SULPHONATION OF AROMATIC AMINES

SULPHONATION OF AROMATIC AMINES If aniline is treated with excess of concentrated sulphuric acid and the resulting mixture, which contains aniline sulphate, is heated at 180° until a test portion when mixed with sodium hydroxide solution no longer liberates aniline, p-aminobenzenesulphonic acid or sulphanilic acid is formed this separates as the dihydrate upon pouring the cooled mixture into water. The reaction prohahly proceeds as follows  

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C. A typical aromatic amine. Best prepared by the prolonged action of concentrated ammonia solution at a high temperature upon anthraquinone-l-sulphonic acid in the presence of BaClj and by reduction of the corresponding nitro compound or by amination of the chloroanthraquinone. 

Polymeric adsorbents have also been found to be very useful, and even highly water-loving undesired materials like p-toluene sulphonic acid from waste streams can be recovered via ad.sorption and regeneration with solvents like fv -propanol. In such instances, the regeneration of activated carbons is not satisfactory, even with aqueous sodium hydroxide. Solutes like phenols, substituted phenols, aromatic amines, heterocyclic amines (pyridine, picolines, etc.) can be recovered, in a rewarding way, from aqueous solutions. 

Generally, the results of the measurements indicated that, where dissociation constants were determined by conductometry and also potentiometric titration, they were in agreement with each other further, KHX is low, e.g., about 10 4-10 6moll 1 for aromatic sulphonic acids and 10 13-10 16 moll-1 for carboxylic acids, Xhx2 is high, e.g., 102-104, and KBis low again, e.g., 10 5-10 6 for aliphatic amines and 10 10 for aromatic amines. 

The ease with which the sulphonic group enters into aromatic compounds depends on the nature of the substituents present, just as it does in nitration. Benzene is rather difficult to sulphonate, toluene and naphthalene are somewhat more easy, phenols and amines very easy. The sulphonation of nitrobenzene or the further sulphonation of the benzene sulphonic acids proceeds with more difficulty, and the action of the sulphuric acid must here be intensified by increasing its S03-content. 

The phenols are as easily sulphonated as are the aromatic amines. When polynitrophenols have to be prepared, sulphonic groups are often first introduced and are then easily eliminated and replaced by N02 by the action of nitric add. This method is used, for example, in preparing picric acid. 

Metabolites formed during the decolourization of the azo dye Reactive red 22 by Pseudomonas luteola were separated and identified by HPLC-DAD and HPLC-MS. The chemical structures of Reactive red 22 (3-amino-4-methoxyphcnyl-/fhydroxyl-sulphonc sulphonic acid ester) and its decomposition products are shown in Fig. 3.92. RP-HPLC measurements were carried out in an ODS column using an isocratic elution of 50 per cent methanol, 0.4 per cent Na2HP04 and 49.6 per cent water. The flow rate was 0.5 ml/min, and intermediates were detected at 254 nm. The analytes of interest were collected and submitted to MS. RP-HPLC profiles of metabolites after various incubation periods are shown in Fig. 3.93. It was concluded from the chromatographic data that the decomposition process involves the breakdown of the azo bond resulting in two aromatic amines [154],... 

The range of organic compounds which have been subject to the Simons process is wide and includes aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, halocarbons, ethers, aliphatic and aromatic amines, heterocyclics, thiols, alkyl sulphonic and carboxylic acids, and their derivatives, among others. 

