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Aniline
IUPAC name[hide]
Phenylamine
Other names[hide]
Aminobenzene
Benzenamine
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Identifiers
62-53-3
5889
SIR7XX2F1K
DB06728
C00292
CHEBI:17296
CHEMBL538
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Properties
C6H5NH2
93.13 g/mol
colorless to yellow liquid
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Solubility in water
Basicity (pKb)
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Std enthalpy of
combustion cHo298
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temperature
2
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0
70 C; 158 F; 343 K
770 C; 1,420 F; 1,040 K
Related compounds
Related aromatic
1-Naphthylamine
amines
2-Naphthylamine
Phenylhydrazine
Related compounds Nitrosobenzene
Nitrobenzene
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n, r, etc.
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Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in
their standard state (at 25 C (77 F), 100 kPa)
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odor of rotten fish. It ignites readily, burning with a smoky flame characteristic of aromatic
compounds.
Contents
1 Production
o 1.1 Related aniline derivatives
2 Reactions
o 2.1 Oxidation
o 2.2 Electrophilic reactions at carbon
o 2.3 Reactions at nitrogen
2.3.1 Basicity
2.3.2 Acylation
2.3.3 N-Alkylation
2.3.5 Diazotization
3 Uses
4 History
o 4.1 Synthetic dye industry
o 4.2 Developments in medicine
o 4.3 Rocket Fuel
6 References
7 External links
Production
Aniline is mainly produced in industry in two steps from benzene. First, benzene is nitrated
using a concentrated mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid at 50 to 60 C, which gives
nitrobenzene. In the second step, the nitrobenzene is hydrogenated, typically at 200300 C
in presence of various metal catalysts:
Originally, the reduction was effected with a mixture of ferrous chloride and iron metal via
the Bechamp reduction.
As an alternative, aniline is also prepared from phenol and ammonia, the phenol being
derived from the cumene process.[1]
In commerce, three brands of aniline are distinguished: aniline oil for blue, which is pure
aniline; aniline oil for red, a mixture of equimolecular quantities of aniline and ortho- and
para-toluidines; and aniline oil for safranine, which contains aniline and ortho-toluidine, and
is obtained from the distillate (chapps) of the fuchsine fusion.[citation needed]
Reactions
The chemistry of aniline is rich because the compound has been cheaply available for many
years. Below are some classes of its reactions.
Oxidation
The oxidation of aniline has been heavily investigated, and can result in reactions localized at
nitrogen or more commonly results in the formation of new C-N bonds. In alkaline solution,
azobenzene results, whereas arsenic acid produces the violet-coloring matter violaniline.
Chromic acid converts it into quinone, whereas chlorates, in the presence of certain metallic
salts (especially of vanadium), give aniline black. Hydrochloric acid and potassium chlorate
give chloranil. Potassium permanganate in neutral solution oxidizes it to nitrobenzene, in
alkaline solution to azobenzene, ammonia and oxalic acid, in acid solution to aniline black.
Hypochlorous acid gives 4-aminophenol and para-amino diphenylamine. Oxidation with
persulfate affords a variety of polyanilines compounds. These polymers exhibit rich redox
and acid-base properties.
Reactions at nitrogen
Basicity
Aniline is a weak base. Aromatic amines such as aniline are, in general, much weaker bases
than aliphatic amines because of the electron-withdrawing effect of the phenyl group. Aniline
reacts with strong acids to form anilinium (or phenylammonium) ion (C6H5-NH3+).[2]
Although aniline is weakly basic, it precipitates zinc, aluminium, and ferric salts, and, on
warming, expels ammonia from its salts. The weak basicity is due to both an inductive effect
from the more electronegative sp2 carbon and to a resonance effect, as the lone pair on the
nitrogen is partially delocalized into the pi system of the benzene ring.
Acylation
Aniline reacts with carboxylic acids[3] or more readily with acyl chlorides such as acetyl
chloride to give amides. The amides formed from aniline are sometimes called anilides, for
example CH3-CO-NH-C6H5 is acetanilide. Antifebrin (acetanilide), an anti-pyretic and
analgesic,[4] is obtained by the reaction of acetic acid and aniline.
N-Alkylation
N-Methylation of aniline with methanol at elevated temperatures over acid catalysts gives Nmethylaniline and dimethylaniline:
C6H5NH2 + 2 CH3OH C6H5N(CH3)2 + 2H2O
N-Methylaniline and dimethylaniline are colorless liquids with boiling points of 193195 C
and 192 C, respectively. These derivatives are of importance in the color industry. Aniline
combines directly with alkyl iodides to form secondary and tertiary amines.
Other reactions
It reacts with nitrobenzene to produce phenazine in the Wohl-Aue reaction. Hydrogenation
gives cyclohexylamine.
