V-Bromosuccinimide

Required Ethyl crotonate, 22-8 g. V-bromosuccinimide, 35 6 g. carbon tetrachloride, 40 ml. 

Dissolve 22-8 g. of ethyl crotonate in 40 ml. of dry carbon tetrachloride and add 35 6 g. of. V-bromosuccinimide. Heat the mixture under reflux for three hours. Cool to o and filter off the succinimide which is insoluble in cold carbon tetrachloride. Now shake the filtrate with water in a separating funnel, separate and dry the carbon tetrachloride layer with sodium sulphate. Filter through a fluted filter-paper into a Claisen flask and distil... 

Halogen-substituted succinimides are a class of products with important appHcations. /V-Bromosuccinimide [128-08-5] mp 176—177°C, is the most important product ia this group, and is prepared by addition of bromine to a cold aqueous solution of succinimide (110,111) or by reaction of succinimide with NaBr02 iu the presence of HBr (112). It is used as a bromination and oxidation agent ia the synthesis of cortisone and other hormones. By its use it is possible to obtain selective bromine substitution at methylene groups adjacent to double bonds without addition reactions to the double bond (113). 

V-Bromosuccinimide and A/,A7-dibromo-5,5-dimethyIhydantoin have also been used successhdly, which makes possible recycling of succinimide or the hydantoin and utilizes all the bromine atoms. A mixture of sodium bromide—sodium bromate in aqueous acid has also been used commercially. 

V-bromosuccinimide [128-08-5] C H BrNOj 180-183 2.098 brominating olefins, oxidizing alcohols to aldehydes and ketones, converting aldehydes to acid bromides... 

The first pubHshed information on the halogenation of butyl mbber was provided by B. F. Goodrich Co. (2). Brominating agents such as /V-bromosuccinimide were used the bromination occurred ia a bulk reaction. This technology was commercialized ia 1954, but withdrawn ia 1969 (3). Exxon Chemical researchers pursued the chlorination of butyl mbber ia hexane solution usiag elemental chlorine, and a continuous process was commercialized ia 1961 (4). Currentiy, both chlorination and bromination are carried out ia continuous-solution processes. 

Side-chain bromination at the benzylic position occurs when an alkylbenzene is treated with /V-bromosuccinimide (NBS). For example, propylbenzene gives (l-bromopropyl)benzene in 97% yield on reaction tvith NBS in the presence of benzoyl peroxide, (PhC02)2f as a radical initiator. Bromination occurs exclusively in the benzylic position and does not give a mixture of products. 

Alternatively, the bicyclic imidates can be treated with bromine at low temperature instead of V-bromosuccinimide (Table 1). 

A rather broadly applicable method leading to products which can be further modified starts from 3,8-diaryl-l,2-diazacycloocta-2,8-dienes 4.23,24 With /V-bromosuccinimide dihalogenation occurs which, after a double dehydrohalogenation, gives 3,8-diphenyl-1,2-di-azocine (5 Ar = Ph, X = H) in low yield. The reaction with sulfuryl chloride to give tetra-... 

Alternatively, the thiazolotriazine ring was prepared from l-nitro-2-aminonaphthalene with an isothiocyanate to give naphthylpyrimidine 669, whose reaction with phenacyl bromide gave thiazoline 670. Reduction with stanous chloride and cyclization with (V-bromosuccinimide gave naphthothiazolotriazine 671 (74JIC631) (Scheme 138). 

The optically active D- and L-em/rn.i-2-morpholmones 1 (only the d-erythro series is depicted) are efficiently brominated with (V-bromosuccinimide to afford the bromo derivatives 2 (X = Br) that serve as versatile precursors for electrophilic glycine templates which permit construction of either d- or L-a-atnino acids in high optical purity71. The corresponding chlorides 2 (X = Cl) are similarly obtained by chlorination of 1 with tert-butyl hypochlorite71. 

