Solvents Schiff bases

METHOD 2 [89]--1M MDA or benzedrine and 1M benzaldehyde is dissolved in 95% ethanol (Everclear), stirred, the solvent removed by distillation then the oil vacuum distilled to give 95% yellow oil which is a Schiff base intermediate. 1M of this intermediate, plus 1M iodomethane, is sealed in a pipe bomb that s dumped in boiling water for 5 hours giving an orangy-red heavy oil. The oil is taken up in methanol, 1/8 its volume of dH20 is added and the solution refluxed for 30 minutes. Next, an equal volume of water is added and the whole solution boiled openly until no more odor of benzaldehyde is detected (smells like almond extract). The solution is acidified with acetic acid, washed with ether (discard ether), the MDMA or meth freebase liberated with NaOH and extracted with ether to afford a yield of 90% for meth and 65% for MDMA. That s not a bad conversion but what s with having to use benzaldehyde (a List chemical) Strike wonders if another aldehyde can substitute. 

Common impurities found in aldehydes are the corresponding alcohols, aldols and water from selfcondensation, and the corresponding acids formed by autoxidation. Acids can be removed by shaking with aqueous 10% sodium bicarbonate solution. The organic liquid is then washed with water. It is dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate or magnesium sulfate and then fractionally distilled. Water soluble aldehydes must be dissolved in a suitable solvent such as diethyl ether before being washed in this way. Further purification can be effected via the bisulfite derivative (see pp. 57 and 59) or the Schiff base formed with aniline or benzidine. Solid aldehydes can be dissolved in diethyl ether and purified as above. Alternatively, they can be steam distilled, then sublimed and crystallised from toluene or petroleum ether. 

The reported examples of ring system 593 were prepared by heating l-amino-3-alkylbenzimidazolium iodides 592 with aromatic aldehydes in polar aprotic solvents to give 593 via intermediate Schiff bases (86KGS346) (Scheme 122). 

Interestingly, the diastereofacial selectivity can be reversed in the Strecker reaction of aldimines derived from galactosylamine 1 by simply changing the solvent. When the reaction of trimethylsilyl cyanide with the Schiff bases 2 catalyzed by zinc chloride, is carried out in chloroform instead of 2-propanol, there is a preferred formation of the (.S)-amino nitrile diastereomers63. 

We succeeded in showing that recycling of the enzyme was indeed possible in our IL solvent system, though the reaction rate gradually dropped with repetition of the reaction process. Since vinyl acetate was used as acyl donor, acetaldehyde was produced hy the hpase-catalyzed transesterification. It is well known that acetaldehyde acts as an inhibitor of enzymes because it forms a Schiff base with amino residue in the enzyme. However, due to the very volatile nature of acetaldehyde, it easily escapes from the reaction mixture and therefore has no inhibitory action on the lipase. However, this drop in reactivity was assumed to be caused by the inhibitory action of acetaldehyde oligomer which had accumulated in the [bmim][PFg] solvent system. In fact, it was confirmed that the reaction was inhibited by addition of acetaldehyde trimer. =... 

See structure 1. The reaction is conducted in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), because DMSO is a very good solvent for the growing oligomers and its strong interaction with water prevents hydrolysis of the zirconium(IV) and favors the forward Schiff-base condensation reaction. 

The single-electron reduction and oxidation of Co(salen) is solvent dependent as a result of the available coordination sites perpendicular to the CoN202 plane.1220 Furthermore, substituents on the phenyl rings modulate the observed redox potentials and subsequently the 02 binding constants. Hammett correlations are obtained.1221 Potentiometric titrations were performed to determine the 02 binding constants and species distribution as a function of pH for a variety of Schiff base Co complexes.1222... 

When Ni(0Ac)2 4H20 is employed, a dimeric complex (551) with a coordinated Schiff base forms, because the amine donor reacts with the solvent acetone. With Ni(C104)2 6H20, a trinuclear complex (552) is obtained which is readily oxidized upon exposure to air or by aqueous... 

Hansen et al.52 measured the deuterium isotope effects for the Schiff base being a derivative of racemic gossypol [7]. The high negative value of deuterium isotope effect observed at carbon C-7 linked with proton donor group (—190 — 240 ppb), solvent and temperature independent, clearly indicated the existence of this compound as enamine-enamine tautomer. 

Deuterium isotope effects on 1SN chemical shifts Deuterium isotope effects on 15N chemical shifts AN(D), similarly as for AC(D), can be employed in determination of mole fraction of the proton transferred form Schiff bases.44 A similar correlation between the mole fraction of NFI-form and AN(D) values was found (Figure 2). For the Schiff bases in which proton transfer takes place, the AN(D) values varied from —2 to + 5 ppm and depend on solvent and temperature. The AN(D) values of... 

Other aza macrocyclic complexes, such as Schiff bases or tetraazaannulene derivatives, have been also used with some success for the electrocatalytic reduction of C02 in organic solvent in the presence of proton sources.166-168... 

Ouyang, J. M. Solvent extraction of palladium(II) with a Schiff base and separation of palladium from Pd(II)-Pt(VI) mixture. Solvent Extr. Ion Exch. 1999, 17, 1255-1270. 

Novel three-component reactions of thiazole Schiff bases, ammonium acetate and aromatic aldehydes under solvent-free microwave irradiation conditions yielded diastereoselectively thiazolo-s-triazines <06GC455>. 

Another example where PEG played the role of polymeric support, solvent, and PTC was presented by the group of Lamaty [72]. In this study, a Schiff base-proteded glycine was reacted with various electrophiles (RX) under microwave irradiation. No additional solvent was necessary to perform these reactions and the best results were obtained using cesium carbonate as an inorganic base (Scheme 7.64). After alkylation, the corresponding aminoesters were released from the polymer support by transesterification employing methanol in the presence of triethylamine. 

In 1991 Bose described the synthesis of ot-vinyl /1-lactams by reaction of ,/l-unsa-turated acyl chlorides with a Schiff base in chlorobenzene under microwave irradiation (an example of the eco-friendly MORE chemistry, in which only a limited amount of solvent is used) [20b]. Under these conditions, a-vinyl /1-lactam formation can be achieved in 65-70% in approximately 5 min (classical conditions require several hours and lead only to modest yields). 

Aminoanthracene forms a Schiff base with dimethylacetaldehyde (isobutyral-dehyde). This compound can be oxidized by peroxide under basic conditions to form 9-formamidoanthracene and acetone in dimethylformamide as a solvent [54, 55], CL from this system can be observed in other aprotic solvents as well. A limited amount of work has been done with the CLs of Schiff bases or anthracene derivatives. Presumably, this will change in the future. 

Butyne-l,4-diol has been hydrogenated to the 2-butene-diol (97), mesityl oxide to methylisobutylketone (98), and epoxides to alcohols (98a). The rhodium complex and a related solvated complex, RhCl(solvent)(dppb), where dppb = l,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane, have been used to hydrogenate the ketone group in pyruvates to give lactates (99) [Eq. (15)], and in situ catalysts formed from rhodium(I) precursors with phosphines can also catalyze the hydrogenation of the imine bond in Schiff bases (100) (see also Section III,A,3). 

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