Using Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution as an Alternate Sustainable Pathway to 4,5-Dihalogenated Phthalonitriles
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Abstract
The synthesis of highly desired phthalocyanine macrocycles is currently disadvantaged by the challenge of accessing the appropriate aromatic precursors. A class of starting compounds that have shown promise as pathways to phthalocyanines (Pcs) and subphthalocyanines (subPcs) are 4,5-dihalogenated phthalonitriles, which are difficult to source due to unselective and unsustainable synthetic pathways typically involving random chlorination. This research demonstrates and analyzes the use of the nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction (i.e., S N Ar reaction) for its facile and selective nature and offers a more sustainable synthetic pathway to 4,5-dihalogenated phthalonitriles compared to known industrial chlorination procedures. The synthesis of 4-bromo-5-nitrophthalonitrile (BNPN) was analyzed as a potential route for scale-up and then leveraged as a starting material to conduct S N Ar reactions to make the desired 4,5-dihalogenated phthalonitriles. Specifically, the S N Ar reaction was used to synthesize 4,5-dichlorophthalonitrile and 4,5-difluorophthalonitrile. Here, we show that the proposed pathway has improved sustainable sourcing of raw materials, achieved a 12% overall yield for the 6-step process (a 7% increase from the industrial 5-step method), and is safer and more time efficient. While further research on industrial scalability and purification must be conducted, and we will upcoming, this pathway offers potential for sustainably synthesizing desired peripherally phthalocyanine precursors.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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