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Patented Feb. 11, 1947 2,415,786 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE UNSYMMETRICALLY SUBSTITUTED PPERAZINES Johannes S. Buck, East Greenbush, and Richard Baltzly, New York, N. Y., assignors to Bur roughs Welcome & Co. (U. S. A.) Inc., New York, N.Y., a corporation of New York No Drawing. Application January 6, 1944, serial No. 517,224 9 Claims. (C. 260-268) 2 This invention relates to N-monosubstituted According to the present invention, these diffi and N-N'-unsymmetrically disubstituted piper culties are overcome by treating piperazine with azines and has for an object to provide new com a halide of benzyl or of a substituted benzyl to positions of the above type and a novel and im form a reaction mixture containing, in addition proved method of making the same. to unreacted piperazine and di-N-N'- Substituted Another object is to provide a method of mak piperazine, a substantial amount of N-mono sub ing and isolating the above substances which is stituted piperazine separating the mono-N-sub Suitable for commercial Operation. stituted piperazine from the unreacted piperazine In our copending application Serial No. 476,914, and the disubstituted piperazine, introducing the filed February 24, 1943, of which the present ap O desired substituent on to the second N' nitrogen plication is a continuation in part and in our atom of the mono-N-substituted piperazine, then Copending application Serial No. 517,225, filed removing the benzyl or substituted benzyl group January 6, 1944, which is also a continuation in by catalytic hydrogenation. part, We have described certain methods for mak As catalysts for this hydrogenation, platinum, ing and isolating substituted piperazines of the palladium and nickel are all suitable, but We pre type fer in general to use palladium since, while CEI-CI equally or perhaps more effective in removing a benzyl group, it is practically devoid of any N /N-R tendency to reduce aromatic rings. CH-CH 20 The term benzyl derivatives as used in the where R is an aralkyl, or a higher alkyl, and R' present specification and claims, includes the is either hydrogen or a second radical different halogen derivatives such as p-chlorobenzyl and from R. organic derivatives such as anisyl The present invention refers to a new and dif ferent process for making any of the above com 25 pounds, which new process can also be used for 4-phenyl-benzyl or alpha-menaphthyl (alpha the production of numerous mono-N-substituted naphthyl-methyl). and unsymmetrically N,N'-disubstituted piper The method according to the present invention azines, many of which are not obtainable at all permits the preparation of numerous mono by any of the processes described in our above 30 alkyl, mono-acyl and other monosubstituted mentioned copending applications, nor by any piperazines with a very high yield. of the methods known in the art. A particular advantages of the process accord The main difficulty involved in preparing mono ing to the invention is that it is possible to obtain Substituted piperazines, from which unsym monosubstituted piperazines of the type metrically disubstituted derivatives can also be 35 CH-CH2 obtained, resides in the isolation of the substance H-N NR from the unreacted piperazine and the disubsti / tuted piperazine which are present and which CH-CH in many cases have similar boiling points. in which R" is a radical, such as a lower alkyl Amines are extremely hard to separate by frac 40 having less than 8 carbon atoms, which when in tional distillation unless their boiling points are troduced into unreacted piperazine will not pro Widely separated. Furthermore, the classical duce a separable mixture of mono- and di methods of separating secondary from tertiary substituted compounds, or a radical Such as an amines are of no avail in this case, since a mono acyl, an aryl sulfonyl or a substituted aryl Sul substituted piperazine reacts as both a secondary 45 fonyl, which will produce such separable mixtures and a tertiary amine. Even where a mixture con only under certain conditions, or a radical of taining mono- and symmetrically disubstituted relatively small inherent stability such as piperazines of widely different boiling points or acyloxyalkyl, hydroxyphenaikyl, carbamido, Sub Solubilities is formed, the separation of the mono stituted carbamido and carbamidino. Substituted compounds from the disubstituted 50 From the mono-N substituted piperazines ob reaction products and the unreacted piperazine tained in this manner, unsymmetrically disub is frequently difficult or even impossible if the stituted piperazines of any desired type may be stability of the introduced substituent is insuff obtained by introducing on to the first N nitrogen cient to Withstand the conventional separation atom made available by the preceding catalytic methods such as fractional distillation. SS hydrogenation, the desired substituent which is 2,415,786 3 4 different from the substituent present in the (equals alpha naphthyl-methyl) piperazine was monosubstituted compound but may be selected Separated as in Example