Photochemical reactions of azo compounds. XVII Photoinduced reaction of 2,2,4,4,-tetrachloroazobenzene with acetyl chloride

1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 1713 ◽  
Author(s):  
GE Lewis ◽  
RJ Mayfield

The photoinduced reaction of 2,2',4,4'-tetrachloroazobenzene with acetyl chloride has been found to give an unexpected mixture of products, incorporating only a relatively poor yield of the predicted main product, N,N '-diacetyl-2,2',4,4',6-pentachlorohydrazobenzene. It has been found, moreover, that the latter compound in aqueous methanolic potassium hydroxide, in addition to yielding the expected hydrolysis/oxidation product, 2,2',4,4',6-pentachloroazobenzene, undergoes an interesting side reaction which regenerates 2,2',4,4'-tetrachloroazobenzene.


1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 1899 ◽  
Author(s):  
GE Lewis ◽  
RJ Mayfield

cis-Azobenzene has been shown to react with acetyl chloride in the absence of light to form N,N?-diacetyl-4-chlorohydrazobenzene and N?- acetyl-4-chloro-hydrazobenzene as the principal products; 4- phenylaminoazobenzene and acetanilide are also formed in small amounts. In the course of the reaction a metastable dark blue product arises, and, although this could not be satisfactorily characterized, it was found to yield 4-phenylaminoazobenzene on decomposition in methanolic potassium hydroxide or in acetyl chloride. The intense blue-purple coloration, which occurs as soon as the reactants are mixed, enables cis-azobenzene to be readily distinguished from its trans isomer. The nature of the currently reported reaction is discussed in relation to the previously reported photo-induced reaction of trans- azobenzene with acetyl chloride, which yields N,N?-diacetyl-4- chlorohydrazobenzene practically exclusively.



1968 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
DPG Hamon ◽  
GE Lewis ◽  
RJ Mayfield

Irradiation of trans-azobenzene in acetyl chloride, and subsequent hydrolysis-oxidation of the photo product, has been shown to yield a small amount of 2-chloroazo-benzene in addition to 4-chloroazobenzene (main product). Analogous reaction sequences, starting with different acid chlorides, show marked variations in ortho/para substitution ratios; and correlations indicate that the relative extents of ortho and para substitution are associated with the ionizability of the acid chlorides.



1968 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1601 ◽  
Author(s):  
GE Lewis ◽  
RJ Mayfield

A previously reported method for converting azobenzene into 4-chloroazobenzene (via N,N'-diacetyl-4-chlorohydrazobenzene) has been extended to the preparation of di-, tri-, and tetra-chloroazobenzenes.



1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1445 ◽  
Author(s):  
GE Lewis ◽  
RJ Mayfield

An investigation has been made of the photochemical and dark reactions of azobenzene in acetic acid-ferric chloride and acetic acid-aluminium chloride mixtures for comparison with the corresponding reactions of azobenzene in sulphuric acid. The photochemical reactions resulted in cyclodehydrogenation of azobenzene to benzo[c]cinnoline, and small quantities of reduction products of azobenzene were also isolated. The formation of reduction products was again observed in the dark reactions, but there was no sign of cyclodehydrogenation. The significance of these observations is now discussed. Irradiation of azobenzene in acetyl chloride, or in acetic anhydride containing hydrogen chloride, resulted in a novel photochemical reaction in which NN?-diacetyl-4-chlorohydrazobenzene was formed in high yield.



1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Komers

The author derived theoretical dependences of preasymptotic slopes of the currentless E-t curves (potential of an indicator redox electrode against time) on the number of equivalents, n, of added oxidation agent, assuming a reaction scheme of two consecutive concurrent second-order reactions involving the formation of intermediate products ( a side reaction of the starting compound with the final oxidation product leading to an adduct, which undergoes consecutive bimolecular oxidations leading again to the final product). The dependences enable to determine the type of the relatively stable intermediate products and the ratios of the rate constants. The theory was applied to the oxidation of four symmetrically disulphonated naphthidines with cerium(IV) sulphate in aqueous sulphuric acid and the results were substantiated spectrophotometrically



1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
NC Jamieson ◽  
GE Lewis

The photochemical reactions of 4,4?-bis(phenylazo)biphenyl and 4- phenyl-azoazobenzene in 98% sulphuric acid have been examined, for comparison with the corresponding reactions in 22N acid. Photochemical cyclodehydrogenation of 4-phenylazoazobenzene to two benzo[c]cinnoline derivatives has thereby been effected for the first time. The observed course of the latter reaction has led, in turn, to studies of the benzidine rearrangement of 2-(2-phenylhydrazino)benzo[c]- cinnoline, of the photochemical cyclodehydrogenation of 3-phenylazobenzene, and of the photochemical reaction of 2-phenylazobenzo[c]cinnoline. The results of these investigations are now recorded and discussed.



1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 929 ◽  
Author(s):  
CP Joshua ◽  
GE Lewis

Two chloro and two methyl derivatives of azobenzene-2-carboxylic acid have been found to yield the corresponding derivatives of benzo[c]cinnoline-4- carboxylic acid in good yields when irradiated in 98% sulphuric acid. The question of intramolecular hydrogen bonding in relation to the properties of azobenzene-2-carboxylic acids is discussed. Infrared absorption spectra of the neutral compounds have provided confirmation of internal hydrogen bonding. Attempts to prepare the cis isomers of these azo compounds have been unsuccessful.



1958 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 491 ◽  
Author(s):  
LK Dyall ◽  
KH Pausacker

The oxidation of eight 3(or 6)-substituted-2-nitroanilines with iodosobenzene diacetate, in both benzene and acetic acid solution, has been investigated. Benzo-furazan oxides and azo compounds were produced in varying yields. Certain of these amines have also been oxidized with iodosobenzene diacetate in other solvents, and with sodium hypochlorite in ethanolic potassium hydroxide. Six of these 3(or 6)- substituted-2-nitroanilines have been oxidized with lead tetra-acetate, in both benzene and acetic acid solution, and varying yields of azo compounds were obtained. Benzaldehyde was isolated from the oxidation of benzylamine with iodosobenzene diacetate, in either benzene or acetic acid solution. The mechanisms of these reactions are discussed. New methods of synthesizing 6-methoxy-2-nitroaniline and 3-methoxy-2-nitroaniline are described.



2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (10) ◽  
pp. 945-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusan Mijin ◽  
Masa Prascevic ◽  
Slobodan Petrovic

N-Phenyl-2-phenylacetamide was alkylated with benzyl chloride in the presence of powdered potassium hydroxide under microwave irradiation in a solvent-free system. The reactions were also performed in the presence of phase-transfer catalysts. The formation of N-, O- and C-products of alkylation was followed by gas chromatography. The N-product was found to be the main product under microwave irradiation. The O-product was obtained in higher yields when an excess of base and benzyl chloride was used.



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