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Review

Preparation of Tyrian Purple (6,6′-Dibromoindigo): Past and Present

Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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Molecules 2010, 15(8), 5473-5508; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules15085473
Submission received: 18 June 2010 / Revised: 29 July 2010 / Accepted: 2 August 2010 / Published: 10 August 2010

Abstract

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Over the past century, various synthetic approaches have been suggested to the most famous dye of antiquity, Tyrian purple (6,6′-dibromoindigo). These synthetic routes have been exhaustively surveyed and critically evaluated from the perspective of convenience, cost, safety and yield.

1. Introduction

6,6′-Dibromoindigo (1; see Scheme 1) is the chemical structure of the major component of Tyrian purple, the most famous dye of antiquity [1,2]. From ancient times the dye has been produced from secretions of various species of snails found off the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. Due to the minute amounts of dye found in the snails, the dye has always been very costly. Paul Friedländer, who in 1909 first identified the structure of the dye as 6,6′-dibromoindigo, required 12,000 Murex brandaris snails to produce 1.4 g of pure pigment [3]. Over the past century a variety of groups have undertaken to develop rational syntheses of this historic dye. Their efforts are surveyed and critically evaluated herein from the perspective of convenience, cost, safety and yield. Several possible improvements are also proposed.

2. Preparation Tyrian Purple from 4-Bromo-2-nitrobenzaldehyde

2.1. The original synthesis and its elaborations

Nearly all known syntheses of 6,6′-dibromoindigo (1) are based on the oxidative coupling of a 6‑bromoindole derivative, which is usually generated in situ. Thus, the first synthesis of 1, reported in 1903 by Sachs and Kempf [4] (Scheme 1), was based on the Claisen condensation of 4-bromo-2-nitrobenzaldehyde (8) with acetone, in analogy to the Baeyer-Drewsen process for the manufacture of indigo [5,6].
The substituted benzaldehyde 8 was prepared, in five steps starting from 2,4-dinitrotoluene (2), in an overall yield of about 34% [4,7,8]. Under the reaction conditions, the hydroxyketone 9 spontaneously cyclizes and undergoes oxidative coupling, but it could be isolated using trisodium phosphate instead of NaOH in the Claisen condensation [8]. Interestingly, the yield of dibromoindigo in the final step was not reported.
This original Sachs and Kempf route is clearly inconvenient, due to the lengthy preparation of the bromonitrobenzaldehyde 8. Subsequent syntheses were accordingly based on shorter methods for the preparation of this aldehyde. Thus, van der Lee prepared 8 in 4 steps from p-toluidine (10) [9] (Scheme 2). In the latter procedure, 10 is nitrated in concentrated sulfuric acid to give 4-amino-2-nitrotoluene (11) or its sulfate [10,11,12,13,14,15,], which is then diazotized and converted to 4-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (12) in a Sandmeyer reaction or one of its variants [9,11,12,16,17,18,19,20,21]. The substituted toluene is then condensed with amyl nitrite [22,23] to give the oxime 13. The latter is then oxidatively cleaved with ferric ammonium sulfate to give the desired aldehyde 8.
This synthesis of 2 is indeed shorter, but at the expense of rather low yields. A modest improvement was achieved via a related scheme by Rottig [24], who used ethyl instead of amyl nitrite for the conversion of toluene 12 to oxime 13. Benzaldehyde 8 was subsequently condensed with acetone in the usual way to give dibromoindigo 1. However, despite these improvements, the reported overall yield of 1 based on the starting toluidine was only 5.5% [24].
An additional drawback of the above scheme is that even the modest yields of the benzaldehyde 8 obtained by reaction of 12 with alkyl nitrites could not be reproduced by later workers. As an alternative to this reaction, Barber and Stickings [25] found that oxidation of 12 with chromic acid in the presence of acetic anhydride was a more reliable method, although the yields were hardly better. The latter method had previously been used to prepare o-nitrobenzaldehyde from o-nitrotoluene in two steps through the corresponding Diacetate [26,27,28,29]. The chromic acid oxidation of 12 was subsequently used by Pinkney and Chalmers [30] and by Torimoto and coworkers [31] in their syntheses of Tyrian purple, and also by Keinan and coworkers [32]. Recently, the procedure of Pinkney and Chalmers was improved by Imming and coworkers [33], who achieved an overall 10% yield of 1 from 10 (Scheme 3).
The final condensation of the benzaldehyde 8 with acetone in all these reported syntheses consistently gives yields of no more than about 50% [34]. In 1950, Harley-Mason [35], following the earlier work of Thiele [36], reported that the sodium salt of 2-nitro-1-o-nitrophenylethyl alcohol (18), obtained by the nitro-aldol condensation (Henry Reaction) of o-nitrobenzaldehyde (16) with nitromethane (17), gives a 90% yield of indigo (19) when treated with alkaline sodium dithionite solution (Scheme 4).
This procedure was later used by Voss and Gerlach [37] and by Cooksey [38], who obtained 66% and 69% yields, respectively, of 1 from the benzaldehyde 8. However, Imming and coworkers reported [33,39] that, for producing dibromoindigo 1 on a large scale, this procedure was not as practical as the original Baeyer-Drewsen indigo procedure [5,6].

