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[*] posted on 5-2-2015 at 02:12


Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  
DMP etc are the home chemist's elusive dreams

DMP might be closer to hobbyist use than you think. IBX has been done: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=12...
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[*] posted on 5-2-2015 at 02:32


Quote: Originally posted by Chemosynthesis  

DMP might be closer to hobbyist use than you think. IBX has been done: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=12...

well I will eat my....pipette:D Ok I give up;)
this is what I was looking for,exotic but easily obtainable if you know how
Now you have my mouth watering:D

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[*] posted on 5-2-2015 at 08:05


Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  

but what are the other potential oxidising agents ?


I answered appropriately for the question that was asked. You made no mention of wanting esoteric or exotic reagents for the desired transformation.

You also mention that a Swern oxidation is probably the ideal for amateur chemists but you seem naïve of the fact that it is typically a cryogenic reaction (at -78 *C) and whilst the reagents may be accessible by some means, the cooling is required to moderate the reaction between oxalyl chloride and DMSO.

I also would not use DMP as a "routine" reagent for the oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes or ketones, as it is too expensive and relatively difficult/time consuming to make (particularly as an amateur).

You make a comment about not wanting to use potassium dichromate because it is toxic then you go on to say that PCC/PDC would be an elusive dream from the amateur chemist. You may (or may not, depending on how you feel about hexavalent chromium) find the attached paper of interest.

I also stand by my previous comment - I've attached a fairly detailed e-book on alcohol oxidation for you to get started on. Perhaps you should read some more real chemistry rather than "how to cook meth" books.

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[*] posted on 5-2-2015 at 09:50


Quote: Originally posted by DJF90  
Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  

but what are the other potential oxidising agents ?

You also mention that a Swern oxidation is probably the ideal for amateur chemists but you seem naïve of the fact that it is typically a cryogenic reaction (at -78 *C) and whilst the reagents may be accessible by some means, the cooling is required to moderate the reaction between oxalyl chloride and DMSO

come on man,maintaining such a low temperature is not that hard.cooks have been doing it all the time using dry ice/acetone to liquify NH3 for the birch reduction before the shake-n-bake method was invented.I later learnt that the swern oxidation releases CO and dimethyl sulphide and both are toxic gases
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I also would not use DMP as a "routine" reagent for the oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes or ketones, as it is too expensive and relatively difficult/time consuming to make (particularly as an amateur)

although I was impressed by chemo's post on IBX,I noted the fact that anthranilic acid was used as the starting chemical for iodobenzoic acid

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You make a comment about not wanting to use potassium dichromate because it is toxic then you go on to say that PCC/PDC would be an elusive dream from the amateur chemist

yes,PCC/PDC are dangerous without a doubt,but their pros outweigh the cons.then I can say that even diazomethane is dangerous.Does that mean people don't use it.Anyways I am never a supporter of these selective reagents.I prefer OTC ones.Also how many home chemists have been able to get their hands on some PDC first to be able to worry about its toxicity:D
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I also stand by my previous comment - I've attached a fairly detailed e-book on alcohol oxidation for you to get started on. Perhaps you should read some more real chemistry rather than "how to cook meth" books.

I have read that book,and many others.I think you should stop classifying books by name and see what is inside them first.Incase you haven't noticed,most of the reactions given in textbooks are impractical(phenol to benzene using Zn dust) and the reagents are expensive too(PCC,PDC).Cookbooks on the other hand use OTC chemicals and equipments.
Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  

The only ones that came to my mind was the oppenauer oxidation,lead tetracetate(but this might methylate thiopene),lead nitrate(not sure about this one,but I read that it was an alternative to hexamine for the sommlet reaction),potassium ferricyanide(I am not sure about this one too)

I was wrong about the lead tetraacetate.It will only methylate if you boil the substrate with Pb(OAc)4 in the presence of GAA .At room temp it will oxidise alcohols to aldehydes and ketones]

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[*] posted on 9-2-2015 at 00:11


Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  

come on man,maintaining such a low temperature is not that hard.cooks have been doing it all the time using dry ice/acetone to liquify NH3 for the birch reduction before the shake-n-bake method was invented.I later learnt that the swern oxidation releases CO and dimethyl sulphide and both are toxic gases


Dry ice is not available OTC in many locales, and as such many amatuers have a hard time getting hold of it. I was under the impression that many cooks stole their anhydrous ammonia from farm tanks, where it is readily dispensed in a liquid state. Dimethyl sulfide is a volatile liquid by the way, not a gas. Its not too toxic but it does stink alot. I've done a Parikh Doering oxidation several times on 1 kg scale, and although the reaction was complete in several hours, it was a couple days work to perform the isolation. The odour of dimethylsulfide was still noticeable after four more synthetic stages, despite drying in a vac oven and chromatographic purification of the final product.

Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  

yes,PCC/PDC are dangerous without a doubt,but their pros outweigh the cons.then I can say that even diazomethane is dangerous.Does that mean people don't use it.Anyways I am never a supporter of these selective reagents.I prefer OTC ones.Also how many home chemists have been able to get their hands on some PDC first to be able to worry about its toxicity:D


I agree that many may consider PCC/PDC out of reach, but I suspect the need for pyridine is what causes the difficulty. Other members have demonstrated the preparation of pyridine from nicotinic acid, and whilst it may be cumbersome to produce several hundred grams, it would be satisfactory for preparation of a few grams of the chromate reagents. This is reasonable for research purposes.

Whilst OTC materials are preferable, the selectivity/ability provided by some reagents justifies the efforts required to prepare them in-house (excuse the pun). When working with relatively complex molecules, these reagents become a necessity rather than a luxury.

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I have read that book,and many others.


Oh you did, did you? Perhaps you didn't have the perseverence to reach pp. 341-342 where the Stevens oxidation is detailed, along with a preparative method. If you had read the book as you claim, AvBaeyer's post would not have been so suprising.

Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  

I think you should stop classifying books by name and see what is inside them first.Incase you haven't noticed,most of the reactions given in textbooks are impractical(phenol to benzene using Zn dust) and the reagents are expensive too(PCC,PDC).Cookbooks on the other hand use OTC chemicals and equipments.


Selective reagents are expensive, but they're intended for research purposes where you aren't often using grams at a time. Again, OTC is a very location (and circumstance) specific term, and what is freely available for some may be heavily restricted for many.

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I was wrong about the lead tetraacetate.It will only methylate if you boil the substrate with Pb(OAc)4 in the presence of GAA .At room temp it will oxidise alcohols to aldehydes and ketones


What does it matter? Lead tetraacetate is not a reagent you should recourse to without good reason. It is not OTC and suffers hydrolysis in storage. On top of that, its pretty toxic, certainly for something like the OPs question which could be done under the Stevens conditions using benign reagents.

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[*] posted on 9-2-2015 at 02:19


Quote: Originally posted by DJF90  

Dry ice is not available OTC in many locales, and as such many amatuers have a hard time getting hold of it.

don't you get it in walmart.Otherwise just ask the counter guy at dippin dots or ben and jerry's the next time you go there.;)
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I was under the impression that many cooks stole their anhydrous ammonia from farm tanks, where it is readily dispensed in a liquid state.

https://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/birch.mrcle...
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]Lead tetraacetate is not a reagent you should recourse to without good reason. It is not OTC

https://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/lead.tetraa...
I was searching for OTC sources of red lead and this is what I found
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=53527#...
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[*] posted on 9-2-2015 at 05:07


As I said before, availability of dry ice depends on location. There is no OTC source here in the UK, but it can be ordered online at a relatively high price. If you can get it at any supermarket in the states, then good for you. However I try to consider that everyone may not have the same potential resources as myself.

It would be several steps to produce PCC/PDC but you'd benefit from several intermediates which have additional uses. Everything needed has been documented on this forum at some point or another, but not necessarily tied together. There are alternative reagents/conditions as outlined in the book I provided. Some will be easier to make use of than others.
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[*] posted on 9-2-2015 at 05:25


I find it interesting how dry ice is sold in so many places in the USA. Here in Canada I need to go to places like Air Liquide or Praxair (they have store fronts) but the dry ice is pretty pricey.



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[*] posted on 9-2-2015 at 06:40


Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket  
I find it interesting how dry ice is sold in so many places in the USA. Here in Canada I need to go to places like Air Liquide or Praxair (they have store fronts) but the dry ice is pretty pricey.


There is a fish market about right around the corner from my house where I can purchase dry ice, not to mention the grocery store, which is pretty much right behind my house.

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[*] posted on 10-2-2015 at 05:47


what about using fenton's reagent to oxidise the secondary alcohol ? is fenton's reagent more stronger than just H2O2 ?
Quote: Originally posted by turd  

Thiophene is more electron rich so you might have to do some optimization.

Even I was worrying about this.the acetylacetone method might be the only way to make the ketone,the B-keto ester method may not work,the ring being too electron rich for the methylene carbon to attack it:(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetoacetic_ester_synthesis#med...
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[*] posted on 10-2-2015 at 06:41


Fenton's reagent is aggressive and best saved for cleaning glassware/disposing of waste organics (BromicAcid has used it for this).

I see two potential routes to the desired compound (without thinking hard about it):
1) Metallation of thiophene and alkylation with propylene oxide. This should give the alcohol, which can be oxidised up using any suitable reagent (see the book I posted before).

2) Knoevanagel condensation of thiophene-2-carboxaldehyde with nitroethane to obtain the nitroalkene, which may be treated with Fe/HCl to afford the ketone. I'm aware of a similar transformation to obtain 1-naphthylacetone in the literature.

