闪式真空热解(FVP)在有机合成中的应用

闪式真空热裂解(Flash vacuum pyrolysis,FVP)是一种反应底物在真空条件下蒸发或者升华后迅速通过较高温度的热管道发生热解反应的过程.该热裂解方法经常被运用于合成一些重要的非平面型芳香化合物,比如著名的心环烯C20H10(Corannulene),富勒烯C60等.主要针对FVP方法的发展历史、装置的基本构成、反应的基本历程以及该方法在有机合成中的实际应用等方面进行了系统的综述.相对于传统有机合成化学方法,FVP方法的优势在于可以提供更高的外界能量来帮助产物化学键的形成和更快速的冷却方式来帮助稳定反应所得到的产物,因此该方法不仅能高效、方便地合成得到一些常规有机合成方法不能轻易获得的目标化合物,还可以获得一些热力学极其不稳定的产物.当然,FVP方法也有其限制,比如对于一些在真空条件下难以挥发的化合物FVP方法就不适用了,另外,因为所有FVP反应都是在气相条件下完成,所以该方法主要适用于分子内的消除或环合反应,对于有机合成中普遍存在的双分子反应以及多分子反应也难以通过FVP方法来实现,但作为一类独特、实用的有机合成方法,FVP在有机合成中得到了较广的应用和不断地发展.     

Catalysis in flash vacuum pyrolysis

The temperature required for flash pyrolytic elimination of water from $\text{o}$-aminobenzyl alcohols and of carbon dioxide from dihydrobenzoxazinones to give azaxylylenes is considerably lowered by the presence of alumina and silica gel in the hot zone.     

Exploratory flash vacuum pyrolysis of some cyclopentadienyliron complexes

At 500°C, flash vacuum pyrolysis of (η⁵-C₅H₅)₂Fe₂(CO)₄ provides a rapid, practical synthesis of the tetranuclear complex (η⁵-C₅H₅)₄Fe₄(μ₃-CO)₄: at higher temperatures, ferrocene is formed. Ferrocene itself undergoes little change under flash vacuum pyrolysis conditions, even at 725°C. Pivaloylferrocene is unchanged at 650°C but cracks to yield isobutene between 675 and 700°C; this reaction does not proceed by simple elimination since formylferrocene can be recovered unchanged under flash vacuum pyrolysis conditions which give substantial quantities of isobutene from pivaloylferrocene.     

Formation of substituted benzocyclobutenes through flash vacuum pyrolysis

Benzocyclobutenes carrying a substituent in the four membered ring are obtained in high yield from 2-methyl benzaldehydes through a reaction sequence involving a pyrolytic 1,4-elimination of HCl in the crucial step.     

Flash flow pyrolysis: mimicking flash vacuum pyrolysis in a high-temperature/high-pressure liquid-phase microreactor environment

Flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) is a gas-phase continuous-flow technique where a substrate is sublimed through a hot quartz tube under high vacuum at temperatures of 400-1100 °C. Thermal activation occurs mainly by molecule-wall collisions with contact times in the region of milliseconds. As a preparative method, FVP is used mainly to induce intramolecular high-temperature transformations leading to products that cannot easily be obtained by other methods. It is demonstrated herein that liquid-phase high-temperature/high-pressure (high-T/p) microreactor conditions (160-350 °C, 90-180 bar) employing near- or supercritical fluids as reaction media can mimic the results obtained using preparative gas-phase FVP protocols. The high-T/p liquid-phase "flash flow pyrolysis" (FFP) technique was applied to the thermolysis of Meldrum's acid derivatives, pyrrole-2,3-diones, and pyrrole-2-carboxylic esters, producing the expected target heterocycles in high yields with residence times between 10 s and 10 min. The exact control over flow rate (and thus residence time) using the liquid-phase FFP method allows a tuning of reaction selectivities not easily achievable using FVP. Since the solution-phase FFP method does not require the substrate to be volatile any more--a major limitation in classical FVP--the transformations become readily scalable, allowing higher productivities and space-time yields compared with gas-phase protocols. Differential scanning calorimetry measurements and extensive DFT calculations provided essential information on pyrolysis energy barriers and the involved reaction mechanisms. A correlation between computed activation energies and experimental gas-phase FVP (molecule-wall collisions) and liquid-phase FFP (molecule-molecule collisions) pyrolysis temperatures was derived.     

Aryl-aryl bond formation by flash vacuum pyrolysis of benzannulated thiopyrans

In contrast to fully unsaturated 7-membered ring sulfur heterocycles (thiepines), some of which extrude sulfur and give the ring-contracted hydrocarbon even at room temperature in solution, benzannulated thiopyrans (6-membered sulfur heterocycles) require flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) conditions in the gas phase at temperatures in the range of 1000-1200 degrees C to promote the corresponding reaction. Thus, FVP of benzo[kl]thioxanthene (1) gives fluoranthene, and naphtho[2,1,8,7-klmn]thioxanthene (6) gives benzo[ghi]fluoranthene (7). FVP of thioxanthone (9) gives fluorenone (10), together with lesser amounts of dibenzo[b,d]thiophene (11), from competing decarbonylation.     