2.2. Alternative preparations of 4-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (12)

All the foregoing syntheses of Tyrian purple rely on 4-bromo-2-nitrobenzaldehyde (8) as the key intermediate, which is prepared via 4-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (12), which is obtained in turn by diazotization of 4-amino-2-nitrotoluene (11) or its sulfate (14). While the Sandmeyer reaction gives good yields, it is rather cumbersome and comparatively expensive, as is the immediate precursor 11. It is, therefore, reasonable to consider alternative syntheses of 12; in particular, a one-step preparation from a cheap starting material. The oldest of these consists of nitration of 4-bromotoluene (20) [13,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48]. This reaction, however, usually gives a 5:4 mixture of isomeric bromonitrotoluenes 12 and 21, accompanied by variable amounts of side products, depending on the conditions of the nitration (Scheme 5). Nevertheless, Keinan and coworkers have reported a 90% yield of 12 by performing the nitration with 100% nitric acid in a mixture of acetic acid and 98% sulfuric acid (Scheme 5) [32].
A third method for the preparation of 12 consists of brominating o-nitrotoluene (22) [31,38,49,50,51,52,53,54]. The conventional bromination procedure using catalysis by iron [55] gives here again an isomeric mixture of 12 and 6-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (23). Notwithstanding the report by Torimoto and coworkers [31] of a 78% crude yield of 12, Cooksey [38] confirmed that a 5:4 mixture of 12 and 23 is obtained, from which only a 19% yield of pure 12 could be obtained (by fractional recrystallization from ethanol). More recently, Otake and coworkers [54] have reported that bromination with bromine in the presence of a large amount of a Na-X type zeolite catalyst, without solvent, gives an 80% yield of 12 containing only 0.2% of 23. When carried out in ethyl acetate as a solvent, the product contained a 99:1 ratio of 12 to 23 (Scheme 6).

