Thiophene with benzene

The saturated vapour pressures of chloro and chlorosilyl derivatives of thiophen have been determined. Liquid vapour isothermal equilibrium for thiophen with benzene and with alcohols has been measured. The formation constants, extinction coefficients, and total absorption intensities for complexes between thiophens and iodine have been determined. ... 

The oxidative coupling of thiophene, furan[338] and pyrrole[339,340] is also possible. The following order of reactivity was observed in the coupling of substituted furans[338] R = H > Me > CHO > CO Me > CH(OAc)i > CO2H. The cross-coupling of furans and thiophenes with arene is possible, and 4-phenylfurfural (397) is the main product of the cross-coupling of furfural and benzene[341]. 

When benzene is prepared from coal tar it is contaminated thiophene from which it cannot be separated by distillation because of very similar boiling points Shaking a mixture of benzene and thiophene with sulfuric acid causes sulfonation of the thiophene ring but leaves benzene untouched The sulfonation product of thiophene dissolves m the sulfuric acid layer from which the benzene layer is separated the benzene layer is then washed with water and distilled Give the structure of the sulfonation product of thiophene... 

The acid wash test consists of shaking a mixture of 96% sulfuric acid with benzene and comparing the color of the (lower) acid layer with a set of color standards. Other quaUtative tests include those for SO2 and H2S determination. The copper strip corrosion test indicates the presence of acidic or corrosive sulfur impurities. The test for thiophene is colorimetric. 

A solution of 85.8 g (0.2 moles) of 3/ -acetoxy-27-norchoIest-5-en-25-one in 500 ml of anhydrous thiophen-free benzene is added to a Grignard solution prepared from 24.3 g (1 g-atom) of magnesium and 149 g (1.05 moles) of freshly distilled methyl iodide in 575 ml of anhydrous ether. The mixture is refluxed for 3 hr and allowed to stand overnight. After cooling to 5° the complex is decomposed by the slow addition of 200 ml of ice water and 400 ml of 50% acetic acid solution, and steam distilled until no more oil passes over. The residual product is filtered, washed with water and dried at 80°. Crystallization from methanol gives 70 g (87%) of cholest-5-ene-3)5,25-diol mp 179.5-181°. The analytical sample melts at 181.5-182.5° [a]o —39° (CHCI3). 

In the benzene series, an approximately linear relationship has been obtained between the chemical shifts of the para-hydrogen in substituted benzenes and Hammett s a-values of the substituents. Attempts have been made, especially by Taft, ° to use the chemical shifts as a quantitative characteristic of the substituent. It is more difficult to correlate the chemical shifts of thiophenes with chemical reactivity data since few quantitative chemical data are available (cf. Section VI,A). Comparing the chemical shifts of the 5-hydrogen in 2-substituted thiophenes and the parahydrogens in substituted benzenes, it is evident that although —I—M-substituents cause similar shifts, large differences are obtained for -j-M-substituents indicating that such substituents may have different effects on the reactivity of the two aromatic systems in question. Differences also... 

A very convenient method for the direct acylation of thiophenes with the free acids has been introduced by Yuryev. It consists of refluxing the acid with SiCb in benzene, and without isolation of the formed tetraacyloxysilanes, Si(OCOR)4, reacting them with SnCb and thiophene. >2 The yields are between 57 and 94%. The lower... 

The acid cleavage of the aryl— silicon bond (desilylation), which provides a measure of the reactivity of the aromatic carbon of the bond, has been applied to 2- and 3-thienyl trimethylsilane, It was found that the 2-isomer reacted only 43.5 times faster than the 3-isomer and 5000 times faster than the phenyl compound at 50,2°C in acetic acid containing aqueous sulfuric acid. The results so far are consistent with the relative reactivities of thiophene upon detritia-tion if a linear free-energy relationship between the substituent effect in detritiation and desilylation is assumed, as the p-methyl group activates about 240 (200-300) times in detritiation with aqueous sulfuric acid and about 18 times in desilylation. A direct experimental comparison of the difference between benzene and thiophene in detritiation has not been carried out, but it may be mentioned that even in 80.7% sulfuric acid, benzene is detritiated about 600 times slower than 2-tritiothiophene. The aforementioned consideration makes it probable that under similar conditions the ratio of the rates of detritiation of thiophene and benzene is larger than in the desilylation. A still larger difference in reactivity between the 2-position of thiophene and benzene has been found for acetoxymercuration which... 

