The Meyer Reaction of Phenylnitromethane in Acid. I. The Reactions of Phenyl-aci-nitromethane in Acid

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (21) ◽  
pp. 3483-3488 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Edward ◽  
P. H. Tremaine

Phenyl-aci-nitromethane reacts in aqueous sulfuric acid at room temperature to form phenylnitromethane and benzohydroxamic acid. The relative amounts of these two products depend on the concentration of the acid. Benzohydroxamic acid is formed by reaction of the intermediate, benzonitrile oxide, with water.Solvent effects, substituent effects, and isotope effects have been studied to determine mechanisms for these reactions of phenyl-aci-nitromethane.


1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 1468-1474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund Malinski ◽  
Antonina Piekos ◽  
Tomasz A. Modro

The nitration of some tertiary phosphine oxides ArP(O)R2 in aqueous sulfuric acid has been investigated. All compounds studied react as conjugate acids. When the phosphinyl group is bonded directly to the benzene ring, high deactivation and meta-orientation is found, accompanied in most cases by some substitution at the ortho position. The substituent effects of the "quasiphosphonium" group P(OH)R2+are compared with those of structurally related systems and are discussed in terms of pπ–dπ, interactions of the oxygen and the phosphorus atom.



1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (21) ◽  
pp. 3489-3492 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Edward ◽  
P. H. Tremaine

The kinetics of the transformation of benzonitrile oxide in dilute sulfuric acid into benzohydroxamic acid have been followed by u.v. spectrophotometry at a temperature near room temperature. A mechanism is proposed on the basis of the effects of substituents and sulfuric acid concentration.The rate profile for the hydrolysis of benzohydroxamic acid in hot dilute sulfuric acid has been obtained.The results of these studies are applied to the detailed mechanism of the Meyer rearrangement – hydrolysis of phenylnitromethane in acid.



1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 626-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oswald S. Tee ◽  
Sujit Banerjee

The reactions of bromine with uracil, 1-methyluracil, 3-methyluracil, and with 1,3-dimethyluracil in 0.125–2.0 M aqueous sulfuric acid have been examined. Under these conditions rapid attack by bromine upon the uracil leads to the formation of an observable intermediate, a 5-bromo-5,6-dihydro-6-hydroxyuracil, which subsequently undergoes slow acid-catalyzed dehydration to the appropriate 5-bromouracil. The intermediates derived from uracil and 3-methyluracil also show acid independent dehydration. The dehydration of the adduct derived from 6-methyluracil proceeds much more rapidly and so precludes observation of that adduct. The dehydrations show significant primary isotope effects for the rupture of C(5)—H bonds of the intermediates. The mechanistic implications of these results are discussed.





2005 ◽  
Vol 152 (7) ◽  
pp. E212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Merrill ◽  
Ionel C. Stefan ◽  
Daniel A. Scherson ◽  
J. Thomas Mortimer


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