We have previously shown (ref. 1) that microporous solids are useful in the controlled bromination of aromatic substrates. In particular, we showed how a reagent system comprising V-bromosuccinimide (NBS) and silica is useful for the bromination of reactive aromatic systems such as indoles (Fig. 1) (ref. 2), carbazoles and iminodibenzyls (Fig. 2) (ref. 3). 

Aldehydes can be directly converted to acyl chlorides by treatment with chlorine however, the reaction operates only when the aldehyde does not contain an a hydrogen and even then it is not very useful. When there is an a hydrogen, a halogenation (12-4) occurs instead. Other sources of chlorine have also been used, among them S02Cl2 and r-BuOCl. The mechanisms are probably of the free-radical type. V-Bromosuccinimide, with AIBN (p. 912) as a catalyst, has been used to convert aldehydes to acyl bromides. 

Besides the use of porphyrins as azomethinic ylide derivatives, the porphyrin macrocycle can also be used to generate porphyrinic nitrile oxides 55 (Scheme 17) <04RCB(E)2192>. Thus, the treatment of oxime 54 with /V-bromosuccinimide in the presence of triethylamine, led to the formation of nitrile oxide 55, which was trapped in 1,3-DC reactions with dimethyl maleate and 2,5-norbomadiene to afford 56 and 57, respectively. In the reaction with 2,5-norbomadiene, if an excess of 55 was used, then the corresponding bis-adduct was obtained in good yield. 

Cyclization of oximes containing y-,d-, or oo-alkenyl substituents, upon treatment with /V-bromosuccinimide (NBS) or iodine leads in good yields to the corresponding cyclic nitrones or their dimeric H- bonded hydriodide salts (290). 

This synthesis demonstrated that the neighboring-group participation effect on the stereoselectivity of glycosylation reactions can be extended to sohd-phase processes. In this case, milder and more practical cleavage conditions than previously discussed were established. The use of /V- bromosuccinimide as the thiophilic reagent in acetone/water or tetrahydrofuran/methanol permitted the release of oligosaccharides in form of lactols or 1-0-Me glycosides, respectively. The tetrasaccharide derivative was isolated in 34% yield from thiol resin 3 (80% yield per step). 

Treatment of thioglycosides with /V-bromosuccinimide (NBS) in the presence of diethylaminosulfur trifluoride (DAST) or HF-pyridine complex furnishes glycosyl fluorides.23 These can be activated with AgC104/SnCL in the presence of another... 

The reactions involving bromine or chlorine generate hydrogen halide and are autocata-lytic. Reactions with /V-bromosuccinimide or tetrabromocyclohexadienone form no hydrogen bromide, and these reagents may therefore be preferable in the case of acid-sensitive compounds. 

Halofluorinations take place, as a rule, regioselectively (Markovnikov addition), the olefinic carbons can be substituted with a variety of substituents ranging from alkyl or aryl groups to different electron-withdrawing functions see for example refs 31 and 178-180. Bromo-fluorination of 4-/m-butyl-l-methylcyclohexene with /V-bromosuccinimide in 70% hydrogen fluoride/pyridine gave two stereoisomers 1 and 2.181... 

Trifluoromethyl-substituted aromatic compounds are obtained by reacting methyl arenecar-bodithioates with tetrabutylammonium dihydrogen trifluoride and l,3-dibromo-5.5-dimethyl-hydantoin. The use of /V-bromosuccinimide or A-iodosuccinimide instead of l,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin affords difluoro(methylsulfanyl)methyl-substitutcd aromatics.62... 

This method can be applied to introduce CF, and CF3 groups at oxygen and nitrogen atoms in various molecules. oe,a-Difluoro ethers are prepared from O-alkyl(aryl) carbothioales in moderate to good yields by reaction with tetrabutylammonium dihydrogen trifluoride and /V-bromosuccinimide or /V-iodosuccinimide,64 or with bromine trifluoride.65... 

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