Facile synthesis of reactive benzoazetinone by flash vacuum pyrolysis of isatoic anhydride

Pyrolysis of isatoic anhydride (3) at 550°C and ca. 1×10⁻² torr gave benzoazetinone (1, 80%) as the only product. The existence of 1 was confirmed by low-temperature NMR spectroscopy at −90°C. Above −20°C, 1 was converted to dimer (4, 50%), trimer (5, 22%), and anthranilic acid (6, 12%). Pyrolysis of 3 at 800°C and ca. 1×10⁻² torr gave 1-cyanocyclopentadiene (7) in 38% yield.     

Synthesis of N,N-di(arylmethylidene)arylmethanediamines by flash vacuum pyrolysis of arylmethylazides

Flash vacuum pyrolysis of arylmethylazides 7a-d gave 2,4-diazapentadienes 5a-d in high yield (76-92%). The thermal cyclization of 5a-d gave cis-imidazolines 1a-d, further heating or Swern oxidation of 1a-d gave dehydrogenated products, imidazoles 2a-d.     

The method of flash vacuum pyrolysis,preparative applications and analytical studies

Flash vacuum pyrolysis has been used to prepare a variety of differently substituted derivatives of the benzocyclobutene ring system starting with simple precursors. An analytical gas flow reactor is described which simulates reaction conditions of flash vacuum pyrolysis experiments. This reactor allows to optimise reaction conditions and to obtain structure reactivity correlations for thermolytic gas phase reactions.     

基于Py-GC联用的煤快速热解实验研究

采用居里点裂解仪-气相色谱仪(Py-GC)联用的方法研究了4种煤的快速热解特性,分析了挥发分主要气相产物及其析出规律.结果表明,大于等于50%的挥发分在热解初期(t ≤ 2 s)释放,采用箔片装载方式的居里点裂解仪完全热解1 mg煤样需要10 s;挥发分主要气相产物中,各气体组分的生成量(mmol/g_coal)顺序为H₂ > CH₄ > CO > CO₂ > C2(C₂H₆、C₂H₄)> C3(C₃H₈、C₃H₆);挥发分释放量随热解温度的升高而增加,相同热解条件下,次烟煤挥发分的释放率高于贫煤和无烟煤;H₂和CH₄的生成量依赖于热解温度,热解温度越高,H₂和CH₄的生成量越多;CO和CO₂的生成量不仅与热解温度相关,而且与煤中的氧含量紧密相关,氧含量越高的煤热解生成的CO和CO₂越多;C2和C3气体的生成量相对于其他气体很少,体积占挥发分气相产物的5%.     

Gas-phase detection of HSOH: synthesis by flash vacuum pyrolysis of di-tert-butyl sulfoxide and rotational-torsional spectrum

Gas-phase oxadisulfane (HSOH), the missing link between the well-known molecules hydrogen peroxide (HOOH) and disulfane (HSSH), was synthesized by flash vacuum pyrolysis of di-tert-butyl sulfoxide. Using mass spectrometry, the pyrolysis conditions have been optimized towards formation of HSOH. Microwave spectroscopic investigation of the pyrolysis products allowed-assisted by high-level quantum-chemical calculations--the first measurement of the rotational-torsional spectrum of HSOH. In total, we have measured approximately 600 lines of the rotational-torsional spectrum in the frequency range from 64 GHz to 1.9 THz and assigned some 470 of these to the rotational-torsional spectrum of HSOH in its ground torsional state. Some 120 out of the 600 lines arise from the isotopomer H(34)SOH. The HSOH molecule displays strong c-type and somewhat weaker b-type transitions, indicating a nonplanar skew chain structure, similar to the analogous molecules HOOH and HSSH. The rotational constants (MHz) of the main isotopomer (A=202 069, B=15 282, C=14 840), determined by applying a least-squares analysis to the presently available data set, are in excellent agreement with those predicted by quantum-chemical calculations (A=202 136, B=15 279, C=14 840). Our theoretical treatment also derived the following barrier heights against internal rotation in HSOH (when in the cis and trans configurations) to be V(cis) approximately equal to 2216 cm(-1) and V(trans) approximately equal to 1579 cm(-1). The internal rotational motion results in detectable torsional splittings that are dependent on the angular momentum quantum numbers J and K(a).     

Isomerization of linear to angular [3]phenylene and PAHs under flash vacuum pyrolysis conditions

[structure: see text]. Flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) of linear [3]phenylene affords its angular counterpart and the same mixture of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon isomers as that observed on FVP of angular [3]phenylene. A mechanism, supported by a 13C labeling study, is proposed to explain these results.     

