Synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation of sulfur-containing diphenylamines based on intramolecular synergism

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To obtain novel structural antioxidants that have different antioxidant mechanisms, four 2-(alkylthio)-N-(4-(phenylamino)phenyl)acetamides 2a–d as dual functional antioxidants are designed, synthesized, and confirmed by ¹H-NMR, FTIR, MS, and elemental analysis. The antioxidant behavior of compounds 2a–d as additives of base oil triisodecyl trimellitate (TIDTM) is evaluated by non-isothermal and isothermal DSC analyses. The results showed all compounds can greatly increase the incipient oxidation temperature (IOT) and oxidation induction time (OIT) of TIDTM, especially, compound 2c exhibited an OIT value of 72.5 min at 230 ^?C, which is almost 28 times the length of TIDTM. Moreover, compounds 2a–d do not affect the tribological performance of TIDTM. The mechanism of antioxidants involved an intramolecular synergism are proposed. This work demonstrates compound 2c can be used as a novel potential antioxidant additive of TIDTM; in addition, it would inspire the emergence of highly potent antioxidants with different antioxidant mechanisms.

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Article
Synthesis, Characterization, and Performance
Evaluation of Sulfur-Containing Diphenylamines
Based on Intramolecular Synergism
Jun-Bo He 1 ID , Hao Shi 1, Yue Wang 2 and Xin-Lei Gao 2,
*
1
Key Laboratory for Deep Processing of Major Grain and Oil, Ministry of Education,
College of Food Science & Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430023, China;
junb112he@whpu.edu.cn (J.-B.H.); go_live@yeah.net (H.S.)
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University,
Wuhan 430023, China; yuewang27@163.com
2
*
Correspondence: gaoxl0131@163.com; Tel.: +86-135-4515-3361
Received: 3 January 2018; Accepted: 11 February 2018; Published: 13 February 2018
Abstract: To obtain novel structural antioxidants that have different antioxidant mechanisms,
four 2-(alkylthio)-N-(4-(phenylamino)phenyl)acetamides 2a
designed, synthesized, and confirmed by 1H-NMR, FTIR, MS, and elemental analysis. The antioxidant
behavior of compounds 2a as additives of base oil triisodecyl trimellitate (TIDTM) is evaluated
–d as dual functional antioxidants are
–
d
by non-isothermal and isothermal DSC analyses. The results showed all compounds can greatly
increase the incipient oxidation temperature (IOT) and oxidation induction time (OIT) of TIDTM,
◦
especially, compound 2c exhibited an OIT value of 72.5 min at 230 C, which is almost 28 times
the length of TIDTM. Moreover, compounds 2a–d do not affect the tribological performance
of TIDTM. The mechanism of antioxidants involved an intramolecular synergism are proposed.
This work demonstrates compound 2c can be used as a novel potential antioxidant additive of
TIDTM; in addition, it would inspire the emergence of highly potent antioxidants with different
antioxidant mechanisms.
Keywords: sulfur-containing 4-aminodiphenylamine; dual functional antioxidants; antioxidant
mechanism; intramolecular synergism
1. Introduction
Synthetic ester oils, which have been widely used in the world, have many advantages over
mineral base oils, such as excellent viscosity–temperature relationship, broad operating temperature
range, and good low temperature fluidity [1–3]. However, synthetic ester base oils are usually
sensitive to chemical oxidation reactions in the presence of oxygen, water, and metals under elevated
temperature without the addition of antioxidants.
The most effective way to enhance the oxidation stability is introducing antioxidants into the
formulations [
into three types [
Among them, free radical scavengers and hydroperoxide decomposers are the most used antioxidants
in lubricants. Representative free radical scavengers are hindered phenol derivatives [ 10] and
arylamine derivatives [11 14], and the commonly used hydroperoxide decomposers are alkyl sulfides
or alkyl polysulfides [ 15]. Thus far, most antioxidants are simple functional antioxidants which
4–
6]. According to the oxidation mechanism of lubricants, antioxidants are classified
7,8
]: free radical scavengers, hydroperoxide decomposers, and metal deactivators.
9,
–
7,
display the same action mechanism, thus their protection effectiveness is greatly affected. To resolve
this problem, dual functional or more functional oxidation inhibitors based on synergism may greatly
increase the antioxidant potency.