2.3. Alternative preparations of 4-bromo-2-nitrobenzaldehyde (8)

As we have noted, conversion of the bromonitrotoluene 12 to the corresponding benzaldehyde 8 is plagued with inconvenient reactions or low yields. In general the oxidation of toluenes to benzaldehydes is an important industrial process for which a universally optimal procedure has not yet been found. Regarding our case, we note that in their original synthesis of Tyrian purple (Scheme 1), Sachs and Kempf [7] reported a 70% two-step conversion of 2,4-dintrotoluene (2) to 2,4-dinitro-benzaldehyde (5), by condensing p-nitrosodimethylaniline (3), followed by acidic hydrolysis of the intermediate nitrone 4 (substantially lower yields were later reported in an Organic Synthesis procedure based on this method [56]). The Sachs procedure is amenable only to the oxidation of toluenes substituted with at least two strongly electron-withdrawing groups in the ortho- and para- positions [57]. In a variation of this procedure, Barrow and coworkers [58,59] succeeded in preparing a number of aldehydes from the corresponding benzyl halides and aromatic nitroso compounds such as 3. Nevertheless, Barber and Stickings [25] were unable to prepare 8 by reaction of 12 with bromine and 3.
However, a more versatile procedure was developed by Kröhnke and coworkers [60,61,62,63,64], who found that conversion of the alkyl bromide group first to its pyridinium salt facilitates subsequent reaction with the aromatic nitroso compound to give the nitrone. An application of the Kröhnke method by Clarke [65] gave several substituted o-nitrobenzaldehydes in high overall yields from the respective toluenes. This application has served for a Organic Synthesis procedure by Kalir [66] for the preparation of o-nitrobenzaldehyde (16) in a 47-53% overall yield, and as the basis of a synthesis of 8 by Danieli and coworkers [67]. Cooksey [38] likewise reported a 55% overall yield of 8 using the Kröhnke procedure starting from 12 as part of his complete synthesis of 1 (Scheme 7). Although the Kröhnke procedure involves four steps for converting the substituted toluene to the respective benzaldehyde, it is relatively convenient. Indeed, the only step with a long reaction time is the benzylic bromination of the bromonitrotoluene 12.
Two additional methods of converting o-nitro-substituted toluenes to the corresponding benzaldehydes are also worth mentioning, although they have not been specifically applied to the synthesis of 8. These methods start with the first steps of the Reissert [68,69] and Batcho-Leimgruber [70,71,72,73] indole syntheses, respectively. In the first method, the toluene is condensed with diethyl oxalate (27), and the enolate anion of the resulting phenylpyruvate ester (28) is acetylated and oxidized [74] (Scheme 8). The potassium ethoxide solution needed for the condensation can be prepared by treating an alcoholic potassium hydroxide solution with calcium oxide, thus obviating the need for using metallic potassium [75].
In the second method, the toluene is condensed with dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal (31) and the resulting β-aminostyrene is then oxidized, either catalytically with oxygen [76] or stoichiometrically with sodium periodate [77]. The latter procedure was recently reported to give a nearly quantitative yield of 4-chloro-2-nitrobenzaldehyde (33) from 4-chloro-2-nitrotoluene (30) [78] (Scheme 9). Both of the indole syntheses mentioned above have been applied to the preparation of 6-bromoindole, as seen below.
A completely different approach to substituted benzaldehydes, which does not proceed from the corresponding toluenes, has been developed by Beech [79]. In this synthesis, a diazotized aniline is treated with a solution of formaldoxime in the presence of copper sulfate and sodium sulfite. The intermediate benzaldoxime is then cleaved with ferric ammonium sulfate to give the free benzaldehyde. The Beech method has been applied to the synthesis of a number of substituted benzaldehydes [79,80], including those containing an ortho nitro group [81,82,83,]. In particular, it was used by Dandegaonker [84] to prepare 8 in 34% yield from 4-bromo-2-nitroaniline (34) (Scheme 10).
The starting bromonitroaniline 34 has been prepared by a number of methods, but the most popular are 1) nitration of p-bromoaniline or its derivatives [50,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94], and 2) bromination of o-nitroaniline or its derivatives, usually with bromine in acetic acid [95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107]. Here, too, each of these methods has its shortcomings. Nitration of p-bromoacetanilide (37) has been reported in some cases to give 4,6-dibromo-2-nitroacetanilide in variable yields [89,101]. In addition, p-bromoacetanilide is not cheap and the nitration method amounts essentially to a three step synthesis starting from acetanilide (36), or a four step synthesis from aniline (35) [93] (Scheme 11).
Bromination of o-nitroaniline can likewise lead to formation of the dibrominated product [98, 102,103,104,107], unless less than one equivalent of bromine is used [106]. However, newer, milder synthetic reagents have made the bromination of o-nitroaniline (39) an attractive route to the required bromonitroaniline 34. Among these, the most convenient appears to be hydrobromic acid with hydrogen peroxide (Scheme 12) [108,109,110,111]. Other reagents include tetrabromocyclohexadienone [112,113], N-bromosuccinimide [114,115,116], and bromine supported on an ion-exchange resin [117].
Another novel method for the preparation of 8 has been reported by Voss and Gerlach [37]. In their procedure, p-dibromobenzene is nitrated to give 2,5-dibromonitrobenzene. Lithiation at the 2-position with phenyl- or butyllithium, followed by carbonylation of the lithium derivative with dimethylformamide, furnishes 8 in yields of up to 92% in a one-pot synthesis. Condensation with nitromethane then affords 1 as mentioned above (Scheme 13). This three-step approach to Tyrian purple from p-dibromobenzene is indeed very attractive, particularly in light of the high overall yield; nevertheless, subsequent researchers report difficulty with the lithiation step and could not reproduce the published yield [38,118].

3. Preparation of Tyrian Purple from 4-Bromo-2-aminobenzoic Acid or Its Derivatives

3.1. Friedländer synthesis of Tyrian purple

In their original studies on Tyrian purple and related compounds, Friedländer and coworkers [3,11,12] reported a new synthesis of 1 from 4-bromo-2-aminobenzoic acid (43). In this procedure, aminobenzoic acid 43 is treated with chloroacetic acid (45) [119] yielding the carboxyphenylglycine derivative 46, which is cyclized in turn to the corresponding diacetylindoxyl 48. The latter is subsequently hydrolyzed and oxidized in air to give 1 (Scheme 14).
The Friedländer method closely follows the Bayer process for the production of indigo (19) from anthranilic acid (44) [120], in which the disodium salt of (2-carboxyphenyl)glycine (47) is cyclized to diacetylindoxyl (49) in acetic anhydride instead of being subjected to alkali fusion, as in the earlier BASF process [121].
The major drawback of the Friedländer method is the expense of the starting bromoanthranilic acid 43. This compound had previously been prepared by Claus and Scheulen [88] from 4-bromo-2-nitroaniline (34, from nitration of 39) by diazotization and conversion to the nitrile 50, hydrolysis to the acid 51 and reduction with zinc chloride (Scheme 15).
Friedländer and coworkers reported two alternative syntheses of 43. In the first, 4-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (12, obtained from 10) is reduced to the aniline 52, followed by acetylation, oxidation and hydrolysis (Scheme 16) [3,11,12].
In the second, 2,4-dinitrobenzoic acid (55, prepared from 2,4-dinitrotoluene (2), presumably by oxidation with chromic acid [122] is partially reduced to 4-amino-2-nitrobenzoic acid (56) [123]. The latter is then converted by a Sandmeyer reaction to the bromonitrobenzoic acid 57 and then reduced with zinc and hydrochloric acid, yielding 43 (Scheme 17) [12,124].
The procedures presented above have not been used subsequently to prepare Tyrian purple, but the individual reactions have been used for synthesis of the precursors 43 [50,125,126,127,128,129], 46 [125,129,130,131,132] and 48 [130,131,132].