i. from the Same group. Subsequently the monosubstituted compound Thus, it is possible to produce unsymmetrically was reacted with butyl chloride to yield N-alpha N-R, N'-R'-disubstituted piperazines where R. naphthyl-methylene-N'-butyl piperazine hydro represents a radical selected from the group con chloride. On addition of 1 equivalent of hydro sisting of the lower alkyls having less than 8 chloric acid and removal of the alpha-menaph carbon atoms, acyl, aryl sulfonyl, substituted thyl group by catalytic hydrogenation, mono-N'- aryl sulfonyl, acyloxyalkyl and hydroxyphenialkyl butyl piperazine dihydrochloride was crystallized and R' represents a radical Selected from the 10 from alcohol ether. group consisting of the lower alkyls having less than 8 carbon atoms, acyl, aryl Sulfonyl, Substi Eacample 5 tuted aryl sulfonyl, acyloxyalkyl, phenacyl, sub Anisyl chloride (CH3O C6H4CH2C1) (1 mol) stituted phenacyl, hydroxyphen alkyl, carbamido, (from anisyl alcohol (CH3OC6H4CH2OH) and hy substituted carbamido, thiocarbamido, substi 15 drogen chloride) was reacted with piperazine (1. tuted thiocarbamido and carbamidino. mol) in absolute alcohol solution. The bulk of The following examples may serve to illustrate, the dianisyl piperazine formed as a by-product without limiting the invention. Separated towards the end of the reaction as its Eacample 1 dihydrochloride and was filtered off. The solvent was evaporated from the filtrate, the residue Piperazine hexahydrate was dissolved in ab 20 diluted with water, basified and the anisyl piper Solute ethanol and benzyl chloride added with azine extracted with ether. The Small amount stirring. After standing overnight the alcohol of impurities remaining was separated by vac was distilled off and the residue partitioned be uum distillation. tween ether and sodium hydroxide solution, The 25 The mono-N-anisyl piperazine so produced was greater part of the unreacted piperazine re reacted in benzene with p-nitrobenzoyl chloride. mained in the aqueous layer. The ethereal layer The resulting compound, N-anisyl-N'-p-nitro was dried over K2CO3 and distilled in vacuo to benzoyl piperazine hydrochloride separated and separate pure monobenzyl piperazine from the was recrystallized from alcohol. On drastic cat dibenzylpiperazine. 30 alytic hydrogenation in alcoholic solution at room The monobenzyl piperazine was methylated by temperature With a platinum catalyst, first the the procedure of Clarke, Gillespie and Weiss nitro group was reduced to an amino group and hauss (J. Amber. Chem. Soc., 55, 4571 (1933)), thereafter the anisyl group was split off to yield and the product, after liberation of the base was the mono-N'-p-amino-benzoyl piperazine dihy treated with benzoyl chloride to remove any 35 drochloride. monobenzyl piperazine that had remained un Eacample 6 reacted. Basic material Was again liberated with Fourteen parts by weight of mono-N-benzy pi alkali and distilled in vacuo. The product, N perazine (Example 1) were reacted in alcoholic benzyl-N'-methyl piperazine, was crystallized as Solution With five parts by weight of ethylene the dihydrochloride from absolute alcohol-ether 40 oxide yielding 17 parts of crude N-benzyl-N'- mixture and this dihydrochloride was hydrogen hydroxyethyl piperazine. This was then ben ated catalytically in glacial acetic acid with the ZOylated by the Schotten Baumann method and aid of palladized-charcoal. After filtration from the product purified by crystallization as the di the catalyst and evaporation of the solution in hydrochloride. This material, N-benzyl-N'-ben vacuo, the product, mono-N-methyl piperazine 45 zoyloxyethyl piperazine dihydrochloride was hy dihydrochloride was crystallized from methanol drogenated with hydrogen and palladized char ether. coal in 80% acetic acid solution yielding toluene Eacample 2 and mono-N'-benzoyloxyethyl piperazine dihy Piperazine hexahydrate was treated in abso drochloride. lute alcohol with p-chlorobenzyl chloride and the Eacample 7 mono-N-p-chlorobenzylpiperazine was separated Mono-N-p-chlorobenzyl piperazine as ob from the unreacted piperazine and from disub tained according to Example 2, was treated with stituted piperazine by fractional distillation. a slight excess of phenacyl bromide to yield N-p- The mono-p-chloro-benzyl piperazine was re chloro-benzyl-N'-phenacyl piperazine. This was acted with ethyl bromide to yield N-p-chloro catalytically hydrogenated to mono-N'-(beta benzyl-N'-ethyl piperazine hydrobromide. An phenyl-beta-hydroxyethyl) piperazine. other equivalent of hydrobromic acid was added to give the dihydrobromide and this product was Eacample 8 catalytically hydrogenated. After filtration from Anisyl chloride (CH3O C6H4 CH2Cl (1 mol) the catalyst and evaporation of the solution in 60 (from anisy alcohol (CH3OC6H4CH2OH) and hy vacuo, mono-N'-ethyl piperazine dihydrobromide drogen chloride) was reacted with piperazine (1 was crystallized from alcohol ether. mol) in absolute alcohol solution. The bulk of the dianisyl piperazine formed as a by-product Eacample 3 separated towards the end of the reaction as its 85 dihydrochloride and was filtered off.