EDIT: Just realised route #1 was already suggested by Darkstar. Sorry about that.

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[*] posted on 10-2-2015 at 21:29


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Fenton's reagent is aggressive and best saved for cleaning glassware/disposing of waste organics

DFJ90,although I respect you a lot,I feel that is a very wrong thing to say.Its like saying petroleum should be only used as fuel and not for anything else
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1) Metallation of thiophene and alkylation with propylene oxide. This should give the alcohol, which can be oxidised up using any suitable reagent.

what about this?
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to make allylthiopene,treat 2-iodothiopene with Mg to make a grignard reagent and then react it with allylbromide to get allylthiopene
then do wacker oxidation to get your ketone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacker_process#Wacker.E2.80.93T...

allyl bromide is cheaper than propylene oxide and for the wacker,you will need ~1g of PdCl2 and it can be reused again.
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2) Knoevanagel condensation of thiophene-2-carboxaldehyde with nitroethane to obtain the nitroalkene, which may be treated with Fe/HCl to afford the ketone

this route is not helpful as the OP's starting compound is 2-iodothiophene

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[*] posted on 11-2-2015 at 00:08


Sure, Fenton's reagent probably has some synthetic use, but I've never seen anything just browsing the literature. Because it is reliant on he generation of *OH radicals anongside Fe(IV), it is a very aggresive oxidant as I mentioned.

Propylene oxide can be made from propylene glycol, which is piss cheap. Sure, it adds another step, but allyl bromide isn't exactly OTC either and would require two reactions to prepare.

As for thiophene-2-carboxaldehyde, it can be made via metallation (e.g. grignard formation) and reaction with DMF or N-methylformanilide (Bouveault aldehyde synthesis).
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[*] posted on 15-2-2015 at 06:25


Quote: Originally posted by DJF90  
Sure, Fenton's reagent probably has some synthetic use, but I've never seen anything just browsing the literature.

I am attaching some files ,enjoy;)
Quote: Originally posted by DJF90  

Propylene oxide can be made from propylene glycol, which is piss cheap.

how ?
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As for thiophene-2-carboxaldehyde, it can be made via metallation (e.g. grignard formation) and reaction with DMF or N-methylformanilide (Bouveault aldehyde synthesis).

now that's a beautiful reaction:)

but I think I have found a good reaction.No need of even iodothiopene,plain thiopene might work.this chemical is needed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese%28III%29_acetate
here is an electrochemical prep,from here
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hlca.201100105/ab...
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Electrochemical Preparation of Mn(OAc)3
Mn(OAc)3 ·2H2O was obtained in an optimized bipolar
packed-bed reactor by the electrochemical method described in [14]. However, to obtain Mn(OAc)3, this reactor was modified to a semi-pilot scale. Therefore, a reactor consisting of a glass tube (inner diameter,52 mm) having 40 rows of graphite rings inside was designed. Each horizontal row in the reactor had seven graphite rings which were 14 mm long, 16 mm in outer diameter, and 10 mm in inner diameter.
Each horizontal row was insulated from each other by placing a Teflon net with 1-mm thickness between the rows. Applying a potential to the reactor through two graphite rods, 10 cm in lenght and 6 mm in diameter, placed top and bottom of the reactor, Mn(OAc)2was oxidized to Mn(OAc)3by electrolysis.

For this, a soln. containing 100 mm Mn(OAc)2 and 400 mm AcONa was prepared from 95% AcOH. During
applying 180 V cell potential supplied by 500 V/1A dc power unit to the reactor, this colorless soln. was added to the reactor continuously with a dosage pump with 2.5 l/h flow rate. The red-brown soln. collected from the bottom of the reactor was recycled through the reactor under the same condition. The obtained soln. was kept in a closed glass container for 3 – 4 d, until Mn(OAc)3 completely precipitated,
and the color of the soln. disappeared. The red-brown precipitate was filtered through a sintered funnel (diameter, 120 mm) with porosity 4 and washed with glacial AcOH (2X100 ml) and than Et2O (2X100 ml). The obtained solid was dried under vacuum in a desiccator containing P2O5 for one week.
Yield: 120 g (90%)

or see this
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"commercially available dihydrate is easily prepared by the reaction of manganese(II)acetate with KMnO4 in acetic acid at reflux.the anhydrous form is prepared in acetic acid and acetic anhydride"


EDIT:
I forgot to attach the real pdf itself.:mad: ,the one with the Mn(OAc)4 reaction.but I see now that ionic liquids will be needed for the reaction.Is TEMPO a substitute for ionic liquids ?

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[*] posted on 15-2-2015 at 21:31


Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  

thank you,but these are the standard oxidising agents.


