionite used should be minimal but sufficient to remove oxygen in the solution and to fully reduce the flavin. The solution made is injected into an air-equilibrated buffer solution containing a long-chain aldehyde and luciferase to initiate the luminescence reaction. With this method, the reaction mixture will be contaminated by bisulfite and bisulfate ions derived from dithionite. 

The benzeneseleninic acid weighs 14.4-16 g. (73-82%) and melts at 123-124°. It may be reconverted to diphenyl diselenide by reduction with sodium thiosulfate or sodium bisulfite. ... 

A procedure that is useful for the preparation of both bromohydrins and iodohy-drins involves in situ generation of the hypohalous acid from NaBr03 or NaI04 by reduction with bisulfite.43... 

In addition to the sulfuric acid required for pH adjustment, some amount of acid is consumed by the reduction reaction (Equation 8.15). If sulfur dioxide is used as the reducing agent, it will provide all the acid consumed by this reaction, and additional acid will not be required. However, if sodium bisulfite or sodium metabisulfite is used, additional acid must be supplied to satisfy the acid demand. This acid requirement is stoichiometric and can be calculated from Equations 6.19 to 6.22. 

As a practical example, following the reduction of hexavalent chromium, sodium hydroxide, lime, or sodium hydroxide can be added to the wastewater to neutralize the pH and precipitate the trivalent chromium, nickel, iron, divalent, and other heavy metals. If lime is used, lime will react with heavy metals and with any residual sodium sulfate, sulfurous acid, or sodium bisulfite. The following reactions apply ... 

Method Chemical reduction of hexavalent chromium by sulfur dioxide under acid conditions for the continuous operating system and by sodium bisulfite under acid conditions for the batch operating system. The reduced trivalent form of chromium is subsequently removed by precipitation as the hydroxide. 

Toxic pollutants found in the mercury cell wastewater stream include mercury and some heavy metals like chromium and others stated in Table 22.8, some of them are corrosion products of reactions between chlorine and the plant materials of construction. Virtually, most of these pollutants are generally removed by sulfide precipitation followed by settling or filtration. Prior to treatment, sodium hydrosulfide is used to precipitate mercury sulfide, which is removed through filtration process in the wastewater stream. The tail gas scrubber water is often recycled as brine make-up water. Reduction, adsorption on activated carbon, ion exchange, and some chemical treatments are some of the processes employed in the treatment of wastewater in this cell. Sodium salts such as sodium bisulfite, sodium hydrosulfite, sodium sulfide, and sodium borohydride are also employed in the treatment of the wastewater in this cell28 (Figure 22.5). 

Here, disulfite is functioning as a latent acid, releasing protons and bisulfite upon hydrolysis (Equation 10). At the proper proton concentrations, (x=2, 3), rapid Cr(VI) reduction and fast gelation take place. Therefore at x=2 to 3, the redox reaction should be the same as if acid were added at n=2 to 6 (Equation 9). The gelation reactivity of the two are comparable under these conditions ... 

RCOOH - RCHO (12,485). This borane (2 equiv.) reduces acids at room temperature to thexylboronic acid and aldehydes, which are best isolated as the sodium bisulfite adduct. Yields of aliphatic aldehydes are in the range 80-95%. Reduction of aromatic acids is slow, and yields are significantly lower. 

There are two approaches to the bleaching of mechanical pulps. They may be either reductive or oxidative in nature. The reductive bleaching agents are usually bisulfite, dithionite or borohydr.de, and the oxidising agents are normally peroxide, hypochlorite, peracetic... 

Faust and Hoffmann (1986) and Litter and Blesa (1988) who investigated the wavelength-dependence of the rate of photochemical reductive dissolution of iron(III)(hydr)oxides using hematite-bisulfite and maghemite-EDTA as model systems, respectively. 

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