Reaction of bis(2,4-dinitrophenyl) phosphate with hydrazine and hydrogen peroxide. Comparison of O- and N- phosphorylation

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Nonionic hydrazine reacts with anionic bis(2,4-dinitrophenyl) phosphate (BDNPP), giving 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazine and dianionic 2,4-dinitrophenyl phosphate by an S_N2(Ar) reaction, and at the phosphoryl center, giving 2,4-dinitrophenoxide ion and a transient phosphorylated hydrazine that rearranges intramolecularly to N-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)-N-phosphonohydrazine. Approximately 58% of the reaction at pD = 10 occurs by N-phosphorylation, as shown by ³¹P NMR spectroscopy. Reaction of HO₂^- is wholly at phosphorus, and the intermediate peroxophosphate reacts intramolecularly, displacing a second 2,4-dinitrophenoxide ion, or with H ₂O₂, giving 2,4-dinitrophenyl phosphate and O₂. Rate constants of O- and N-phosphorylation in reactions at phosphorus of NH₂-NH₂, HO₂^-, and NH₂OH and its methyl derivatives follow Broensted relationships with similar slopes, but plots differ for oxygen and nitrogen nucleophiles. The reaction with NH₂NH₂ has been probed by using both NMR spectroscopy and electrospray ionization mass and tandem mass spectrometry, with the novel interception of key reaction intermediates in the course of reaction.

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Reaction of Bis(2,4-dinitrophenyl) Phosphate with Hydrazine and
Hydrogen Peroxide. Comparison of O- and N- Phosphorylation
Josiel B. Domingos,† Elisane Longhinotti,† Tiago A. S. Branda˜o,† Leonardo S. Santos,§
Marcos N. Eberlin,§ Clifford A. Bunton,‡ and Faruk Nome*,†
Chemistry Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Floriano´polis, SC, 88040-900, Brazil,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California,
93106-9510, and Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Institute of Chemistry,
State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, 13083-970, Brazil
faruk@qmc.ufsc.br
Received July 23, 2004
Nonionic hydrazine reacts with anionic bis(2,4-dinitrophenyl) phosphate (BDNPP), giving 2,4-
dinitrophenyl hydrazine and dianionic 2,4-dinitrophenyl phosphate by an SN2(Ar) reaction, and at
the phosphoryl center, giving 2,4-dinitrophenoxide ion and a transient phosphorylated hydrazine
that rearranges intramolecularly to N-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)-N-phosphonohydrazine. Approximately
58% of the reaction at pD ) 10 occurs by N-phosphorylation, as shown by 31P NMR spectroscopy.
-
Reaction of HO2 is wholly at phosphorus, and the intermediate peroxophosphate reacts intra-
molecularly, displacing a second 2,4-dinitrophenoxide ion, or with H2O2, giving 2,4-dinitrophenyl
phosphate and O2. Rate constants of O- and N-phosphorylation in reactions at phosphorus of NH2-
NH2, HO2-, and NH2OH and its methyl derivatives follow Bro¨nsted relationships with similar slopes,
but plots differ for oxygen and nitrogen nucleophiles. The reaction with NH2NH2 has been probed
by using both NMR spectroscopy and electrospray ionization mass and tandem mass spectrometry,
with the novel interception of key reaction intermediates in the course of reaction.
Introduction
products of the initial reactions. In general, reactions of
NH2OH and its methyl derivatives with activated car-
boxylic and phosphate esters involve attack of hydroxyl,
rather than amino, groups at acyl or phosphoryl centers,
although in some systems attack of the amino group is
also observed. We also used ESI-MS and ESI-MS/MS to
monitor the reaction by “fishing” ionic intermediates and
products directly from solution into the gas phase. Novel
interception and structural characterization of key in-
termediates were accomplished. This MS technique and
NMR spectroscopy are complementary and powerful tools
to identify, monitor, and structurally characterize reac-
tion intermediates in solution.
In previous papers we discussed reactions of NH2OH
and its N- and O-methyl derivatives with bis(2,4-dini-
trophenyl)phosphate monoanion (BDNPP).1,2 Reaction is
strongly inhibited by O-methylation, and we concluded
that reactions with NH2OH and the N-methyl derivatives
occur largely by attack of the OH group on phosphorus.
