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Al/NiCl2*6H2O: OTC hydride-like reactivity
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040402001...
Among the properties: reductive amination, reduces anhydrides to aldehydes, reduces sulfoxides to sulfides in presence of ketones, nitriles to amines, nitroolefins to carbonyls (Nef reaction), aromatic aldehydes in presence of aliphatic aldehydes; halides and unactivated alkenes are unaffected.
The abstract claims that aliphatic nitro groups are not affected by the reagent (which can be useful, but reducing them isn't bad either) but no
examples involving aliphatic nitro compounds are given.
Et2O is used instead of THF in some examples and gives a similar yield. DMF and chloroform perform albeit poorly. Other ethereal solvents probably
work. Alcohols work, but strangely, giving e.g. the reduction of benzaldehyde to benzyl ethers.
And I don't really have a point but I was going to save this anyway, so, yeah.
| Quote: | | To a freshly mixed solid mixture of aluminium powder (10 mmol) and nickel chloride hexahydrate (15 mmol) is added a solution of the substrate (0.3
mmol) in freshly distilled THF. A vigorous exothermic reaction takes place after a few seconds which subsides after 10 minutes. When TLC of the
reaction mixture showed disappearance of the starting material the reaction mixture is diluted with THF (100 ml) and filtered. Evaporation of the
filtrate gave the reduced products which are purified further by chromatography. |
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Hello, very very interesting info !
I think it works the same way as Al/Cu or even Al/Hg.
I wonder wheter this system will reduce nitrostyrene efficiently. The good point is it seems to work well on simple nitro reduction.
Need a try !
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That definitely looks useful! No exotic chems needed and it has good yields for a wide variety of reactions.
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I wonder if that could reduce esters. I've got lots of methyl salicylate, and would love some salicaldehyde.
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You can't reduce the ester directly, but you can reduce it to salicylaldehyde by converting to the anhydride with acetic anhydride, if we assume the
reduction of anhydrides generalizes to mixed anhydrides (which seems likely). There will be some over-reduction to salicyl alcohol, but e.g. phthalic
anhydride gave 60% of phthalaldehyde and 20% of phthalyl alcohol, with the mixed alcohol-aldehyde apparently a minor constituent.
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You can't reduce the ester directly, but you can reduce it to salicylaldehyde by converting to the anhydride with acetic anhydride, if we assume the
reduction of anhydrides generalizes to mixed anhydrides (which seems likely). There will be some over-reduction to salicyl alcohol, but e.g. phthalic
anhydride gave 60% of phthalaldehyde and 20% of phthalyl alcohol, with the mixed alcohol-aldehyde apparently a minor constituent.
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Surely the reaction of methyl salicylate with acetic anhydride would result in acetylation at the phenolic oxygen?
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Yes; you would need to first form the Na salicylate or similar by hydrolysis, or start from aspirin which is likely much better in this case. Sorry, I
hadn't had my coffee.
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Wow! Thanks for sharing! I am always trying to save a buck. Does anyone have the full text?
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Fulltext is attached at the bottom of the OP.
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I see it now. Thanks.
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Better use NaBH4 + NiCl.6H2O in methanol. Nickel Boride formed in situ is as powerful as LiALH4, with more selectivity.
See the papers i posted below:
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Definitely looks good! When I have time I'll try it with methanol and nitrobenzene.
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That sounds brilliant! It's sort of reminiscent of the nucleophilic hydrides in NaBH4 compared to the basic ones of NaH.
Nice stuff!
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Did anyone try this? Is NiCl2 even soluble in THF?
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This seems like it would produce some really high-activity nickel (nanoparticles? nanoporous foam?) as the aluminum reduced the nickel chloride. I'm
somewhat surprised that it works with the hexahydrate, though I guess the hydrogen for reductions has to come from somewhere. Pretty neat, though I
would love to know more about the mechanistic details in this system...
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I'd say the actual catalyst-reagent is just a low activity nickel microparticles, thus stochiometric amount is usually required. Some stabilization
agent might provide access to high activity nickel nanoparticles.
Anyway, high activity raney nickel is much more active than a usual Urushibara catalyst (it's an accepted name of the Al-NiCl2 stuff), while very fine
nanoparticles have reactivity similar to raney, but usually nanoparticles cannot be reused.
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This seems to be what Urubashi catalyst is. And as far as I have heard, it doesn't reliably reduce nitrostyrenes.
It would be very nice to hear of any success reports.
Any alternative solvents known?
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The Japanese papers claim that the reagent converts nitroolefins to carbonyl compounds. In this case it appears the reaction proceeds by reducing a
nitroolefin to a nitronate followed by hydrolysis of the same.
The reaction is not an imitation of Urushibara nickel or other nickel-based hydrogenation catalysts; it clearly happens differently. In particular
urushibara catalysts will not selectively yield aldehydes.
If Urushibara nickel does have similar activity to this catalyst, I would expect the reduction of nitroolefins to yield alcohols via reduction of the
carbonyl formed by the Nef reaction. Since alcohols are usually undesirable this would explain why Urushibara nickel has a bad reputation in this
reduction.
One particular application of the reductant mentioned in the original paper is the reduction of phthalic anhydride to phthalaldehyde, which can then
be chlorinated to phthaloyl chloride, a reagent capable of some interesting transformations (in one embodiment converts N-isopropylisobutyramide to
1,1,4-trimethyl-2-chloro-3-aza-2-pentene).