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Based on the abovementioned design concept of antioxidants, some dual functional antioxidants,
such as compounds containing diphenylamines and hindered phenols simultaneously [16 18], have
–
been synthesized and showed improved antioxidant properties. However, these antioxidants are
homosynergism which displayed the same action mechanism, and the synergistic effectiveness is
limited. Therefore, dual functional antioxidants with different action mechanism would display more
effective antioxidant activity since they are heterosynergistic [19]. Two strategies can be used to achieve
the purpose, one is mixing two kinds of antioxidant with different action mechanism, such as alkylated
diphenylamines (ADPA) and dilauryl thiodipropionate (DLTDP) [20] (Figure 1), and the other one
is integrating two different functional groups into one molecule to form intramolecular synergism.
Phenothiazine, containing arylamine and sulfide groups, has been reported as dual functional oxidation
inhibitor [21] (Figure 1). However, since the sulfide group is aromatic, the hydroperoxide decomposing
action is limited because it lacks the
β-hydrogen atoms, which means the
β-elimination reaction cannot
take place to form the further hydroperoxide decomposing sulfinic and sulfenic compounds [
7,
22].
Hence, to design and develop new structural sulfur-containing diphenylamines compounds, which
may lead to novel compounds with higher antioxidant potency owing to the intramolecular synergism,
is becoming an urgent project.
Figure 1. Some representative antioxidants.
Herein, we report, for the first time, the design and synthesis of 2-(alkylthio)-N-(4-(phenylamino)
phenyl)acetamides, which simultaneously have the diphenylamino group and sulfur ether group and
the antioxidant character. As dual functional oxidation inhibitors with different action mechanisms
(Figure 2), the sulfur ether moiety, which has
β-hydrogen atoms, can promote the hydroperoxide
decomposing action by -elimination reaction. Their tribological activity and antioxidant behavior
β
in commercial synthetic ester base oil triisodecyl trimellitate (TIDTM) are investigated. Furthermore,
the possible antioxidant mechanism is proposed.
Figure 2. Design of the sulfur-containing 4-aminodiphenylamine derivatives.
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. Chemistry
Generally, to gain better solubility and higher thermal stability, diphenylamine antioxidants
should be alkylated with certain length of hydrocarbon chain [16]. In this work, we introduce four
alkyl hydrosulfides (C3, C8, C9, and C12) into the diphenylamine to study the influence of the length
of carbon chain on the antioxidant behavior. The synthetic route employed to obtain compounds 2a
is depicted in Scheme 1. First, the intermediate 2-chloro-N-(4-(phenylamino)phenyl)acetamide (
was synthesized from 4-aminodiphenylamine (ADA) with chloroacetyl chloride with triethylamine as
–d
1
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base, and then reacted with four alkyl hydrosulfides in refluxing ethanol using NaOH as base to give
compounds 2a–d.
The structures of compounds 2a
–
d
were characterized by 1H-NMR, FTIR, MS, and elemental
1
analysis. The protons shown in H-NMR spectra are exactly in accordance with the structures of
compounds 2a
aromatic protons (6.74–7.47 ppm), and methylene protons (–COCH2–, 3.20–3.24 ppm). Moreover,
the alkyl proton signals located at (0.84–2.61 ppm). For the FTIR spectra of compounds 2a–d,
–d
. The 1H-NMR spectra showed the presence of nitrogen protons (7.95–9.84 ppm),
δ
the characteristic peaks at 3413–3270, 1654–1600, 1554–1546, and 1395–1315 cm–1 are related to the
stretching vibration of N–H, C–N in CONH, C=C, and C–N, respectively. The C–H stretching of CH2
and CH3 are related to the peaks at 2915 and 2850 cm–1. The mass spectrum of all compounds showed
molecular ion peak at m/z = [M + H], which is agree with the molecular formula.
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Scheme 1. Regents and conditions: (
a
) chloroacetyl chloride, Et3N, CH2Cl2, 0 C; and (
b) R–SH, NaOH,
C2H5OH, reflux.
2.2. Tribological Properties of Compounds 2a–d
As good antioxidant additive for lubricating oil should show good tribological properties or at
least not be harmful to the tribological properties of the base oil. Therefore, the tribological properties
of compounds 2a
in Figure 3, the effects of compounds 2a
have similar trend. Among the four compounds 2a
–
d
in TIDTM were first studied and the results are shown in Figure 3a,b. As shown
on the friction coefficient and wear scar diameter (WSD)
, compound 2b with eight-carbon chain has the
–
d
–
d
best tribological properties, which slightly decrease the friction coefficient of the base oil and have the
lowest WSD value in the series. However, the three other compounds increase the friction coefficient
and WSD of the base oil slightly.
