The hydrazines

An obvious example of nuclear equivalence is evident in hydrazine, H2N-NH2, for both types of nuclides therein. This molecule s capability to take on protons and form various cations leads to interesting NMR (and EPR) phenomena. An excellent summary of the NMR aspects of hydrazine and its alkyl/aryl derivatives is available, to be found in the two-volume tome by Eckart Schmidt.63 

The proton NMR spectrum of highly purified N2H4 (anhydrous liquid, at 298 K) consists of a single line, its width (ca. 36 Hz) presumably being due to quadrupolar relaxation of the neighbouring 14N nuclei.64 

Graduating now to the diamagnetic cation [H2N-NH3]+, one finds much of interest. NMR (of 1H, 2H, 7Li, 14N, 15N) and other measurements of (H2N-NH3) (HSO4) and similar salts, and especially of Li(H2N-NH3)(S04), reveal ferroelectric behaviour and substantial capability of proton conductivity/diffusion through the crystals (e.g. Refs. 70 and 71). 

Finally, we touch upon the hydrazinum cation [H3N-NH3]++, which has been much studied by NMR, for some 50 years now. In aqueous solution, it acts as a weak acid. Internal rotations of the molecules exist, and it is known that the two NH3 groups within the molecule generally are not equivalent when in a solid phase such as in the sulfates.72-74 

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This reaction has been carefully studied with the aim of obtaining the enthalpy of combustion as electrical energy, and successful hydrazine-air fuel cells have been developed using potassium hydroxide as the electrolyte. The hydrazine fuel, however, has the disadvantage that it is expensive and poisonous. 

The product is sometimes contaminated with silicic acid from the glass of the condenser this may be removed by filtration. All corlcs should be covered with tin foil to avoid attack by the hydrazine hydrate. 

Hydrazine hydrate may be titrated with standard acid using methyl orange as indicator or, alternatively, against standard iodine solution with starch as indicator. In the latter case about 0-1 g., accurately weighed, of the hydrazine hydrate solution is diluted with about 100 ml. of water, 2-3 drops of starch indicator added, and immediately before titration 6 g. of sodium bicarbonate are introduced. Rapid titration with iodine gives a satisfactory end point. 

Equip a 1 Utre three-necked flask or a 1 litre bolt- head flask with a reflux condenser and a mercury-sealed stirrer. Dissolve 50-5 g. of commercial 2 4-dinitro-l-chlorobenzene in 250 ml. of rectified spirit in the flask, add the hydrazine solution, and reflux the mixture with stirring for an hour. Most of the condensation product separates during the first 10 minutes. Cool, filter with suction, and wash with 50 ml. of warm (60°) rectified spirit to remove unchanged dinitrochlorobenzene, and then with 50 ml. of hot water. The resulting 2 4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (30 g.) melts at 191-192° (decomp.), and is pure enough for most purposes. Distil oflF half the alcohol from the filtrate and thus obtain a less pure second crop (about 12 g.) recrystallise this from n-butyl alcohol (30 ml. per gram). If pure 2 4-dinitrophenylhydrazine is required, recrystallise the total yield from n-butyl alcohol or from dioxan (10 ml. per gram) this melts at 200° (decomp.). 

The following alternative method of preparation is recommended. Dissolve 50 g. of purified 2 4-dinitrochlorobenzene (1) in 100 ml. of triethylene glycol (gentle warming nia be necessary alternatively, 125 ml. of warm diethylene glycol may be used) in a 600 ml. beaker and cool, with mechanical stirring, in an ice bath to 15-18°. Place 15 ml. of commercial 60-65 per cent, hydrazine solution in a small separatory funnel supported over the beaker. Add the hydrazine solution to the stirred solution in the beaker at such a rate that the temperature is maintained between 15° and 20° (20-30 minutes). When... 

