Adamantane

Adamantane
IUPAC name
Adamantane[1]
Other names
Tricyclo[3.3.1.13,7]decane
Identifiers
CAS number 281-23-2 YesY
PubChem 9238
ChemSpider 8883
Properties
Molecular formula C10H16
Molar mass 136.23 g mol−1
Appearance White to off-white powder
Density 1.08 g/cm3 (20 °C)[2], solid
Melting point

270 °C (543 K)
Boiling point

Sublimes
Solubility in water Poorly soluble
Solubility in other solvents Soluble in hydrocarbons
Refractive index (nD) 1.568[3]
Structure
Crystal structure cubic, space group Fm3m
Coordination
geometry		 4
Dipole moment 0 D
Hazards
S-phrases 24/25/28/37/45
Related compounds
Related compounds: Memantine
Rimantadine
Amantadine
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Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox references

Adamantane is a colorless, crystalline chemical compound with a camphor-like odor. With a formula C10H16, it is a cycloalkane and also the simplest diamondoid. Adamantane molecule consists of three cyclohexane rings arranged in the "armchair" configuration. It is unique in that it is both rigid and virtually stress-free. Adamantane is the most stable among all the isomers with formula C10H16, which include the somewhat similar twistane. The spatial arrangement of carbon atoms is the same in adamantane molecule and in the diamond crystal. This fact explains the name of adamantane, which is derived from the Greek adamantinos (relating to steel or diamond).[4]

The discovery of adamantane in petroleum in 1933 launched a new chemistry field studying the synthesis and properties of polyhedral organic compounds. Adamantane derivatives have found practical application as drugs, polymeric materials and thermally stable lubricants.

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History and synthesis

The possibility of the existence of a hydrocarbon with the C10H16 formula and diamond-like structure of the molecule was suggested by H. Decker at a conference in 1924. Dekker called this molecule decaterpene and was surprised that it had not been synthesized yet.[5]

The first attempt of laboratory synthesis was made by German chemist Hans Meerwein in 1924 using reaction of formaldehyde with diethyl malonate in the presence of piperidine. Instead of adamantane, Meerwein obtained 1,3,5,7-tetracarbomethoxybicyclo[3.3.l]nonane-2,6-dione. This compound was later named Meerwein's ester and used in the syntheses of adamantane and its derivatives.[6] Latter, another German chemist D. Bottger tried to obtain adamantane using Meerwein's ester as precursor. However, the product, tricyclo-[3.3.1.13,7] decane ring system, was again an adamantane derivative.[7]

Other researchers attempted to synthesize adamantane using phloroglucinol and derivatives of cyclohexanone but also without success.[8]

Meerwein's ester

Adamantane was first synthesized by Vladimir Prelog in 1941 from Meerwein's ester.[9][10] The process was impractical as it contained five stages (simplified in the image below) and had a yield of about 0.16%. However, it was sometimes used to synthesize certain derivatives of adamantane.[8]

Adamantane synthesis by Prelog.png

The Prelog's method was refined in 1956. The decarboxylation yield was increased by the addition of the Heinsdecker pathway (11%), and the Hoffman reaction (24%) that raised the total yield to 6.5%.[11][12] The process was still too complex, and a more convenient method was accidentally found by Paul von Ragué Schleyer in 1957: dicyclopentadiene was first hydrated in presence of a catalyst (e.g. platinum dioxide) and then transformed into adamantane using a Lewis acid (e.g. aluminium chloride) as another catalyst. This method increased the yield to 30–40% and provided affordable source of adamantane; it therefore stimulated characterization of adamantane and is still used in the laboratory practice.[13][14] The adamantane synthesis yield was later increased to 60%[15] and nowadays, adamantane is an affordable chemical compound with a cost of the order $1/gram.

