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1 History  





2 Production  



2.1  Synthesis of furans  







3 Structure and bonding  





4 Reactivity  





5 Safety  





6 See also  





7 References  





8 External links  














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Furan
Full structural formula of furan
Full structural formula of furan
Skeletal formula showing numbering convention
Skeletal formula showing numbering convention
Ball-and-stick model
Ball-and-stick model
Space-filling model
Space-filling model
Names
Preferred IUPAC name

Furan[1]

Systematic IUPAC name

1,4-Epoxybuta-1,3-diene
1-Oxacyclopenta-2,4-diene

Other names

Oxole
Oxa[5]annulene
1,4-Epoxy-1,3-butadiene
5-Oxacyclopenta-1,3-diene
5-Oxacyclo-1,3-pentadiene
Furfuran
Divinylene oxide

Identifiers

CAS Number

3D model (JSmol)

Beilstein Reference

103221
ChEBI
ChEMBL
ChemSpider
ECHA InfoCard 100.003.390 Edit this at Wikidata
EC Number
  • 203-727-3

Gmelin Reference

25716
KEGG

PubChem CID

RTECS number
  • LT8524000
UNII
UN number 2389

CompTox Dashboard (EPA)

  • InChI=1S/C4H4O/c1-2-4-5-3-1/h1-4H checkY

    Key: YLQBMQCUIZJEEH-UHFFFAOYSA-N checkY

  • InChI=1/C4H4O/c1-2-4-5-3-1/h1-4H

    Key: YLQBMQCUIZJEEH-UHFFFAOYAC

  • c1ccoc1

Properties

Chemical formula

C4H4O
Molar mass 68.075 g·mol−1
Appearance Colorless, volatile liquid
Density 0.936 g/mL
Melting point −85.6 °C (−122.1 °F; 187.6 K)
Boiling point 31.3 °C (88.3 °F; 304.4 K)

Magnetic susceptibility (χ)

-43.09·10−6cm3/mol
Hazards
GHS labelling:

Pictograms

GHS02: FlammableGHS07: Exclamation markGHS08: Health hazard

Signal word

Danger

Hazard statements

H224, H302, H315, H332, H341, H350, H373, H412

Precautionary statements

P201, P202, P210, P233, P240, P241, P242, P243, P260, P261, P264, P270, P271, P273, P280, P281, P301+P312, P302+P352, P303+P361+P353, P304+P312, P304+P340, P308+P313, P312, P314, P321, P330, P332+P313, P362, P370+P378, P403+P235, P405, P501
NFPA 704 (fire diamond)
NFPA 704 four-colored diamondHealth 3: Short exposure could cause serious temporary or residual injury. E.g. chlorine gasFlammability 4: Will rapidly or completely vaporize at normal atmospheric pressure and temperature, or is readily dispersed in air and will burn readily. Flash point below 23 °C (73 °F). E.g. propaneInstability 1: Normally stable, but can become unstable at elevated temperatures and pressures. E.g. calciumSpecial hazards (white): no code
3
4
1
Flash point −36 °C (−33 °F; 237 K)

Autoignition
temperature

390 °C (734 °F; 663 K)
Explosive limits Lower: 2.3%
Upper: 14.3% at 20 °C
Lethal dose or concentration (LD, LC):

LD50 (median dose)

> 2 g/kg (rat)
Safety data sheet (SDS) Pennakem
Related compounds

Related heterocycles

Pyrrole
Thiophene

Related compounds

Tetrahydrofuran (THF)
2,5-Dimethylfuran
Benzofuran
Dibenzofuran
Structure

Point group

C2v

Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

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Infobox references

Furan is a heterocyclic organic compound, consisting of a five-membered aromatic ring with four carbon atoms and one oxygen atom. Chemical compounds containing such rings are also referred to as furans.