3.2. Alternative syntheses of 4-bromo-2-aminobenzoic acid (43) and its derivatives

As noted above, the major drawback to the Friedländer synthesis of 1 is its lengthy preparation of 4-bromo-2-aminobenzoic acid (43). For this reason, Imming and coworkers have remarked that this approach is only of “historical interest” [33]. Nevertheless, a shorter route to this compound or its phenylglycine derivative 46 would indeed make it an attractive alternative to the other syntheses reviewed above.
The first alternative to the multistep syntheses of 43 described above was reported by Waldmann (Scheme 18) [133].
In this procedure, sodium phthalate (59) (derived from phthalic anhydride, 58) is brominated in aqueous solution to give 4-bromophthalic acid (60). The diacid closes to the corresponding anhydride 61 upon distillation, and the latter gives the corresponding imide 62 upon heating with urea. Subsequent Hofmann degradation, analogous to the production of anthranilic acid from phthalimide [134], then gives a product which was identified as 4-bromoanthranilic acid (43).
At first glance, the Waldmann procedure seems attractive since the starting material and reagents are all inexpensive and most of the reactions proceed with high yields. Yields of up to 90% of 4-bromophthalic acid (60) from bromination of phthalic acid have been reported [135], and conversion of 60 to the anhydride 61 has been reported in nearly quantitative yields [136]. Today 61 is an industrial compound which is readily available in high purity [137,138,139].
The problem with the Waldmann procedure, however, is that the Hofmann reaction of substituted phthalimides is not regioselective. Thus, for example, reaction of 4-chlorophthalimide (63) gives a product containing up to 25% of 5-chloroanthranilic acid (66), in addition to the 4-substituted main product 64 (Scheme 19) [140]. Although use of benzonitrile as a solvent was reported to give improved selectivity in the synthesis of other substituted anthranilic acids from the corresponding phthalimides, complete selectivity has not been achieved [141]. It is, therefore, to be expected that the Waldmann procedure would give significant amounts of 5-bromoanthranilic acid (65) along with the desired acid 43.
An alternative synthesis of 4-bromoanthranilic acid 43 is reported in a recent patent [142] and consists of the Ullmann condensation [143,144] of 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67) with ammonia catalyzed by cuprous oxide [145] (Scheme 20). This procedure parallels the older synthesis of 4-chloroanthranilic acid (64) from 2,4-dichlorobenzoic acid (68) and ammonia [146], but as reported [142], requires considerably milder reaction conditions than for the chloro analogue.
The 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67) required in this procedure is usually prepared via the hydrolysis of 2,4-dibromobenzonitrile (71) [147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156] or by the oxidation of 2,4-dibromotoluene (45) [157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167]. Unfortunately, neither of these methods is particularly attractive. The nitrile 71 is almost always made from 2,4-dibromoaniline (70) by a Sandmeyer reaction [147,148,150,151,152,153,154], which amounts essentially to a lengthy synthesis starting from acetanilide (36) [151,152,153] (Scheme 21). An alternative preparation of 71 based on bromination of 4-bromo-2-nitrobenzonitrile (50) with calcium bromide [168] does not appear any more efficient, inasmuch as 50 can itself be converted in two steps to 4-bromoanthranilic acid (43), as discussed above (Scheme 15).
2,4-Dibromotoluene (75) is also a potential precursor for 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67). The former is usually prepared by multistep procedures [157,159,160,161,162,163,164,167,169,170,171], [for example, from 4-nitrotoluene (72) [160,164,170] (Scheme 22)], since direct bromination of 4-bromotoluene (20) ordinarily gives an 7:1 mixture of 75 and 3,4-dibromotoluene (76) [158,160] (Scheme 23).
Dibromination of toluene (77) catalyzed by ethyl ether has likewise been reported to give a mixture of 2,4- and 2,5-dibromotoluene (75 and 78, respectively) [172] (Scheme 24).
One patent does report a 70% yield of dibromide 75 from the bromination of toluene (77) in carbon tetrachloride in the dark [173]. This is somewhat surprising, however, since bromination of 77 under similar conditions leads to 100% benzylic bromination, although the addition of K10-montmorillonite clay suppresses benzylic bromination yielding a 2:1 mixture of 4- and 2-bromotoluene (20 and 80, respectively) [174] (Scheme 25).
The most efficient method reported for production of 75, to our knowledge, uses bromine fluoride [175,176]. Dibromination of 77 with this reagent gave a reported 80% yield of the desired product [175] (Scheme 26). However, the hazards and cost of the elemental fluorine needed in preparing the reagent make this method rather unappealing.
A more promising route to 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid consists of the oxidation of 2′,4′-dibromoacetophenone (82) [142,177,178]. The latter compound is readily available through Friedel-Crafts acetylation of 1,3-dibromobenzene (81)[177,179,180] (Scheme 27), as well as of the less expensive 1,4-dibromobenzene (40) (Scheme 28).
Not unexpectedly, there are also literature reports indicating that the products of the acetylation of 1,4-dibromobenzene (40) are 4′-bromoacetophenone [181] and 2′,5′-dibromoacetophenone [177,182,183,184,185]. However, that the main product is the desired 82 is plausible, given that 40 is rapidly transformed in the presence of the free Lewis acid catalyst to a mixture of isomers in which 81 predominates [186,187,188,189,]. This isomerization reaction is, in fact, the basis for an industrial process for the manufacture of 81 [190,191,192]. Troyanov and Dibinskaya [178] found that no dibromoacetophenone was formed when 40 was treated with a solution of the preformed acetylating complex, AlCl3∙CH3COCl, without excess aluminum chloride (the Perrier method [194,195]), and thus concluded that the isomerization takes place under the usual reaction conditions in which excess aluminum chloride is present.
The oxidation of the acetophenone 82 to the benzoic acid 67 has usually been performed by basic permanganate. Other potentially attractive methods for this transformation include the haloform reaction [196,197,198,199,200] and catalytic oxidation with molecular oxygen [201,202,203,204,205]. Catalytic processes developed specifically for oxidation of substituted toluenes with oxygen [166,206,207,208,209,210,211] might also be considered.
The Ullmann condensation, mentioned above (Scheme 20), has also been used to prepare analogues of N-(5-bromo-2-carboxyphenyl)glycine (46) directly by reaction of o-halo substituted benzoic acids with glycine (85). Thus, N-(2-carboxyphenyl)glycine (86) was prepared long ago by condensation of 85 with salts of 2-chlorobenzoic acid (83) or 2-bromobenzoic acid (84) [212,213,214,215], and N-(5-chloro-2-carboxyphenyl)glycine (87) has been reported recently as the condensation product of 85 with of 2,4-dichlorobenzoic acid (68) [216,217,218] (Scheme 29). No specific example for the corresponding reaction of 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67) with glycine is reported, but condensations of 67 with phenoxide [150] and with aniline [219] are known.
Condensations of 4-bromo-2-chlorobenzoic acid (90) with aniline [220] and with p-anisidine [221] have likewise been reported to give products in which the ortho chlorine atom is replaced by the amino nucleophile. All known preparative syntheses of acid 90 are based on the oxidation of 4-bromo-2-chlorotoluene (89) [221,222,223,224]. This, in turn, has been made by multistep procedures, either from 4-amino-2-nitrotoluene (11) (Scheme 30) [222,223] or from p-nitrotoluene (72) in a fashion analogous to the synthesis of the dibromotoluene 75 above (Scheme31)[225,226].
The chlorination of 4-bromotoluene (20), like the bromination, is not completely stereospecific and gives a 7:1 mixture of 4-bromo-2-chlorotoluene (89) and the 4-bromo-3-chloro analog (93) [223,227] (Scheme 32).
Judging by the literature reports [220,221] on the condensations of 90, it seems plausible that condensation of 90 with glycine would furnish the phenylglycine 46. However, that the ortho chlorine ring atom is indeed replaced needs corroboration, inasmuch as recent kinetic studies indicate that the para bromine ring atom is more prone to displacement than the ortho chlorine [228,229].

