Salicylic acid reduction

Small differences in the structure of the molecules result in changes in the elution volumes. Note the difference that shortening the side chain from propyl to methyl has on the elution volume of the paraben. Even such a minor difference is sufficient to permit the separation of these two compounds. The same effect can be observed if aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is hydrolyzed to salicylic acid. Reduction in molecular size increases the elution volume. 

Hydration is not the only way in which an aldehyde intennediate may be protected against reduction the aldehyde may be converted in situ into a borate complex of the hydrate [28-31] or into a bisulfite addition complex [32,33]. There is compelling evidence that borate complexes, such as II in Eq. (6), in the case of salicylic acid reduction, are intermediates. The salt (II) has been isolated and characterized [31], and in the presence of proton donors it undergoes four-electron reduction a plausible mechanism is suggested ... 

Now cool the mixture thoroughly in ice-water, and run in over a period of 45 minutes a solution of 6 o g. of dry salicylic acid in 75 ml. of dry ether. When the addition of the acid to the stirred solution is complete, heat the mixture under reflux on the water-bath for 15 minutes to ensure completion of the reduction. Then thoroughly chill the mixture in ice-water, and hydrolyse any unused hydride by the slow addition of 50 ml. of ordinary undried ether, followed similarly by 75 ml. of dilute sulphuric acid. 

Other routes for hydroxybenzaldehydes are the electrolytic or catalytic reduction of hydroxybenzoic acids (65,66) and the electrolytic or catalytic oxidation of cresols (67,68). (see Salicylic acid and related compounds). Sahcylaldehyde is available in drums and bulk quantities. The normal specification is a freezing point minimum of 1.4°C. 4-Hydroxybenzaldehyde is available in fiber dmms, and has a normal specification requirement of a 114°C initial melting point. More refined analytical methods are used where the appHcation requires more stringent specifications. 

Since reproducibility of the flow system is critical to obtaining reproducibility, one approach has been to substitute lower-performance columns (50-to 100-p packings) operated at higher temperatures.1 Often, improvements in detection and data reduction can substitute for resolution. Chemometric principles are a way to sacrifice chromatographic efficiency but still obtain the desired chemical information. An example of how meaningful information can be derived indirectly from chromatographic separation is the use of system or vacancy peaks to monitor chemical reactions such as the titration of aniline and the hydrolysis of aspirin to salicylic acid.18... 

Salicylic acid analogues are often active as nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents because they interfere with biosynthesis of prostaglandins. Diflunisal (3) appears to be such an agent. It is synthesized from the nitrobiphenyl 1 by catalytic reduction to... 

Haapakka and Kankare have studied this phenomenon and used it to determine various analytes that are active at the electrode surface [44-46], Some metal ions have been shown to catalyze ECL at oxide-covered aluminum electrodes during the reduction of hydrogen peroxide in particular. These include mercu-ry(I), mercury(II), copper(II), silver , and thallium , the latter determined to a detection limit of <10 10 M. The emission is enhanced by organic compounds that are themselves fluorescent or that form fluorescent chelates with the aluminum ion. Both salicylic acid and micelle solubilized polyaromatic hydrocarbons have been determined in this way to a limit of detection in the order of 10 8M. 

How is m-hydroxybenzoic acid prepared Discuss the reduction of salicylic acid to pimelic acid (Einhom). 

Methanogenic enrichments resulted in O-demethylation of Dicamba to 3,6-dichlorosalicylic acid which was reductively dechlorinated to 6-chloro-salicylic acid and to salicylic acid, which was in turn further degraded to CH4 and C02. 

The catalytic reduction of o-nitrophenol by the surface of a Ti(IV)/Ti(III) redox system on a Ti/Ti02 electrode has been used in a preparative-scale operation [522]. 5-Nitro-salicylic acid [523] and... 

The challenge lay in the stereochemicaUy correct synthesis of the polyketide part of the molecule. Starting from L-serine (89) (Chart 6) by C2-elongation steps, reduction of the obtained keto functions including adequate protection and deprotection, and introduction of the salicylic acid residue the four stereoisomeric 3,5-diols (90) were obtained. Comparison of the H-NMR data with those of anachelin (10) showed that the isomer with 3R,5S,6S) configuration was the correct starting material. 

The direct reaction of [TCO4] in ethanolic solution with dppe and oxalic acid produces the red Tc" complex [Tc(ox)(dppe)2] (552). Attempts to prepare similar complexes with succinic acid, phthalic acid, or salicylic acid failed, or the complexes were stable in solution only. " Similarly, cationic complexes of Tc" are produced by reaction of the versatile precursor [TcO(OH)(dppe)2] (204) with various dithiocarbamates, which produces several complexes of general formula [Tc(dtc)(dppe)2] (553). For this reaction the reductant formamidine sulphinic acid (510) was required in an alkaline solution. The X-ray crystal structure of [Tc(S2CNMe2)(dppe)2] (554) shows a distorted octahedral geometry. Cyclic voltammetry reveals a reversible reduction wave Tc"/Tc couple at —0.53 V, and a reversible oxidation at +0.3 V for the Tc" /Tc" couple. The same compound (554) was also prepared from the thiourea precursor [TcO(tmtu)4] + (91).The reaction of this precursor in dmf in the presence of dppe produced a mixture of brown [TcO(dtc)(tmtu)2] and the Tc" complex (553). The first compound is probably an intermediate... 

Numerous methods for the synthesis of salicyl alcohol exist. These involve the reduction of salicylaldehyde or of salicylic acid and its derivatives. The alcohol can be prepared in almost theoretical yield by the reduction of salicylaldehyde with sodium amalgam, sodium borohydride, or lithium aluminum hydride by catalytic hydrogenation over platinum black or Raney nickel or by hydrogenation over platinum and ferrous chloride in alcohol. The electrolytic reduction of salicylaldehyde in sodium bicarbonate solution at a mercury cathode with carbon dioxide passed into the mixture also yields saligenin. It is formed by the electrolytic reduction at lead electrodes of salicylic acids in aqueous alcoholic solution or sodium salicylate in the presence of boric acid and sodium sulfate. Salicylamide in aqueous alcohol solution acidified with acetic acid is reduced to salicyl alcohol by sodium amalgam in 63% yield. Salicyl alcohol forms along with -hydroxybenzyl alcohol by the action of formaldehyde on phenol in the presence of sodium hydroxide or calcium oxide. High yields of salicyl alcohol from phenol and formaldehyde in the presence of a molar equivalent of ether additives have been reported (60). Phenyl metaborate prepared from phenol and boric acid yields salicyl alcohol after treatment with formaldehyde and hydrolysis (61). 

Salicylaldehyde Salicylic acid (India) Past pilot-plant Reduction of functional group... 

SAM-dependent methylation of salicylic acid. The salicyl alcohol derivative salicin, found in many species of willow (Salix species Salicaceae), is not derived from salicylic acid, but probably via glucosylation of salicylaldehyde and then reduction of the carbonyl (Figure 4.27). Salicin is responsible for the analgesic and antipyretic effects of willow barks, widely used for centuries, and the template for synthesis of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) (Figure 4.27) as a more effective analogue. 

There are a number of yellow substantive dyes synthesized by this principle. Example C. I. Direct Yellow 41, 29005 [8005-53-6] (29) is obtained by phosgene treatment of an equimolar mixture of bases A (sulfanilic acid— cresidine) and B (jt>-nitroaniline—> salicylic acid and reduction of the N02 group). The mixture additionally contains the two corresponding symmetrical dyes. 

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