I just have a new report from an unsuccessful synthesis. Yeah....
We just tried to make DOI by this recipe:
DOI
The glass is ground thoroughly with 1.90 g (7.36 mmol, 1 eq) nitrate, 2,5-DMA and 1.25 g (1 equiv, MW 169.9) of silver nitrate and placed in a 100 ml flask, add 20 ml of methanol, the flask wrapped in aluminum foil, stirred 10 minutes (almost everything has to be dissolved), then dropwise within 10-15 minutes there is added a solution 1.87 g (1 equiv, MW 253.Cool powdered in advance (otherwise dissolve!) iodine in 50 ml of methanol (dissolved in parts!) . The mass is stirred an additional 1 hour, light-yellow silver iodide is filtered through a fine (S4) filter, the filtrate evaporated, stir in 100 ml of warm water (still poorly soluble), made alkaline KOH solution, a brown oily base is extracted with DCM, washed with water, dried carbonate potassium, evaporated, diluted with methanol, acidified to a weakly acid reaction HCl, evaporated, co-uparivavyut with a mixture of toluene-IPA, the remainder was ground with MTB, filtered, washed with MTB, and then with acetone. Yield - 2.02 g (77%, MW 357.6 (CH)) - crystals almost pure white. Mp. - About 200OS (Literary mp. 201OS).
We just started from 3g of DOH-nitrate.
Dissolving the DOH freebase is not possible in MeOH and not even all of the AgNO3 dissolved. After this an iodine solution was added to the previously prepared DOH and AgNO3 solution and this was stirred for one hour and left to stand for another hour.
The color of the iodine still remained, but not so intensive like in the beginning.
This solution was filtered and poored on water and added some NaOH to pH 14. There was no brown oil or any kind of oil in the solution /looks bad/. This solution was extracted twice with DCM, the combined extracts were distilled and the remaining oil was kept.
The remained oil was dissolved in EtOH, some cc. H2SO4 was added but no crystals formed.
Let's wait and see what will happen yesterday with this solution, but it doesn't looks great....