Furan is a colorless, flammable, highly volatile liquid with a boiling point close to room temperature. It is soluble in common organic solvents, including alcohol, ether, and acetone, and is slightly soluble in water.[2] Its odor is "strong, ethereal; chloroform-like".[3] It is toxic and may be carcinogenic in humans. Furan is used as a starting point for other speciality chemicals.[4]

History[edit]

The name "furan" comes from the Latin furfur, which means bran[5] (furfural is produced from bran). The first furan derivative to be described was 2-furoic acid, by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1780. Another important derivative, furfural, was reported by Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner in 1831 and characterised nine years later by John Stenhouse. Furan itself was first prepared by Heinrich Limpricht in 1870, although he called it "tetraphenol" (as if it were a four-carbon analog to phenol, C6H5OH).[6][7]

Production[edit]

Industrially, furan is manufactured by the palladium-catalyzed decarbonylation of furfural, or by the copper-catalyzed oxidation of 1,3-butadiene:[4]

In the laboratory, furan can be obtained from furfural by oxidation to 2-furoic acid, followed by decarboxylation.[8] It can also be prepared directly by thermal decompositionofpentose-containing materials, and cellulosic solids, especially pine wood.

Synthesis of furans[edit]

The Feist–Benary synthesis is a classic way to synthesize furans. The reaction involves alkylation of 1,3-diketones with α-bromoketones followed by dehydration of an intermediate hydroxydihydrofuran.[9] The other traditional route involve the reaction of 1,4-diketones with phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5) in the Paal–Knorr synthesis.[10]

Many routes exist for the synthesis of substituted furans.[11][12]


Structure and bonding[edit]

Furan has aromatic character because one of the lone pairsofelectrons on the oxygen atom is delocalized into the ring, creating a 4n + 2 aromatic system (see Hückel's rule). The aromaticity is modest relative to that for benzene and related heterocycles thiophene and pyrrole. The resonance energies of benzene, pyrrole, thiophene, and furan are, respectively, 152, 88, 121, and 67 kJ/mol (36, 21, 29, and 16 kcal/mol). Thus, these heterocycles, especially furan, are far less aromatic than benzene, as is manifested in the lability of these rings.[13] The molecule is flat but the C=C groups attached to oxygen retain significant double bond character. The other lone pair of electrons of the oxygen atom extends in the plane of the flat ring system.

Examination of the resonance contributors shows the increased electron density of the ring, leading to increased rates of electrophilic substitution.[14]

Resonance contributors of furan

Reactivity[edit]

Because of its partial aromatic character, furan's behavior is intermediate between that of an enol ether and an aromatic ring. It is dissimilar vs ethers such as tetrahydrofuran.

Like enol ethers, 2,5-disubstituted furans are susceptible to hydrolysis to reversibly give 1,4-diketones.

Furan serves as a dieneinDiels–Alder reactions with electron-deficient dienophiles such as ethyl (E)-3-nitroacrylate.[15] The reaction product is a mixture of isomers with preference for the endo isomer:

Furan Diels–Alder reaction with ethyl (E)-3-nitroacrylate

Diels-Alder reaction of furan with arynes provides corresponding derivatives of dihydronaphthalenes, which are useful intermediates in synthesis of other polycyclic aromatic compounds.[16]

Reaction of furan with a benzyne

Safety[edit]

Furan is found in heat-treated commercial foods and is produced through thermal degradation of natural food constituents.[18][19] It can be found in roasted coffee, instant coffee, and processed baby foods.[19][20][21] Research has indicated that coffee made in espresso makers and coffee made from capsules contain more furan than that made in traditional drip coffee makers, although the levels are still within safe health limits.[22]

