Secondary, bromination

Raney Ni has also been used for removal of a secondary bromine, and has been applied for the synthesis of deoxy cyclitols with addition of Amberlite IR-4B anion-exchange resin to bind the liberated acid202 205 (eq. 13.110204). 

Both chloric and iodic acid have been used as oxidants in acidic solutions. No examples with bromic acid have been reported. Withaldonic acids the primary products are keto acids. However, an example does exist of the conversion of an aldose to an aldonic acid. This might be classed as an indirect or secondary bromine oxidation, since a mixture of sodium chlorate and hydrobromic acid was used in acid solution. 

When unsymmetric alkenes are reacted under the Wohl-Ziegler conditions, product mixtures can be obtained. For example, reaction of 1-octene (27) gave about a 3 1 mixture of primary and secondary bromination products 28 and 29. ... 

A white solid, m.p. 178 C. Primarily of interest as a brominaling agent which will replace activated hydrogen atoms in benzylic or allylic positions, and also those on a carbon atom a to a carbonyl group. Activating influences can produce nuclear substitution in a benzene ring and certain heterocyclic compounds also used in the oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones. 

It consists in treating a solution of sodium iodide in pure acetone with the organic compound. The reaction is probably of the S 2 type involving a bimolecular attack of the iodide ion upon the carbon atom carrying the chlorine or bromine the order of reactivities of halides is primary > secondary > tertiary and Br > Cl. 

And in the recipe above, Vogel want s to get rid of a secondary alcohol just like the one on MD-P2Pol and replace it with a bromine. Wait a minuter you may say, That isn t a double bond like... 

All this business of swapping out bromine would be a lot easier if that bromine were at the end of that aliphatic chain which would make it a primary bromine (don t ask). As it so happens, the bromine in bromo-safrole is at a secondary position which means that... 

Bromine reacts with alkanes by a free radical chain mechanism analogous to that of chlorine There is an important difference between chlorination and brommation how ever Brommation is highly selective for substitution of tertiary hydrogens The spread m reactivity among pnmary secondary and tertiary hydrogens is greater than 10 ... 

In practice this means that when an alkane contains primary secondary and tertiary hydrogens it is usually only the tertiary hydrogen that is replaced by bromine... 

Addition of a bromine atom to C 1 gives a secondary alkyl radical... 

A secondary alkyl radical is more stable than a primary radical Bromine therefore adds to C 1 of 1 butene faster than it adds to C 2 Once the bromine atom has added to the double bond the regioselectivity of addition is set The alkyl radical then abstracts a hydrogen atom from hydrogen bromide to give the alkyl bromide product as shown m... 

The reactions of trialkylboranes with bromine and iodine are gready accelerated by bases. The use of sodium methoxide in methanol gives good yields of the corresponding alkyl bromides or iodides. AH three primary alkyl groups are utilized in the bromination reaction and only two in the iodination reaction. Secondary groups are less reactive and the yields are lower. Both Br and I reactions proceed with predominant inversion of configuration thus, for example, tri( X(9-2-norbomyl)borane yields >75% endo product (237,238). In contrast, the dark reaction of bromine with tri( X(9-2-norbomyl)borane yields cleanly X(9-2-norbomyl bromide (239). Consequentiy, the dark bromination complements the base-induced bromination. 

Bromine or chlorine dissolved in hexamethylphosphoric triamide [680-31-9] (HMPT) with a base, eg, NaH2PO, present, oxidizes primary and secondary alcohols to carbonyl compounds in high yield (38). 

Interpretation of tiie ratio of capture of competing nucleophiles has led to the estimate that bromonium ions have lifetimes on the order of 10 s in methanol. This lifetime is about 100 times longer than fliat for secondary caibocations. There is also direct evidence for the existence of bromonium ions. The bromonium ion related to propene can be observed by NMR spectroscopy when l-bromo-2-fluoropropane is subjected to superacid conditions. The terminal bromine adopts a bridging position in the resulting cation. 

