US3185725A - Preparation of 2, 6-dichlorobenzonitrile - Google Patents

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US3185725A
US3185725A US24916A US2491660A US3185725A US 3185725 A US3185725 A US 3185725A US 24916 A US24916 A US 24916A US 2491660 A US2491660 A US 2491660A US 3185725 A US3185725 A US 3185725A
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  • the invention relates to a process for the production of 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile, characterized in that Z-amino- 6-chlorobenzonitrile is converted into 2,6-dichlorobenzoni-trile in manners known for this type of conversion or manners analogous thereto.
  • the 2-amino-6- chlorobenzonitrile is prepared from 2-chloro-6-nitrobenzonitrile in manners known for this type of reaction or manners analogous thereto.
  • the invention relates to a process for the production of 2-6- dichlorobenzonitrile in which 2,3-dichloronitrobenzene is converted into 2-chloro-fi-nitrobenzonitrile which is converted into Q-amino-6-chlorobenzonitrile and this compound into 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile, performing these reactions in manners known for this type of reaction or manners analogous thereto.
  • the reaction temperature in the conversion of the diazonium compound into 2,6-dichlorozonitrile was chosen between 20 and C.; within this range, the temperature turned out to have little influence on the yield.
  • This conversion is carried out in a mineral acid-containing aqueous medium.
  • a non-water-miscible organic solvent may be added to the reaction mixture, the solvent preferably being satisfactory for the 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile formed in the reaction, such as aromatic hydrocarbons, for example benzene and toluene. So in this manner a system is used which consists of two non-miscible liquids. By using such an organic solvent, the yield and the purity of 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile are improved.
  • the purification of the resulting Y2,6-dichlorobenzoni trile may be carried out in various manners, for example by crystallization from solvents, for example alcohols, such as methanol, and aromatic hydrocarbons, such as benzene. Better methods are distillations with or without the use of steam.
  • Table I shows the results of a number of examples, the performance of which was analogous to that of Example 1.
  • Example 1 (a) Diazotazion of 2-amin0-6-chlorobenzonitrile.-To a mixture of 152 gr. (1.0 g. mol) of powdery 2-amino- 6-chlorobenzonitrile, 1000 cm. of concentrated hydrochloric acid (S.G. 1.19) and 10 drops of a dispersion agent (polyoxyethylenesorbitol ester of a fatty acid) was added a cold solution (temperature 05 C.) of 70 g. (1.0 g. mol) of sodium nitrite in 250 cm. of water at 05 C. and while stirring. Then the mixture was stirred for another about 30 minutes at about 5 C. A little unchanged Z-amino 6 chlorobenzonitrile was removed by filtration. The diazonium compound S-chloro- 2-cyanobenzenediazonium chloride was not isolated for the following process.
  • a dispersion agent polyoxyethylenesorbitol ester of a fatty acid
  • the reduction with iron and concentrated hydrochloric acid is preferably carried out at a temperature between 20 and-80 C.
  • the reaction of 2,3-dichloronitrobenzene with said cyanides may be carried out in various manners. Applicant has found that a suitable method is that in which the 2,3-dichloronitrobenzene is heated with cuprous-cyanide or a mixture of cuprocyanide and an alkali metal cyanide and in particular that in which a tertiary nitrogenous base is present.
  • the reaction temperature is preferably chosen between and 240 C. and in particular between and 200 C.
  • Suitable tertiary nitrogenous bases are: pyridine or pyridines substituted by alkyl groups, for example collidine, pico-lines or lutidines, and further quinoline. Pyridine is to be preferred.
  • the quantity of tertiary base is chosen so that less than approx. 0.5 mol and preferably 0.05-03 mol is used per mol of 2,B-dichloronitrobenzene.
  • cup-rous-cyanide is used as cyanide, preferably equimolar quantities with respect to 2,3-dichloronitrobenzene are used. The use of larger quantities does not give any improvements of the yields of 2-chloro-6-nitrobenzonitrile, calculated on 2,3-dichlorobenzonitrile.
  • Cuprous-cyanide may advantageously be replaced partially (to approx. 70 mol percent) by an alkali cyanide, preferably by sodium cyanide or potassium cyanide.
  • Example 18 The process is illustrated with reference to the Example 18 to be described below and the examples summarized in Table III which were carried out in a manner analogous to that of Example 18.
  • Example 18 Preparati0n of 2-chl0ro-6-nitr0benzonitrile 960 g, (5 g. mol) of 2,3-dichloronitrobenzene were heated at C. A mixture of 447 g. of cuprouscyanide and 50 cm. of pyridine was added portion-wise, while stirring, and within 3.5 hours. During the addition and 30 minutes after the addition, the temperature of the reaction mixture was maintained between 165 and C. The reaction is exothermal. The reaction mixture was poured into 2.5 l. of hot chloroform. The insoluble copper salts form a coarse-granular precipitate after some minutes. This was filtered off, powdered and extracted with benzene.
  • the resulting extract was mixed with the chloroform solution, then the whole was washed twice with 250 cm. of concentrated hydrochloric acid (S.G. 1.19) and three times with 500 cm? of water, and then evaporated.
  • the residue (865 g.) was extracted five times with 500 cm. of petroleum ether (boiling range 40- 60 C.).
  • the non-petroleum ether soluble 2-chloro-6- nitrobenzonitrile "had a weight of 681 g. (75% Melting point: 117-119 C.

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