Method 2. Drop 10 g. of hydrazine hydrate (85 per cent, aqueous solution see Section 11,49,Id) into a hot solution of 35 g. of benzil (Section IV,126) in 70 ml. of alcohol with stirring. When about three-fourths of the hydrazine hydrate has been introduced, the product begins to separate. After all the reagent has been added, heat the solution under reflux for 5 minutes, cool to 0°, filter at the pump, and wash twice with 20 ml. portions of alcohol. The yield of benzil monohydrazone, m.p. 149-151° (decomp.), is almost quantitative. 

Some examples of the use of a temporary additional site of coordination have been published. Burk and Feaster have transformed a series of ketones into hydrazones capable of chelating to a rhodium catalyst (Scheme 4.7). Upon coordination, enanti os elective hydrogenation of the hydrazone is feasible, yielding N-aroylhydrazines in up to 97% ee. Finally, the hydrazines were transformed into amines by treatment with Sml2. 

The problem of the synthesis of highly substituted olefins from ketones according to this principle was solved by D.H.R. Barton. The ketones are first connected to azines by hydrazine and secondly treated with hydrogen sulfide to yield 1,3,4-thiadiazolidines. In this heterocycle the substituents of the prospective olefin are too far from each other to produce problems. Mild oxidation of the hydrazine nitrogens produces d -l,3,4-thiadiazolines. The decisive step of carbon-carbon bond formation is achieved in a thermal reaction a nitrogen molecule is cleaved off and the biradical formed recombines immediately since its two reactive centers are hold together by the sulfur atom. The thiirane (episulfide) can be finally desulfurized by phosphines or phosphites, and the desired olefin is formed. With very large substituents the 1,3,4-thiadiazolidines do not form with hydrazine. In such cases, however, direct thiadiazoline formation from thiones and diazo compounds is often possible, or a thermal reaction between alkylideneazinophosphoranes and thiones may be successful (D.H.R. Barton, 1972, 1974, 1975). 

The freezing point diagram for the hydrazine—water system (Eig. 1) shows two low melting eutectics and a compound at 64 wt % hydrazine having a melting point of —51.6°C. The latter corresponds to hydrazine hydrate [7803-57-8] which has a 1 1 molar ratio of hydrazine to water. The anomalous behavior of certain physical properties such as viscosity and density at the hydrate composition indicates that the hydrate exists both in the Hquid as well as in the soHd phase. In the vapor phase, hydrazine hydrate partially dissociates. 

Table 1 summarizes some of the physical properties of anhydrous hydrazine, hydrazine hydrate, monomethyUiydrazine, and unsymmetrical dimethyUiydrazine (6—8). A comprehensive review of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the hydrazines is available (9). 

The reactor effluent, containing 1—2% hydrazine, ammonia, sodium chloride, and water, is preheated and sent to the ammonia recovery system, which consists of two columns. In the first column, ammonia goes overhead under pressure and recycles to the anhydrous ammonia storage tank. In the second column, some water and final traces of ammonia are removed overhead. The bottoms from this column, consisting of water, sodium chloride, and hydrazine, are sent to an evaporating crystallizer where sodium chloride (and the slight excess of sodium hydroxide) is removed from the system as a soHd. Vapors from the crystallizer flow to the hydrate column where water is removed overhead. The bottom stream from this column is close to the hydrazine—water azeotrope composition. Standard materials of constmction may be used for handling chlorine, caustic, and sodium hypochlorite. For all surfaces in contact with hydrazine, however, the preferred material of constmction is 304 L stainless steel. 

Anhydrous hydrazine, required for propellant appHcations and some chemical syntheses, is made by breaking the hydrazine—water azeotrope with aniline. The bottom stream from the hydrate column (Fig. 4) is fed along with aniline to the azeotrope column. The overhead aniline—water vapor condenses and phase separates. The lower aniline layer returns to the column as reflux. The water layer, contaminated with a small amount of aniline and hydrazine, flows to a biological treatment pond. The bottoms from the azeotrope column consist of aniline and hydrazine. These are separated in the final hydrazine column to give an anhydrous overhead the aniline from the bottom is recycled to the azeotrope column. 