4. Other Syntheses

4.1. From 6,6′-diaminoindigo

In 1914 Grandmougin and Seyder reported a synthesis of Tyrian purple by the Sandmeyer reaction of 6,6′-diaminoindigo (101) [230]. This is the only known synthesis of 1 in which the bromine atoms are introduced into a previously existing indigo skeleton. The requisite diaminoindigo 101 was prepared by reduction of 6,6′-dinitroindigo (100) [231,232] which, in turn, was prepared by way of (2-carboxy-5-nitrophenyl)glycine (98) and 1,3-diacetyl-6-nitroindoxyl (99), starting from 2-amino-4-nitrotoluene (94) [10,233,234,235] (Scheme 33). A shorter alternative synthesis of the intermediate dinitroindigo 100 had previously been reported by Friedländer and Cohn, who prepared it by condensation of 2,4-dinitrobenzaldehyde (5) with acetone. [236] (Scheme 34).
Whichever way the intermediate dinitroindigo (100) is made, this method nevertheless appears rather lengthy. The procedure of Grandmougin and Seyder could possibly be shortened by preparing the phenylglycine 98 by Ullmann condensation of 2-chloro-4-nitrobenzoic acid (103) with glycine (86). This reaction is not known in the literature; however, the analogous reaction of 86 with the isomeric 2-chloro-5-nitrobenzoic acid (104) to give [N-(2-carboxy-4-nitrophenyl)]glycine (105) followed by conversion of the latter to 1,3-diacetyl-5-nitroindoxyl (106) - is reported [237] (Scheme 35). Even so, the final reaction steps with the sparingly soluble indigo derivatives appear rather cumbersome, and in any case the yield of 1 was not reported.