Figure 3. Friction coefficient (A); and wear scar diameter (B) under the lubrication of TIDTM and
TIDTM containing 1 wt% 2a–d, respectively.
2.3. Antioxidant Behavior of Compounds 2a–d
The antioxidant activity of compounds 2a–d in TIDTM were further evaluated. ADA was used as
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oxidation temperature (IOT) and oxidation induction time (OIT) were determined by DSC. A higher
IOT and longer OIT mean better oxidation stability of the base oil.
First, the IOT performance of compounds 2a
–d and ADA in TIDTM is illustrated in Figure 4.
The IOT value of base oil was only 243 ◦C, but the IOT values of base oil increased to 266 ◦C, 297 ◦C,
◦
◦
◦
300 C, 300 C, and 302 C along with the addition of ADA and compounds 2a
The greatly increased IOT values of compounds 2a compared to ADA indicate the introducing of
alkyl hydrosulfides can remarkably increase the antioxidant potency. Moreover, the almost identical
IOT values of compounds 2a in TIDTM indicate that the length of carbon chain does not affect the
–d, respectively.
–d
–d
antioxidant ability, which means the molecular weights of compounds 2a–d have no correlation to the
antioxidant potency.
The OIT values of compounds 2a
only has an OIT value of 2.6 min, however, the addition of compounds 2a
–
d
in TIDTM are shown in Figure 5. The base oil of TIDTM
(1 wt% concentration)
–
d
increased the OIT values of TIDTM to 47.67 min, 47 min, 72.5 min, and 51 min, respectively, which
were 45.07 min, 44.4 min, 69.9 min, and 48.4 min longer than TIDTM without antioxidants. Especially,
compound 2c with the alkyl chain length of nine displayed the longest OIT value of 72.5 min, which is
almost 28 times the length of TIDTM. These results illustrate that compound 2c can effectively maintain
the oxidant stability of TIDTM, and the design of integrating sulfur ether and diphenylamine as dual
functional antioxidant is rational.
Figure 4. The incipient oxidation temperatures of TIDTM and TIDTM containing 1 wt% ADA and
compounds 2a–d, respectively.
Figure 5. Oxidation induction time of TIDTM and TIDTM containing 1 wt% compounds 2a
230 C, respectively.
–
d
at
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2.4. Antioxidant Mechanism of Compound 2c
Based on the above investigations and previous reports [
7,
20], a mechanism of intramolecular
synergistic effect is proposed, as shown in Scheme 2. As previously reported, for the oxidation
mechanism of base oil [ ], free radicals were generated primarily in the initiation stage, and then
7,8
after hydroperoxides. Therefore, the diphenylamine moiety would act as the primary antioxidant
(free radical scavenger) by donating hydrogen atom to form an aminyl radical, while the free radicals
are terminated (Route 1 in Scheme 2). On the other hand, the hydroperoxides (ROOH), formed by
alkyl peroxy radicals in the oxidation process, will be decomposed to more stable materials by the
sulfur ether moiety of compound 2c (Route 2 in Scheme 2) [
7
,20], along with the formation of sulfoxide
intermediate. The subsequent reaction of sulfoxide intermediate is the intramolecular
β-hydrogen
elimination, leading to the formation of sulfenic acid (RSOH), which can be oxidized to sulfininc acid
(RSO2H) and sulfonic acid (RSO3H) by the hydroperoxides. Besides, the sulfininc acid (RSO2H) may
decompose to form sulfur dioxide (SO2) at elevated temperature which is a powerful hydroperoxide
decomposer. Through these reactions, the oxidation process was significantly slowed or inhibited
by the dual functional antioxidant compound 2c through the intramolecular synergistic effect with
different action mechanism.
The intramolecular synergism was validated by the IOT values of compounds 2a–d in TIDTM,
as depicted in Figure 4. When ADA was used as reference antioxidant, the IOT value of TIDTM can be
◦
increased for 23 C because of its limited antioxidant activity. However, introducing alkyl sulfur ether
can greatly enhance the antioxidant activity of compounds 2a–d for their synergism, which makes the
IOT values of TIDTM greatly extended.
Scheme 2. Possible mechanism of the dual functional antioxidant.
Unlike reported intermolecular synergism for the physical mixture [20 23], the intramolecular dual
,
functional antioxidants (compounds 2a–d) with different action mechanism have special advantages.