Materials of Construction. In choosing the proper materials of constmction for storing and using hydrazine, it is necessary to consider both the effects of the material on the stabiUty and quaUty of the hydrazine as well as the effect of the hydrazine on the material of constmction. Hydrazine is thermally stable, storable for years without adverse effects either to the product or the storage container provided the recommended materials are used, all systems are clean, and an inert gas, ie, nitrogen, is maintained over the system at all times. Table 10 is a brief listing of materials compatibiUty (125). 

The most important synthesis of pyrazolones involves the condensation of a hydrazine with a P-ketoester such as ethyl acetoacetate. Commercially important pyrazolones carry an aryl substituent at the 1-position, mainly because the hydrazine precursors are prepared from readily available and comparatively inexpensive diazonium salts by reduction. In the first step of the synthesis the hydrazine is condensed with the P-ketoester to give a hydrazone heating with sodium carbonate then effects cyclization to the pyrazolone. In practice the condensation and cyclization reactions are usually done in one pot without isolating the hydrazone intermediate. 

The most common reaction of this type is the cyclization of various derivatives of hydrazine and substituted hydrazines with pyridine o-dicarboxylic acids and related compounds. Reactions in which the acid derivative reacts directly with the hydrazine are dealt with as [4 + 2] reactions in Section 2.15.10.6.1. 

Reaction of 2-ethoxycarbonyl-l-phenylpyrazolidine with Meerwein s salt (boron trifluoride etherate) yields the quaternary ammonium salt (426) which is not stable and undergoes ring opening to the hydrazine (427) with sodium ethoxide (76JOC1244). 

When two moles of a carbonyl compound are used instead of formalin, the mechanism is different (Scheme 58) (70BSF3147). In one example (80CCC2417) the product of the nucleophilic addition of the hydrazine to the pyrazolinium salt (635 R = = Ph, R = R" =... 

Oxidative ring expansion occurs when the hydrazine (175) is treated with manganese dioxide (73TL4091). Diphenylcyclopropenone (176) reacts with ammonia and methylamine to give /3-lactams (69BCJ1777). Initial attack could occur at either C-1 or C-2 of the cyclopropenone. 

An equivalent amount of hydrazine sulfate and sodium hydroxide in 80 per cent alcohol may be used in place of the hydrazine hydrate solution without greatly diminishing the yield. 

The reaction is exothermic, and too rapid addition of the hydrazine may cause the mixture to foam out of the condenser. 

Toluene from Toluidine.—It is often desirable to obtain tbe hydiocarbon from the base. The process of diazotisntion offers the only convenient method. The diazonium salt may be reduced by alcohol (Reaction 1, p. 162) or, as in the piesent instance, by sodium stannite. Less direct methods are the con-veision of the diazonium compound into (i) the hydrazine (see p. 174), (2) the acid and distillation with lime (p. 200), (3) the halogen derivative and reduction with sodium amalgam, 01, finally (4) the phenol and distillation with zinc dust. 

This reaction is catalysed by traces of heavy metal ions such as Cu and the purpose of the gelatin is to suppress reaction (5) by sequestering the metal ions it is probable that gelatin also assists the hydrazine-forming reactions between ammonia and chloramine in a way that is not fully understood. The industrial preparation and uses of N2H4 are summarized in the Panel. 

Both 1- and 2-naphthylhydrazine have been shown to react in good yield with 2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid in the presence of sodium bisulfite to give, after acidic workup, dibenzocarbazole 30 and 31, respectively7 When either 1- or 2-naphthylhydrazine is heated with sodium bisulfite, dibenzocarbazoles 32 and 31, respectively, are isolated after acidic work-up7 It is suggested that loss of the hydrazine residue to form a bisulfite addition compound of the parent naphthol occurs initially further reaction of this adduct with naphthylhydrazine then affords, after work-up, the products. 

