Org. Synth. 1971, 51, 86
DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.051.0086
2-DIAZOCYCLOALKANONES: 2-DIAZOCYCLOHEXANONE
[Cyclohexanone, 2-diazo-]
Submitted by Manfred Regitz
1, Jörn Rüter, and Annemarie Liedhegener.
Checked by John D. Fenwick and Peter Yates.
1. Procedure
Caution! 2-Diazocyclohexanone may explode, especially on being heated. The workup and distillation should be carried out in a fume hood behind a safety shield.
A. 2-l., wide-necked Erlenmeyer flask is charged with 66.2 g. (0.525 mole) of 2-(hydroxymethylene)cyclohexanone (Note 1), 400 ml. of dichloromethane, and 106 g. (1.05 moles) of triethylamine (Note 2). The flask is cooled in an ice–salt bath at −12 to −15°, and 98.0 g. (0.500 mole) of p-toluenesulfonyl azide (Note 3) is added with vigorous mechanical stirring over a period of approximately 1 hour, at such a rate that the temperature of the reaction mixture does not rise above −5°. Stirring is continued for an additional 2 hours as the cooling bath melts. A solution of 30.8 g. (0.550 mole) of potassium hydroxide in 400 ml. of water is added, and the mixture is stirred for 15 minutes at room temperature. The resulting emulsion is placed in a 2-l. separatory funnel, the dichloromethane layer is separated after the emulsion has broken, and the aqueous, alcoholic layer is washed with two 100-ml. portions of dichloromethane. The combined dichloromethane solutions are washed with a solution of 2.8 g. of potassium hydroxide in 200 ml. of water, then with 200 ml. of water, and dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate (Note 4). The solvent is removed on a rotary evaporator at 35° (15 mm.) until the weight of the residue is constant, yielding 51.5–59.0 g. (83–95%) of yellow-orange 2-diazocyclohexanone (Note 5). Distillation with magnetic stirring (Note 6) of 20 g. of this crude product from a hot-water bath at 80° gave 17.0 g. of yellow-orange liquid, b.p. 46° (0.1 mm.) or 60° (0.4 mm.) (Note 7). The IR spectrum (liquid film) has a strong band at 2083 cm.−1 attributable to the diazo function.
2. Notes
2.
Freshly distilled; b.p.
88.5–90.5°.
3.
p-Toluenesulfonyl azide was prepared from
p-toluenesulfonyl chloride and
sodium azide [
Org. Synth., Coll. Vol. 5, 179 (1973)]. The submitters found that when somewhat less than the stoichiometric quantity of
p-toluenesulfonyl azide is used,
2-diazocyclohexanone is obtained free of azide; the excess
2-(hydroxymethylene)cyclohexanone is readily removed in the alkaline workup. The crude product obtained by the checkers, however, contained
p-toluenesulfonyl azide (Note 5).
4.
The basic, aqueous solution on acidification with 6
N hydrochloric acid gives
N-formyl-p-toluenesulfonamide in almost quantitative yield. Crystallization from
benzene gave crystals, m.p.
101–102° (lit.
2 102–103°).
5.
The submitters found that this product gave a single spot by TLC
(Note 8), and that it can be used for most preparative purposes without distillation. The checkers found by
1H NMR spectroscopy that the product contained
p-toluenesulfonyl azide (
ca. 5%) and
triethylamine.
6.
If the distillation is carried out with a capillary leak, decomposition of the diazo compound occurs. The checkers found that distillation on a larger scale led to extensive decomposition.
7.
The distillation is not carried to completion because of the danger of explosion. It is carried out with the usual safety precautions (safety shield), although no explosion has yet occurred.
8.
TLC was carried out on DC-Fertigplatte Merck Kieselgel F
254 supplied by Firma Merck AG, 61 Darmstadt, Germany. For the solvent system
dichloromethane/
methanol (97/3) the product has an
Rf value of 0.45.
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3. Discussion
In addition to previously described syntheses
2,3 by diazo group transfer with deformylation,
4 2-diazocyclohexanone has been prepared by two variants of this method. In one, the reaction of
2-(hydroxymethylene)cyclohexanone with
p-toluenesulfonyl azide is carried out in
ether/
diethylamine, and an enamine is assumed to be formed as an intermediate;
5 in the other, the
sodium salt of the hydroxymethylene compound was treated with the
lithium salt of p-carboxybenzenesulfonyl azide in
ether/
tetrahydrofuran.
6 Its preparation from
1,2-cyclohexanedione mono-p-toluenesulfonylhydrazone was described earlier.
72-Diazocycloalkanones with five- to twelve-membered rings can be synthesized by the present procedure in good yields (Table I).
2 Diazo transfer with deformylation can also be used for the preparation of bicyclic α-diazo ketones.
8,9 A related procedure involving reaction of the
sodium salt of an α-(hydroxymethylene) ketone with
p-toluenesulfonyl azide in
ethanol has been applied to the synthesis of diazoalkyl ketones, α-diazo aldehydes, and α-diazo carboxylic esters.
10
This preparation is referenced from:
TABLE I
PREPARATION OF 2-DIAZOCYCLOALKANONES
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Boiling Point or [Melting Point], °C.
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Yield, %
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5
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34–37 (0.8 mm.)
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98
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7
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62 (0.4 mm.)
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83
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8
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a
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87
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9
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a
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73
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10
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[54–55]
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81
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11
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b
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79
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12
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[42–43]
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57
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a Liquid, purified by crystallization from ether at −60°.
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b Liquid, purified by crystallization from ethanol at −20°.
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Appendix
Chemical Abstracts Nomenclature (Collective Index Number);
(Registry Number)
sodium salt of the hydroxymethylene
2-Diazocycloalkanones
sodium salt of an α-(hydroxymethylene) ketone
ethanol (64-17-5)
hydrochloric acid (7647-01-0)
Benzene (71-43-2)
methanol (67-56-1)
ether (60-29-7)
Cyclohexanone (108-94-1)
sodium sulfate (7757-82-6)
potassium hydroxide (1310-58-3)
diethylamine (109-89-7)
sodium azide (26628-22-8)
dichloromethane (75-09-2)
Tetrahydrofuran (109-99-9)
triethylamine (121-44-8)
2-(hydroxymethylene)cyclohexanone (823-45-0)
p-Toluenesulfonyl chloride (98-59-9)
2-Diazocyclohexanone,
Cyclohexanone, 2-diazo- (3242-56-6)
p-toluenesulfonyl azide (941-55-9)
N-formyl-p-toluenesulfonamide
1,2-cyclohexanedione mono-p-toluenesulfonylhydrazone
lithium salt of p-carboxybenzenesulfonyl azide
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