- 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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- 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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