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Equilibrium Constants for the Interconversion of Substituted 1-Phenylethyl Alcohols and Ethers. A Measurement of Intramolecular Electrostatic Interactions
Rothenberg, Marc E.,Richard, John P.,Jencks, William P.
, p. 1340 - 1346 (2007/10/02)
Equilibrium constants for the reactions of ring-substituted 1-phenylethyl alcohols with a series of aliphatic alcohols of pKa 12.4-16 to form the corresponding ethers, and for interconversion of the ethers, have been determined in 50:45:5 HOH/CF3CH2OH/ROH (v/v/v), μ = 0.5 (NaCIO4), at 25 deg C.Formation of ethers from the alcohols is favorable, with values of K = 3-74; replacement of water by methanol is favored by factors of 50-74.Equilibrium constants increase with increasing pKa of the alcohol with values of βeq = δlog K/δpKROH in the range 0.17-0.27.This is attributed to hydrogen bonding of the alcohol to the solvent and to an electrostatic interaction between substituents on the alcohol and the aryl group.The contribution from hydrogen bonding to the solvent is estimated to be β = 0.17; for 90percent HOH it is 0.25.An increase in βeq with electron-withdrawing substituents on the benzene ring and a complementary increase in ρeq with electron-donating substituents on ROH are described by an electrostatic interaction coefficient τ = δβeq/δ? = δρeq/δpKROH = 0.10 +/- 0.01.No change in τ for dipole-dipole interactions was observed with increasing water concentration in the range 50-90percent (v/v).The electrostatic interactions that are described by τ can cause changes in structure-reactivity parameters, such as ρ or β, in the absence of changes in transition-state structure.
Reactions of Substituted 1-Phenylethyl Carbocations with Alcohols and Other Nucleophilic Reagents
Richard, John P.,Jencks, William P.
, p. 1373 - 1383 (2007/10/02)
Selectivities of a series of substituted 1-phenylethyl carbocations toward alcohols and other nucleophiles have been determined by product analysis.The 1-(4-dimethylamino)phenyl)ethyl carbocation exhibits a high selectivity in its reactions with alcohols , with KEtOH/KTFE = 140 and βnuc = 0.5.The selectivity for activation-limited reactions with alcohols decreases progressively with increasing reactivity of the carbocation, in contrast to the behavior expected from the N+ scale of reactivity.A sharper drop in selectivity for carbocations that react faster than ca. 109 S-1 is attributed to an approach to limiting rate constants for the more reactive alcohol.The limiting selectivity of kEtOH/kTFE = 2 for carbocations with ks ca. 1011 S-1 may represent reaction from a pool of solvent molecules in which there is a modest charge-dipole interaction between the alcohol and carbocation.The relatively low reactivity of water corresponds to that expected for an alcohol of pKa ca. 13.This is ascribed to an imbalance between charge development and solvation of the transition state compared with H3O+.Substituted acetate anions react with the 1-(4-methoxyphenyl)ethyl carbocation with βnuc = 0.13.The selectivity decreases with increasing cation reactivity as the carboxylate ions approach limiting rate constants of ca. 5 * 108 M-1 s-1.This relatively low limit is attributed to a requirement for desolvation of basic oxygen anions before reaction.A dependence of solvent selectivity on the leaving group shows that the 1-(4-methylphenyl)ethyl carbocation reacts with solvent, in part, through an ion pair.Azide ion reacts from a pool that can be described by an equilibrium constant of Kas = 0.3 M-1.Styrene formation from this carbocation is catalyzed by a leaving carboxylate ion and by added buffers, wih β = 0.14.The equilibrium constant for the formation of a reactive base-cation pair is ca. 0.04 M-1.Rate constants for collapse of the ion pair, to form ester, and for proton removal, to form 4-methylstyrene, were estimated to be approximately 1.6 * 1010 s-1 and 6 * 107 s-1, respectively.The rate constants for deprotonation and for hydration of the styrene give the acid dissociation constant of the carbocation to form 4-methylstyrene, pKA = -11.2.
