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Methyldiazonium is an organic compound consisting of a methyl group attached to a diazo group.This cation is the conjugate acid of diazomethane, with an estimated pK a <10. [1]It is an intermediate in methylation reactions of diazomethane with acidic hydroxyl compounds, such as conversion of carboxylic acids to methyl esters and phenols to methyl ethers.
In the presence of a reducing agent, loss of N 2 occurs to generate a DNA-cleaving fluorenyl radical. One biochemical process for diazo formation is the L -aspartate-nitro-succinate (ANS) pathway. It involves a sequence of enzyme-mediated redox reactions to generate nitrite by way of a nitrosuccinic acid intermediate.
In organic chemistry, an azo coupling is an reaction between a diazonium compound (R−N≡N +) and another aromatic compound that produces an azo compound (R−N=N−R’).In this electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction, the aryldiazonium cation is the electrophile, and the activated carbon (usually from an arene, which is called coupling agent), serves as a nucleophile.
Diazonium compounds or diazonium salts are a group of organic compounds sharing a common functional group [R−N + ≡N]X − where R can be any organic group, such as an alkyl or an aryl, and X is an inorganic or organic anion, such as a halide. The parent compound where R is hydrogen, is diazenylium.
The reaction process begins with diazotization of the amine by nitrous acid. The diazonium group is a good leaving group , forming nitrogen gas when displaced from the organic structure. This displacement can occur via a rearrangement (path A), in which one of the sigma bonds adjacent to the diazo group migrates.
If excess diazomethane is present during the reaction, it can act as a base, abstracting a hydrogen from the diazonium-salt intermediate. The result is a neutral diazoketone, which does not react with the chloride. Instead, the byproduct, diazonium-methyl from the other diazomethane molecule, can be attacked by the chloride to produce ...
The Sonogashira reaction is a cross-coupling reaction used in organic synthesis to form carbon–carbon bonds. It employs a palladium catalyst as well as copper co-catalyst to form a carbon–carbon bond between a terminal alkyne and an aryl or vinyl halide. [1]
Nitrosylation commonly occurs in the context of a metal (e.g. iron) or a thiol, leading to nitrosyl iron Fe−NO (e.g., in nitrosylated heme = nitrosylheme) or S-nitrosothiols (RSNOs). Nitrosation interprets the process as adding a nitrosonium ion NO +. Nitrosation commonly occurs with amines (– NH 2), leading to a nitrosamine.