Adamantane synthesis.png

All the above methods yield adamantane in the form of polycrystalline powder. Using this powderr, single crystals can be grown from the melt, solution or vapor phase (e.g. with the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique). Melt growth result in the worst crystalline quality with a mosaic spread in the X-ray reflection of about 1°. Best crystals are obtained from the liquid phase, but the growth is inpracticably slow – several months for a 5-10 mm crystal. Growth from the vapor phase is a reasonable compromise in terms of speed and quality.[2] Adamantane is sublimated in a quartz tube placed in a furnace, which is equipped with several heaters maintaining a certain temperature gradient (about 10 °C/cm for adamantane) along the tube. Crystallization starts at one end of the tube which is kept near the freezing point of adamantane. Slow cooling of the tube, while maintaining the temperature gradient, gradually shifts the melting zone (rate ~2 mm/hour) producing a single-crystal boule.[16]

Natural occurrence

Before adamantane was synthesized, it was isolated from petroleum by Czech chemists S. Landa and V. Machacek in 1933. They used fractional distillation where a sample of petroleum was gradually heated until leaving only solid impurities. The resulting steam enters a fractional distillation column. The temperature of the column decreases as the steam rises through the column. Therefore, hydrocarbon fractions condense along the column corresponding to their boiling point. Landa and Machacek could produce only a few milligrams of adamantane and have noticed its high boiling and melting points. Because of the (assumed) similarity of its structure to that of diamond, the new compound was named adamantane.[8][17]

Petroleum remains the only natural source of adamantane; the content varies between 0.0001 and 0.03% depending on the oil field and is too low for commercial production.[18][19]

Beside adamantane, petroleum contains more than thirty of its derivatives.[18] Their isolation from a complex mixture of hydrocarbons is possible due to their high melting point and the ability to distill with water vapor and form stable adducts with thiourea.

Physical properties

Pure adamantane is a colorless crystalline solid with a characteristic camphor smell. It is practically insoluble in water, but readily soluble in nonpolar organic solvents.[20] Adamantane has an unusually high for hydrocarbons melting point of 270 °C – much higher than, e.g., other C10H16 compounds such as camphene (45 °C), limonene (–74 °C), ocimene (50), terpinene (60 °C) or twistane (164 °C), or than a linear C10H22 hydrocarbon decane (–28 °C). However, adamantane slowly sublimates even at room temperature.[21] Adamantane can distill with water vapor.[19]

Structure

Adamantane molecular parameters.png

Adamantane molecule consists of three condensed cyclohexane rings fused in the chair conformation. The molecular parameters were deduced by electron diffraction and X-ray crystallography. The carbon-carbon bond length is 1.54 Å and is almost identical to that of diamond, and the carbon-hydrogen distance is 1.112 Å.[3]

At ambient conditions, adamantane crystallizes in a face-centered cubic structure (space group Fm3m, a = 9.426 ± 0.008 Å, four molecules in the unit cell) containing orientationally disordered adamantane molecules. This structure transforms into an ordered body-centered tetragonal phase (a = 6.641 Å, c = 8.875 Å ) with two molecules per cell either upon cooling to 208 K or pressurizing to above 0.5 GPa.[8][21]

This phase transition is of the first order; it is accompanied by an anomaly in the heat capacity, elastic and other properties. In particular, whereas adamantane molecules freely rotate in the cubic phase, they are frozen in the tetragonal one; the density increases stepwise from 1.08 to 1.18 g/cm3 and the entropy changes by a significant amount of 1594 J/(mol·K).[2]

Hardness

Elastic constants of adamantane were measured using large (centimeter sized) single crystals and the ultrasonic echo technique. The principal value of the elasticity tensor, C11, was deduced as 7.52, 8.20 and 6.17 GPa for the <110>, <111> and <100> crystalline directions.[16] For comparison, the corresponding values for crystalline diamond are 1161, 1174 and 1123 GPa.[22] The arrangement of carbon atoms is the same in adamantane molecule and diamond.[23] However, in the adamantane solid, molecules do not form a covalent lattice as in diamond, but interact through weak Van der Waals forces. As a result, adamantane crystals are very soft and plastic.[2][16][24]

Spectroscopy

The nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of adamantane consists of two poorly resolved signals, which correspond to the inequivalent cites 1 and 2 (see picture above). Their positions are 1.873 ppm and 1.756 ppm for adamantane in CDCl3 and 1H NMR, and are 28.46 ppm and 37.85 ppm for 13C NMR.[25] The simplicity of the NMR spectrum is a good monitor of the purity of adamantane – most derivatives have lower molecular symmetry and therefore more complex spectra.