The first-formed phosphorylated hydroxylamines can
undergo subsequent reactions, which were monitored
largely by visible absorption and 1H and 31P NMR
spectroscopy in the course of reaction and, for reaction
with NHMeOH, by identifying ionic intermediates by
electrospray ionization mass (ESI-MS) and tandem mass
spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS). In this work we examine
effects of amino or hydroxy- alkoxy- groups on nucleo-
philicities of hydroxy or amino groups for this series of
Results and Discussion
Kinetics and Products: Reaction with Hydra-
zine. Reactions of BDNPP with 0.1 M hydrazine at pH
4-12 were followed by the increasing absorbance at 400
nm and were first order with respect to BDNPP for over
3 half-lives, but in all cases more than 1.5 mol of 2,4-
dinitrophenoxide ion, DNP, was apparently liberated.
However, the kinetic form depended on [NH2NH2], as
shown in Figure 1, with a deviation from linearity in a
plot of kobs against [NH2NH2], which indicates that
different mechanisms are simultaneously involved in the
reaction with NH2NH2. We show below that the overall
initial reaction involves both dephosphorylation and
nucleophilic aromatic substitution.
-
R-nuclephiles and use NH2NH2 and HO2 as reagents.
These two nucleophiles are conceptually simple, in that
they react only via N- or O-attack, respectively. Com-
parison of reactions of these reagents with those of NH2-
OH and its methyl derivatives provides information on
the factors that control reactivities at phosphoryl and
aromatic centers and the stabilities, or otherwise, of
† Federal University of Santa Catarina.
‡ University of California.
§ State University of Campinas.
(1) Domingos, J. B.; Longhinotti, E.; Bunton, C. A.; Nome, F. J. Org.
Chem. 2003, 68, 7051-7058.
(2) Domingos, J. B.; Longhinotti, E.; Branda˜o, T. A. S.;Bunton, C.
A.; Santos, L. S.; Eberlin, M. N.; Nome, F. J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69,
6024-6033.
The data shown in Figure 2 are for the initial reaction
of BDNPP with NH2NH2, where in all cases the reaction
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SCHEME 1
TABLE 1. Overall Rate and Dissociation Constants for
Fitting the pH-Rate Profilesa
rate constant
value
k0 [s-1
]
1.90 × 10-7
2.92 × 10-3
6.00 × 10-5
1.38 × 10-2
2.95 × 10-1
7.98
kOH [M-1 s-1
]
kNH NH [M-1 s-1
]
]
3
2
kNH NH [M-1 s-1
2
2
kHO [M-1 s-1
]
2
+
pKa (NH2NH3
pKa (H2O2)
)
11.65
a Dissociation constants are from the NIST Standard Reference
Database 46, Version 6.0, distributed by NIST Standard Reference
Data, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
FIGURE 1. Dependence of kobs (9) on [NH2NH2] for nucleo-
philic attack on BDNPP in water at pH 10 and 25 °C.
hydrazine, respectively. The acid dissociation constant,
Ka, corresponds to formation of nonionic hydrazine
(Scheme 1), and because in the pH region of interest
(Figure 2) the diprotonated form of hydrazine will not
be present, the kinetic dependence on pH is fitted with
contributions from the neutral and monocationic species.
Values of the individual rate and acid dissociation
constants are in Table 1.
It is important to note that the apparent yield of DNP
in the overall reaction of BDNPP with 0.1 M NH2NH2,
estimated spectrophotometrically, is approximately 1.5
equiv, i.e., more than one molecule of DNP appears to
be formed, which indicates a complex reaction. However,
as we show below, the arene hydrazine formed in an SN2-
(Ar) reaction causes this complication because it and DNP
absorb in the same spectral region and product composi-
tion cannot be estimated from the absorption spectra.
1
Products were identified by H and 31P NMR and ESI-
MS. The NMR spectra allowed identification of the
overall products and also of a transient intermediate 2,
formed by initial attack of NH2NH2 on phosphorus and
detected after 13 min of reaction. A long-lived species, 3,
is then formed, probably spontaneously from 2, and does
not decompose in the course of the reaction (Scheme 2).
FIGURE 2. Dependence of log kobs on pH for nucleophilic
attack by 0.1 M NH2NH2 (9) and the spontaneous reaction
([) with BDNPP, at 25 °C.
is overall second order. Data for the spontaneous hy-
drolysis of BDNPP are included for comparison and in
fitting the kinetics, although its contribution and that of
attack of HO- are minor in the pH region of interest.1,3
The pH rate constant profile for the initial reaction of
BDNPP with hydrazine, shown in Figure 2, was fitted
by using eq 1:
1
The H chemical shifts and multiplicities of the signals
indicate that the 2,4-dinitrophenyl moiety is always
present in the arene derivatives, i.e., nitro groups are not
displaced by nucleophilic attack (Table 2).
