Sodium methoxide, reaction with aryl

The reaction is applicable to the preparation of amines from amides of aliphatic aromatic, aryl-aliphatic and heterocyclic acids. A further example is given in Section IV,170 in connexion with the preparation of anthranilic acid from phthal-imide. It may be mentioned that for aliphatic monoamides containing more than eight carbon atoms aqueous alkaline hypohalite gives poor yields of the amines. Good results are obtained by treatment of the amide (C > 8) in methanol with sodium methoxide and bromine, followed by hydrolysis of the resulting N-alkyl methyl carbamate ... 

The generally accepted mechanism for nucleophilic aromatic substitution m nitro substituted aryl halides illustrated for the reaction of p fluoromtrobenzene with sodium methoxide is outlined m Figure 23 3 It is a two step addition-elimination mechanism, m which addition of the nucleophile to the aryl halide is followed by elimination of the halide leaving group Figure 23 4 shows the structure of the key intermediate The mech anism is consistent with the following experimental observations... 

The most common types of aryl halides in nucleophilic aromatic substitutions are those that bear- o- or p-nitro substituents. Among other classes of reactive aryl halides, a few merit special consideration. One class includes highly fluorinated aromatic compounds such as hexafluorobenzene, which undergoes substitution of one of its fluorines on reaction with nucleophiles such as sodium methoxide. 

Treatment of various o-propargyl-aryl nitrones (777a—p) with potassium hydroxide or sodium methoxide in methanol at room temperature provides l,2-dihydro[c]benzazepin-3-ones (778a—p) (Scheme 2.323) (850, 851). The high yields and the surprisingly mild reaction conditions are particularly remarkable in view of the complex mechanistic pathway involved in the overall transformation. 

Aryl halides can undergo photostimulated polycarbonylation catalysed by Co2(CO)8 in aqueous sodium hydroxide solution or in methanol containing sodium methoxide (equation 193)752-754. Such reactions have been performed with chloro-, bromo- and dichloro-... 

Reactions of 4-aryl-5(2f/)-isoxazolones with 1,2-dibromoethane in acetonitrile in the presence of 1 equiv of triethyl-amine gave 2-bromoalkyl-4-aryl-5(2/f)-isoxazolones as major products that were converted to heterocyclic ketene AjO-acetals by treatment with sodium methoxide in boiling methanol <1997T10433>. The preparation of quinoline derivatives was achieved by catalytic hydrogenation of 2-(2-formylaryl)-5(2//)-isoxazolones <2003T9887>. 

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