Mass spectra of adamantane and its derivatives are rather characteristic. The main peak at m/z = 136 corresponds to the C10H+16 ion. Its fragmentation results in weaker signals as m/z = 93, 80, 79, 67, 41 and 39.[3][25]

The infrared absorption spectrum of adamantane is relatively simple because of the high symmetry of the molecule. The main absorption bands and their assignment are given in the table.[3]

Frequency of vibrations, cm−1 Assignment*
444 Δ (CCC)
638 Δ (CCC)
798 Ν (C-C)
970 Ρ (CH2), ν (C-C), δ (HCC)
1103 Δ (HCC)
1312 Ν (C-C), ω (CH2)
1356 Δ (HCC), ω (CH2)
1458 Δ (HCH)
2850 Ν (C-H) in CH2 groups
2910 Ν (C-H) in CH2 groups
2930 Ν (C-H) in CH2 groups
* Legends correspond to different types of oscillations: δ – deformation, ν – stretching, ρ, ω – out of plane deformation vibrations of CH2 groups.

Optical activity

If adamantane molecules have four different substituents at every nodal carbon cite then they are chiral and optically active. As in biphenyls, the center of chirality does not belong to any particular carbon atom.[26] Such optical activity has been described in adamantane in 1969 with the four different substituents being hydrogen, bromine and methyl and carboxyl group. The values of specific rotation are small and are usually within 1°.[27][28]

Nomenclature

According to the rules of systematic nomenclature, adamantane should be called tricyclo[3.3.1.13,7]decane. However, IUPAC recommends using the name "adamantane".[1]

Adamantane numbering.png

The adamantane molecule is composed of only carbon and hydrogen and has high Td symmetry. Therefore, its 16 hydrogen and 10 carbon atoms can be described by only two sites, which are labeled in the figure as 1 (4 equivalent sites) and 2 (6 equivalent sites).

The closest structural analogs of adamantane are noradamantane and homoadamantane, which respectively contain one less and one more CH2 link than the adamantane.

Chemical properties

Usually, hydrocarbons which contain only σ-bonds are relatively inert chemically. However, adamantane and its derivatives are highly reactive. This property is particularly evident in the ionic reactions where carbocations are formed as intermediates.

Adamantane cations

Adamantane cation can be produced by reacting 1-fluoro-adamantane with SbF5 and it has high stability compared with other tertiary carbocations.[29][30].

Dication of adamantane was obtained in solutions of superacids. It also has elevated stability due to the phenomenon called "three-dimensional aromaticity".[31]

Adamantane dication.png

Reactions

Most reactions of adamantane occur via the 3-coordinated carbon cites and are described in the subsections below. The 2-coordinated, bridging carbon cites are much less reactive. It is involved in the reaction of adamantane with concentrated sulfuric acid which produces adamantanone.[32]

Adamantanone synthesis.png

The carbonyl group of adamantanone allows further reactions via the bridging cite. For example, adamantanon is the starting compound for obtaining such derivatives of adamantane as 2-adamantanecarbonitril[33] and 2-methyl-adamantane.[34]

Bromination

Adamantane readily reacts with various reagents brominating compounds such as molecular bromine. The composition and the ratio of the reaction products depend on the reaction conditions and especially presence of catalyst s.[18]

Adamantane bromination.png

Boiling of adamantane with bromine results in a monosubstituted adamantane, 1-bromadamantane. Multiple substitution with bromine is achieved by adding a Lewis acid catalyst.[35]

The rate of bromination is accelerated upon addition of Lewis acids and is unchanged by irradiation or addition of free radicals. This indicates that the reaction occurs via an ionic mechanism.[8]

