Hydrochloric Acid → Benzonitrile, 4,4'-thiobis-

Participants

Reaction Steps

Concentrated hydrochloric acid (45 ml) and ice were added to 21.7 g of 4,4'-thiodianiline to which, with ice-cooling, was subsequently added dropwise 50 ml of aqueous solution of 15.2 g sodium nitrite spending 30 minutes. Five minutes thereafter, the reaction mixture was neutralized with sodium carbonate and added dropwise to 250 ml of ice-cooled water-benzene (3:2) solution containing 22.4 g of copper (I) cyanide and 38.2 g of potassium cyanide. The reaction mixture was stirred for 2 hours while ice-cooling and then mixed with ethyl acetate to remove insoluble materials by filtration. The resulting organic layer was washed with saturated sodium chloride aqueous solution and dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate. The solvent was evaporated under a reduced pressure, and the resulting residue was subjected to silica gel chromatography and to obtain 11.7 g of bis(4-cyanophenyl) sulfide from fractions of chloroform elution.

Provenance & Evidence