Chemistry:Hydroxylamine

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Short description: Inorganic compound
Hydroxylamine
Stereo, skeletal formula of hydroxylamine with all explicit hydrogens added
Ball-and-stick model of hydroxylamine
Stereo, skeletal formula of hydroxylamine with all explicit hydrogens added and assorted dimensions
Names
Preferred IUPAC name
Hydroxylamine (only preselected[1])
Other names
Azinous acid
Aminol
Azanol
Hydroxyammonia
Hydroxyamine
Hydroxyazane
Hydroxylazane
Nitrinous acid
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
3DMet
ChEBI
ChEMBL
ChemSpider
EC Number
  • 232-259-2
478
KEGG
MeSH Hydroxylamine
RTECS number
  • NC2975000
UNII
Properties
NH
2OH
Molar mass 33.030 g·mol−1
Appearance Vivid white, opaque crystals
Density 1.21 g cm−3 (at 20 °C)[2]
Melting point 33 °C (91 °F; 306 K)
Boiling point 58 °C (136 °F; 331 K) /22 mm Hg (decomposes)
Soluble
log P −0.758
Acidity (pKa) 6.03 ([NH
3OH]+
)
Basicity (pKb) 7.97
Structure
Trigonal at N
Tetrahedral at N
0.67553 D
Thermochemistry
46.47 J K−1 mol−1
236.18 J K−1 mol−1
−39.9 kJ/mol
Hazards
Safety data sheet ICSC 0661
GHS pictograms GHS01: ExplosiveGHS05: CorrosiveGHS07: HarmfulGHS08: Health hazardGHS09: Environmental hazard
GHS Signal word Danger
H200, H290, H302, H312, H315, H317, H318, H335, H351, H373, H400
P201, P202, P234, P260, P261, P264, P270, P271, P272, P273, P280, P281, P301+312, P302+352, P304+340, P305+351+338, P308+313, P310, P312, P314, P321, P322, P330, P332+313, P333+313
NFPA 704 (fire diamond)
Flammability code 1: Must be pre-heated before ignition can occur. Flash point over 93 °C (200 °F). E.g. canola oilHealth code 2: Intense or continued but not chronic exposure could cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury. E.g. chloroformReactivity code 3: Capable of detonation or explosive decomposition but requires a strong initiating source, must be heated under confinement before initiation, reacts explosively with water, or will detonate if severely shocked. E.g. hydrogen peroxideSpecial hazards (white): no codeNFPA 704 four-colored diamond
1
2
3
Flash point 129 °C (264 °F; 402 K)
265 °C (509 °F; 538 K)
Lethal dose or concentration (LD, LC):
408 mg/kg (oral, mouse); 59–70 mg/kg (intraperitoneal mouse, rat); 29 mg/kg (subcutaneous, rat)[3]
Related compounds
Related hydroxylammonium salts
 Hydroxylammonium chloride
Hydroxylammonium nitrate
Hydroxylammonium sulfate
Related compounds
 Ammonia

Hydrazine

Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Hydroxylamine (also known as Hydroxyammonia) is an inorganic compound with the formula NH
2OH. The material is a white crystalline, hygroscopic compound.[4] Hydroxylamine is almost always provided and used as an aqueous solution. It is consumed almost exclusively to produce Nylon-6. The oxidation of NH
3 to hydroxylamine is a step in biological nitrification.[5]

History

Hydroxylamine was first prepared as hydroxylammonium chloride in 1865 by the German chemist Wilhelm Clemens Lossen (1838-1906); he reacted tin and hydrochloric acid in the presence of ethyl nitrate.[6] It was first prepared in pure form in 1891 by the Dutch chemist Lobry de Bruyn and by the French chemist Léon Maurice Crismer (1858-1944).[7][8] The coordination complex ZnCl
2(NH
2OH)
2, known as Crismer's salt, releases hydroxylamine upon heating.[9]

Production

Hydroxylamine or its salts can be produced via several routes but only two are commercially viable. It is also produced naturally as discussed in a section on biochemistry.