In the course of studying the products on a larger scale,
a precipitate of 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazine, 4, was
isolated and identified by comparison of its NMR spec-
trum with that of authentic material. Compound 4 is
formed by aromatic nucleophilic substitution by hydra-
zine, with displacement of the monoester DNPP, 5, whose
1H and 31P NMR signals were identified. Therefore, the
apparent initial appearance of about 150 mol % of
aryloxide ion (DNP) in the disappearance of BDNPP is
an overestimation due to absorbance of aryl hydrazine
derivatives at 400 nm, where we initially attempted to
monitor formation of DNP. The initial yield of DNP,
kNH NH [NH2NH2]
3
2
kobs ) k0 + kOH[OH-] +
+
Ka
1 +
[H+]
kNH NH [NH2NH2]
2
2
(1)
[H+]
1 +
Ka
1
based on the H NMR signal areas, was only 58 mol %
where [NH2NH2] represents the total concentration, k0
is the rate constant for the spontaneous reaction, kOH is
that for reaction with OH-, and kNH NH and kNH NH are
(see below), consistent with the reactions shown in
Scheme 2.
3
2
2
2
The deviation from linearity in plots of kobs versus [NH2-
NH2], Figure 1, is kinetic evidence for the existence of
an intermediate in the formation of 4 and 5. This
rate constants for reaction with protonated and nonionic
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SCHEME 2
TABLE 2. NMR Spectra of Reaction Products of 0.01 M
carbon attack and 58 mol % for phosphorus attack, we
BDNPP with 0.1 M NH2NH2, in D2O, pD 10, at 25 °Ca
calculate values of kSNNHArNH and kNSNH(PN) H of 5.80 × 10-3
2
2
2
2
and 8.00 × 10-3 M-1 s-1, respectively (Table 1).
The transient species 2 (Scheme 2), generates 3, N-(2,4-
dinitrophenyl)-N-phosphonohydrazine, by a rearrange-
ment similar to those observed in reactions of BDNPP
with hydroxylamine and N-methyl hydroxylamine, as
discussed elsewhere.1,2 This rearrangement involves an
intermediate cyclic Meisenheimer complex, 6, but we saw
no evidence for its buildup, either in the NMR spectrum
or in the UV-vis region of the spectra where accumula-
tion of such an intermediate should generate the typical
color of a Meisenheimer complex. Formation of 3 occurs
via a route similar to the Smiles rearrangement,6 except
that it involves heteroatoms and is very rapid, consistent
with the high nucleophilicity of the NH2 group toward a
dinitro-activated aryl group (Scheme 3).
The unreactivity of 3 toward hydrolysis is understand-
able, because this reaction would require protonation of
a very weakly basic amino group. The rearrangement
generates the major final product of the overall dephos-
phorylation reaction because the N-phosphorylated prod-
uct, 2, is a high energy intermediate, which rapidly gives
3, with formation of an aromatic hydrazine (Scheme 2).
The behavior of 2 is different from that seen for the
corresponding intermediates observed in reactions of
NH2OH1 and MeNHOH2 for which similar rearrange-
ments do not compete effectively with other reactions of
the O-phosphorylated intermediates and only small
amounts of rearranged products are formed.
