91-64-5 Usage
Description
Coumarin is a naturally occurring Benzopyrone compound that is found in a large number of plants belonging to many different families, including tonka beans, woodruff, lavender oil, cassia, melilot (sweet clover), and other plants. It is also found in edible plants such as strawberries, cinnamon, peppermint, green tea, carrots, and celery, as well as in partially fermented tea, red wine, beer, and other foodstuffs. Coumarin is a colorless crystalline compound with a pleasant odor, used in making perfumes. It has a sweet, fresh, hay-like, odor similar to vanilla seeds, and a burning taste with a bitter undertone and nut-like flavor on dilution.
Uses
Used in Flavor and Fragrance Industry:
Coumarin is used as a spice for the preparation of floral fragrances such as lavender, rosemary, and sweet clover. It is used in perfumes, cosmetics, soaps, and detergents as a flavoring agent for blending fragrances to make the aroma lasting and unchanged.
Used in Electroplating Industry:
Coumarin is used as an electroplating additive to prevent the occurrence of pores in coating and can increase the brightness.
Used in Printing and Plastic Industry:
Coumarin is used as the flavor enhancer of printing ink and plastic.
Used in Pharmaceutical Industry:
Coumarin is considered a blood thinner, and it can also increase blood flow. Some sources cite anti-oxidant capacities as well. It is used as a pharmaceutical aid (flavor) and has anti-neoplastic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-hyperglycemic properties.
Used in Laser Technology:
Coumarin, as a laser dye, has an output laser range within the blue-green region (420 ~ 570nm) and has high fluorescence quantum efficiency, such as 7-ethylamino-6-methyl-4-trifluoromethyl coumarin Lactone 307.
Note: Coumarin was formerly used as spices and cigarettes spices but was banned from 1977. Since then, China had also prohibited its application in food.
Brief Introduction
It is also known as 1, 2-benzopyrone, cis ortho-caberillin, o-hydroxy cinnamon lactone and coumarin. It is contained in many natural plants in the form of glycosides and esters as vanillin instead of free-form. Coumarin will come out when certain plants are fermented and processed. Coumarin is found in the seeds of Dayton beans (Riccinechoides) in 1820 and is widely distributed in the plant kingdom, especially in plant species including Umbelliferae, Soybean, Rutaceae and Calyx. Seeds contain about 1.5% of the coumarin. In addition, coumarin is also contained in lavender oil, cinnamon oil and Peru balsam. Coumarin is spicy with sweet and lemongrass aroma. The aroma is emitted from the pink gum in the leaves of the fragrant beans, and the gum is made from the breakdown of the coumarin glycosides in the leaves. The aroma emitted by Sweet alfalfa is actually from the release of coumarin due to fermentation and decomposition during the stacking process. Precipitate from the ether appears as orthorhombic white pyramid or oblique sheet-like crystals with Lemongrass-type smell. It can subject to sublimation.
Preparation
Coumarin is currently produced by Perkin synthesis from salicylaldehyde.
In the presence of sodium acetate, salicylaldehyde reacts with acetic
anhydride to produce coumarin and acetic acid. The reaction is carried out in the
liquid phase at elevated temperature.A process for the production of coumarin from hexahydrocoumarin by dehydrogenation has also been elaborated.Since the odor of coumarin is relatively weak, strong-smelling by-products (e.g.,
vinylphenol) must be removed. Many purification methods have been reported
and patented.
Synthesis Reference(s)
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 27, p. 4704, 1962 DOI: 10.1021/jo01059a541Tetrahedron Letters, 27, p. 3911, 1986 DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)83914-3
Air & Water Reactions
Insoluble in water.
Reactivity Profile
Coumarin is sensitive to exposure to light. Coumarin is also sensitive to heat. Coumarin is incompatible with strong acids, strong bases and oxidizers. Coumarin is hydrolyzed by hot concentrated alkalis. Coumarin can be halogenated, nitrated and hydrogenated (in the presence of catalysts).
Hazard
Toxic by ingestion; carcinogenic. Use in
food products prohibited (FDA). Questionable carcinogen.
Health Hazard
SYMPTOMS: Exposure to Coumarin may cause narcosis. It may also cause irritation and liver damage.
Fire Hazard
Coumarin is combustible.
