Alcohols tert-butyl

Series reactions occur in which the tert-butyl hydrogen sulfate reacts to unwanted tert-butyl alcohol ... 

The commercial constant boiling point alcohol, b.p. 80°/760 mm., containing 88 per cent, of tert..butyl alcohol, may be used 28-5 g. are required. 

The tert.-butyl alcohol should be dried over quicklime or anhydrous calcium sulphate and distilled. 

The reagent Is expensive and poisonous, consequently the hydroxylation procedure is employed only for the conversion of rare or expensive alkenes (e.g., in the steroid field) into the glycols. Another method for hydroxylation utilises catalytic amounts of osmium tetroxide rather than the stoichiometric quantity the reagent is hydrogen peroxide in tert.-butyl alcohol This reagent converts, for example, cyc/ohexene into cis 1 2- t/ohexanedlol. 

Prepare anhydrous tert.-butyl alcohol by refluxing the commercial product with sodium ca. 4 g. per 100 ml.) until the metal is about two-thirds dissolved and then distilling. Free metal should be present during the distillation. 

The method is basically an application of the Wacker oxidation except that the catalyst used is palladium acetate ( Pd(AcO)2 or Pd(02CCH3)2). the solvent is acetic acid or tert-butyl alcohol and the oxygen source is the previously suggested hydrogen peroxide (H202)[17]. 

METHOD 3 [114]-Phenol and 30% H2O2 in molar ratios of 10 3 to 10 8 is heated at 70 C for 8-10 hours to give -15% catechol. Addition of tert-butyl alcohol increases the yield. 

The mixture was then cooled to 30-40°C and the dissolved acetylene was sucked Over" in a water-pump vacuum (10-20 mmHg) and condensed in a receiver cooled at -78°C. The contents of the receiver were shaken three times with 20-ml portions of ice-water in a small separating funnel or dropping funnel in order to remove small amounts of tert.-butyl alcohol. After drying over a very small amount of... 

Consider the reaction of tert butyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride... 

Step 1 Protonation of tert butyl alcohol to give an alkyloxonium ion... 

The molecularity of an elementary step is given by the number of species that undergo a chemical change m that step Transfer of a proton from hydrogen chloride to tert butyl alcohol is bimolecular because two molecules [HCl and (CH3)3COH] undergo chemical change... 

FIGURE 4 7 Potential energy diagram for proton transfer from hydrogen chio ride to tert butyl alcohol... 

With the potential energies shown on a common scale we see that the transition state for formation of (CH3)3C is the highest energy point on the diagram A reaction can proceed no faster than its slowest step which is referred to as the rate determining step In the reaction of tert butyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride formation of the... 

FIGURE 4 12 Potential energy diagram for the reaction of tert butyl alcohol and hydrogen chloride according to the SnI mechanism... 

The first step of this new mechanism is exactly the same as that seen earlier for the reaction of tert butyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride—formation of an alkyloxonmm ion by proton transfer from the hydrogen halide to the alcohol Like the earlier exam pie this IS a rapid reversible Brpnsted acid-base reaction... 

The major difference between the two mechanisms is the second step The second step m the reaction of tert butyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride is the ummolecular dis sociation of tert butyloxonium ion to tert butyl cation and water Heptyloxonium ion however instead of dissociating to an unstable primary carbocation reacts differently It IS attacked by bromide ion which acts as a nucleophile We can represent the transition state for this step as... 

Step 3 in Figure 5 6 shows water as the base which ab stracts a proton from the car bocation Other Bronsted bases present in the reaction mixture that can function in the same way include tert butyl alcohol and hydrogen sulfate ion... 

These common features suggest that carbocations are key intermediates m alcohol dehydra tions just as they are m the reaction of alcohols with hydrogen halides Figure 5 6 portrays a three step mechanism for the acid catalyzed dehydration of tert butyl alcohol Steps 1 and 2 describe the generation of tert butyl cation by a process similar to that which led to its for matron as an intermediate m the reaction of tert butyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride... 

Like the reaction of tert butyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride step 2 m which tert butyloxonium ion dissociates to (CH3)3C and water is rate determining Because the rate determining step is ummolecular the overall dehydration process is referred to as a ummolecular elimination and given the symbol El... 

FIGURE 5 6 The El mecha nism for the acid catalyzed dehydration of tert butyl alcohol... 

Similarly sodium methoxide (NaOCHj) is a suitable base and is used m methyl alco hoi Potassium hydroxide m ethyl alcohol is another base-solvent combination often employed m the dehydrohalogenation of alkyl halides Potassium tert butoxide [K0C(CH3)3] is the preferred base when the alkyl halide is primary it is used m either tert butyl alcohol or dimethyl sulfoxide as solvent... 

Compound A (CgHi4) gives three different monochlondes on photochemical chlonnation One of these monochlondes is inert to E2 elimination The other two monochlondes yield the same alkene B (CgHi2) on being heated with potassium tert butoxide in tert butyl alcohol Men tify compound A the three monochlondes and alkene B... 

We can extend the general principles of electrophilic addition to acid catalyzed hydration In the first step of the mechanism shown m Figure 6 9 proton transfer to 2 methylpropene forms tert butyl cation This is followed m step 2 by reaction of the car bocation with a molecule of water acting as a nucleophile The aUcyloxomum ion formed m this step is simply the conjugate acid of tert butyl alcohol Deprotonation of the alkyl oxonium ion m step 3 yields the alcohol and regenerates the acid catalyst... 

IS reversible with respect to reactants and products so each tiny increment of progress along the reaction coordinate is reversible Once we know the mechanism for the for ward phase of a particular reaction we also know what the intermediates and transition states must be for the reverse In particular the three step mechanism for the acid catalyzed hydration of 2 methylpropene m Figure 6 9 is the reverse of that for the acid catalyzed dehydration of tert butyl alcohol m Figure 5 6... 

As a second example from tert butyl alcohol... 

We now have a new problem Where does the necessary alkene come from Alkenes are prepared from alcohols by acid catalyzed dehydration (Section 5 9) or from alkyl halides by dehydrohalogenation (Section 5 14) Because our designated starting material is tert butyl alcohol we can combine its dehydration with bromohydrm formation to give the correct sequence of steps... 

Although 2 methylpropene undergoes acid catalyzed hydration m dilute sulfuric acid to form tert butyl alcohol (Section 6 10) a different reaction occurs m more concentrated solutions of sulfuric acid Rather than form the expected alkyl hydrogen sulfate (see Sec tion 6 9) 2 methylpropene is converted to a mixture of two isomeric C Hig alkenes... 

Step 3 This step is a fast acid base reaction that follows the nucleophilic substitution Water acts as a base to remove a proton from the alkyloxonium ion to give the observed product of the reaction tert butyl alcohol... 

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