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United States Patent 0 1 3,667,923 United States Patent 0 ice Patented June 6, 1972 1 2 ‘I have discovered that anhydrous hydrogen cyanide $667,923 reacts readily with a quaternary ammonium borohydride PREPARATION OF LITHIUM, SODIUM AND and with the borohydrides of lithium and sodium at QUATERNARY AMMONIUM CYANOBORO atmospheric pressure in solvents for the borohydride, such HYDRIDES Robert C. Wade, Ipswich, Mass, assignor to Ventron as glyme, diglyme, triglyme, tetrahydrofuran and dimethyl Corporation, Beverly, Mass. formamide, or mixtures of these at a temperatures be No Drawing. Filed June 16, 1969, Ser. No. 833,722 tween 0° and the boiling point of the solvent to form Int. Cl. C01c 3/08; C01!) 35/00 the corresponding cyanoborohydride. The preferred sol US. Cl. 23-358 4 Claims vents are tetrahydrofuran and glyme because of their 10 convenient boiling points. Potassium borohydride does not react readily with ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE hydrogen cyanide in tetrahydrofuran or glyme presum The invention relates to the preparation of lithium, ably because of its lack of solubility in these solvents. sodium and quaternary ammonium cyanoborohydrides. However, it reacts with hydrogen cyanide in dimethyl These compounds are prepared by mixing substantially formamide similarly to the other borohydrides mentioned anhydrous hydrogen cyanide with a substantially an above. hydrous lithium or sodium or quaternary ammonium The reaction of the process of the invention appears to borohydride at a temperature between 0° C. and 100° C. take place in two stages. Thus, if the reaction mixture is in a substantially anhydrous solvent, such as tetrahydro initially maintained between about 10° and about 35° C. furan, glyme, diglyme, triglyme or dimethyl formamide until hydrogen ceases to be evolved, an intermediate prod or mixtures of these at atmospheric pressure. If desired, uct is formed which is hydrolyzed by water or weak aque to avoid loss of hydrogen cyanide, a pressure of from ous acid solutions. In the second stage, the reaction mix about 1 to 5 pounds per square inch may be used. Pref ture is heated at least to between 35° C. and the boiling erably, the preparation is carried out in two stages (1) point of the solvent until the intermediate product has initially at a temperature between about 10° to about 25 been converted to the desired cyanoborohydride corre 35° C. until substantially all hydrogen has ceased to be sponding to the initial borohydride reactant selected. The evolved and (2) then at a temperature between about 35° ?nal product is stable in water and aqueous acids to a C. and the boiling point of the solvent until all the inter pH of about 3. mediate products have been converted to the desired If temperatures higher than about 35° C. are used cyanoborohydride. 30 in the ?rst stage of the reaction, some hydrogen cyanide is lost by evaporation and is swept out of the reaction zone by the evolving hydrogen. Loss of hydrogen cyanide This invention relates to the preparation of lithium, can be overcome by applying a slight pressure of about sodium and quaternary ammonium cyanoborohydrides. 1 to 5 pounds per square inch to the system, but this is The synthesis of lithium cyanoborohydride was re 35 not necessary when operating in the preferred tempera ported by G. Wittig and P. Ra? in Annalan 573, pages ture range in the ?rst stage of the reaction. Since all the 202, 209 (1951). They reacted an excess of hydrocyanic hydrogen cyanide has been reacted during the ?rst stage, acid with lithium borohydride in diethyl ether at 100° C. none can be lost during the second stage which is carried and 500 p.s.i. pressure. out between 35° C. and the RP. of the solvent. All of the starting reactants and solvents should be as anhydrous as possible because water, in the presence of They found that this product reacted with dioxane to even weak acid, such as hydrocyanic acid, can cause hy form a bis-dioxanate, LiBH3CN~2C4H8O2. Upon vacuum drolysis of the starting borohydride and intermediate drying this product one mole of dioxane is removed to products. The ?nal product, cyanoborohydride, does not give, LlBHgCN‘CqHgOz. 