Exposure to furan at doses about 2,000 times the projected level of human exposure from foods increases the risk of hepatocellular tumors in rats and mice and bile duct tumors in rats.[23] Furan is therefore listed as a possible human carcinogen.[23]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry : IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Blue Book). Cambridge: The Royal Society of Chemistry. 2014. p. 392. doi:10.1039/9781849733069-FP001. ISBN 978-0-85404-182-4.
  • ^ Jakubke, Hans Dieter; Jeschkeit, Hans (1994). Concise Encyclopedia of Chemistry. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1–1201. ISBN 0-89925-457-8.
  • ^ DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2016–171, p. 2, Accessed Nov 2019
  • ^ a b Hoydonckx, H. E.; Van Rhijn, W. M.; Van Rhijn, W.; De Vos, D. E.; Jacobs, P. A. "Furfural and Derivatives". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. doi:10.1002/14356007.a12_119.pub2. ISBN 978-3527306732.
  • ^ Senning, Alexander (2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology. Elsevier. ISBN 0-444-52239-5.
  • ^ Limpricht, H. (1870). "Ueber das Tetraphenol C4H4O". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 3 (1): 90–91. doi:10.1002/cber.18700030129.
  • ^ Rodd, Ernest Harry (1971). Chemistry of Carbon Compounds: A Modern Comprehensive Treatise. Elsevier.
  • ^ Wilson, W. C. (1941). "Furan". Organic Syntheses; Collected Volumes, vol. 1, p. 274.
  • ^ Hou, X. L.; Cheung, H. Y.; Hon, T. Y.; Kwan, P. L.; Lo, T. H.; Tong, S. Y.; Wong, H. N. (1998). "Regioselective syntheses of substituted furans". Tetrahedron. 54 (10): 1955–2020. doi:10.1016/S0040-4020(97)10303-9.
  • ^ a b Gilchrist, Thomas L. (1997). Heterocyclic Chemistry (3rd ed.). Liverpool: Longman. p. 209-212.
  • ^ Adam Sniady, Marco S. Morreale, Roman Dembinski (2007). "Electrophilic Cyclization with N-Iodosuccinimide: Preparation of 5-(4-Bromophenyl)-3-Iodo-2-(4-Methyl-Phenyl)Furan". Organic Syntheses. 84: 199. doi:10.15227/orgsyn.084.0199.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • ^ James A. Marshall, Clark A. Sehon (1999). "Isomerization of b-Alkynyl Allylic Alcohols to Furans Catalyzed by Silver Nitrate on Silica Gel: 2-Pentyl-3-Methyl-5-Heptylfuran". Organic Syntheses. 76: 263. doi:10.15227/orgsyn.076.0263.
  • ^ Smith, Michael B.; March, Jerry (2007), Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure (6th ed.), New York: Wiley-Interscience, p. 62, ISBN 978-0-471-72091-1
  • ^ Bruice, Paula Y. (2007). Organic Chemistry (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-196316-0.
  • ^ Masesane, I.; Batsanov, A.; Howard, J.; Modal, R.; Steel, P. (2006). "The oxanorbornene approach to 3-hydroxy, 3,4-dihydroxy and 3,4,5-trihydroxy derivatives of 2-aminocyclohexanecarboxylic acid". Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2 (9): 9. doi:10.1186/1860-5397-2-9. PMC 1524792. PMID 16674802.
  • ^ Filatov, M. A.; Baluschev, S.; Ilieva, I. Z.; Enkelmann, V.; Miteva, T.; Landfester, K.; Aleshchenkov, S. E.; Cheprakov, A. V. (2012). "Tetraaryltetraanthra[2,3]porphyrins: Synthesis, Structure, and Optical Properties" (PDF). J. Org. Chem. 77 (24): 11119–11131. doi:10.1021/jo302135q. PMID 23205621. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-19.
  • ^ Harreus, Albrecht Ludwig. "Pyrrole". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. doi:10.1002/14356007.a22_453. ISBN 978-3527306732.
  • ^ Anese, M.; Manzocco, L.; Calligaris, S.; Nicoli, M. C. (2013). "Industrially Applicable Strategies for Mitigating Acrylamide, Furan and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural in Food" (PDF). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 61 (43): 10209–14. doi:10.1021/jf305085r. PMID 23627283. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-08.
  • ^ a b Moro, S.; Chipman, J. K.; Wegener, J. W.; Hamberger, C.; Dekant, W.; Mally, A. (2012). "Furan in heat-treated foods: Formation, exposure, toxicity, and aspects of risk assessment" (PDF). Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 56 (8): 1197–1211. doi:10.1002/mnfr.201200093. hdl:1871/41889. PMID 22641279. S2CID 12446132.
  • ^ European Food Safety Authority (2011). "Update on furan levels in food from monitoring years 2004–2010 and exposure assessment". EFSA Journal. 9 (9): 2347. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2011.2347. Open access icon
  • ^ Waizenegger, J.; Winkler, G.; Kuballa, T.; Ruge, W.; Kersting, M.; Alexy, U.; Lachenmeier, D. W. (2012). "Analysis and risk assessment of furan in coffee products targeted to adolescents". Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A. 29 (1): 19–28. doi:10.1080/19440049.2011.617012. PMID 22035212. S2CID 29027966.
  • ^ "Espresso makers: Coffee in capsules contains more furan than the rest". Science Daily. April 14, 2011.
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