Synthesis of 1.6-diazabiphenylene by flash vacuum pyrolysis of 2,5,9,10-tetra-azaphenanthrene; NMR evidence for rehybridisation in biphenylenes

A mixed Ullmann reaction between 2- and 4-chloro-3-nitropyridines furnished 3,3′-dinitro-2,4′-bipyridyl and reduction to 2,5,9,10-tetra-azaphenanthrene followed by thermal extrusion of nitrogen gave 1,6-diazabiphenylene; different complexing abilities of the two nitrogen atoms of this compound were revealed by ¹H nmr using Eu(fod)₃ which are consistent with previous work on the rehybridisation in strained ring systems and the value of ¹J_CH in biphenylene.     

Non-discriminating flash pyrolysis and thermochemolysis of heavily contaminated sediments from the Hamilton Harbor (Canada)

Analytical pyrolysis of sediments contaminated with pollutants of medium to high molecular weights (up to approximately 500 Da) is very challenging when using conventional pyrolysis systems due to discrimination of high molecular weight analytes. In the framework of this contribution, non-discriminating pyrolysis and thermochemolysis using rapid heating in a Silcosteel capillary were applied to study organic pollutants in heavily contaminated sediments taken from the Hamilton Harbor. The novel pyrolysis approach, requiring very small amounts of sample, turned out to be very useful as a rapid screening method, e.g. for risk assessment studies, proving superior to commonly used solvent extraction. Main pollutants in the sediments under study included aromatic hydrocarbons, chiefly originating from coal tar and petroleum. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) beyond six-rings, including coronene and truxene, could be detected. Sequential tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide-induced thermochemolysis performed at 500 and 750 degrees C enabled the differentiation between organic pollutants sorbed onto the sediment matrix on the one hand, and structural moieties of the condensed polymeric humic sediment matrix along with bound residues on the other hand. Thermochemolysis at 500 degrees C removed sorbates quantitatively, leaving only bare polymeric humic matrix. Significant PAH source indicators provided evidence that the lipidic fraction sorbed onto the sediments originated from PAHs formed chiefly in coal combustion processes. The polymeric humic organic matter network of the less polluted sediment was mainly of petrogenic origin, whereas black carbon, kerogen, etc. contributed to the organic carbon of the heavily polluted sediment. Thermochemolysis at 500 degrees C was also used to study fatty acid profiles of the sediments. The fatty acid methyl ester patterns obtained for the two sites under study differed significantly, with strong indications that microbial attenuation of the pollutants at the heavily polluted site 2 was strongly suppressed.     

Product distribution for flash pyrolysis of cellulose in a coil pyrolyzer

Objectives of this study were to (1) examine the performance of a commercial coil pyrolyzer as a flash pyrolysis instrument, (2) determine product distribution from cellulose under flash pyrolysis conditions, and (3) investigate the effect of cellulose type, particle size, heating rate, heating time, and final or soaking temperature on the distribution.It was found that the pyrolysis behavior of the products could be classified into two groups according to their similarity with the production of CO or CO₂. In the former, yield was an exponential function of weight loss, whereas in the latter, yield was an arithmetic function of weight loss. In the range studied, particle size and heating rate did not influence yield or its weight loss behavior. The type of cellulose, mainly degree of polymerization, influenced yield but not behavior.     

Effects of nano nickel powders addition on flash pyrolysis of poly(ethylene glycol)

Pure PEG and the mixture of PEG and nano nickel powders (PEG/n-Ni) were pyrolyzed at 500 °C for 5 min in N₂ atmosphere. GC/MS and FTIR were employed to detect the volatile products. Some important regularity in the mass spectra of the PEG pyrolysis products was discovered, and 11 series of PEG pyrolysis products were identified. The experimental results show that the nano Ni powders evidently change the relative contents of each products series. The statistical results of the ratio of C-O cleavage to C-C cleavage, as well as the ratio of hydrogenation to dehydrogenation, indicate that nano Ni powders have remarkable effects on the bonds cleavage and free radicals annihilation. The process of hydrogenolysis and hydrogenation were propounded to explain the effects of nano Ni addition on PEG flash pyrolysis.     

Flash vacuum pyrolysis (fvp) of some hexahydroquinazolin-4(1H)-ones

Some cis/trans-2-thioquinazolin-4-ones and their 2,4-dione analogs were subjected to flash vacuum pyrolysis. The cis- and trans-thio compounds reacted at lower temperatures than the cis- and trans-dioxo analogs, showing a lower thermal stability. All of these compounds afforded similar reactions: ring opening to the corresponding iso(thio)cyanate, the loss of H and NCS to form three isomeric cyclohexadienes and then aromatization to form the corresponding benzamide. The cis-dioxo compound also underwent a competitive retro Diels-Alder (RDA) reaction to form 3-phenylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H-dione(3-phenyluracil)) and butadiene. Kinetic measurements of the ring opening reaction supported a concerted β-elimination as the most probable mechanism.