Main Index   Search   Register   Login   Who's Online   FAQ   Links
  1 Online, 0 Active   You are not logged in  
Main Index     The HIVE light edition (TM)
This is a historical archive
The forum is read-only. Private information has been removed. It is not possible to login.


Novel Discourse  

All posts   Subject: MDP2P from iodo/chlorosafrole using 2-NP/KOH   Please login to post  

 
    phenethyl_man
(Stranger)
06-17-04 08:04
No 513924
      MDP2P from iodo/chlorosafrole using 2-NP/KOH     

It is cited in this paper on rhodium (https://www.rhodium.ws/chemistry/halide.carbonyl.html) that it is possible to produce MDP2P from bromosafrole using NaOH/KOH and 2-NP, via this technique:



Undecanal

A solution of 2.80 g. of potassium hydroxide and 4.55 g. of 2-nitropropane in 75 ml. of 95% ethanol was added dropwise in the course of 45 minutes to a refluxing solution of 11.75 g. of undecyl bromide (all reactants 0.05 M) in 50 ml. of 95% ethanol. Refluxing was continued for an additional 15 minutes. The solution was cooled and decanted from a deposit of sodium bromide; ethanol was removed in vacua, the residue taken up in 75 ml. of ether, washed with water (2x30 ml.) and dried over magnesium sulfate. After removal of ether, undecanal10a was distilled at 64-66°C/0.7mmHg, yield 7.3 g. (85%), n25 1.4500; 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone, mp 105-106°C; oxime, mp 71-72°C. A second preparation was started at room temperature and then heated under reflux for two hours, resulting in a similar yield.

This latter experiment illustrates a general procedure for monocarbonyl compounds. In the same manner there was prepared: dodecanal, bp 126-138°C/15mmHg10b;46% yield from dodecyl bromide; semicarbazone, mp 100-101°C10c; 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone, mp 102-103°C; 3,4-methylenedioxyphenylacetone, bp 110-111°C/0.8mmHg10d; 90% yield from 1-piperonyl-2-bromoethane (2-bromosafrole)11; semicarbazone, mp 158-159°C10d; 1,2-cyclohexadione, bp 80-81°C/16mmHg11 30% yield from 2-chlorocyclohexanone13 (reaction begun in ice-bath); bis-phenylhydrazone, mp 150-151°C.10f


I am wondering if this procedure could be utilized with chloro or iodosafrole.  The one chloro compound they use results in a large drop in yield (30% 1,2-cyclohexadione from 2-chlorocyclohexanone versus 90% MDP2P from bromosafrole!)  Would iodo or chlorosafrole react better or worse in this reaction than the bromo compound and would any changes in reaction time, etc. be necessary?
 
 

All posts   End of thread  
   

 https://the-hive.archive.erowid.org    the-hive@erowid.org
   
Powered by Squiggles(TM) Release 7.15, © 2018, LWR Labs. All rights reserved.

Links     Erowid     Rhodium

PIHKAL     TIHKAL     Total Synthesis II

Date: 11-23-24, Release: 1.6 (10-04-15), Links: static, unique