Sodium iodide-Copper

An experimenter attempted to create a two-dimensional sodium iodide crystal on a copper surface, but the ions spontaneously rearranged themselves into a tiny three-dimensional crystal. 

Although 1, -elimination of o xylene polyhalides with sodium iodide, zinc, copper, or iron metal is a fundamental method for the formation of o-xylylene intermediates, it is difficult to carry out the reaction under mild conditions such as at room temperature. o Trimethylsilylmethyl)-benzyltrimethylammonium halides were devised for this purpose and were shown to generate the o-xylylene at room temperature. However, we have successfully generated o-xylylene at room temperature by the reaction of a, 0,-dibromo o-xylene with metallic nickel(51). The Diels-Alder reaction of... 

Furthermore, the preparation and reactions of 2-methoxythiophene were studied by Sice (70). This compound was obtained by a copper catalysed Williamson synthesis. It was also found that iodothiophene reacted readily with sodium alkoxides, whereas bromothiophene reacted slowly and chlorothiophene did not react at all. Sodium iodide accelerated the reaction of bromothiophene. The ortho, para orienting alkoxy group on carbon atom 2 increased the directive influence of the sulphur atom to the 5 position but competed with it to induce some attack on the 3 position by electrophilic reagents (nitration, acylation). The acylation of 2-methoxythiophene with stannic chloride at low temperatures furnished a mixture of two isomers. The 5-methoxy-2-acetothienone was obtained in higher yield and was identified by its ultraviolet absorption spectrum. 

Copper(l) iodide is prepared by heating copper with iodine and concentrate hydriodic acid, HI. Another preparation route is precipitation of the salt by mixing aqueous solutions of potassium or sodium iodide with copper sulfate or any soluble copper(ll) salt ... 

The history of the iodides dates from the time of J. L. Gay Lussac s discovery 1 of hydriodic acid in 1813. Iodides occur in sea-water, and in the waters of many natural springs and brines. Iodides also occur in varec in the nitre beds of South America and in many natural phosphates. In whatever form iodine occurs in these substances, it is usual to extract this element as iodine, and subsequently to convert this into the iodide—generally potassium iodide. Potassium iodide is used in analytical and photographical work, and medicinally for the treatment of scrofulous, rheumatic, and syphilitic diseases. Sodium iodide is used as a precipitant for gold and silver in the treatment of weak copper ores from Tharsis, etc. 

General Rules of Solubility as listed in Chapter 8 0.1 M solutions of the following compounds (these are the unknown solutions) Ag(N03) (silver nitrate), Ca(N03)2 (calcium nitrate), Cu(N03)2 (copper nitrate), NaOH (sodium hydroxide), KC1 (potassium chloride), Na2SC>4 (sodium sulfate), Nal (sodium iodide), and Na3PC>4 (sodium phosphate) eight small test tubes eight small disposable pipets pH paper one flame test wire in a cork glass plates a Bunsen burner and 3M HC1 (hydrochloric acid). 

Lead acetate Potassium dichromate and concentrated sulfuric acid Sodium nitrite Copper sulfate Mercury (II) chloride Yellow precipitate of lead iodide soluble in excess hot water Liberation of iodine Liberation of iodine Brown mixed precipitate Scarlet precipitate of mercury (II) iodide... 

Sodium hydroxide Copper (II), Cu+2 Potassium iodide Potassium cyanide Potassium thiocyanate... 

Five steps were required to convert 75 into the iodide coupling partner 44 needed for union with dithiane 43 (Scheme 17.16). Thioacetal formation31 and concomitant deketalisation were instigated by reacting 75 with 1,3-propanedithiol under Lewis acid conditions. Triol 76 was isolated in 65% yield. The less-hindered primary hydroxyl of 76 was then selectively 0-tosylated, and the remaining hydroxyls masked as tert-butyldimethyl silyl (TBDMS) ethers. Iodide displacement on 77 with sodium iodide and copper bronze,32 and transketalisation with N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS)/silver nitrate33 finally secured 44. 

Now that we have run through the two simple processes. Its time to move onto something a little more advanced. To review what we have learned so far, look at the two similarities between the two procedures we have done. In the first procedure we made ferrous chloride by electrolyzing a salt solution using an iron anode. In the second procedure we used a copper anode, and got cupric chloride. Now, you should remember that if we replaced the copper anode with zinc for example, we would get zinc chloride. Note Any metal can be used with the exception of lead, platinum, and a few others we need not discuss at this point. If you want, try it with aluminum, zinc, nickel, chromium, or magnesium to get the respective chlorides. Note The sodium chloride can be replaced with sodium bromide, or sodium iodide to make the corresponding bromides and iodides. 

Pschorrphenanthrene synthesis. Although use of sodium iodide rather than copper powder generally improves the yield in the synthesis of phenanthrenes from diazonium 2-amino-a-phenylcinnamic acids (3, 267), yields are poor when the acceptor ring is substituted by electron-donating alkoxy groups, which are often present in natural phen-... 

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