Flammability and Explosibility
Nonflammable
Biological Activity
Oral anticoagulants can be prepared from compounds with coumarin as a base. Coumarin has been known for well over a century and, in addition to its use pharmaceutically, it is also an excellent odor-enhancing agent. However, because of its toxicity, it is not permitted in food products in the United States (Food and Drug Administration). One commercial drug is 3-(alpha-acetonyl-4-nitrobenzyl)- 4-hydroxycoumarin. This drug reduces the concentration of prothrombin in the blood and increases the prothrombin time by inhibiting the formation of prothrombin in the liver. The drug also interferes with the production of factors VII, IX, and X, so that their concentration in the blood is lowered during therapy. The inhibition of prothrombin involves interference with the action of vitamin K, and it has been postulated that the drug competes with vitamin K for an enzyme essential for prothrombin synthesis. Another commercial drug is bis-hydroxy-coumarin, C19H12O6. The actions of this drug are similar to those just described.
Contact allergens
Coumarin is an aromatic lactone naturally occurring in Tonka beans and other plants. As a fragrance allergen, it has to be mentioned by name in cosmetics within the EU
Safety Profile
Poison by ingestion,
intraperitoneal, and subcutaneous routes.
Questionable carcinogen with experimental
tumorigenic data. Experimental teratogenic
effects. Mutation data reported.
Combustible when exposed to heat or
flame. When heated to decomposition it
emits acrid smoke and fumes. See also
KETONES and ANHYDRIDES.
Synthesis
May be extracted from tonka beans; from salicylaldehyde and acetic anhydride in the presence of sodium acetate; also
from o-cresol and carbonyl chloride followed by chlorination of the carbonate and fusion with a mixture of alkali acetate, acetic
anhydride and a catalyst.
Environmental Fate
Coumarin toxicity is a function of blood and target tissue levels
of coumarin relative to the metabolic capacity of the target
organ. Cellular toxicity results when the formation of the toxic
moieties exceeds the capacity of the cell to detoxify. This can
have significant impact when comparing dosing by gavage to
dietary exposure.
Purification Methods
Coumarin crystallises from ethanol or water and sublimes in vacuo at 43o [Srinivasan & deLevie J Phys Chem 91 2904 1987]. [Beilstein 17/10 V 143.]
Toxicity evaluation
Coumarin is readily biodegradable. Coumarin is unlikely to
bind to soil. Coumarin does not bioaccumulate; the bioconcentration
factor has been determined to be <10–40.
Various environmental fate studies have shown that coumarin
in the environment would biodegrade and be lost to volatilization.
Losses resulting from photolysis may also occur.
Check Digit Verification of cas no
The CAS Registry Mumber 91-64-5 includes 5 digits separated into 3 groups by hyphens. The first part of the number,starting from the left, has 2 digits, 9 and 1 respectively; the second part has 2 digits, 6 and 4 respectively.
Calculate Digit Verification of CAS Registry Number 91-64:
(4*9)+(3*1)+(2*6)+(1*4)=55
55 % 10 = 5
So 91-64-5 is a valid CAS Registry Number.
91-64-5Relevant articles and documents
Two-photon-induced cycloreversion reaction of coumarin photodimers
Kim,Kreiling,Greiner,Hampp
, p. 899 - 903 (2003)
Photochemical reactions induced by two-photon-absorption processes offer several advantages over common one-photon initiated photoreactions, e.g., three-dimensional spatial control. We present the photocleavage reaction of coumarin photodimers via a two-photon process using pulsed frequency-doubled Nd:YAG-laser light. The two-photon-induced cycloreversion reaction leads selectively to the cleavage of the coumarin photodimers resulting in the formation of monomeric coumarin molecules. The two-photon cross section of the coumarin photodimer was determined to be of 1.6×10-52 cm4 s photon-1. The presented reaction is of interest, e.g., for the photo-triggered release of chemicals in areas which cannot be directly optically addressed due to cover layers which have a high absorption at the single-photon-absorption wavelength.
The Copper-Catalyzed Reaction of 2-(1-Hydroxyprop-2-yn-1-yl)phenols with Sulfonyl Azides Leading to C3-Unsubstituted N-Sulfonyl-2-iminocoumarins
Zhao, Yu,Zhou, Zitong,Liu, Lvling,Chen, Man,Yang, Weiguang,Chen, Qi,Gardiner, Michael G.,Banwell, Martin G.
