Spontaneous dehydration mechanism of aromatic aldehyde reactions with hydroxyl and non‐hydroxyl amines

The plot of rate constants vs. pH for the dehydration step of the reaction between furfural and 5‐nitrofurfural with hydroxylamine, N‐methylhydroxylamine, and O‐methylhydroxylamine, shows two regions corresponding to the oxonium ion‐catalyzed and spontaneous dehydration. The oxonium ion‐catalyzed dehydration region of the reaction of furfural with the above mentioned hydroxylamines exhibits general acid catalysis with excellent Brønsted correlation (Brønsted coefficients: 0.76 (r = 0.986), 0.68 (r = 0.987), and 0.67 (r = 0.993) respectively). However, the rate constants of the spontaneous dehydration of these hydroxylamines, where water is considered the general acid catalyst, exhibit a large positive deviation from the Brønsted line. This fact was not observed in the reaction of non‐hydroxyl amines with different aromatic aldehydes by other authors, thus supporting that the spontaneous dehydration steps for these reactions proceed by intramolecular catalysis. The mechanism of intramolecular catalysis might be stepwise. First, a zwitterionic intermediate is formed. It can then evolve in the second step by loss of water, or follow a concerted pathway, with the transference of a proton through a five‐membered ring (general intramolecular acid catalysis). In the case of non‐hydroxyl amines, data suggested the possibility of a mechanism of intramolecular proton transfer through one or two water molecules, from the nitrogen of the amine to the leaving hydroxide ion. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 34: 685–692, 2002     

Novel Petasis boronic acid-Mannich reactions with tertiary aromatic amines

Tertiary aromatic amines can serve as amine substrates for the Petasis boronic acid-Mannich reaction, providing a practical synthetic route for the CC bond formation of α-(4-N,N-dialkylamino-2-alkyloxyphenyl)carboxylic acids. The scope and limitations of this method have been examined.     

Ambiguous reactivity of hydroxyperoxide radicals in reactions with aromatic amines

Conclusions It was experimentally shown that hydroxyperoxide radicals reduce diphenyl nitrogenous radicals to diphenylamlne. An explanation of the phenomenon of multiple chain terminations by aromatic amine molecules in the alcohols which are being oxidized was given.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2764–2766, December, 1967.     

Steric Effects in Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution reactions with aromatic amines 12th communication on nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions

The kinetics of the S_NAr reactions of aniline and N-methylaniline with a variety of substituted nitrochlorobenzenes in acetonitrile demonstrate that the formation of the intermediate σ-complex is rate determining. The ratio of the rate constants of the aniline and the N-methylaniline reactions (k_A/k_M) increases with increasing size of the 6-substituent; with picryl chloride k_A/k_M reaches a value of over 20 000. The reaction of aniline with 4-X-2,6-dinitrochlorobenzenes is subject to considerably larger para-substituent effects than the corresponding reactions with N-methylaniline. These results are interpreted in terms of two effects: (i) A primary steric effect, which renders the approach of N-methylaniline to the substrate difficult. (ii) A shift towards earlier, more reactant-like transition state structures caused by the primary steric effect. In early transition states the activating power of the electron-withdrawing substituents in the substrate is expected to be relatively small. An early transition state for the slow N-methylaniline reaction and a late transition state for the fast aniline reaction is in apparent contradiction to what would be expected on the basis of the Hammond postulate.     

Periodate ion as an oxidant in indicator reactions with aromatic amines

The kinetics of 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) oxidation by sodium periodate in an aqueous solution was studied. For the auto-acceleration regime, the experimental data correspond to the kinetic equation w _t = k[P] _t ^1/2 [IO ₄ ^? ] _t ^1/2 [TMB]₀, where w _t is the accumulation rate of the meriquinoid product (P) of TMB oxidation and [P]_t and [IO ₄ ^? ]_t are the concentrations of product P and periodate, respectively, at time t. A radical chain mechanism was proposed; the mechanism explains the experimental kinetic equation and complies with the observed inhibiting effect of metal ions (Zn, Cd) in this reaction.     

Kinetics and mechanism of transaldimination of amino acids and aromatic amines with pyridoxal

Kinetics and mechanism of transaldimination of amino acids and aromatic amines with pyridoxal have been studied by means of UV spectroscopy and polarimetry. It has been shown that aminal intermediates are formed in reaction of the Schiff’s bases with p-aminobenzoic acid and β-alanine. The structure of aminal and Schiff’s base is determined by the spatial arrangement of the amino acid and aromatic fragments with respect to the pyridine ring plane. The presence of OH and CH₂-OH groups in the o-positions in pyridoxal structure turns amino groups by 90° with respect to the pyridine ring. The scheme of Schiff’s bases transaldimination by amino acids and biological amines has been developed according to stereospecific, energy, and geometric factors.     

Oxidation of aromatic amines with chromyl chloride-I : Oxidation of aromatic primary amines

The oxidation of aromatic primary amines with chromyl chloride in carbon tetrachloride or chloroform, results in the formation of intermediate solid adducts (Etard adducts) which, on hydrolysis, give azobenzenes(1), 1,4-benzoquinones(2),anilino-1,4-benzoquinones(3), 1,4-benzoquinone anils(4)and anilino-1,4-benzoquinone anils (5) in yields which depend on the position, nature and degree of substitution of the ring.     

Study of reaction of sulfur halides with unsaturated. Compounds. 24. Reaction of sulfur monochloride with adamantylidene-adamantane

Conclusions In the reaction of adamantylideneadamantane with S₂Cl₂ at an equimolar ratio of the reagents, 2,2-epithio-2-(2-adamantyl)adamantane and 4-chloro-2,2-epithio-2-(2-adamantyl)-adamantane are formed, while with an excess of S₂Cl₂, the products are 4e-chloro- and 4e,4e-dichloroadamantylideneadamantane.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 617–620, March.Article 23, see [1].     

Solid-phase reactions of aromatic amines with carboxylic acids under conditions of shear deformation and high pressure

Solid mixtures of carboxylic acids and aromatic amines react under shear deformation at high pressure (to 8 GPa) for form amides, in the case of ortho-phenylenediamine-substituted benzimidazoles are formed. Under these conditions the conversion rates are hundreds of thousands of times higher than when the same processes are carried out in liquid phase. The cyclization reaction is accelerated to a lesser degree than the reaction of formation of the corresponding amide. The increase of the length of the carboxylic acid radical prevents the cyclization reaction.N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117913 Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 2147–2153, September, 1992.     

Reactivity of 2-formylphenylboronic acid toward secondary aromatic amines in amination-reduction reactions

The synthesis of 2-(arylaminomethyl)phenylboronic acid via an amination-reduction reaction has been investigated within a model system comprising 2-formylphenylboronic acid and N-ethylaniline. Adoption of the appropriate reaction conditions influences the reactivity of 2-formylphenylboronic acid, enabling efficient synthesis of so-far unobtainable 2-(arylaminomethyl)phenylboronic compounds. The first crystal structure of the aromatic amine derivative has been determined and described.     

Ynaziridines and their reactions with amines

On the basis of the results of IR and UV spectroscopy, a considerable decrease in the efficacy of the conjugation of the unshared pair of the nitrogen atom with a carbonyl group in ynaziridines as compared with ynamines has been shown. The difference in the electronic structures of these compounds finds its reflection in their chemical behavior: the electrophilicity of the triple bond in an ynaziridine is higher than that in the analogous ynamine in reactions with amines.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 618–622, May, 1985.