Oxidation of phenylhydrazine with polyhalomethanes
Oxidation of phenylhydrazine with polyhalomethanes
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DOI:
10.1021/jo01274a045
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发表时间:
1968-10
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
E. S. Huyser;Richard H. S. Wang
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作者:
E. S. Huyser;Richard H. S. Wang
Bromotrichloromethane and carbon tetrachloride undergo reaction with phenylhydrazine yielding nitrogen, chloroform, benzene, a halobenzene, and a hydrogen halide. Although these reactions are spontaneous in the dark, they are accelerated both by light and by peroxides. Evidencefor a mechanism of these reactions involv-ing formation of phenyldiimide as an intermediate produced in a free-radical chain reaction followed by reactions of phenyldiimide yielding benzene and a halobenzene is presented. Kinetic studies support a postulated bimolecular reaction of the reactants resulting in formation of free radicals to initiate the chain sequence in the dark reaction.Phenylhydrazine has been reported to be oxidized to benzene and nitrogen, reactions presumably involving formation of phenyldiimide, by Fehling’s solution, 3 by mercuric oxide, 4 by oxygen, metallic oxides, and permanganates and chromates in alkaline solution, 5 by ferricyanide6 and by copper sulfate in acetic acid. 7 Other oxidations of phenylhydrazine yielding nitrogen and phenol, reactions presumably involving theben-zene diazonium cation as an intermediate oxidation product, havebeen accomplished usingmetallic oxides, permanganate, and chromate in acidic media5 and also by iodine and by potassium iodate in acidic solutions. 8 The chemistry of phenyldiimide was investigated by Hardie and Thomson who generated this species from phenylhydrazine with metallic oxides in aromatic solvents. 9 The formation of biphenyl as well as other mixed diaryls suggested the'intermediacy of free phenyl radicals in the reactions of phenyldiimide. Cohen and Nicholson suggested that phenyldiimide, formed by reaction of N-phenyl-N'-benzoyldiimide (C8H8CON= NC6H8) with acid, base, or ferric ion, could decompose in homogeneous medium directly to benzene and nitro-