, p. 9155 - 9162 (2021)
An operationally simple synthesis of Z-configured and C3-unsubstituted N-sulfonyl-2-iminocoumarins (e.g., 8a) that proceeds under mild conditions is achieved by reacting 2-(1-hydroxyprop-2-yn-1-yl)phenols (e.g., 6a) with sulfonyl azides (e.g., 7a). The cascade process involved likely starts with a copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction. This is followed by ring-opening of the resulting metalated triazole (with accompanying loss of nitrogen), reaction of the ensuing ketenimine with the pendant phenolic hydroxyl group, and finally dehydration of the (Z)-N-(4-hydroxychroman-2-ylidene)sulfonamide so formed.
Photocatalytic Oxidative [2+2] Cycloelimination Reactions with Flavinium Salts: Mechanistic Study and Influence of the Catalyst Structure
Hartman, Tomá?,Reisnerová, Martina,Chudoba, Josef,Svobodová, Eva,Archipowa, Nataliya,Kutta, Roger Jan,Cibulka, Radek
, p. 373 - 386 (2021/02/01)
Flavinium salts are frequently used in organocatalysis but their application in photoredox catalysis has not been systematically investigated to date. We synthesized a series of 5-ethyl-1,3-dimethylalloxazinium salts with different substituents in the positions 7 and 8 and investigated their application in light-dependent oxidative cycloelimination of cyclobutanes. Detailed mechanistic investigations with a coumarin dimer as a model substrate reveal that the reaction preferentially occurs via the triplet-born radical pair after electron transfer from the substrate to the triplet state of an alloxazinium salt. The very photostable 7,8-dimethoxy derivative is a superior catalyst with a sufficiently high oxidation power (E=2.26 V) allowing the conversion of various cyclobutanes (with Eox up to 2.05 V) in high yields. Even compounds such as all-trans dimethyl 3,4-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)cyclobutane-1,2-dicarboxylate can be converted, whose opening requires a high activation energy due to a missing pre-activation caused by bulky adjacent substituents in cis-position.
Ruthenium-Catalyzed Dehydrogenation Through an Intermolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer Mechanism
Huang, Lin,Bismuto, Alessandro,Rath, Simon A.,Trapp, Nils,Morandi, Bill
supporting information, p. 7290 - 7296 (2021/03/01)
The direct dehydrogenation of alkanes is among the most efficient ways to access valuable alkene products. Although several catalysts have been designed to promote this transformation, they have unfortunately found limited applications in fine chemical synthesis. Here, we report a conceptually novel strategy for the catalytic, intermolecular dehydrogenation of alkanes using a ruthenium catalyst. The combination of a redox-active ligand and a sterically hindered aryl radical intermediate has unleashed this novel strategy. Importantly, mechanistic investigations have been performed to provide a conceptual framework for the further development of this new catalytic dehydrogenation system.
Site-Selective Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Aliphatics Enabled by Organophotoredox/Cobalt Dual Catalysis
Zhou, Min-Jie,Zhang, Lei,Liu, Guixia,Xu, Chen,Huang, Zheng
supporting information, p. 16470 - 16485 (2021/10/20)
The value of catalytic dehydrogenation of aliphatics (CDA) in organic synthesis has remained largely underexplored. Known homogeneous CDA systems often require the use of sacrificial hydrogen acceptors (or oxidants), precious metal catalysts, and harsh reaction conditions, thus limiting most existing methods to dehydrogenation of non- or low-functionalized alkanes. Here we describe a visible-light-driven, dual-catalyst system consisting of inexpensive organophotoredox and base-metal catalysts for room-temperature, acceptorless-CDA (Al-CDA). Initiated by photoexited 2-chloroanthraquinone, the process involves H atom transfer (HAT) of aliphatics to form alkyl radicals, which then react with cobaloxime to produce olefins and H2. This operationally simple method enables direct dehydrogenation of readily available chemical feedstocks to diversely functionalized olefins. For example, we demonstrate, for the first time, the oxidant-free desaturation of thioethers and amides to alkenyl sulfides and enamides, respectively. Moreover, the system's exceptional site selectivity and functional group tolerance are illustrated by late-stage dehydrogenation and synthesis of 14 biologically relevant molecules and pharmaceutical ingredients. Mechanistic studies have revealed a dual HAT process and provided insights into the origin of reactivity and site selectivity.