Like DJF90 already pointed out, you simply asked for "potential oxidizing agents." You made no specific mention about wanting a bunch of exotic or novel methods/reagents. Given the way the question was worded and your surprise when AvBaeyer claimed that secondary alcohols can be oxidized to ketones using hypochlorites under acidic conditions, I kind of got the impression that you weren't already familiar with the usual oxidizers. (which, admittedly, did seem a little strange, as many of your posts clearly demonstrate an understanding of chemistry more advanced than that of someone who would honestly need to ask)

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No one nowadays wants to work with chromium because its too toxic


You're telling me there's not a single person out there who's okay with using chromium oxidizers these days? Come on, man, it's hexavalent chromium, not dimethylmercury. It's not THAT toxic. Besides, when it comes to drug cooks -- and I stand by my assumption that the OP's question is cookery-related -- they usually seem far more concerned about whether or not the reagent actually works, and, if so, how easy it is to obtain. Toxicity rarely ever seems to be at the top of their list of concerns. If it were, they'd stop using aluminum amalgam for their imine and nitro group reductions since it involves toxic mercury(II) salts and generates elemental mercury waste.

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permaganate had been put on the schedule 2 list


Permanganates like KMnO4 and NaMnO4 are List II, not Schedule II. These are two very different lists from a legal standpoint (purchase, possession, manufacture etc). For example, acetic anhydride, acetone, KMnO4 and toluene are List II. Schedule II substances, however, are things like cocaine, d-methamphetamine, morphine, oxycodone and PCP, as well as precursors like phenylacetone and a couple for PCP. Compared to those substances, List II chemicals aren't even remotely "controlled" or difficult to obtain.

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MnO2 is generally suitable for allylic and benzylic hydroxyl groups and thiopenyl propan-2-ol is neither.


Activated MnO2 will oxidize saturated alcohols under neutral conditions. The reaction would take longer than with an allylic or benzylic alcohol, and the yields wouldn't be as great, but it would work.


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the H2O2/HCOOH method creates a mess


Who said anything about performic acid? If you tried to oxidize a secondary alcohol that way, you'd probably end up with an ester. Peroxy acids react with ketones via the Baeyer–Villiger oxidation.

What I was referring to is using aqueous H2O2 with a metal catalyst under phase-transfer conditions. This is one of the greenest, most environmentally-friendly oxidation methods there are. There's no mess, the work-up is extremely simple, the yields are very good, and the only byproduct is water.

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what about using fenton's reagent to oxidise the secondary alcohol ?


I haven't looked at all of the .pdf files you've attached yet (I've seen most of them judging by their titles anyway), but, as you probably know by now, Fenton’s reagent can indeed be used to oxidize secondary alcohols. With that said, if you haven't already done so, I highly recommend you look into Fe(III)-catalyzed H2O2 oxidations. FeBr3 seems to work well. The oxidations can be done under organic-solvent-free conditions at room temperature with high yields (like 90%+), and the reaction doesn't require a metal complex or phase-transfer catalyst. Check out that first .pdf you attached if you haven't already.




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[*] posted on 19-2-2015 at 03:31


Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  

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As for thiophene-2-carboxaldehyde, it can be made via metallation (e.g. grignard formation) and reaction with DMF or N-methylformanilide (Bouveault aldehyde synthesis).

now that's a beautiful reaction:)

It did not strike my mind then,but coming to think of it now,thiopene-2-aldehyde can be made by refluxing with CHCl3 and NaOH
on a side note,how would you synthesize this compound



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[*] posted on 19-2-2015 at 04:15


CuReUS, do us all a favour and get a decent structure drawing software. The free one of choice used to be ACD chemsketch, but more recently MarvinSketch by ChemAxon is in my experience much nicer to use. You can download the Marvin Beans software package at

http://www.chemaxon.com/download/marvin-suite/

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[*] posted on 20-2-2015 at 03:22


I have the ACD chemsketch,but the problem is if I upload the file,other people will not be able to see it because the file format is different
anyways,the compound that I have drawn can be clearly understood,so try to create,not complain:P
Is thiopene electron rich enough for a duff reaction ?
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[*] posted on 20-2-2015 at 04:25


Well, if you'd look carefully at your fine software, you'd see it has the capability to save chemical structures as *.gif, and *.png... in any event, you might be interested in US2543318.

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[*] posted on 21-2-2015 at 00:08


Thanks for the patent,but I don't see much difference in that and doing a duff reaction
for the latter,you use hexamine which you make from NH3 and HCHO and for the former,you react HCHO with an ammonium salt along with thiopene
so we can safely conclude that duff reaction can be used to formylate thiopene
I found this website for drawing structures,and it generates the image source code immediately,which can be copy-pasted here.The only problem is that the image formed is messed up:( .Does anyone know why ?so my compound appears like this(its an alpha-halo ketone)

http://www.webqc.org/moleculareditor.php

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