THE OXIDATION OF ARYLMAGNESIUM HALIDES
THE OXIDATION OF ARYLMAGNESIUM HALIDES
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芳基卤化镁的氧化
DOI:
10.1021/ja01414a047
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发表时间:
1926
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Agnes Wood
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作者:
H. Gilman;Agnes Wood
In connection with studies involving some relationships between anti-septic action and chemical constitution, it was necessary to prepare a number of new phenols. The oxidation of arylmagnesium halides was tried as one of several possible methods. It has long been known that the following general reaction occurs when Grignard reagents are treated with air or oxygen: RMgX+(O)—> ROMgX. On hydrolysis, the ROMgX compound gives the corresponding hydroxyl compound. The reaction is capable of wide application. In particular, excellent yields of alcohols are obtainable by the oxidation of alkylmagnesium halides. 2 Equally good yields of the analogous com-pounds are obtained when both alkyl-and arylmagnesium halides are treated with sulfur, selenium and tellurium. 3 However, Bodroux4 got very low yields of phenols when he oxidized arylmagnesium halides. Even after trying a variety of conditions he could not get the yield ofphenol5 to exceed 18%. Eight arylmagnesium halides were oxidized and the highest yield of phenolic compound, 22%, was obtained from the monomagnesium derivative of 1, 4-dibromonaph-thalene. Wuyts, 6 in a careful study, showed that peroxides were very probably formed as intermediate compounds. In addition to phenol, from the oxidation of phenylmagnesium bromide, he obtained benzene, diphenyl,^-diphenylbenzene, phenols other than C6H5OH, phenylmethyl carbinol and ethyl alcohol. Porter and Steele, 7 in a study of the mechan-ism of the reaction, determined the influence of temperature upon the yield of phenol and chief by-products.