31P NMR δ [ppm]
(rel integrated
compd
1H NMR δ [ppm]
areas, %)b
DNP δ 6.74 (d, 1H, J ) 9.6 Hz, Ar), 8.11 (dd,
1H, Jab ) 9.6 Hz and Jbx ) 3.0 Hz,
Ar), 8.90 (d, 1H, J ) 3.0 Hz, Ar)
1
2
5
4
δ 7.80 (d, 1H, J ) 9.1 Hz, Ar), 8.58 (dd,
1H, Jab ) 9.1 Hz and Jbx ) 2.9 Hz,
Ar), 8.94 (d, 1H, J ) 2.9 Hz, Ar)
δ 7.75 (d, 1H, J ) 9.1 Hz, Ar), 8.55 (dd,
1H, Jab ) 8.9 Hz and Jbx ) 2.9 Hz,
Ar), 8.92 (d, 1H, J ) 2.9 Hz, Ar)
δ 7.86 (d, 1H, J ) 9.4 Hz, Ar), 8.48 (dd,
1H, Jab ) 9.4 Hz and Jbx ) 2.9 Hz,
Ar), 8.84 (d, 1H, J ) 2.9 Hz, Ar)
δ 7.68 (d, 1H, J ) 9.7 Hz, Ar), 8.26 (dd,
1H, Jab ) 9.7 Hz and Jbx ) 2.6 Hz,
Ar), 8.83 (d, 1H, J ) 2.6 Hz, Ar),
10.01 (s, 1H, NH), 5.05 (s, 2H, NH2)
δ 7.86 (d, 1H, J ) 9.7 Hz, Ar), 8.28 (dd,
1H, Jab ) 9.7 Hz and Jbx ) 2.5 Hz,
Ar), 9.08 (d, 1H, J ) 2.5 Hz, Ar)
-13.17 (0)
4.80 (0)
0.04 (42)
3
5.43 (58)
a Compound 4 was isolated from the reaction mixture and its
NMR spectrum was examined in DMSO-d6. b Relative integrated
areas of signals of 1 and products identified at complete reaction.
The formation of 2 depends on [NH2NH2] and on the
reactive form of hydrazine in solution. With 0.1 M
hydrazine and pH > 8 the formation of 2 is relatively
fast, relative to subsequent reactions, but at low pH its
formation is rate-limiting. Conversely, the ipso rear-
rangement of 2 is a slow intramolecular reaction, the
monoanion is the predominant form in solution, and
because we observed buildup of the first substitution
product in our reaction conditions, the rearrangement
cannot be very fast. Similar results were obtained in
reactions of BDNPP with hydroxylamines.1,2 In addition,
the overall reaction is followed by the increasing absor-
bance of dinitrophenoxide ion and the aryl hydrazine, so
kinetically the ipso rearrangement is invisible, a fact that
formation of an addition intermediate in the aromatic
nucleophilic displacement of 2,4-dinitrophenyl phosphate
is similar to those observed in the displacements of
phosphate ion from 4-nitrophenyl phosphate4 and of
methyl phosphate from methyl 4-nitrophenyl phosphate5
by piperidine and dimethylamine with attack at a carbon
center. These reactions also show a complex dependence
on amine concentration but change to first order in amine
as its concentration is increased.
1
The H and 31P NMR spectra (Table 2) allowed us to
separate the contributions of carbon and phosphorus
attack by hydrazine to the overall rate constant kNH NH
,
2
2
eq 1, from product ratios. From yields of 42 mol % for
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FIGURE 3. Typical ESI-MS mass spectra of the reaction mixture of 0.01 M BDNPP with 0.1 M NH2NH2 in aqueous methanol
(50% v/v) at pH 4-7.
SCHEME 3
indicates that there is no buildup of a Meisenheimer
complex and therefore it decomposes as fast as it forms.
as a function of time, and characterizing structures via
their collision-induced dissociation (CID) chemistry as
observed by ESI-MS/MS.
1
The H and 31P NMR chemical shifts and the relative
Figure 3 shows the ESI-MS spectrum after 15 min of
reaction of nonionic NH2NH2 with BDNPP in aqueous
methanol (50% v/v) at pH 10, at 25 °C. Major ions clearly
detected in the spectrum correspond to the reactant anion
1 (BDNPP) of m/z 429, isomeric intermediates 2 and 3
of m/z 277, DNP of m/z 183, 5 of m/z 263, and the final
product 4 of m/z 197. The overall appearance of the
spectrum and relative intensities of these ions changed
little from 1 to 60 min of reaction in solution, as indicated
by continuous ESI-MS monitoring. Each of these gaseous
signal areas (Table 2) are fully consistent with the
reactions shown in Schemes 2 and 3, indicating that
compounds 3 and 5 are the main final phosphoryl
products.
Structural analysis by mass spectrometry has greatly
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(ESI),7 because now molecules and supramolecules8 of
high polarity, molecular complexity, and mass can be
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SCHEME 4
SCHEME 5
TABLE 3. First-Order Rate Constants, kobs, as Function
of [HO2-] for Reaction with 0.01 M BDNPP, in Water, at
25 °C
[H2O2],
M
[HO2-],a
M
NaOH,
M
[HO-],a
M
kobs, s-1
pH
0.50
0.30
0.50
9.88 × 10-2
9.75 × 10-2
4.95 × 10-2
0.10
0.10
0.05
1.2 × 10-3 3.02 × 10-2 11.1
2.5 × 10-3 2.93 × 10-2 11.4
5.0 × 10-4 1.39 × 10-2 10.7
a Equilibrium concentrations.
