Solvent effects bromide/iodide

As mentioned briefly in Chapter 5, the photodimerization of acenaphthylene is subject to a very interesting heavy-atom solvent effect. The results of the photolysis of acenaphthylene in some heavy-atom solvents are given in Table 10.6.<4a) The data in Table 10.6 show that the heavy-atom solvents n-propyl bromide and ethyl iodide yield product ratios similar to that obtained in the sensitized photolysis, indicating a greater role of the triplet state in... 

Alkyl azides. Sodium azide as such is of little use for preparation of alkyl azides by nucleophilic substitution reactions because of solubility problems. The reaction can be carried out under phase-transfer conditions with methyltrioctylam-monium chloride/NaN3.3 An even more effective polymeric reagent can be obtained by reaction of NaN3 with Amberlite IR-400.4 This reagent converts alkyl bromides, iodides, or tosylates into azides at 20° in essentially quantitative yield. The solvents of choice are CH3CN, CHC13, ether, or DMF. 

Solvent effects were studied in the fate 1950s for reactions of alkylmagnesium compounds with 1-hexyne in diethyl ether. These reactions have already been discussed several times in this and in Chapter 11 (see Scheme 10) [22a], When 1.0 molEq triethylamine was added to the reaction mixture, the relative reactivity of methylmagnesium iodide toward 1-hexyne, which is 7 (the reactivity of ethylmagnesium bromide was arbitrarily set... 

Influence of solvents. The effectiveness of LiAlH4 for reduction of alkyl iodides and bromides varies considerably with the solvent. The order of solvent effect is diglyme > monoglyme > THF y> ether. In contrast the solvent effect on rate of reduction of tosylates is ether > THF > monoglyme > diglyme. Thus reduction of tosylales by LiAIH4 can be carried out in ether without reduction of a halide substituent.1... 

Many replacement reactions are often much faster in polar aprotic solvents than in hydroxylic solvents. Thus, the reaction of methyl bromide with iodide is about 500 times faster in acetone than in methyl alcohol. In addition, methyl iodide reacts with chloride about a million times faster in DMF than in methyl alcohol. This happens because the OH group of hydroxylic solvents solvates anions, forming the hydrogen bond (ROH-"X -HOR). The solvated anions are therefore much less reactive. On the other hand, aprotic solvents having no hydrogen are unable to form hydrogen bonds. Anions in polar aprotic solvents are therefore more free, more reactive, and thus better nucleophiles. Another example of a strong solvent effect on a 8 2 reaction is the bimolecular replacement of bromide by azide in 1-bromobutane ... 

Iron(III) chloride forms numerous addition compounds, especially with organic molecules which contain donor atoms, for example ethers, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and amines. Anhydrous iron(III) chloride is soluble in, for example, ether, and can be extracted into this solvent from water the extraction is more effective in presence of chloride ion. Of other iron(III) halides, iron(III) bromide and iron(III) iodide decompose rather readily into the +2 halide and halogen. 

The original conditions used amines as solvents or cosolvents. Several other bases can replace the amine. Tetrabutylammonium hydroxide or fluoride can be used in THF (see Entry 1 in Scheme 8.11).163 Tetrabutylammonium acetate is also effective with aryl iodides and EWG-substituted aryl bromides (Entry 2).164 Use of alkenyl halides in this reaction has proven to be an effective method for the synthesis of enynes165 (see also Entries 5 and 6 in Scheme 8.11). 

Kotschy et al. also reported a palladium/charcoal-catalyzed Sono-gashira reaction in aqueous media. In the presence of Pd/C, Cul, PPI13, and z -Pr2NH base, terminal alkynes smoothly reacted with aryl bromides or chlorides, such as 2-pyridyl chloride, 4-methylphenyl bromide, and so on, to give the expected alkyne products in dimethyl-acetamide (DMA)-H20 solvent. Wang et al. reported an efficient cross-coupling of terminal alkynes with aromatic iodides or bromides in the presence of palladium/charcoal, potassium fluoride, cuprous iodide, and triph-enylphosphine in aqueous media (THF/H20, v/v, 3/1) at 60°C.35 The palladium powder is easily recovered and is effective for six consecutive runs with no significant loss of catalytic activity. 

A palladium catalyst with a less electron-rich ligand, 2,2-dipyridyl-methylamine-based palladium complexes (4.2), is effective for coupling of aryl iodides or bromides with terminal alkynes in the presence of pyrrolidine and tetrabutylammonium acetate (TBAB) at 100°C in water.37 However, the reactions were shown to be faster in NMP solvent than in water under the reaction conditions. Palladium-phosphinous acid (POPd) was also reported as an effective catalyst for the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction of aryl alkynes with aryl iodides, bromides, or chlorides in water (Eq. 4.18).38... 

The conversion of aryl iodides into aryl phosphonates, a useful precursor to aryl phosphonic acids, was performed in a Teflon autoclave by Villemin [51]. A domestic microwave oven was used for these experiments and the reaction times for classic heating were effectively reduced from 10 h to 4-22 min. The reactivity of iodides was good whereas the use of bromides resulted in lower yields and reactions with tri-flates were very slow (Eq. 11.35). It is notable that the reactions were brought to completion with short reaction times in a non-polar solvent. 

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