First, intramolecular synergism is more effective than intermolecular synergism, because the sulfur
ether moiety can decompose the hydroperoxides immediately and thus avoid the intermolecular
contact probability. Second, to achieve the same antioxidant activity, the mass of antioxidant that needs
to be added is less, since they were bonded in one molecule. In brief, compounds 2a–d have potent
oxidative resistance capacity due to intramolecular synergism.
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Materials
All reagents (purchased from Aladdin Chemical Corporation, Shanghai, China) used for preparing
antioxidants were of analytical grade and used without further purification. Commercial synthetic
1
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recorded in DMSO-d6 solution on a Varian Mercury-Plus 400 spectrometers (Varian, Palo Alto, CA,
USA) at 400 MHz and chemical shifts were recorded in parts per million (ppm) with TMS as the internal
reference. FTIR spectra were recorded on a Thermo Nicolet NEXUS 670 FTIR Raman spectrometer
(Thermo Nicolet Corporation, Madison, WI, USA). Mass spectra (MS) were obtained on a Finnigan
LTQ XL mass spectrometer (Palo Alto, CA, USA) and signals were given in m/z. Elemental analysis
were performed with a Vario EL cube CHNOS elemental analyzer (Elementar, Hanau, Germany).
3.2. Preparation of 2-Chloro-N-(4-(phenylamino)phenyl)acetamide (1)
Chloroacetyl chloride (2.26 g, 0.02 mol) was added dropwise as a solution in CH2Cl2 (10 mL)
to a solution of 4-ami◦nodiphenylamine (3.68 g, 0.02 mol) and triethylamine (2.02 g, 0.02 mol) in
CH2Cl2 (60 mL) at 0 C, and then the mixture was stirred for 2 h. After that, the mixture was
concentrated, poured into cold water (50 mL), and the precipitate was collected by filtration and dried.
Recrystallization with ethanol afforded the desired compound
m.p. 150–152 ◦C (yield 82%, m.p. 144–145 ◦C, reported [24]).
1 (4.21 g, 0.016 mol, 81%) as a gray solid,
3.3. General Procedure for the Preparation of Compounds 2a–d
A solution of compound 1 (0.78 g, 3 mmol), corresponding alkyl hydrosulfide (3 mmol) and NaOH
(0.14 g, 3.6 mmol) in ethanol (30 mL), was heated under reflux until the reaction was complete based on
TLC monitoring. Then, the mixture was cooled to room temperature, and the precipitate was collected
by filtration and dried at vacuum condition. Compounds 2a–d were collected by crystallization.
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N-(4-(Phenylamino)phenyl)-2-(propylthio)acetamide (2a). Off-white solid, yield: 51%, m.p. 81–83 C;
1H-NMR (DMSO-d6, 400 MHz):
δ
9.85 (s, 1H), 8.00 (s, 1H), 7.43 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 7.17 (t, J = 8.0 Hz,
2H), 6.99 (dd, J = 12.0, 8.0 Hz, 4H), 6.74 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H), 3.24 (s, 2H), 2.60 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 1.54–1.63
(m, 2H), 0.94 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 3H). FTIR (KBr, cm–1)
ν 3406, 3286, 2919, 2857, 1654, 1554, 1315. MS m/z:
301.14 [M + H]+. Anal. Calcd For C17H20N2OS: C, 67.97; H, 6.71; N, 9.32. Found: C, 67.72; H, 6.82;
N, 9.13.
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2-(Octylthio)-N-(4-(phenylamino)phenyl)acetamide (2b). Off-white solid, yield: 84%, m.p. 79–81 C;
1H-NMR (DMSO-d6, 400 MHz):
δ
9.84 (s, 1H), 8.00 (s, 1H), 7.43 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 7.17 (t, J = 8.0 Hz,
2H), 6.99 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 4H), 6.74 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H), 3.24 (s, 2H), 2.61 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 1.52–1.57 (m, 2H),
1.24–1.33 (m, 10H), 0.85 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 3H). FTIR (KBr, cm–1)
ν 3405, 3274, 2919, 2850, 1650, 1546, 1396.
MS m/z: 371.28 [M + H]+. Anal. Calcd For C22H30N2OS: C, 71.31; H, 8.16; N, 7.56. Found: C, 71.15; H,
8.27; N, 7.46.