Important differences are seen when the reactions of the other halogens are compared to bromination. In the case of chlorination, although the same chain mechanism is operative as for bromination, there is a key difference in the greatly diminished selectivity of the chlorination. For example, the pri sec selectivity in 2,3-dimethylbutane for chlorination is 1 3.6 in typical solvents. Because of the greater reactivity of the chlorine atom, abstractions of primary, secondary, and tertiary hydrogens are all exothermic. As a result of this exothermicity, the stability of the product radical has less influence on the activation energy. In terms of Hammond s postulate (Section 4.4.2), the transition state would be expected to be more reactant-like. As an example of the low selectivity, ethylbenzene is chlorinated at both the methyl and the methylene positions, despite the much greater stability of the benzyl radical ... 

Oxidations usually proceed in the dark at or below room temperature in a variety of solvents ranging from aqueous bicarbonate to anhydrous benzene-pyridine. Base is quite commonly used to consume the hydrogen halide produced in the reaction, as this prevents the formation of high concentrations of bromine (or chlorine) by a secondary process. The reaction time varies from a few minutes to 24 hours or more depending on the nature of the reagent and the substrate. Thus one finds that NBS or NBA when used in aqueous acetone or dioxane are very mild, selective reagents. The rate of these oxidations is noticeably enhanced when Fbutyl alcohol is used as a solvent. In general, saturated, primary alcohols are inert and methanol is often used as a solvent. 

With Freon 112 or 113 as a solvent, fluonnation of pnmary butyl halides with bromine trifluonde can give mixtures of primary and secondary fluorides When 1,4 dibromobutane is the substrate, 93% l-bromo-4-fluorobutane and 1% 1-bro-mo-3-fluorobutane is obtained, with 1,4 dichlorobutane, the product contains 65% l-chloro-3-fluorobutane and 35% 1-chloro 4 fluorobutane When 4-bromo- or 4-chlorobutyl trifluoroacetate is used, the ratio of 4-fluorobutyl tnfluoroacetate to 3 fluorobutyl trifluoroacetate is 1 4 The effect of solvent is measured in another set of experiments When the reaction of bromine trifluonde and l,3-dichloro-2-fluoropropane in either Freon 113 or hydrogen fluoride is allowed to proceed to 40% conversion, the product mixture has the composition shown m Table 1 [/O] When 1 chloro 2,3-dibromopropane is combined with one-third of a mole of bromine trifluonde, both 1 bromo 3 chloro-2-fluoropropane and l-chloro-2,3-di-fluoropropane are formed [//] (equation 10)... 

Boron tribromide replaces fluonne with bromine on tertiary or secondary carbons however, trifluoromethyl groups are inert in this reaction [70] (equation 57). 

Bromination of the methyl group of (249) with A -bromosuccinimide, followed by reaction with excess secondary amine gave (250) which shows combined analgesic and antitussive properties. The Reformatsky reaction has also been used for the preparation of 2-amino-ethyl 3,3-diaryl-3-hydroxypropanates (251) as well as their dehydration products. The propene amides (252) have also been prepared for pharmacological evaluation. In l-methyl-3-bis (2-thienyl)-... 

With two competing allylic species, a secondary center -CH2- is brominated preferentially over a primary center -CH3. 

Finally the aminoquinoline bearing a primary amine at the terminal carbon atom of the side chain is itself an effective antimalarial drug. Ring opening of 2-methyltetrahydrofuran by bromine gives the dibromide, 99. The primary halide is sufficiently less hindered so that reaction with potassium phthalimide affords exclusively the product of displacement of that halogen (100). Alkylation of the aminoquinoline with lOO affords the secondary amine, 101. Removal of the phthalimide group by means of hydrazine yields primaquine (102). ... 

The fully unsaturated tricyclic compounds are also used clinically as antidepressants. Carbamazepine (62), for example, is prepared from 10,ll-dihydro-5H-dibenz[b,f]azepine (49) by N-acetylation followed by bromination with W-bromosuccinimide to give 60. Dehydrohalogenation by heating in collidine introduces the double bond. Saponification with potassium hydroxide in ethanol leads to dibenz[b,f]azepine (61), the parent substance for the fully unsaturated analogs. Treatment of the secondary... 

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