From nitric oxide

NH
2OH is mainly produced as its hydrogen sulfate by the hydrogenation of nitric oxide over platinum catalysts in the presence of sulfuric acid.[10]

2 NO + 3 H
2 + 2 H
2SO
4 → 2 [NH
4O]+
 [HSO
4]−

Raschig process

Another route to NH
2OH is the Raschig process: aqueous ammonium nitrite is reduced by HSO−
3 and SO
2 at 0 °C to yield a hydroxylamido-N,N-disulfonate anion:

[NH
4]NO
2 + 2 SO
2 + NH
3 + H
2O → 2 [NH
4]+
 + N(OH)(SO
3)2−
2

This anion is then hydrolyzed to give hydroxylammonium sulfate [NH
3OH]
2SO
4:

N(OH)(SO
3)2−
2 + H
2O → NH(OH)(SO
3)−
 + HSO−
4
2 NH(OH)(SO
3)−
 + 2 H
2O → [NH
3OH]
2SO
4 + SO2−
4

Solid NH
2OH can be collected by treatment with liquid ammonia. Ammonium sulfate, [NH
4]
2SO
4, a side-product insoluble in liquid ammonia, is removed by filtration; the liquid ammonia is evaporated to give the desired product.[4] The net reaction is:

2 NO−
2 + 4 SO
2 + 6 H
2O + 6 NH
3 → 4 SO2−
4 + 6 [NH
4]+
 + 2 NH
2OH

Hydroxylammonium salts can then be converted to hydroxylamine by neutralization:

[NH
3OH]Cl + NaOBu → NH
2OH + NaCl + BuOH[4]

Other methods

Julius Tafel discovered that hydroxylamine hydrochloride or sulfate salts can be produced by electrolytic reduction of nitric acid with HCl or H
2SO
4 respectively:[11][12]

HNO
3 + 3 H
2 → NH
2OH + 2 H
2O

Hydroxylamine can also be produced by the reduction of nitrous acid or potassium nitrite with bisulfite:

HNO
2 + 2 HSO−
3 → N(OH)(OSO
2)2−
2 + H
2O → NH(OH)(OSO
2)−
 + HSO−
4
NH(OH)(OSO
2)−
 + [H
3O]+
 → [NH
3OH]+
 + HSO−
4 (100 °C, 1 h)

Reactions

Hydroxylamine reacts with electrophiles, such as alkylating agents, which can attach to either the oxygen or the nitrogen atoms:

R–X + NH
2OH → R–ONH
2 + HX
R–X + NH
2OH → R–NHOH + HX

The reaction of NH
2OH with an aldehyde or ketone produces an oxime.

R
2C=O + NH
2OH · HCl → R
2C=NOH + NaCl + H
2O (in NaOH solution)

This reaction is useful in the purification of ketones and aldehydes: if hydroxylamine is added to an aldehyde or ketone in solution, an oxime forms, which generally precipitates from solution; heating the precipitate with an inorganic acid then restores the original aldehyde or ketone.[13]

Oximes such as dimethylglyoxime are also employed as ligands.

NH
2OH reacts with chlorosulfonic acid to give hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid, a useful reagent for the synthesis of caprolactam.

HOSO
2Cl + NH
2OH → NH
2OSO
2OH + HCl

The hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid, which should be stored at 0 °C to prevent decomposition, can be checked by iodometric titration.[clarification needed]

NH
2OH and N-organylhydroxylamines (R–NHOH), can be reduced to ammonia NH
3 and amines R–NH
2, respectively, where R is an organyl group.[14]

NH
2OH (Zn, HCl) → NH
3 +ZnO
R–NHOH (Zn, HCl) → R–NH
2 + ZnO

Hydroxylamine free base explodes when heated in air:

4 NH
2OH + O
2 → 2 N
2 + 6 H
2O

The high reactivity comes in part from the partial isomerisation of the NH
2OH to ammonia oxide (also known as azane oxide), with zwitterionic structure NH+
3–O−
.[15]

Hydroxylamine water solutions above 80% by weight can be easily detonated by a detonator, and even 50% solution might prove detonable if tested in bulk.[16][17]

In absence of air the detonation of pure hydroxylamine proceeds mainly according to this equation:

3NH
2OH → N
2 + NH
3 + 3H
2O

Functional group

N‑hydroxyl­amine funct­ional group

Substituted derivatives of hydroxylamine are known. If the hydroxyl hydrogen is substituted, this is called an O-hydroxylamine, if one of the amine hydrogens is substituted, this is called an N-hydroxylamine. In general N-hydroxylamines are the more common. Similarly to ordinary amines, one can distinguish primary, secondary and tertiary hydroxylamines, the latter two referring to compounds where two or three hydrogens are substituted, respectively. Examples of compounds containing a hydroxylamine functional group are N-tert-butyl-hydroxylamine or the glycosidic bond in calicheamicin. N,O-Dimethylhydroxylamine is a coupling agent, used to synthesize Weinreb amides.