The aforementioned exception and the rather limited experimental material available do not allow any conclusions about the general applicability of the Hammett equation, using the same a- and p-values as for benzenes, to be drawn with certainty. The present author has pointed out that large deviations should be expected with strong - -M-substituents, as is also indicated from the rates of alkaline hydrolysis of methyl 5-amino- and 5-acylamino-2-thenoates. From the chemical shifts in the NMR spectra of thiophenes and benzenes it appears that another set of cr-values should be used in the thiophenes series which seems plausible since the transmission of the sub-... 

For the exchanges carried out in liquid ammonia, kinetic isotope effects kD kT of 2.3-2.5 have been obtained for reaction of benzene, toluene, and naphthalene and for the reactions of the 2 positions of furan and thiophene with -butoxide in dimethyl sulphoxide somewhat lower values, 1.5 and 1.3, respectively, were obtained591, but whether this was a solvent or a substituent effect is not apparent from the data. 

A 5-1. three-necked flask is fitted with a mechanical rubbersleeved stirrer, a dropping funnel, and a reflux condenser capped with a calcium chloride tube leading to a gas-absorption trap.2 The system is flame-dried, and the flask is charged with 308 g. (1 mole) of dibromohydrocinnamic acid (Note 1) and 800 ml. of dried (by distillation) thiophene-free benzene. While the dibromohydrocinnamic acid is maintained in suspension by stir-... 

A mixture of 45.6 g. (0.2 mole) of benzilic acid (Note 1) in 700 ml. of anhydrous thiophene-free benzene, contained in a 2-1. three-necked flask fitted with a reflux condenser (attached to a calcium chloride drying tube) and a motor-driven sealed stirrer, is cooled in an ice bath until a crystalline mass results. To the stirred mixture is added, in one portion, 80 g. (0.6 mole) of anhydrous aluminum chloride. The stirred mixture is heated until refluxing begins and is maintained at this temperature for 3 hours. During this period much hydrogen chloride is evolved, and the initially yellow solution soon becomes deep red. The solution is cooled and decomposed by the cautious addition of small pieces of ice, and then 400 ml. of water is added cautiously, followed by 200 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid. The benzene is removed by steam distillation, and the product is separated by filtration from the hot mixture. The lumps of product are crushed and extracted with 400 ml. of boiling 10% sodium carbonate solution. The mixture is filtered, and the extraction is repeated on the undissolved residue with an additional 200 ml. of hot 10% sodium carbonate solution. The basic filtrates are... 

A. Ethyl 3-methylcoumarilate. Dry sodium phenolate (116 g., 1 mole) (Note 1) and 1 1. of dry thiophene-free benzene (Note 2) arc placed in a 2-1. three-necked flask fitted with mechanical stirrer, dropping funnel, and reflux condenser with drying tube. The suspension is heated to the boiling point on the steam bath, heating is moderated, and 165 g. (1 mole) of ethyl a-chloroaceto-acetate (Note 3) is added with stirring through the dropping... 

Thiophenes carrying heteroatoms on all carbons are also of interest. However, such studies on thiophenesare limited ascompared with benzenes. Tetrasilylthiophene 12 has been reported recently [38], We synthesized tetraphosphorylthiophene 13 and selenophenel4 recently [39] and would like to focus on studies on thiophenes carrying two to four phosphorus substituents in this section (Scheme 21). 

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