- The α-effect in hydrazinolysis of 4-chloro-2-nitrophenyl x-substituted-benzoates: Effect of substituent x on reaction mechanism and the α-effect
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Second-order rate constants (kN) have been measured spectrophotometrically for the reaction of 4-chloro-2- nitrophenyl X-substituted-benzoates (6a-6h) with a series of primary amines including hydrazine in 80 mol % H2O/20 mol % DMSO at 25.0°C. The Bronsted-type plot for the reaction of 4-chloro-2-nitrophenyl benzoate (6d) is linear with βnuc = 0.74 when hydrazine is excluded from the correlation. Such a linear Bronsted-type plot is typical for reactions reported previously to proceed through a stepwise mechanism in which expulsion of the leaving group occurs in the rate-determining step (RDS). The Hammett plots for the reactions of 6a-6h with hydrazine and glycylglycine are nonlinear. In contrast, the Yukawa-Tsuno plots exhibit excellent linear correlations with ?X = 1.29-1.45 and r = 0.53-0.56, indicating that the nonlinear Hammett plots are not due to a change in RDS but are caused by resonance stabilization of the substrates possessing an electron-donating group (EDG). Hydrazine is ca. 47-93 times more reactive than similarly basic glycylglycine toward 6a-6h (e.g., the α-effect). The α-effect increases as the substituent X in the benzoyl moiety becomes a stronger electronwithdrawing group (EWG), indicating that destabilization of the ground state (GS) of hydrazine through the repulsion between the nonbonding electron pairs on the two N atoms is not solely responsible for the substituent-dependent α-effect. Stabilization of transition state (TS) through five-membered cyclic TSs, which would increase the electrophilicity of the reaction center or the nucleofugality of the leaving group, contributes to the α-effect observed in this study.
- Kim, Min-Young,Kim, Tae-Eun,Lee, Jieun,Um, Ik-Hwan
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p. 2271 - 2276
(2014/09/29)
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- Kinetic study on nucleophilic displacement reactions of 2-chloro-4-nitrophenyl x-substituted-benzoates with primary amines: Reaction mechanism and origin of the a-effect
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Second-order rate constants for aminolysis of 2-chloro-4-nitrophenyl X-substituted-benzoates (1a-h) have been measured spectrophotometrically in 80 mol % H2O/20 mol % DMSO at 25.0 °C. The Bronsted-type plot for the reactions of 2-chloro-4-nitrophenyl benzoate (1d) with a series of primary amines curves downward, which has been taken as evidence for a stepwise mechanism with a change in rate-determining step (RDS). The Hammett plots for the reactions of 1a-h with hydrazine and glycylglycine are nonlinear while the Yukawa- Tsuno plots exhibit excellent linearity with ρX = 1.22-1.35 and r = 0.57-0.59, indicating that the nonlinear Hammett plots are not due to a change in RDS but are caused by stabilization of substrates possessing an electron-donating group (EDG) through resonance interactions between the EDG and C=O bond of the substrates. The α-effect exhibited by hydrazine increases as the substituent X changes from a strong EDG to a strong electron-withdrawing group (EWG). It has been concluded that destabilization of hydrazine through the electronic repulsion between the adjacent nonbonding electrons is not solely responsible for the substituent dependent α-effect but stabilization of the transition state is also a plausible origin of the α-effect.
- Um, Tae-Il,Kim, Min-Young,Kim, Tae-Eun,Um, Ik-Hwan
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p. 436 - 440
(2014/03/21)
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- Effects of amine nature and nonleaving group substituents on rate and mechanism in aminolyses of 2,4-dinitrophenyl x-substituted benzoates
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Second-order rate constants have been measured for the reactions of 2,4-dinitrophenyl X-substituted benzoates (1a-f) with a series of primary amines in 80 mol % H2O/20 mol % DMSO at 25.0 ± 0.1 °C. The Bronsted-type plot for the reactions of 1d with primary amines is biphasic with slopes β1 = 0.36 at the high pKa region and β2 = 0.78 at the low pKa region and the curvature center at pKa° = 9.2, indicating that the reaction proceeds through an addition intermediate with a change in the rate-determining step as the basicity of amines increases. The corresponding Bro nsted-type plot for the reactions with secondary amines is also biphasic with β1 = 0.34, β2 = 0.74, and pKa° = 9.1, indicating that the effect of amine nature on the reaction mechanism and pKa° is insignificant. However, primary amines have been found to be less reactive than isobasic secondary amines. The microscopic rate constants associated with the aminolysis have revealed that the smaller k 1 for the reactions with primary amines is fully responsible for their lower reactivity. The electron-donating substituent in the nonleaving group exhibits a negative deviation from the Hammett plots for the reactions of 1a-f with primary and secondary amines, while the corresponding Yukawa-Tsuno plots are linear. The negative deviation has been ascribed to stabilization of the ground state of the substrate through resonance interaction between the electron-donating substituent and the carbonyl functionality.