SCHEME 6
Reaction with HO2-. Hydrogen peroxide is not very
reactive toward phosphate esters, but its monoanion,
HOO-, is a very effective R-nucleophile toward activated
acyl and phosphoryl derivatives.12 In the kinetic work we
used an excess of hydrogen peroxide over sodium hy-
droxide to limit reaction with HO- (Table 3). The reaction
was monitored by the appearance of DNP at 400 nm, and
all reactions followed first-order kinetics.
The results and conditions of reactions with BDNPP
are summarized in Table 3, with kobs as a function of
[HO2-]. The equilibrium concentrations of HO2- and HO-
(Scheme 6) were calculated from the stoichiometric
concentrations of H2O2 and NaOH and the equilibrium
association constant K ) (200 ( 20) M-1, corresponding
to a pKa of 11.65 with unit concentration of H2O2.13
The reaction of 0.095 HO2- with 0.01 M BDNPP has a
half-life of ca. 23 s (Table 3), and transient species are
too short-lived to be identified by 1H and 31P NMR
spectroscopy. Table 4 shows the NMR data for products
after 12 min of reaction. DNP is a major product, but
the monoester, DNPP (5), was also detected. It is an
intermediate in the overall reaction and decomposes over
time to inorganic phosphate (Pi), identified by its 31P
NMR spectrum, and DNP. In examining the products we
used a low concentration of H2O2 in the false hope of
increasing the lifetime of the first-formed peroxophos-
phate, 7 (Scheme 7).
FIGURE 4. ESI-MS/MS tandem mass spectra of anionic
intermediates observed in the reaction of 0.01 M BDNPP with
0.1 M NH2NH2 in aqueous methanol (50% v/v) at pH 10.
Spectra b and c were taken at 10 and 30 min of reaction,
respectively.
species was then mass-selected and structurally charac-
terized via CID with nitrogen in ESI-MS/MS experi-
ments. Figure 4 shows the ESI-MS/MS spectra for CID
of ions of m/z 429 (1), 277 (2 and/or 3, after 10 and 30
min of reaction), m/z 263 (5), and m/z 197 (deprotonated
4). These ions show dissociation behaviors that fully
match proposed structures as indicated by structural
assignments of fragment ions displayed in each respec-
tive mass spectrum.
Intermediates 2 and 3 in the above figure (Schemes 2
and 3) are isomers, and consistent with Scheme 2, the
ESI-MS/MS spectrum of the ion of m/z 277 changes
drastically with time. Spectra of samples taken after 10
min of reaction (Figure 4b) show that this ion dissociates
in the gas phase mainly into two fragment ions of m/z
183 and 79. The fragment ion of m/z 183 (DNP) is formed
from 2 (Scheme 4), whereas dissociation to ion of m/z 79
is characteristic of 3 (Scheme 5). Therefore 2 and 3 are
probably present in the reaction mixture at an early stage
of the reaction. After 30 min of reaction (Figure 4c),
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fragment ion of m/z 79 (Scheme 5). This observation
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is a dominant species, as shown in Scheme 2.
