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Theoretical and experimental evidence of the photonitration pathway of phenol and 4-chlorophenol: A mechanistic study of environmental significance
Bedini, Andrea,Maurino, Valter,Minero, Claudio,Vione, Davide
, p. 418 - 424 (2012)
Light-induced nitration pathways of phenols are important processes for the transformation of pesticide-derived secondary pollutants into toxic derivatives in surface waters and for the formation of phytotoxic compounds in the atmosphere. Moreover, phenols can be used as NO2 probes in irradiated aqueous solutions. This paper shows that the nitration of 4-chlorophenol (4CP) into 2-nitro-4-chlorophenol (NCP) in the presence of irradiated nitrate and nitrite in aqueous solution involves the radical NO2. The experimental data allow exclusion of an alternative nitration pathway by OH + NO2. Quantum mechanical calculations suggest that the nitration of both phenol and 4CP involves, as a first pathway, the abstraction of the phenolic hydrogen by NO2, which yields HNO2 and the corresponding phenoxy radical. Reaction of phenoxyl with another NO2 follows to finally produce the corresponding nitrated phenol. Such a pathway also correctly predicts that 4CP undergoes nitration more easily than phenol, because the ring Cl atom increases the acidity of the phenolic hydrogen of 4CP. This favours the H-abstraction process to give the corresponding phenoxy radical. In contrast, an alternative nitration pathway that involves NO 2 addition to the ring followed by H-abstraction by oxygen (or by NO2 or OH) is energetically unfavoured and erroneously predicts faster nitration for phenol than for 4CP.
Copper-mediated nitrosation: 2-nitrosophenolato complexes and their use in the synthesis of heterocycles
Nicholls, Alexander J.,Batsanov, Andrei S.,Baxendale, Ian R.
, (2019/11/28)
A simple protocol yielding ortho-substituted nitrosophenols from phenols is demonstrated, in the form of copper(II) bis(nitrosophenolato) complexes. The developed methodology was applied to a range of substrates, confirming the role of the copper in both the formation and protection of the challenging 1, 2-substitution pattern. Using polymer supported thiourea, the Cu could be stripped from the complexes and thus enabled the isolation or identification of the uncoordinated ligands and their decomposition products, in yields generally low in line with the intrinsic high reactivity of 2-nitrosophenols. The product complexes are useful intermediates as demonstrated in revisiting a formal [4 + 2] cycloaddition with dimethylacetylene dicarboxylate to synthesise bicyclic products in variable yields, revealing the product has a novel structure different from those previously reported in the literature.
3-(Ethoxycarbonyl)-1-(5-methyl-5-(nitrosooxy)hexyl)pyridin-1-ium cation: A green alternative to tert-butyl nitrite for synthesis of nitro-group-containing arenes and drugs at room temperature
Chaudhary, Renu,Natarajan, Palani,Rani, Neetu,Sakshi,Venugopalan, Paloth
supporting information, (2019/12/30)
Due to their remarkable properties, task-specific ionic liquids have turned out to be progressively popular over the last few years in the field of green organic synthesis. Herein, for the first time, we report that a new task-specific nitrite-based ionic liquid such as 3-(ethoxycarbonyl)-1-(5-methyl-5-(nitrosooxy)hexyl)pyridin-1-ium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imides (TS-N-IL) derived from biodegradable ethyl nicotinate indeed acted as an efficient and eco-friendly reagent for the synthesis of highly valuable nitroaromatic compounds and drugs including nitroxynil, tolcapone, niclofolan, flutamide, niclosamide and nitrazepam. The bridging of an ionic liquid with nitrite group not only increases the yield and rate of direct C[sbnd]N bond formation reaction but also allows easy product separation and recyclability of a byproduct. Nonvolatile nature, easy synthesis, merely stoichiometric need and mildness are a portion of the extra focal points of TS-N-IL while contrasted with tert-butyl nitrite an outstanding and highly-flammable reagent utilized largely in organic synthesis.
