Toluene halides

By the reaction between a solution of an acyl halide in a dry organic solvent, such as toluene, with a cold solution of sodium peroxide, for example ... 

Because halides are poorer leaving groups than p toluene sulfonate alkyl p toluene sulfonates can be converted to alkyl halides by 8 2 reactions involving chloride bro mide or iodide as the nucleophile... 

The preparations are much simplified if a stoichiometric amount of hydrogen halide is added using an indicator to determine the end point. We have found that 1,9-diphenylnona-1,3,6,8-tetraen-5-one (dicinnamalacetone) is of appropriate basicity to detect excess anhydrous hydrogen halides in organic solvents including chloroform, dichloromethane, benzene, toluene, acetic acid, and acetone (but not in alcohols). The reaction between the... 

The common impurities found in amines are nitro compounds (if prepared by reduction), the corresponding halides (if prepared from them) and the corresponding carbamate salts. Amines are dissolved in aqueous acid, the pH of the solution being at least three units below the pKg value of the base to ensure almost complete formation of the cation. They are extracted with diethyl ether to remove neutral impurities and to decompose the carbamate salts. The solution is then made strongly alkaline and the amines that separate are extracted into a suitable solvent (ether or toluene) or steam distilled. The latter process removes coloured impurities. Note that chloroform cannot be used as a solvent for primary amines because, in the presence of alkali, poisonous carbylamines (isocyanides) are formed. However, chloroform is a useful solvent for the extraction of heterocyclic bases. In this case it has the added advantage that while the extract is being freed from the chloroform most of the moisture is removed with the solvent. 

Triflates of aluminum, gallium and boron, which are readily available by the reaction of the corresponding chlorides with triflic acid, are effective Fnedel-Crafis catalysis for alkylation and acylation of aromatic compounds [119, 120] Thus alkylation of toluene with various alkyl halides m the presence of these catalysts proceeds rapidly at room temperature 111 methylene chloride or ni-tromethane Favorable properties of the triflates in comparison with the correspond mg fluorides or chlorides are considerably decreased volatility and higher catalytic activity [120]... 

Trichloro- and dichloromethane, ether, dioxane, benzene, toluene, chlorobenzene, acetonitrile, or even pyridine itself has been employed to carry out the one-pot syntheses. Tliese solvents allow straightforward preparation of the salts. The temperature range between 0° and 20°C is usually employed and the salts formed are sufficiently soluble. In the case of slow reactions, selection of a solvent with a higher boiling point is prohtable since thermal instability of the A -(l-haloalkyl)heteroarylium halides has not been reported. Addition of water or an aqueous solution of sodium acetate does not cause a rapid decomposition of the salts so that this constitutes a useful step in the optimization of some procedures. 

Eor ethylzinc chloride, CH3CH2ZnCl, and ethylzinc bromide, CH3CH2ZnBr, there is a linear relationship between the observed chemical shift and the ratio of ethylzinc halide to diethylzinc. Extrapolation of these lines to x=l (mol fraction of CH3CH2Z11X) gives predicted values for the average chemical shift that closely match those measured for these species. This indicates that for these two organozinc halides, the Schlenk equilibrium lies heavily on the side of the ethylzinc halide in toluene. However, in the case of ethylzinc iodide, CH3CH2ZnI, there is a... 

Olivier and Berger335, who measured the first-order rate coefficients for the aluminium chloride-catalysed reaction of 4-nitroben2yl chloride with excess aromatic (solvent) at 30 °C and obtained the rate coefficients (lO5/ ) PhCI, 1.40 PhH, 7.50 PhMe, 17.5. These results demonstrated the electrophilic nature of the reaction and also the unselective nature of the electrophile which has been confirmed many times since. That the electrophile in these reactions is not the simple and intuitively expected free carbonium ion was indicated by the observation by Calloway that the reactivity of alkyl halides was in the order RF > RC1 > RBr > RI, which is the reverse of that for acylation by acyl halides336. The low selectivity (and high steric hindrance) of the reaction was further demonstrated by Condon337 who measured the relative rates at 40 °C, by the competition method, of isopropylation of toluene and isopropylbenzene with propene catalyzed by boron trifluoride etherate (or aluminium chloride) these were as follows PhMe, 2.09 (1.10) PhEt, 1.73 (1.81) Ph-iPr, (1.69) Ph-tBu, 1.23 (1.40). The isomer distribution in the reactions337,338 yielded partial rate factors of 2.37 /mMe, 1.80 /pMe, 4.72 /, 0.35 / , 2.2 / Pr, 2.55337 339. 

The lower reaction rates obtained with this catalyst permitted measurements of the reaction rates of benzene and toluene with a range of alkyl halides including /-propyl and /-butyl bromides, the rate being followed in some cases by the... 

The conclusion of Brown et a/.346,347 viz. that the increased reactivity along a series of alkyl halides is due to the increased polarisation of the carbon-halogen bond has been challenged by Allen and Yats348, who found constant meta para isomer ratios for methylation, ethylation, and isopropylation of toluene, and since this ratio reflects the selectivity and hence reactivity of the electrophile they con-... 

An explanation for the effect of excess catalyst has been offered by Corriu et al. 16, who measured the rates of the aluminium chloride-catalysed reaction of benzoyl chloride with benzene, toluene, and o-xylene. The observed rate coefficients were analysed in terms of a mixture of second- and third-order reactions (the latter being second-order in the halide-catalyst complex), the following results being obtained benzene (40 °C), k2 = 2.5 xlO-5, fc3 = 3.3 xlO-5 toluene (2.5 °C), k2 = 0.75 xlO"4, k3 = 3.83 xlO-4 o-xylene (0 °C), k2 = 1.83 x 10-3, k3 = 4.50 x 10-3. They suggest the equilibrium... 

Allenyl and 1- and 2-alkynyl sulfoxides have also been prepared by reaction of organomagnesium halides with sulfinate ester 19. 1-Alkynyl p-tolyl sulfoxides were prepared in good yield from 1-alkynylmagnesium halides plus ester 19 in toluene (equation ll)63. The corresponding organolithium compound was unsatisfactory as a... 

Examples of the intermolecular C-P bond formation by means of radical phosphonation and phosphination have been achieved by reaction of aryl halides with trialkyl phosphites and chlorodiphenylphosphine, respectively, in the presence of (TMSlsSiH under standard radical conditions. The phosphonation reaction (Reaction 71) worked well either under UV irradiation at room temperature or in refluxing toluene. The radical phosphina-tion (Reaction 72) required pyridine in boiling benzene for 20 h. Phosphinated products were handled as phosphine sulfides. Scheme 15 shows the reaction mechanism for the phosphination procedure that involves in situ formation of tetraphenylbiphosphine. This approach has also been extended to the phosphination of alkyl halides and sequential radical cyclization/phosphination reaction. ... 

The entrapment of lithium oxide and lithium halides by the lithium amidinate Li[Bu"C(NBu02] has been studied in detail by X-ray crystallography Interesting polycylic molecular structures have been obtained, as exemplified by the unusual sandwich complex of lithium oxide made from Li[Bu C(NBu )2l in toluene... 

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