The reaction of bis(4-nitrophenyl) phosphate anion
with alkaline hydrogen peroxide involves simultaneous
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TABLE 4. NMR Spectra of Reaction Products of 0.01 M
TABLE 5. Rate Constants for Dephosphorylation in
Reactions of Nucleophiles with BDNPP
BDNPP with 0.1 M H2O2, 0.3 M NaOH, in D2O, at 25 °C
nucleophilea
pKa
k2 [M-1 s-1
]
water
-1.54
-0.24
4.60
3.42 × 10-9
3.48 × 10-5
2.64 × 10-5
3.00 × 10-3
6.59 × 10-3
3.96 × 10-3
8.00 × 10-3
2.95 × 10-1
4.07 × 10-1
2.92 × 10-3
hydrazinium
O-methylhydroxylamine
N,N-dimethylhydroxylamine
N-methylhydroxylamine
hydroxylamine
5.20
6.18
5.96
31P NMR δ [ppm]
hydrazine
7.98
1H NMR δ [ppm]
(yield, mol %)a
hydroperoxide ion
hydroxylamine monoanion
hydroxide ion
11.65
13.74
15.54
compd
DNP
δ 6.74 (d, 1H, J ) 9.6 Hz, Ar), 8.11
(dd, 1H, Jab ) 9.6 Hz and Jbx
3.0 Hz, Ar), 8.90 (d, 1H, J )
3.0 Hz, Ar)
)
a Dissociation constants are from the NIST Standard Reference
Database 46, Version 6.0, distributed by NIST Standard Reference
Data, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, except as specified in the text.1,2
5
δ 7.86 (d, 1H, J ) 9.4 Hz, Ar), 8.48
0.04 (58)
3.05 (42)
(dd, 1H, Jab ) 9.4 Hz and Jbx
2.4 Hz, Ar), 8.83 (d, 1H, J )
2.4 Hz, Ar)
)
NH2, HO2-, and hydroxylamine and its methyl deriva-
tives, which depend largely upon the relative affinities
of oxygen and nitrogen nucleophiles toward activated
phosphoryl and aryl centers. Initial reactions of OH
(or O-) are preferentially on phosphorus, but the adjacent
amino group in initial products of phosphorylation of
NH2OH or MeNHOH can migrate intramolecularly from
phosphorus to carbon,1,2 in a reaction similar to but less
competitive than that in the phosphorylated hydrazine,
3, Scheme 2, which generates the major product of
dephosphorylation.
Pi
a Relative signals areas of compounds identified at complete
reaction.
SCHEME 7
The initial products of phosphorylations of NH2OH and
HO2- can decompose intermolecularly by attack of NH2-
OH16 or H2O2,12,14 respectively, as shown in Schemes 7
and 8 for the latter reaction. This reaction cannot occur
with the methylated hydroxylamines.2 Intermediate 7
can also decompose intramolecularly, with displacement
of aryloxide ion at phosphorus and formation of a
transient P-O bond,1,13 cf. Schemes 7 and 8. We saw no
evidence for the corresponding reaction of the phos-
phorylated hydrazine, 2 (Scheme 2).
liberation of more than 1 equiv of 4-nitrophenoxide ion
(ArO-) per mole of substrate as for similar reactions.13
There is no evidence for buildup of an intermediate, and
it was suggested that the first-formed transient peroxo-
phosphate ionic intermediate (Int1) reacted very rapidly
with H2O2, generating the monoester, or intramolecu-
larly, giving the second aryloxide ion and inorganic
phosphate (Scheme 7).13 Epstein and co-workers had
observed a similar peroxo group decomposition by attack
of H2O2 in the overall reaction of Paraoxon, (EtO)2-
P(dO)O-C6H4NO2, with H2O2/HO2-, where the inter-
mediate, (EtO)2P(dO)OOH, reacts with the excess H2O2,
generating (EtO)2P(dO)O-.14
A similar reaction scheme fits the reaction of BDNPP
with formation of a peroxophosphate, 7, by initial attack
of HO2-, followed by decomposition forming monoester,
5, or intramolecular loss of the dinitrophenoxide ion, DNP
(Scheme 8). Both the initial reaction and the subsequent
intramolecular and the intermolecular reaction with
HO2- should be assisted by electron-withdrawing groups
in the arene moiety, and the disappearance of BDNPP
in our conditions is ca. 400 times faster than the
subsequent hydrolysis of monoester 5.15 The intramo-
lecular decomposition of 7 competes effectively with the
intermolecular breakdown of the peroxophosphate, which
forms DNPP, 5, consistent with formation of ca. 1.5 equiv
of DNP at complete reaction of BDNPP. The initially
formed peroxophosphate, 7, is a very short-lived species,
and we could not detect it by NMR spectroscopy or ESI-
MS.
Nucleophilic Reactivities. Initial reactions can in-
volve attack on phosphorus, preferentially by oxygen, or
on the dinitroaryl group, preferentially by nitrogen.
Insofar as all the nucleophiles react, at least to some
extent, at phosphorus but not at the aryl group,1,2 we
consider only rates of dephosphorylation in terms of
Bro¨nsted relationships. Table 5 shows the second-order
rate constants (kS2 (P)) for the initial reactions of BDNPP
N
at phosphorus with the different nucleophiles that were
used in the Bro¨nsted plot (Figure 5). Statistical correc-
tions were applied for hydrazine, following Bell and
Evans.17 We note that the pKa values used in Bro¨nsted
-
plots for NH2NH2 and HO2 are for the conjugate acids
at the reaction centers, whereas those for the NH2OH
and its derivatives correspond to protonation and depro-
tonation on nitrogen. This evidence for a simple nucleo-
phile might erroneously indicate that NH2 is the attack-
ing group, but in NH2OH and its methyl derivatives
deprotonation of the ammonium residue generates the
R-nucleophile, therefore increasing nucleophilicity at
oxygen by orders of magnitude.