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Al/Cu? I haven't heard of that one, is its function similar to Al/Hg? I couldn't find any references to it anywhere.
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See the thread on Al/Cu here
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One thing you forgot to mention is that Ni2B is a catalyst, not a reducing agent. It therefore doesn't make sense to compare it to this
system, which comprises stoichiometric nickel, because NiCl2 + NaBH4 can be used with catalytic loading using isopropanol as the
terminal electron donor. This is a huge improvement in both cost and work-up, but it's also a completely different reaction, and doesn't
really belong in this thread. I wish you'd posted this on its own.
In fact the best preparation might use anhydrous NiCl2 and NaBH4 to precipitate a black powder. Ammonium formate/MeOH is an effective hydrogen donor.
Isopropanol has been reported to work alone:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aic.690120220/ful...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_boride#Catalytic_hydrog...
http://chemistry.mdma.ch/hiveboard/novel/000380497.html
https://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/nitrile2ami...
The reduction of oximes with Raney Ni/2-propanol has been reported, but I haven't heard of a similar prep using nickel boride. Nonetheless, theory
indicates it works.
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Funny, the wikipedia link you posted says that Ni2B is a catalyst and also a reducing agent at the same time.
Actually, the reductive power of the mix Ni++ and BH4- is derivated from the nascent atomic hydrogen generated in situ from the reaction and not from
the Ni2B. Experiences showed that after 30 minutes the Ni2B precipitaded from the reaction didn't have a half of the reducing power expected.
You can read this on the papers i brought before, that i posted here, in this thread, cause I think Al/NiCl2 technique is surpassed and represents the
old school way, in terms of costs and yields, since the use of transition metal borohydride in reductive synthesis has it's use increased a lot in the
last decade by the pharmaceutical industries.
At least, it's the direction given by the academic books.
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Most metals are reducing agents. I'm not sure what your point is. Sodium borohydride (alone) is acceptable for a lot of this stuff but this
thread is about people who don't have borohydrides, which are relatively difficult to make.
Also I think it's pretty unlikely you're going to get some of the transformations noted above with borohydrides, particularly the conversion of
anhydrides to aldehydes, which can become a conversion of acids to aldehydes if you have acetyl chloride handy. Stronger isn't always better.
| Quote: | | Funny, the wikipedia link you posted says that Ni2B is a catalyst and also a reducing agent at the same time. |
| Quote: | | Ni2B is an efficient catalyst and reducing agent. It is used as a heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst. |
Is this one of those cases where I'm arguing with someone who's *really* bad at understanding how meaning derives from context, or do you just
intentionally misinterpret things in ways that you think might make you sound intelligent? Do you see *any* examples using Ni2B as a reducing agent on
its own?
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That reactivity looks good, but I'm concerned about the massive excess of reducing agent used to effect the transformations. Could this be scaled
down? Nickel salts aren't cheap!
Also, do you know anything about the mechanism? The aluminum and nickel chloride used are in a ratio which will go stoichiometrically to aluminum
chloride and nickel metal, which seems suggestive but I'm not sure of what.
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| Quote: Originally posted by clearly_not_atara | Most metals are reducing agents. I'm not sure what your point is. Sodium borohydride (alone) is acceptable for a lot of this stuff but this
thread is about people who don't have borohydrides, which are relatively difficult to make.
Also I think it's pretty unlikely you're going to get some of the transformations noted above with borohydrides, particularly the conversion of
anhydrides to aldehydes, which can become a conversion of acids to aldehydes if you have acetyl chloride handy. Stronger isn't always better.
| Quote: | | Funny, the wikipedia link you posted says that Ni2B is a catalyst and also a reducing agent at the same time. |
| Quote: | | Ni2B is an efficient catalyst and reducing agent. It is used as a heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst. |
Is this one of those cases where I'm arguing with someone who's *really* bad at understanding how meaning derives from context, or do you just
intentionally misinterpret things in ways that you think might make you sound intelligent? Do you see *any* examples using Ni2B as a reducing agent on
its own?
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you'd better be more polite with other members at this forum. I don't understand why you are offending me. I don't want to be cleaver than no one. I
just bring new knowledge to the chemistry community and just point the techniques I judge obsoletes.
If you think i commit any transgression, claims for a moderator.
Borohydrides are sold by Aldrich to anyone at anywhere in this world, cause they're not forbidden, they're only watched, even if you live at USA.
People that don't have acess to borohydrides are unknowed for me.
Urushibara nickel and al/nicl2 are surpassed techniques and i think it's my duty bring this knowledge to the chemistry community, here at
sciencemadness.
I don't care if you think Al/NiCl2 and NaBH4/NiCl2 envolves distincts mechanisms, cause i'm worried with the results, not with it's an eletrophilic,
nucleophilic, or sn1 or sn2 reaction. I'm a practical researcher, not a theorist.
For me this theory it's a pure sheet, although i'm graduate in chemistry. What's important for me it's the pratical results and the yields, cause
sciencemadness is a forum where people are looking for results, for recipes, not about the beautiful theories you enjoy to learn.
you seems like a professor I had, that's only worried with the chemistry theory, but incapable of building a chemistry production plant.
I don't matter if people are making drugs with this knowledgment, or if they're killing or poisoning himselves dealing with chemicals withouth the
apropriate care.
I'm interesting in discuss the newer techniques to sinthesise new pharmacologic drugs and I will give my opppinion and bring new papers and studies
anywhere at this forum where i think it's necessary, whatever you think about.
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