Secondary preparation

It will be apparent therefore that the presence of one or more additives in a composition is not necessarily deleterious. (It depends on the additives, and their properties.) In a comparison, films containing different additives that showed markedly different responses to ink were wiped with a solvent and subsequently the adhesion of print was tested the results obtained in these instances were approximately the same, suggesting that even interfering substances can be removed if need be. However, with some additives, should time be allowed to elapse between treatment and printing, it might be necessary to carry out some secondary preparation of the film. 

Standards should be used regularly in all clinical chemistry procedures to check the performance of reagents, the calibration of photometers, etc., and all quantitative results in clinical chemistry are calculated with respect to the performance of a standard (primary or secondary) preparation of the material under test, or of a closely similar material (e.g., dehydroepiandrosterone for group steroid assays) if the exactly corresponding standard material cannot be made available as a pure compound. 

Secondary butyl alcohol, methylethyl car-binol, 2-butanol, CH3CH2CH(Me)OH. B.p. I00°C. Manufactured from the butane-butene fraction of the gas from the cracking of petroleum. Used to prepare butanone. 

Mono-substituted and unsymmetrical di-substituted ureas may be prepared by a modification of Wohler s urea synthesis, salts of primary or secondary amines being used instead of the ammonium salt for interaction with potassium cyanate. Thus when an aqueous solution containing both aniline hydrochloride and potassium cyanate is heated, aniline cyanate is first formed, and then C,HjNH,HCl -h KCNO = C,H6NHj,HCNO -h KCl C,HsNH HCNO = C.H NHCONH, by the usual molecular rearrangement is converted into monophenyburea. 

The preparation of pure primary amines by the interaction of alkyl halides and ammonia is very difficult, because the primary amine which is formed reacts with unchanged alkyl halide to give the secondary amine the latter... 

The nitrosamines are insoluble in water, and the lower members are liquid at ordinary temperatures. The separation of an oily liquid when an aqueous solution of an amine salt is treated with sodium nitrite is therefore strong evidence that the amine is secondary. Diphenylnitrosoamine is selected as a preparation because it is a crystalline substance and is thus easier to manipulate on a small scale than one of the lower liquid members. For this preparation, a fairly pure (and therefore almost colourless) sample of diphenyl-amine should be used. Technical diphenylamine, which is almost black in colour, should not be employed. 

This preparation illustrates the use of dimethyl sulphate to convert a primary amino group into the secondary monomethylamino group, without the methy-lation proceeding to the tertiary dimethylamino stage. The methylation of anthranilic acid is arrested at the monomethylamino stage by using i-i molecular equiN alents of sodium hydroxide and of dimethyl sulphate. The reactions can be considered as ... 

Note. Secondary amines, etc. in Class (ii) can be identified by their derivatives (C) and (D) above, and by their picrates when these can be readily isolated. The preparation of derivatives (D) requires the dry amine, whereas water does not aifect that of derivatives (C). 

The chloroplatinates prepared as above are sufficiently pure for direct analysis without recrystallisation. The chloroplatinates of the amines are usually freely soluble in hot water, but recrystallisation (when required) should not be attempted until the process has been found to be successful with a small test-portion of the chloroplatinate. The chloroplatinates of many primary and secondary amines decompose in hot water, the amine being oxidised, and the chloroplatinate reduced to the metal some amines furthermore co-ordinate readily with the metal when the chloroplatinate is boiled with water and a mixed product is obtained on cooling. 

Aliphatic hydrocarbons can be prepared by the reduction of the readily accessible ketones with amalgamated zinc and concentrated hydrochloric acid (Clemmensen method of reduction). This procedure is particularly valuable for the prep>aration of hydrocarbons wdth an odd number of carbon atoms where the Wurtz reaction cannot be applied with the higher hydrocarbons some secondary alcohol is produced, which must be removed by repeated distillation from sodium. 

The chlorides of secondary aliphatic alcohols are prepared by method 1, for example —... 

By the hydrolysis of dialkyl cyanamides with dilute sulphuric acid this method gives pure secondary amines. The appropriate dialkyl cyanamide is prepared by treating sodium cyanamide (itself obtained in solution from... 

The experimental details describe the use of a free secondary amine for the preparation of a nitrosainine. Identical results are, of course, obtained by employing solid diethylamine hydrochloride. 

Arylamines are generally prepared by the reduction of nitro compounds. When only small quantities are to be reduced and the time element is important and cost is a secondary consideration, tin and hydrochloric acid may be employed, for example ... 

P-Phenylethylamine is conveniently prepared by the hydrogenation under pressure of benzyl cyanide with Raney nickel catalyst (see Section VI,5) in the presence of either a saturated solution of dry ammonia in anhydrous methyl alcohol or of liquid ammonia the latter are added to suppress the formation of the secondary amine, di- P phenylethylamine ... 

Secondary and tertiary amines are not generally prepared in the laboratory. On the technical scale methylaniline is prepared by heating a mixture of aniline hydrochloride (55 parts) and methyl alcohol (16 parts) at 120° in an autoclave. For dimethylaniline, aniline and methyl alcohol are mixed in the proportion of 80 78, 8 parts of concentrated sulphuric acid are added and the mixture heated in an autoclave at 230-235° and a pressure of 25-30 atmospheres. Ethyl- and diethyl-anihne are prepared similarly. One method of isolating pure methyl- or ethyl-aniline from the commercial product consists in converting it into the Y-nitroso derivative with nitrous acid, followed by reduction of the nitroso compound with tin and hydrochloric acid ... 

The nitroso compound (diphenyinitrosamine) of the purely aromatic secondary amine diphenylamine is a crystalline solid, and therefore provides an interesting preparation eminently suitable for students ... 

The above reactions wiU serve to place an amine into its class— primary, secondary or tertiary. For complete characterisation, a crystalline derivative should be prepared. A large number of derivatives of amines are avaUable the foUowing wiU be found useful. 

Hinsberg procedure for the separation of primary, secondary and tertiary amines is given under (viii) above, and this method may be used. The following experimental details may, however, be found useful for the preparation of derivatives of primary and secondary amines. 

Other alkylbenzenes may be prepared similarly by using the appropriate primary or secondary alkyl bromide. 

The reason for this is that reaction (i) is usually much slower than (ii) and (iii) so that the main reaction appears to be (Iv) (compare the preparation of tertiary butyl chloride from tertiary butyl alcohol and concentrated hydrochloric acid, Section 111,33). If the reaction is carried out in the presence of P3rridine, the latter combines with the hydrogen chloride as it is formed, thus preventing reactions (ii) and (iii), and a good yield of the ester is generally obtained. The differentiation between primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols with the aid of the Lucas reagent is described in Section III,27,(vii). 

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