4.2. Dibromoindigo (1) from indoles

A novel synthesis of 1, in which the bromine atom is introduced directly into a previously complete indole ring system, was reported in 1930 by Majima and Kotake [238]. In their synthesis, the Grignard reagent derived from indole [239,240] (107) is treated with ethyl chloroformate and the resulting indole-3-carboxylate 108 is brominated. Saponification of the product 6-bromoindole-3-carboxylate (109), followed by oxidation with ozonized air, furnished Tyrian purple (Scheme 36).
This synthesis would indeed be an attractive route to Tyrian purple (1) were it not for the fact that both the Grignard carboxylation and bromination reactions are not regioselective. Thus, both earlier and later reports indicate that only the ring nitrogen atom undergoes metalation [241,242]. In a more recent reinvestigation of the carboxylation of indole (107) with carbon dioxide, approximately equal amounts of 1-carboxyindole (111) and 3-carboxyindole (112) were obtained [243] (Scheme 37).
Moreover, it has also been shown that bromination of 108 followed by decarboxylation gives in fact a 45:55 mixture of 5-bromoindole (113) and 6-bromoindole (114)[244] (Scheme 38).

4.3. Dibromoindigo (1) from 6-bromoindole

A synthesis of 1 starting from 6-bromoindole (114), and based on the biosynthetic pathway of indigo, has recently been published by Tanoue and coworkers [245]. In this procedure, 6-bromoindole (114) was iodinated regioselectively, giving 6-bromo-3-iodoindole (115). Nucleophilic substitution of the latter with silver acetate gave 3-acetoxy-6-bromoindole (116), hydrolysis of which then gave Tyrian purple (1) in 43% overall yield (Scheme 39).
In terms of simplicity and convenience, this is, indeed, an attractive synthesis. However, the cost of the reagents, particularly the starting material, makes it very expensive route. 6-Bromoindole (114) is almost invariably made from 4-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (12), either by the Reissert indole synthesis [68,69] or by the Batcho-Leimgruber procedure [70,71,72,73]. In the Reissert synthesis, 12 is condensed with diethyl oxalate (27) and the resulting (4-bromo-2-nitrophenyl)pyruvic acid [52,53,54] (117) is reduced to give 6-bromo-2-indolecarboxylic acid [52,53] (118), which is then decarboxylated [53, 246,247,248,249,250,251,252] (Scheme 40). While both the initial condensation and the final decarboxylation steps have been reported to give good to excellent yields, the reductive cyclization is less efficient and overall yields of the indole 114 are only moderate. Recent enhancements of the Reissert synthesis, such as the use of hydrogenation over platinum and palladium catalysts for the reduction [253], and the use of microwave thermolysis for the decarboxylation [254], have not been applied to the synthesis of 114.
The Batcho-Leimgruber synthesis has more recently become the preferred method for preparing 114. In this procedure, the starting nitrotoluene 12 is condensed with dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal (31), usually with an added equivalent of pyrrolidine (88) (or with tripiperidinomethane alone [21]), to give the substituted aminostyrene 89. This is then reduced, affording the desired 6-bromoindole (81) (Scheme 41) [21,255,256,257,258,259,260,261,262,263,264,265,266]. While a variety of reducing agents have been used for the second step, buffered aqueous titanous chloride appears to be the most efficient, and overall yields of up to 77% have been reported [257,263]. It is recommended that the reduction step be monitored carefully in order to avoid overreduction to unsubstituted indole, which can make purification of the product difficult [260]. In an alternative application of Batcho-Leimgruber reaction for the synthesis of 81, 2,4-dinitrotoluene (3) is converted to 6-aminoindole by reduction of the respective styrene and subsequently transformed to 81 by a Sandmeyer reaction [267].
In an alternative synthesis of 114, indoline (121) is brominated in sulfuric acid in the presence of silver sulfate, giving largely 6-bromoindoline (122), accompanied by about 8% of the 4-bromo isomer [268]. The bromoindoline 122 is then dehydrogenated at -65 ºC via the azasulfonium salt with dimethyl sulfide [269], giving 114 (Scheme 42). This scheme enjoys the advantages of an inexpensive starting material and a short reaction sequence. However, the low temperatures needed for the dehydrogenation, plus the need for a chromatographic separation in order to obtain pure product, makes this method rather unsuited for the production of large quantities of 6-bromoindole (114).
As noted above, the cost of the starting 6-bromoindole (114) and the reagents is the major drawback to the procedure of Tanoue and coworkers [245]. Inasmuch as 4-bromo-2-nitrobenzene (12) is the starting material for all practical syntheses of 81, it would appear more efficient to convert 12 to 4-bromo-2-nitrobenzaldehyde (8) and thence directly to 1, as detailed above, rather than to the indole 114. We have also noted that the intermediates in the two indole syntheses used for making 114 (i.e. the enolate ester of 117 in the Reissert synthesis, and 120 in the Batcho-Leimgruber synthesis) can presumably be oxidized directly to 8 (Scheme 8 and Scheme 9).
Another alternative to the procedure of Tanoue and coworkers [245], which does use 6-bromoindole (114) as a starting material, might possibly be found in a recent one-pot synthesis of indigo from indole (107) which uses an organic hydroperoxide and catalysis by a molybdenum complex [270]. In this procedure, yields of up to 81% of indigo (19) have been reported when performing the oxidation with cumene hydroperoxide in t-butanol and molybdenum hexacarbonyl as a catalyst (Scheme 43). To our knowledge, this procedure has not yet been applied to the synthesis of substituted indigos such as Tyrian purple (1).