The lower members of the homologous series of 1. Alcohols 2. Aldehydes 3. Ketones 4. Acids 5. Esters 6. Phenols 7. Anhydrides 8. Amines 9. Nitriles 10. Polyhydroxy phenols 1. Polybasic acids and hydro-oxy acids. 2. Glycols, poly-hydric alcohols, polyhydroxy aldehydes and ketones (sugars) 3. Some amides, ammo acids, di-and polyamino compounds, amino alcohols 4. Sulphonic acids 5. Sulphinic acids 6. Salts 1. Acids 2. Phenols 3. Imides 4. Some primary and secondary nitro compounds oximes 5. Mercaptans and thiophenols 6. Sulphonic acids, sulphinic acids, sulphuric acids, and sul-phonamides 7. Some diketones and (3-keto esters 1. Primary amines 2. Secondary aliphatic and aryl-alkyl amines 3. Aliphatic and some aryl-alkyl tertiary amines 4. Hydrazines 1. Unsaturated hydrocarbons 2. Some poly-alkylated aromatic hydrocarbons 3. Alcohols 4. Aldehydes 5. Ketones 6. Esters 7. Anhydrides 8. Ethers and acetals 9. Lactones 10. Acyl halides 1. Saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons Cyclic paraffin hydrocarbons 3. Aromatic hydrocarbons 4. Halogen derivatives of 1, 2 and 3 5. Diaryl ethers 1. Nitro compounds (tertiary) 2. Amides and derivatives of aldehydes and ketones 3. Nitriles 4. Negatively substituted amines 5. Nitroso, azo, hy-drazo, and other intermediate reduction products of nitro com-pounds 6. Sulphones, sul-phonamides of secondary amines, sulphides, sulphates and other Sulphur compounds... 

JF Lawrence, FE Lancaster. Determination of total non-sulphonated aromatic amines in food colour amaranth by dithionite reduction followed by derivatization and high performance liquid chromatography. Food Addit Contam 6(4) 415 -423, 1989. 

Storm, T., Reemtsma, T., and Jekel, M. Use of volatile amines as ionpairing agents for the HPLC-tandem mass spectrometric determination of aromatic sulphonates in industrial wastewater. J. Chromatogr. A. 1999, 854,175-195. 

Where the template has been an aromatic amine of low basidty, interaction with carboxylic acid groups has proved too weak to allow selective imprinting. However, Sherrington et al. [112] have shown that the sulphonic add residue in 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulphonic acid is very useful under these circumstances the much higher acidity of this add allows protonation of the weak base template, and hence sufficiently strong electrostatic interaction for imprinting to be achieved. 

The sulphonic acids of the aniline homologues and derivatives are all crystalline compounds. Di-sulphonic acids of the aromatic amines are also known. 

The important property of these compounds is that they will couple with aromatic amines and hydroxy derivatives to form highly coloured products which, when rendered soluble by sulphonation, give rise to a great range of dyestuffs known as the azo dyes. A simple example of a coupling reaction is shown in the following equations ... 

As almost all foreign compounds are distributed via the bloodstream, the components of the blood are exposed at least initially to significant concentrations of toxic compounds. Damage to and destruction of the blood cells results in a variety of sequelae such as a reduced ability to carry oxygen to the tissues if red blood cells are destroyed. Aromatic amines such as aniline and the drug dapsone (4,4-diaminodiphenyl sulphone) are metabolized to hydroxylamines, and in the latter case the metabolite is concentrated in red blood cells. Also, nitro compounds such as nitrobenzene, which can be reduced to hydroxylamines, are similarly toxic to red blood cells. These hydroxylamines are often unstable and can be further oxidized to reactive products, in the presence of oxygen in the... 

Figure 10.25 Twenty-nine specific toxicophores for mutagenicity as identified by Kazius el al. (Kazius, J-, et al. Derivation and validation of toxicophores for mutagenicity prediction. J. Med. Chem. 2005, 48, 312-320.) (A) Specific aromatic nitro, (B) specific aromatic amine, (C) aromatic nitroso, (D) alkyl nitrite, (E) nitrosamine, (F) epoxide, (G) aziridine, (H) azide, (I) diazo, (J) triazene, (K) aromatic azo, (L) unsubstituted heteroatom-bonded heteroatom, (M) aryl hydroxylamine, (N) alkyl halide, (O) acyl halide, (P) N- or 5-mustard, (Q) polycyclic aromatics, (R) bay-region, (S) K-region, (T) sulphonate-bonded C, (U) unsaturated aldehyde, (V) alkyl A-nitro, (W) diazonium, (X) p-propiolactone, (Y) unsubstituted a,p unsaturated alkoxy, (Z) l-aryl-2-monoalkyl hydrazine, (AA) aromatic methylamine, (AB) aryl hydroxylamine ester, and (AC) polycyclic planar system.

In this method primary aliphatic and aromatic amines yield coloured products by nucleophilic displacement of the sulphonic group of l,2-naphthoquinone-4-sulphonic acid (44) (equation 29) . This reaction has also been applied in colourimetric determinations... 

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