Fluorination

First fluorinations of adamantane were conducted using 1-hydroxyadamantane[36] and 1-aminoadamantane as initial compounds. Later, fluorination was achieved starting from the adamantane itself.[37] In all these cases, reaction proceeded via formation of adamantane cation which then interacted with fluorinated nucleophiles. Fluorination of adamantane with gaseous fluorine has also been reported.[38]

Carboxylation

Carboxylation of adamantane was first reported in 1960, using formic acid as carboxylating agent and carbon tetrachloride as a solvent.[39]

Adamantane caboxylic acid synthesis.png

tert-Butanol (t-BuOH) and sulfuric acid were added to generate adamantane cation; the cation was then carboxylated by carbon monoxide generated in situ in the interaction between the formic and sulfuric acids.[8] The fraction of carboxylated adamantane was 55-60%.[40]

Hydroxylation

The simplest adamantane alcohol, 1-hydroxyadamantane, is readily formed by hydrolysis of 1-bromadamantane in aqueous solution of acetone. It can also be produced by ozonation of the adamantane:[41]

1-Adamantanol synthesis.png

Others

Adamantane interacts with benzene in the presence of Lewis acids, resulting in a Friedel–Crafts reaction.[42] Aromatically substituted adamantane derivatives can be easily obtained starting from 1-hydroxyadamantane. In particular, the reaction with anisole proceeds under normal conditions and does not require a catalyst.[35]

Nitration of adamantane is a difficult reaction characterized by moderate yields.[43] An important nitrogen-substituted drug amantadine can be prepared by reacting adamantane with bromine or nitric acid to give the bromide or nitroester at the 1- position. Reaction of either compound with acetonitrile affords the acetamide, which is hydrolyzed to give 1-adamantylamine:[44]

Preparation of amantadine.png

Uses

Adamantane itself enjoys few applications since it is merely an unfunctionalized hydrocarbon. It is used in some dry etching masks[45] and polymer formulations.

In solid-state NMR spectroscopy, adamantane is a common standard for chemical shift referencing.[46] In dye lasers, adamantane may be used to extend the life of the gain medium; it cannot be photoionized under atmosphere because its absorption bands lie in the vacuum-ultraviolet region of the spectrum. Photoionization energies have been determined recently for adamantane as well as for several bigger diamondoids.[47]

In medicine

All medical applications known so far involve not pure adamantane, but its derivatives. The first adamantane derivative used as a drug was amantadine – first (1967) as an antiviral drug against various strains of flu[48] and then to treat the Parkinson's disease.[49][50] Other drugs among adamantane derivatives include memantine, rimantadine, dopamantin, tromantadine, vildagliptin and karmantadin. Polymers of adamantane have been patented as antiviral agents against the HIV.[51]

Amantadine

Memantine

Rimantadine

Tromantadine

Vildagliptin

Potential technological applications

Some alkyl derivatives of adamantane have been used as a working fluid in the hydraulic systems.[52] Adamantane-based polymers might find application for coatings of the touchscreens,[53] and there are prospects for using adamantane and its homologues in the nanotechnology. For example, the soft cage-like structure of adamantane solid allow incorporation of guest molecules, which can be released inside the human body upon breaking the matrix.[15][54]

Adamantane analogues

Many molecules adopt adamantane-like cage structures. Those include phosphorus trioxide P4O6, arsenic trioxide As4O6, phosphorus pentoxide P4O10 = (PO)4O6, phosphorus pentasulfide P4S10 = (PS)4S6, and hexamethylenetetramine C6N4H12 = N4(CH2)6.[55] Particularly notorious is tetramethylenedisulfotetramine, often shortened to "tetramine", a rodenticide banned in most countries for extreme toxicity to humans. The silicon analogue of adamantane, sila-adamantane, has been synthesized in 2005.[56]

Adamantane

Hexamine

Phosphorus pentoxide

Phosphorus pentasulfide

Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine

Diamantane cages can be stacked together to produce higher diamondoids, such as diamantane (C14H20 – two fused adamantane cages), triamantane (C18H24), tetramantane (C22H28), pentamantane (C26H32), hexamantane (C26H30), etc. Their synthesis is similar to that of adamantane and like adamantane, they can also be extracted from petroleum, though at even much smaller yields.

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