5. Recent Convenient Low-Cost Synthesis of Tyrian Purple

Wolk and Frimer [271], have recently reported a five step synthesis of Tyrian purple (1), starting from p-dibromobenzene (40; Scheme 48). The reactions are simple, low cost, safe, high yield procedures. The first step involves the Friedel-Crafts acetylation of p-dibromobenzene (40) producing 2′,4′-dibromoacetophenone (82) as reported by Troyanov and Dibinskaya [178]. In the second step, oxidation of 2′,4′-dibromoacetophenone (82) to 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67), is quite straightforward. The alkaline permanganate oxidation is a standard procedure and the workup is simplified by decomposing the precipitate of manganese dioxide [272].
This is followed in the third step by an Ullmann condensation of 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67) with glycine (86) to give the bromocarboxyphenylglycine 46, which is the novel, key reaction in this synthesis. The condensation of 67 was done in an aqueous system using two equivalents of potassium carbonate and a mixture of copper powder and cuprous iodide as catalysts [273,274,275]. Under these conditions the reaction was vigorous at 50–60 ºC and led to crude yields of 46 of up to 89%. The fourth step involves the Claisen condensation of 46 to give the bromodiacetylindoxyl 48 in a 70% yield. In the final step hydrolysis and oxidation of diacetylindoxyl 48 gives high yields of Tyrian purple (1).
The overall yield of Tyrian purple in this five step synthesis was about 25% based on the starting p-dibromobenzene (40), and has yet to be fully optimized. Although this yield is significantly lower than that achieved by Voss and Gerlach for their synthesis starting from the same compound [37], Wolk-Frimer procedure has the advantage of not requiring special techniques such as low temperatures or strictly anhydrous conditions, and is, therefore, amenable for student labs and industrial production of larger quantities.