45 hydrolyze under these conditions however. As far as I am aware, there is no publication describing The products of these reactions all are more soluble in the preparation of the other alkali metal or quaternary the reaction solvent than the starting borohydride and are ammonium cyanoborohydrides. These probably could soluble in water. Furthermore, they are highly solvated. not be prepared by the Wittig et al. method because of 50 These solutions are useful for many applications, such as the insolubility of NaBI-I, and KBH, in ether. Neither organic reductions. Excess solvents can be removed by are there any references in the literature of the products solvent evaporation to yield solid products containing from NaBH3CN, KBH3CN or RéNBHaCN or their ether com almost none of the solvent to up to 1 mole of the solvent plexes that I am aware of. per mole of the cyanoborohydride. The lithium and so The Jackson and Miller United States Pat. No. 2,992, 55 dium cyanoborohydrides may be precipitated from the 885 describes processes and products which are adducts starting solvents by the addition of dioxane to form white of diborane and metal salts, such as NaCN as indicated crystalline solid precipitates. When vacuum dried these by the formula: crystals contain 1 to 2 moles of dioxane per mole of cyano borohydride depending on the time, temperature and vac uum under which drying takes place. The dioxanates are also described. 60 Any quarternary ammonium borohydride may be used The United States patent to Miller, No. 3,018,160, de in the practice of the invention. By way of illustration I scribes compounds represented by the formula: may mention tetramethyl, tetraethyl, tetrapropyl, tetra isopropyl, tetrabutyl, butyltrimethyl, phenyl trimethyl, benzyltrimethyl, (2-cyclohexyl)-tri-methyl, allyltrimethyl, such as NaBHBSCN and the glycol dimethyl etherate 65 (Z-chloroethyl) trimethyl, 2-hydroxybutyl-trimethyl, (2— adduct of LiBHSSCN and the glycol dimethyl etherate ethoxypropyl trimethyl, alpha-amino-p-tolyltrimethyl, (3 adduct of LiBH3SCN. These products are made by the cyanopropyl trimethyl, (2-carboxyethyl) trimethyl, amyl addition of diborane to the metal thiocyanate in tetra dimethyl-phenyl, Cetyl trimethyl and tricapryl methyl am hydrofuran, glyme, dimethyl ether, etc. 70 monium borohydrides. The products of these two patents are distinctly dif The invention is illustrated further by the following ferent from those obtained by the present invention. speci?c examples. 3,667,923 3 4 EXAMPLE I EXAMPLE w A 1 liter ?ask was set up with a dropping funnel, ther 2.2 grams of LiBH4 (0.1 mole) was dissolved and dis mometer and re?ux condenser. A gas line led from the top persed in 100 ml. tetrahydrofuran. 2.7 g. (0.1 mole) HCN of the re?ux condenser to a caustic scrubber and then to was added dropwise over a period of 10 minutes to this a wet test meter. Stirring was accomplished by a magnetic mixture. Temperature of reaction was 23—28° C. 2.38 stirring device. Temperature of the reaction flask was con liters of hydrogen were evolved; theoretically, 2.2 liters. trolled by a water bath. The product was isolated by evaporating off most of the The ?ask was charged with 225 ml. of tetrahydrofuran tetrahydrofuran, then adding dioxane to give a white crystalline precipitate, which was dried for 30 minutes at and 33.8 g. NaBH4 (0.89 mole). 24 grams of liquid HCN 10 (0.89 mole) cooled to 10° C. was placed in the dropping 100° C. This product was found to be primarily funnel. This was added dropwise to the NafBH4-tetrahydro ‘ 2C4Hg02 furan slurry over the course of about 1 hour and 10 min utes. The reaction immediately began to evolve hydrogen the bisdioxanate complex of LiBHBCN. and the temperature increased from 19° to 23° C. The re 15 action temperature was controlled from 20°-27° C. by EXAMPLE V adding ice to the water bath. A total of 20.5 liters of Hg 17.4 g. (0.12 mole) of tetraethyl ammonium borohy was evolved. Theoretically, there should be 19.9 liters dride was dispersed in 100 ml. tetrahydnofuran. To this evolved. Only 0.37 gram of NaCN was found in the mixture was added 0.12 mole (3.14 g.) of liquid HCN caustic trap. When the reaction was complete, THF was 20 dropwise over a period of 20 minutes. Temperature of evaporated at 62° C. under a vacuum of l-5 mm. During the reaction was 23-28° C. A total of 2.8 liters of hydro this drying sequence, rearrangement of the initial reaction gen were evolved during this slow reaction over a period products to the sodium cyanoborohydride took place. of 2.5 hours during which time the temperature was in Analysis of this product showed hydridic hydrogen=4.0%; creased to 40° C. Theoretically, H2 evolution is 2.7 liters. theoretically, =4.8%. This corresponds to about 83.5% 25 This product was isolated by evaporating off the tetrahy pure NaBH3CN. This product was very soluble in water. drofnran at 60-65 ° C. and under a vacuum of 1-5 mm. Hg. Aqueous solutions of this product are reducing agents for Likewise, the cyanoborohydrides were prepared from cetyl organic carbonyl compounds and metallic salts such as trimethyl ammonium borohydride and tricaprylmethyl copper, nickel, cobalt, silver, etc. These solutions are stable ammonium borohydride in tetrahydrofuran. Tetramethyl to a pH of about 3. In contrast, sodium borohydride de 30 ammonium cyanoborohydride was prepared from tetra composes at a pH below about 9.
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