Synthesis

The most common method for the synthesis of substituted hydroxylamines is the oxidation of an amine with benzoyl peroxide. Some care must be taken to prevent over-oxidation to a nitrone. Other methods include:

Uses

Conversion of cyclohexanone to caprolactam involving the Beckmann rearrangement.

Approximately 95% of hydroxylamine is used in the synthesis of cyclohexanone oxime, a precursor to Nylon 6.[10] The treatment of this oxime with acid induces the Beckmann rearrangement to give caprolactam (3).[18] The latter can then undergo a ring-opening polymerization to yield Nylon 6.[19]

Laboratory uses

Hydroxylamine and its salts are commonly used as reducing agents in myriad organic and inorganic reactions. They can also act as antioxidants for fatty acids.

High concentrations of hydroxylamine are used by biologists to introduce mutations by acting as a DNA nucleobase amine-hydroxylating agent.[20] In is thought to mainly act via hydroxylation of cytidine to hydroxyaminocytidine, which is misread as thymidine, thereby inducing C:G to T:A transition mutations.[21] But high concentrations or over-reaction of hydroxylamine in vitro are seemingly able to modify other regions of the DNA & lead to other types of mutations.[21] This may be due to the ability of hydroxylamine to undergo uncontrolled free radical chemistry in the presence of trace metals and oxygen, in fact in the absence of its free radical affects Ernst Freese noted hydroxylamine was unable to induce reversion mutations of its C:G to T:A transition effect & even considered hydroxylamine to be the most specific mutagen known.[22] Practically, it has been largely surpassed by more potent mutagens such as EMS, ENU, or nitrosoguanidine, but being a very small mutagenic compound with high specificity, it found some specialized uses such as mutation of DNA packed within bacteriophage capsids,[23] & mutation of purified DNA in vitro.[24]

This route also involves the Beckmann Rearrangement, like the conversion from cyclohexanone to caprolactam.

An alternative industrial synthesis of paracetamol developed by Hoechst–Celanese involves the conversion of ketone to a ketoxime with hydroxylamine.

Some non-chemical uses include removal of hair from animal hides and photographic developing solutions.[2] In the semiconductor industry, hydroxylamine is often a component in the "resist stripper", which removes photoresist after lithography.

Hydroxylamine can also be used to better characterize the nature of a post-translational modification onto proteins. For example, poly(ADP-Ribose) chains are sensitive to hydroxylamine when attached to glutamic or aspartic acids but not sensitive when attached to serines.[25] Similarly, Ubiquitin molecules bound to serines or threonines residues are sensitive to hydroxylamine, but those bound to lysine (isopeptide bond) are resistant.[26]

Biochemistry

In biological nitrification, the oxidation of NH
3 to hydroxylamine is mediated by the ammonia monooxygenase (AMO).[5] Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO) further oxidizes hydroxylamine to nitrite.[27]

Cytochrome P460, an enzyme found in the ammonia-oxidizing bacteria Nitrosomonas europea, can convert hydroxylamine to nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.[28]

Hydroxylamine can also be used to highly selectively cleave asparaginyl-glycine peptide bonds in peptides and proteins.[29] It also bonds to and permanently disables (poisons) heme-containing enzymes. It is used as an irreversible inhibitor of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosynthesis on account of its similar structure to water.

Safety and environmental concerns

With a theoretical decomposition energy of about 5 kJ/g, hydroxylamine is an explosive, and aqueous solutions above 80% can be easily detonated by detonator or strong heating under confinement.[16] [17] At least two factories dealing in hydroxylamine have been destroyed since 1999 with loss of life.[30] It is known, however, that ferrous and ferric iron salts accelerate the decomposition of 50% NH
2OH solutions.[31] Hydroxylamine and its derivatives are more safely handled in the form of salts.

It is an irritant to the respiratory tract, skin, eyes, and other mucous membranes. It may be absorbed through the skin, is harmful if swallowed, and is a possible mutagen.[32]

See also

References

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