- Um, Ik-Hwan,Kim, Kyung-Hee,Park, Hye-Ran,Fujio, Mizue,Tsuno, Yuho
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p. 3937 - 3942
(2007/10/03)
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- An unusual ground-state stabilization effect and origins of the α- effect in aminolyses of Y-substituted phenyl X-substituted benzoates
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Second-order rate constants have been measured spectrophotometrically for the reactions of X-C6H4CO2C6H4-Y with a series of primary amines in H2O containing 20 mol% DMSO at 25.0 ± 0.1°C. The reactivity increases as the substituent (X and Y) becomes a stronger electron-withdrawing group. The σ+ constants give better Hammett correlation than σ constants for the reactions of 4-nitrophenyl X-substituted benzoates with glycylglycine (glygly) and hydrazine (NH2NH2), indicating that the ground-state stabilization effect is unusually significant on the reaction rates. The reactions of X-C6H4CO2C6H4-Y with glygly and NH2NH2 appear to proceed through the same mechanism, but the degree of leaving-group departure and the negative charge developed in the acyl moiety at the rate-determining TS is considered to be more significant for the glygly system than the NH2NH2 system based on β(1g) and ρ(x) values. The magnitude of the α-effect is observed to be not always dependent on the β(nuc) value but dependent on the electronic nature of the substituent X and Y, i.e., an electron-donating substituent increases the α-effect, while an electron-withdrawing one decreases the α-effect. The present study has led to the conclusion that the ground-state effect is important for the reaction rates but it is not solely responsible for the α-effect, and the intramolecular H-bonding interactions (4) are proposed for the cause of the increasing or decreasing α-effect trends observed in the present system.
- Um, Ik-Hwan,Chung, Eun-Kyung,Lee, So-Mi
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p. 729 - 737
(2007/10/03)
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- Kinetics and Mechanisms of the Aminolysis of N-Hydroxysuccinimide Esters in Aqueous Buffers
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Rate constants for the aminolysis of the N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) ester of p-methoxybenzoic acid, in aqueous buffer systems (20percent dioxane), have been determined under pseudo-first-order conditions.For the amines studied (pKa = 7.60-11.1), the data fit the rate expression kobsd - kOH--> = k1free.This rate equation is in contrast to the two-term rate equation (kobsd = k1 + k22) obtained for this reaction in anhydrous dioxane (Cline, G.W.; Hanna, S.B.J.Am.Chem.Soc 1987, 109, 3087) and is suggestive of a disproportionate decrease in the catalyzed vs the uncatalyzed reaction path upon changing from a nonaqueous to an aqueous solvent system.The correlation of amine basicity with the nucleophilic rate constant, k1, yields a slope βnuc = 1.0.The magnitude of βnuc, in terms of a reaction mechanism where a tetrahedral intermediate is formed in a fast preequilibrium followed by rate-determining breakdown to products, reflects the sensitivity to changes in charge accumulation in the formation of the tetrahedral intermediate.The resultant increased rate constants, with increased basicity, are due to the effect of an increased concentration of the tetrahedral intermediate.A qualitative evaluation of the literature and current data concerning the leaving ability of N-hydroxy esters, in comparison to phenyl esters (equivalent acyl groups and nucleophiles), reveals that, with leaving groups of comparable basicity, the nucleophilic rate constants for N-hydroxy esters are about 2 orders of magnitude greater than that for phenyl esters.
- Cline, Gary W.,Hanna, Samir B.
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p. 3583 - 3586
(2007/10/02)
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