Being a standard reagent in laboratories, aniline is used for many niche reactions. Its acetate
is used in the Aniline acetate test for carbohydrates, identifying pentoses by conversion to
furfural. It is used to stain neural RNA blue in the Nissl stain.[citation needed]
Uses
The largest application of aniline is for the preparation of methylene dianiline and related
compounds by condensation with formaldehyde as discussed above). The diamines are
condensed with phosgene to give Methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, a precursor to urethane
polymers.[1] Other uses include rubber processing chemicals (9%), herbicides (2%), and dyes
and pigments (2%).[5] As additives to rubber, aniline derivatives such as phenylenediamines
and diphenylamine, are antioxidants. Illustrative of the drugs prepared from aniline is
paracetamol (acetaminophen, Tylenol). The principal use of aniline in the dye industry is as a
precursor to indigo, the blue of blue jeans.[1]
Aniline is also used at a smaller scale in the production of the intrinsically conducting
polymer polyaniline.
History
Aniline was first isolated by destructive distillation of indigo by Otto Unverdorben,[6] who
named it Crystallin. In 1834, Friedlieb Runge isolated from coal tar a substance that turned a
beautiful blue color when treated with chloride of lime, and he named it kyanol or cyanol.[7]
In 1840, Carl Julius Fritzsche (18081871) treated indigo with caustic potash and obtained an
oil that he named aniline, after an indigo-yielding plant, Ail (Indigofera suffruticosa).[8][9] In
1842, Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin reduced nitrobenzene and obtained a base that he named
benzidam.[10] In 1843, August Wilhelm von Hofmann showed that all of these substances are
the same substance thereafter known as phenylamine or aniline.[11]
Developments in medicine
In the late 19th century, aniline emerged as an analgesic drug, its cardiac-suppressive side
effects countered with caffeine.[15] During the first decade of the 20th century, while trying to
modify synthetic dyes to treat African sleeping sickness, Paul Ehrlich who had coined the
term chemotherapy for his magic bullet approach to medicine failed and switched to
modifying Bchamp's atoxyl, the first organic arsenical drug, and serendipitously obtained a
treatment for syphilis salvarsan the first successful chemotherapy agent. Salvarsan's
targeted microorganism, not yet recognized as a bacterium, was still thought to be a parasite,
and medical bacteriologists, believing that bacteria were not susceptible to the
chemotherapeutic approach, overlooked Alexander Fleming's report in 1928 on the effects of
penicillin.[16]
In 1932, Bayer sought medical applications of its dyes. Gerhard Domagk identified as an
antibacterial a red azo dye, introduced in 1935 as the first antibacterial drug, prontosil, soon
found at Pasteur Institute to be a prodrug degraded in vivo into sulfanilamide a colorless
intermediate for many, highly colorfast azo dyes already with an expired patent,
synthesized in 1908 in Vienna by the researcher Paul Gelmo for his doctoral research.[16] By
the 1940s, over 500 related sulfa drugs were produced.[16] Medications in high demand during
World War II (193945), these first miracle drugs, chemotherapy of wide effectiveness,
propelled the American pharmaceutics industry.[17] In 1939, at Oxford University, seeking an
alternative to sulfa drugs, Howard Florey developed Fleming's penicillin into the first
systemic antibiotic drug, penicillin G. (Gramicidin, developed by Ren Dubos at Rockefeller
Institute in 1939, was the first antibiotic, yet its toxicity restricted it to topical use.) After
World War II, Cornelius P. Rhoads introduced the chemotherapeutic approach to cancer
treatment.[18]
Rocket Fuel
In the 1940's and early 1950's, aniline was used with nitric acid as rocket fuel for small
missiles and jet assisted take-off (JATO). The two fuel components are hypergolic, producing
a violent reaction on contact.[19]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public
domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopdia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge
University Press
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Wadsworth, ISBN 0-534-16218-5
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4. Jump up ^ No longer in common medicinal use.
5. Jump up ^ "Aniline". The Chemical Market Reporter. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
6. Jump up ^ Otto Unverdorben (1826). "Ueber das Verhalten der organischen Krper
in hheren Temperaturen" [On the behaviour of organic substances at high
temperatures]. Annalen der Physik und Chemie 8 (11): 397410.
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from the oxide containing the lowest proportion of oxygen to metal; e.g., in the case
of iron, which has two oxides iron (II) oxide (FeO) and iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3)
FeO is the "protoxide" from which protosalts can be made. See: Wiktionary:
protosalt.)
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Chemical Society, Thursday, May 16, 1861." The Chemical News and Journal of
Industrial Science. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
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May;2(17):137-9, p 138.
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19. Jump up ^ "Hypergolic propellant", Wikipedia
20. Jump up ^ Muir, GD (ed.) 1971, Hazards in the Chemical Laboratory, The Royal
Institute of Chemistry, London.
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22. Jump up ^ Basic Analytical Toxicology (1995), R. J. Flanagan, S. S. Brown, F. A. de
Wolff, R. A. Braithwaite, B. Widdop: World Health Organization
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