Reaction Products. There are marked differences in
the nature of products of reactions of BDNPP with NH2-
N(P)
Values of log kS2
for phosphorylation on oxygen, for
the R-nucleophiles, fit on a common line with slope â ≈
(14) Epstein, J.; Demek, M. M.; Rosenblatt, D. H. J. Org. Chem.
1956, 21, 796-797.
(15) Domingos, J. B. Thesis, Departament of Chemistry, Federal
University of Santa Catarina, Floriano´polis, Brazil, 2003.
(16) Jandorf, B. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1956, 78, 3686-3691.
(17) Bell, R. P.; Evans, P. G. Proc. R. Soc. London 1966, A291, 297-
323.
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SCHEME 8
0.3, and the limited number of points for phosphorylation
on nitrogen show that the reactivity for methoxyamine
is decreased by approximately 1.5 log units from the
value expected for an oxygen nucleophile (but less than
this for hydrazine). The slope of the Bro¨nsted line is not
very different for reactions with H2O and HO-, but as is
general there is a decrease in reactivity of about 2000-
fold in comparison with the R-nucleophiles (Figure 5).
between nucleophilicity and basicity, and we are agnostic
as regards the general utility of Bro¨nsted relationships
in nucleophilic substitutions.
Conclusions
Reactions of NH2NH2 with bis(2,4-dinitrophenyl) phos-
phate monoanion involve nucleophilic aromatic substitu-
tion giving 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazine and the mo-
noester DNPP and dephosphorylation giving an inter-
mediate, which rapidly rearranges to a relatively stable
phosphonohydrazine. Both NMR spectroscopy and ESI-
MS(/MS) provide evidence of intermediates in the reac-
tion of BDNPP with NH2NH2 and complement the kinetic
data. We note that ESI-MS was used for reaction in
aqueous MeOH and the other methods were applied to
reactions in H2O (D2O). Strong signals of PO3- of m/z 79
were observed in the ESI-MS/MS spectra (Figure 4 and
ref 2). This ion has long been postulated as an intermedi-
ate in solvolyses of anions of phosphate monoesters. Its
existence in polar, nucleophilic solvents is uncertain, and
it has at most a very short lifetime in these conditions.20
-
The reaction of HO2 is dephosphorylation, and the
initially formed peroxophosphate is rapidly decomposed
by reaction with H2O2 or intramolecularly, generating
additional dinitrophenoxide ion.
N(P)
FIGURE 5. Dependence of log k2S
on pKa of the nucleo-
Comparison of the products of these reactions and
those of NH2OH and its methyl derivatives illustrates
the generally accepted strong preference for attack of the
OH group on a phosphoryl moiety and of an NH2 group
on an activated aromatic center. Rate constants of
dephosphorylation follow a Bro¨nsted relationship, but in
terms of relative positions on Bro¨nsted plots, as in Figure
5, the hydroxyl R-nucleophiles are more reactive than the
amino R-nucleophiles.
philes for dephosphorylations of BDNPP. Rate constants and
pKa values are statiscally corrected, lines drawn to guide the
eye.
There is extensive discussion of the source of the high
reactivities of these R-effect nucleophiles, including the
possibility of productive proton transfers that stabilize
the anionoid transition states.18 However, in terms of the
Avoided Crossing Model of nucleophilic substitution there
is no obvious reason to expect a simple relationship
between nucleophilicity and basicity.19 Such well-studied
reactions as substitutions at alkyl centers and dephos-
phorylations by fluoride ion show no obvious relationship
Experimental Section
Materials. BDNPP as the pyridinium salt was prepared
as described.3 The pyridinium ion was exchanged for sodium
ion on cation-exchange resin (Dowex 50W X8) in the Na+ form.
(18) (a) Edwards, J. O.; Pearson, R. G. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1960, 84,
16-24. (b) Um, I.-H.; Buncel, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 11111-
11112. (c) Hess, R. A.; Hengge, A. C.; Cleland, W. W. J. Am. Chem.
Soc. 1997, 119, 6980-6983.
