1529-40-4Relevant articles and documents
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Matthews et al.
, p. 7006,7007-7014 (1975)
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Proton transfer from carbon acids to carbanions. 1. Reactions of various carbon acids with the anions of substituted benzylmalononitriles in 90% Me2SO-10% water. determination of intrinsic barriers of identity reactions from the marcus relationship
Bernasconi, Claude F.,Ni, Jiu Xiang
, p. 5060 - 5066 (1993)
A kinetic study of the reversible deprotonation of 9-cyanofluorene (2), 1,3-indandione (3), 4-nitrophenyl-acetonitrile (4), (3-nitrophenyl)nitromethane (5), and (4-nitrophenyl)nitromethane (6) by the anions of substituted benzylmalononitrile (1-X-) in 90% Me2SO-10% water (v/v) at 20 °C is reported. Intrinsic rate constants and intrinsic barriers of these reactions have been determined by extrapolation or interpolation of Br?nsted plots whose slopes (β) are all close to 0.5. Intrinsic barriers of the identity reactions CH + C- ? C- + CH (CH = 2,3,4,and phenylnitromethane) have been estimated on the basis of the Marcus equation, coupled with either a plausible value for the identity barrier of the reaction AH+ + A ? A + AH+ (A = piperidine or morpholine) ("amine method") or a plausible value for the identity barrier of the reaction 2 + 2- ? 2- + 2 ("9-cyanofluorene method"). There are discrepancies in the identity barriers for CH + C- ? C- + CH (CH = 2, 3, 4, and phenylnitromethane) calculated by the two methods. Possible reasons for these discrepancies and the significance of the results in terms of the validity and scope of the Marcus equation are discussed.
Basicities and Nucleophilicities of Pyrrolidines and Imidazolidinones Used as Organocatalysts
An, Feng,Maji, Biplab,Min, Elizabeth,Ofial, Armin R.,Mayr, Herbert
supporting information, p. 1526 - 1547 (2020/02/04)
The Br?nsted basicities pKaH (i.e., pKa of the conjugate acids) of 32 pyrrolidines and imidazolidinones, commonly used in organocatalytic reactions, have been determined photometrically in acetonitrile solution using CH acids as indicators. Most investigated pyrrolidines have basicities in the range 16 aH aH aH 12.6) and the 2-imidazoliummethyl-substituted pyrrolidine A21 (pKaH 11.1) are outside the typical range for pyrrolidines with basicities comparable to those of imidazolidinones. Kinetics of the reactions of these 32 organocatalysts with benzhydrylium ions (Ar2CH+) and structurally related quinone methides, common reference electrophiles for quantifying nucleophilic reactivities, have been measured photometrically. Most reactions followed second-order kinetics, first order in amine and first order in electrophile. More complex kinetics were observed for the reactions of imidazolidinones and several pyrrolidines carrying bulky 2-substituents, due to reversibility of the initial attack of the amines at the electrophiles followed by rate-determining deprotonation of the intermediate ammonium ions. In the presence of 2,4,6-collidine or 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methyl-pyridine, the deprotonation of the initial adducts became faster, which allowed the rate of the attack of the amines at the electrophiles to be determined. The resulting second-order rate constants k2 followed the correlation log?k2(20 °C) = sN(N + E), where electrophiles are characterized by one parameter (E) and nucleophiles are characterized by the two solvent-dependent parameters N and sN. In this way, the organocatalysts A1-A32 were integrated in our comprehensive nucleophilicity scale, which compares n-, -, and σ-nucleophiles. The nucleophilic reactivities of the title compounds correlate only poorly with their Br?nsted basicities.
Different behavior of nitrenes and carbenes on photolysis and thermolysis: Formation of azirine, ylidic cumulene, and cyclic ketenimine and the rearrangement of 6-phenanthridylcarbene to 9-phenanthrylnitrene
Kvaskoff, David,Bednarek, Pawel,George, Lisa,Pankajakshan, Sreekumar,Wentrup, Curt
, p. 7947 - 7955 (2007/10/03)
Flash vacuum thermolysis (FVT) of 9-azidophenanthrene 8, 6-(5-tetrazolyl)phenanthridine 18, and [1,2,3]triazolo[l,5-f]phenanthridine 19 yields 9-cyanofluorene 12 as the principal product and 4-cyanofluorene as a minor product. In all cases, when the product is condensed at or below 77 K, the seven-membered ring ketenimine 24 is detectable by IR spectroscopy (1932 cm-1) up to 200 K. Photolysis of Ar matrix isolated 8 at λ = 308 or 313 nm generates at first the azirine 26, rapidly followed by the ylidic cumulene 27. The latter reverts to azirine 26 at λ > 405 nm, and the azirine reverts to the ylidic cumulene at 313 nm. Nitrene 9 is observed by ESR spectroscopy following FVT of either azide 8, tetrazole 18, or triazole 19 with Ar matrix isolation of the products. Nitrene 9 and carbene 21 are observed by ESR spectroscopy in the Ar matrix photolyses of azide 8 and triazole 19, respectively.