Preparation of thiadiazoles via the Hurd-Mori cyclization has led to the synthesis of a variety of biologically active and functionally useful compounds. Discussion of reactions prior to 1998 on the preparation of thiadiazoles have been compiled in a review by Stanetty et al Recent syntheses of thiadiazoles as intermediates for useful transformations to other heterocycles have appeared. For example, the thiadiazole intermediate 36 was prepared from the hydrazone 35 and converted to benzofuran upon treatment with base. Similarly, the thiadiazole acid chloride 38 was converted to the hydrazine 39 which, upon base treatment, provided the pyrazolone, which can be sequentially alkylated in situ to provide the product 40. ... 

The reaction is generally performed between 0 and 100 °C with the majority of the reactions being mn at reflux. Polar protic solvents such as methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, and water are commonly used as solvents. Addition of acid or use of acetic acid as solvent generally helps push sluggish reactions. The use of P-ketoesters as the dicarbonyl partner occasionally requires added base for cyclization to occur to form the pyrazolone. When using alkyl hydrazine salts, base may be required to deprotonate the hydrazine for the reaction to take place. 

A recent paper by Singh et al. summarized the mechanism of the pyrazole formation via the Knorr reaction between diketones and monosubstituted hydrazines. The diketone is in equilibrium with its enolate forms 28a and 28b and NMR studies have shown the carbonyl group to react faster than its enolate forms.Computational studies were done to show that the product distribution ratio depended on the rates of dehydration of the 3,5-dihydroxy pyrazolidine intermediates of the two isomeric pathways for an unsymmetrical diketone 28. The affect of the hydrazine substituent R on the dehydration of the dihydroxy intermediates 19 and 22 was studied using semi-empirical calculations. ... 

The use of diphenyl hydrazone 33 has been used in the synthesis of pyrazoles under modified conditions where the hydrazine is released in situ. Some reversal of regiochemistry is seen in the reaction with unsymmetrical dicarbonyls. With aryl hydrazine and diphenyl hydrazone, the ratio of 41 to 42 is 22 1 and 5 1, respectively. 

A solventless synthesis of pyrazoles, a green chemistry approach, has been described where an equimolar amount of the diketone and the hydrazine are mixed in a mortar with a drop of sulfuric acid and ground up. After an appropriate length of time ( 1 h) the product is purified to provide clean products. Even acyl pyrazoles 42 were obtained under the solvent-less reaction conditions in good yields. 

Application of the Knorr pyrazole synthesis has also been demonstrated on solid support. ° To prepare trisubstituted pyrazoles, the diketone was linked to the solid support to make 57 using a linker with an amide bond. Alkylation of the diketone followed by condensation of the hydrazine with the resulting diketone gave the desired pyrazoles as mixtures of isomers. Subsequent cleavage of the amide bond linker then provided the pyrazole amides 59. ... 

Evidence in favor of the amino-thionic tautomeric form of 2-amino-l,3,4-thiazoline-5-thione 239 (A = X = S R = H) was obtained from X-ray structural determinations [72AX(B)1584]. A NMR-spectroscopic study (77JOC3725) of compounds 239 (A = Se X = S R = Me) demonstrated their amino-thionic structure. A similar tautomeric form 240 is also dominant for the hydrazine derivative (R = NHNHCOPh) [73JCS(P2)4]. 

Hydrazones that are formed by heating the y3-keto ester and the hydrazine in an alcohol usually require more vigorous conditions in order to cyclize to pyrazol-3-ones. Thus, hydrazone 52, obtained by heating oxobutanoate 51 and phenylhy-drazine in ethanol, required heating under reflux in benzene ccMitaining phosphorus pentoxide in order to cyclize into l,2-dihydropyrazol-3-one 53 (66JOU1103) (Scheme 16). 

There are two methods for the introduction of a hydroxyalkyl group at position 5 of the pyrazol-3-one ring. Schmidt and Zimmer converted furanediones 258a-k into arylmethylenepyrazol-3-reaction with hydrazine hydrate or methylhydrazine (83Jmechanism proposed for the reaction involves nucleophilic attack of the hydrazine on the ketone carbonyl, followed by attack on the ester carbonyl and ring opening of the... 

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