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3209-3216. (a) Kirby, A. J.; Varvoglis, A. G. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1967,
89, 415-423. (c) Bunton, C. A.; Fendler, E. J.; Humeres, E.; Yang, K.-
U. J. Org. Chem. 1967, 32, 2806-2811.
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Reactions of Diaryl Phosphate with Hydrazine and H2O2
DNPP as the pyridinium salt was prepared by the method of
Rawji and Milburn.21 Hydrazine hydrochloride, 2,4-dinitro-
phenol, and hydrogen peroxide were of the highest purity
available and were used as purchased.
Kinetics. Reactions were started by adding 30 µL of a stock
solution of the substrate (10-3 M) in water to 3 mL of reaction
mixture, which contained a large excess of the nucleophile
(g0.1 M), ensuring strictly first-order kinetics for the initial
nucleophilic attack upon the substrate.1 Hydrazine solutions,
self-buffered by the amine/amine hydrochloride at pH 4.0 to
7.0, were prepared by addition of aqueous 0.1 M NaOH to
aqueous amine hydrochloride, or by borate buffer (0.005 M)
from pH 8 to 10, and NaOH was used at higher pH.1
Reactions were in H2O (or D2O) at 25.0 °C, followed by
appearance of DNP at 400 nm on a diode-array spectropho-
tometer with a thermostated cell holder. The pH of each
reaction mixture was measured at the end of each run.
Reactions with NH2NH2 and H2O2 gave strictly first-order
kinetics over more than 5 half-lives the reaction of BDNPP,
and observed first-order rate constants (kobs) were calculated
from the absorbance versus time profile, by using an iterative
least-squares program; correlation coefficients, r, were >0.996
for all kinetic runs.
and those of 31P are referred to external 85% phosphoric acid.
The value of pD was obtained by adding 0.4 to the observed
pH of solutions in D2O at 25 °C.22
ESI-MS and ESI-MS/MS. All MS experiments were per-
formed on a hydrid triple quadrupole linear ion-trap mass
spectrometer generally as described in ref 2. Typical electro-
spray ionization (ESI) conditions were as follows: 1 mL of a 1
× 10-6 M solution of BDNPP, in aqueous methanol (50% v/v)
at pH 10, was prepared, and 100 µL of 0.1 M aqueous NH2-
NH2 was added. A microsyringe pump was used to deliver the
reagent solution to the ESI source at a flow rate of 10 µL/min.
ESI and the mass spectrometer were operated in the negative-
ion mode. Conditions were curtain gas nitrogen flow, 20 mL
min-1; ion spray voltage, -4500 eV; declustering potential, -21
eV; entrance potential, -10 eV; collision cell exit potential, -12
eV. The anionic species were subjected to collision-induced
dissociation (CID) with nitrogen while ramping the collision
energy from 5 to 45 eV.
Products. Most of the products were identified by their
absorption, NMR, and mass spectra, with comparison with the
spectra of authentic material, of which BDNPP and DNPP
(designated 1 and 3), respectively, were prepared as described
above; 2,4-dinitrophenol was used at the appropriate pH. The
spectra of the hydrazine products were monitored from data
at pH such that reaction is wholly with NH2NH2.
NMR Spectroscopy. All spectra were monitored at 400
1
MHz for H in D2O at 25 °C, generally with a delay time of 1
s. Relaxation is slow at some nitroarene positions, and there
Acknowledgment. We thank PRONEX, CAPES,
CNPq-Brazil, and the Sa˜o Paulo State Research Foun-
dation (FAPESP), CNPq/NSF, and U.S. Army Office of
Research for financial support. Technical assistance
with the mass spectrometers from AppliedBiosystem
(Brazil) is gratefully acknowledged. Collaboration was
made possible by the NSF-CNPq Cooperative Program.
1
were increases of 15-20% in areas of some of the H signals
when the delay time was increased to 20 s, but these long
delays create problems in examining spectra in the course of
reaction.1 Most of the 31P NMR measurements during reaction
were made with a delay time of 1 s, but the areas did not
change when the delay time was increased to 3 s in measure-
ments at the end of reaction. The 1H chemical shifts are
referred to internal sodium 3-(trimethylsilyl) propionate (TSP),
JO048737K
(21) Rawji, G.; Milburn, R. M. J. Org. Chem. 1981, 46, 1205-1206.
(22) Fife, T. H.; Bruice, T. C. J. Phys. Chem. 1961, 65, 1079-1080.
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