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2-(Nonylthio)-N-(4-(phenylamino)phenyl)acetamide (2c). Off-white solid, yield: 89%, m.p. 88–90 C;
1H-NMR (DMSO-d6, 400 MHz):
δ
9.84 (s, 1H), 8.00 (s, 1H), 7.43 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 7.17 (t, J = 8.0 Hz,
2H), 6.99 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 4H), 6.74 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H), 3.24 (s, 2H), 2.61 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 1.54 (d, J = 8.0 Hz,
2H), 1.23–1.33 (m, 12H), 0.85 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 3H). FTIR (KBr, cm–1)
ν 3413, 3371, 3270, 2919, 2850, 1650,
1550, 1315. MS m/z: 385.19 [M + H]+. Anal. Calcd For C23H32N2OS: C, 71.83; H, 8.39; N, 7.28. Found:
C, 71.65; H, 8.54; N, 7.43.
2-(Dodecylthio)-N-(4-(phenylamino)phenyl)acetamide (2d). Off-white solid, yield: 61%, m.p. 94–96 ◦C;
1H-NMR (DMSO-d6, 400 MHz):
δ
9.83 (s, 1H), 7.99 (s, 1H), 7.43 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 7.17 (t, J = 8.0 Hz,
2H), 6.99 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 4H), 6.74 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H), 3.23 (s, 2H), 2.61 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 1.51–1.58 (m, 2H),
1.23–1.32 (m,18H), 0.84 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 3H). FTIR (KBr, cm–1)
ν 3409, 3394, 3270, 2919, 2850, 1600, 1550,
1315. MS m/z: 427.41 [M + H]+. Anal. Calcd For C26H38N2OS: C, 73.19; H, 8.98; N, 6.57. Found: C,
73.02; H, 9.14; N, 6.43.
3.4. Tribological Properties
The tribological properties of compounds 2a
–d, mixed with TIDTM with the concentration of
1 wt%, were carried out using a UMT-3 microtribometer (Bruker, Campbell, CA, USA). The ball-on-disk

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configurations of the UMT-3 were used for the coefficient of friction (COF) test. In the tests, steel balls
(E52100) with 4.45 mm diameter and hardness (HRC) of 62–63 were used to assemble the friction pair.
The balls were cleaned with soap to remove contaminants prior to test the COF of the film.
All tests were performed in a laboratory environment where the temperature was controlled to
25 ◦C by an air-conditioner. Tests were performed under a rotating speed of 50 rev min–1, a duration
·
of 120 min, and a load of 98 N. The COF was automatically recorded by computer as a function of time,
and then the mean COF was calculated. An optical microscope was used to determine the wear scar
diameter (denoted as WSD) with an accuracy of 0.01 mm. Each experiment was repeated three times,
and the averages of the repeat tests were then calculated and reported in this paper.
3.5. Antioxidant Behavior
A Q2000 differential scanning calorimeter (DSC, TA Instruments; New Castle, DE, USA) was
employed to evaluate the antioxidant behavior of compounds 2a
–
d
. For non-isothermal method,
◦
◦
the samples were scanned from 100 to 400 C at the heating rate of 20 C
·
min–1 with a constant
flow of nitrogen and oxygen at 30 mL
·
min–1 and 20 mL
·
min–1, respectively. For isothermal method,
min–1. Oils were
the samples were scanned at 230 ◦C under the constant flow of oxygen with 20 mL
·
prepared by adding compounds 2a–d into TIDTM at a concentration of 1 wt%, respectively.
4. Conclusions
In this work, four novel sulfur-containing 4-aminodiphenylaime derivatized dual functional
antioxidants with different action mechanism are designed, synthesized, and confirmed by 1H-NMR,
FTIR, MS, and elemental analysis. The DSC results showed that adding 1 wt% 2a–d will tremendously
increase the oxidative resistance capacity of TIDTM. Especially, compound 2c exhibited the best
antioxidant ability with the OIT of 72.5 min at 230 ◦C, which is almost 28 times the length of TIDTM.
It is believed that the dual functional antioxidants could be attributed to the intramolecular synergism.
Moreover, compounds 2a–d do not affect the tribological performance of TIDTM. Based on the above
results, compound 2c appears to be very a promising dual functional antioxidant, especially for use in
high-temperature lubricant oils. In addition, this work would also inspire the design of dual functional
highly oxidation-resistant antioxidants with different antioxidant mechanisms in the future.
Supplementary Materials: The supplementary materials are available online, 1H-NMR of compounds 2a–d.
Acknowledgments: This work was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China
(No. 51675395) and Scientific Research Foundation of Wuhan Polytechnic University (No. 2018Y02).
Author Contributions: J.-B.H. and X.-L.G. conceived and designed the experiments; H.S. and Y.W. performed the
experiments; and J.-B.H. wrote the paper.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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