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Scheme 1. Sachs and Kempf synthesis 6,6′-dibromoindigo (1).
Scheme 1. Sachs and Kempf synthesis 6,6′-dibromoindigo (1).
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Scheme 2. van de Leer approach to bromonitrobenzaldehyde 8.
Scheme 2. van de Leer approach to bromonitrobenzaldehyde 8.
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Scheme 3. Imming route [33] to Tyrian purple.
Scheme 3. Imming route [33] to Tyrian purple.
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Scheme 4. Harley –Mason approach to indigo.
Scheme 4. Harley –Mason approach to indigo.
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Scheme 5. Nitration approach to 4-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (12).
Scheme 5. Nitration approach to 4-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (12).
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Scheme 6. Bromination approach to 4-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (12).
Scheme 6. Bromination approach to 4-bromo-2-nitrotoluene (12).
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Scheme 7. Kröhnke conversion of 4-bromo-2-nitrotolune (8) to benzaldehyde (12).
Scheme 7. Kröhnke conversion of 4-bromo-2-nitrotolune (8) to benzaldehyde (12).
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Scheme 8. Transformation of o-nitrotoluenes to o-nitrobenzaldehydes.
Scheme 8. Transformation of o-nitrotoluenes to o-nitrobenzaldehydes.
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Scheme 9. Alternative transformation of o-nitrotoluenes to o-nitrobenzaldehydes.
Scheme 9. Alternative transformation of o-nitrotoluenes to o-nitrobenzaldehydes.
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Scheme 10. Beech method for the synthesis of 4-bromo-2-nitrobenzaldehyde (8).
Scheme 10. Beech method for the synthesis of 4-bromo-2-nitrobenzaldehyde (8).
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Scheme 11. Synthesis of bromonitroaniline 34.
Scheme 11. Synthesis of bromonitroaniline 34.
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Scheme 12. Monobromination of o-nitroaniline (39).
Scheme 12. Monobromination of o-nitroaniline (39).
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Scheme 13. Voss and Gerlach approach to Tyrian purple.
Scheme 13. Voss and Gerlach approach to Tyrian purple.
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Scheme 14. The Friedländer approach to Tyrian purple.
Scheme 14. The Friedländer approach to Tyrian purple.
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Scheme 15. Claus and Scheulen preparation of bromoanthranilic acid 43.
Scheme 15. Claus and Scheulen preparation of bromoanthranilic acid 43.
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Scheme 16. Friedländer approach to bromoanthranilic acid 43.
Scheme 16. Friedländer approach to bromoanthranilic acid 43.
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Scheme 17. Alternate Friedländer approach to bromoanthranilic acid 43.
Scheme 17. Alternate Friedländer approach to bromoanthranilic acid 43.
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Scheme 18. Waldmann procedure to bromoanthranilic acid 43.
Scheme 18. Waldmann procedure to bromoanthranilic acid 43.
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Scheme 19. Hofmann reaction of 4-halophthalimides.
Scheme 19. Hofmann reaction of 4-halophthalimides.
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Scheme 20. Ullmann condensation of 2,4-dihalobenzoic acid 67 and 68 with ammonia.
Scheme 20. Ullmann condensation of 2,4-dihalobenzoic acid 67 and 68 with ammonia.
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Scheme 21. Preparation of 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67).
Scheme 21. Preparation of 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67).
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Scheme 22. Multi-step approach to 2,4-dibromotoluene (75) and 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67).
Scheme 22. Multi-step approach to 2,4-dibromotoluene (75) and 2,4-dibromobenzoic acid (67).
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Scheme 23. Bromination of p-bromotoluene.
Scheme 23. Bromination of p-bromotoluene.
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Scheme 24. Dibromination of toluene.
Scheme 24. Dibromination of toluene.
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Scheme 25. Bromination of toluene.
Scheme 25. Bromination of toluene.
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Scheme 26. Bromine fluoride bromination of toluene.
Scheme 26. Bromine fluoride bromination of toluene.
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Scheme 27. Acetylation of m-dibromobenzene.
Scheme 27. Acetylation of m-dibromobenzene.
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Scheme 28. Isomerization/acetylation of p-dibromobenzene.
Scheme 28. Isomerization/acetylation of p-dibromobenzene.
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Scheme 29. Ullmann condensation preparation of n-(2-carboxyphenyl)glycines 86 and 87.
Scheme 29. Ullmann condensation preparation of n-(2-carboxyphenyl)glycines 86 and 87.
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Scheme 30. Synthesis of 4-bromo-2-chlorobenzoic acid (90) from 4-amino-2-nitrotoluene (11).
Scheme 30. Synthesis of 4-bromo-2-chlorobenzoic acid (90) from 4-amino-2-nitrotoluene (11).
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Scheme 31. Synthesis of 4-bromo-2-chlorotoluene (89) from 4-nitrotoluene (72).
Scheme 31. Synthesis of 4-bromo-2-chlorotoluene (89) from 4-nitrotoluene (72).
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Scheme 32. Chlorination of p-bromotoluene.
Scheme 32. Chlorination of p-bromotoluene.
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Scheme 33. Grandmougin and Seyder synthesis of Tyrian purple.
Scheme 33. Grandmougin and Seyder synthesis of Tyrian purple.
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Scheme 34. Friedlander preparation of dinitroindigo (100).
Scheme 34. Friedlander preparation of dinitroindigo (100).
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Scheme 35. 1,3-Diacetyl-5-nitroindoxyl (106) from 2-chloro-4-nitrobenzoic acid (103).
Scheme 35. 1,3-Diacetyl-5-nitroindoxyl (106) from 2-chloro-4-nitrobenzoic acid (103).
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Scheme 36. Conversion of indole (107) to Tyrian purple.
Scheme 36. Conversion of indole (107) to Tyrian purple.
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Scheme 37. Carboxylation of Indole.
Scheme 37. Carboxylation of Indole.
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Scheme 38. Bromination/decarboxylation of indole 108.
Scheme 38. Bromination/decarboxylation of indole 108.
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Scheme 39. Preparation of Tyrian purple from 6-bromoindole (114).
Scheme 39. Preparation of Tyrian purple from 6-bromoindole (114).
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Scheme 40. The Reissert indole synthesis.
Scheme 40. The Reissert indole synthesis.
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Scheme 41. The Batcho-Leimgruber indole synthesis.
Scheme 41. The Batcho-Leimgruber indole synthesis.
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Scheme 42. Bromoindole 114 from indoline (121).
Scheme 42. Bromoindole 114 from indoline (121).
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Scheme 43. One pot conversion of indole (107) to indigo (119).
Scheme 43. One pot conversion of indole (107) to indigo (119).
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Scheme 48. Wolk-Frimer synthetic scheme for the preparation of dibromoindigo (1).
Scheme 48. Wolk-Frimer synthetic scheme for the preparation of dibromoindigo (1).
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