- Reactions of nitroheteroarenes with carbanions: Bridging aromatic, heteroaromatic and vinylic electrophilicity
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The relative rate constants for the vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) of the anion of chloromethyl phenyl sulfone (1-) with a variety of nitroheteroarenes, for example, nitropyridines, nitropyrroles, nitroimidazoles, 2-nitrothiophene, and 4-nitropyrazole, have been determined by competition experiments. It was shown that nitropyridines are approximately four orders of magnitude more reactive than nitrobenzene. Among the five-membered heterocycles 2-nitrothiophene is the most active followed by nitroimidazoles and 4-nitropyrazole. Nitropyrroles are the least electrophilic nitroheteroarenes with reactivities comparable to nitrobenzene. Quantum chemically calculated methyl anion affinities (B3LYP/6-311 G(d,p)//B3LYP/ 6-31G(d)) of the nitroarenes correlated only moderately with the partial relative rate constants. The correlation of these activities with the LUMO energies of nitroarenes is even worse. By measuring the second-order rate constants of the addition of 1" to nitroarenes and to diethyl arylidenemalonates 10, it was possible to link the electrophilic reactivities of nitroheteroarenes with the comprehensive electrophilicity scale based on the linear-free-energyrelationship log k(20°C) = s(N + E).
- Seeliger, Florian,Blazej, Sylwia,Bernhardt, Sebastian,Makosza, Mieczyslaw,Mayr, Herbert
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supporting information; experimental part
p. 6108 - 6118
(2009/07/18)
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- Vicarious Nucleophilic Substitution of Hydrogen in Nitropyridines by α-Chloroalkyl Phenyl Sulfone Carbanions
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Nitropyridines and chloronitropyridines react with carbanions of α-chloroalkyl phenyl sulfones yielding products of the vicarious nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen at positions ortho and para to the nitro group.A general rule that the vicarious substi
- Makosza, Mieczyslaw,Chylinska, Barbara,Mudryk, Bogustaw
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