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Ligand-free Cu(ii)-catalyzed aerobic etherification of aryl halides with silanes: An experimental and theoretical approach
Ahmed, Muhammad Naeem,Ahmad, Khalil,Yasin, Khawaja Ansar,Farooq, Tayyaba,Khan, Bilal Ahmad,Roy, Soumendra K.
, p. 11316 - 11333 (2019/07/31)
Owing to their wide occurrence in nature and immense applications in various fields, the synthesis of aryl alkyl ethers has remained a focus of interest. In contrast to the conventional/traditional methods of etherification, herein, we have reported a more efficient method, which is better yielding and more general in application. The etherification of aryl halides by alkoxy/phenoxy silanes was catalyzed by copper acetate in the presence of cesium carbonate and oxygen in DMF at 145 °C. All the as-synthesized compounds were characterized via the 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectroscopic techniques. Density functional theory calculations using the B3LYP functional were performed to elucidate the reaction mechanism. The C-O coupling reaction between 2-nitroiodobenzene and tetramethoxysilane was used as a model reaction. The activation energy barriers for the generation of catalytic species (31.6 kcal mol-1) and the σ-bond metathesis (16.0 kcal mol-1), oxidative addition/reductive elimination (20.3 kcal mol-1), halogen atom transfer (19.2 kcal mol-1) and single electron transfer (SET) (29.5 kcal mol-1) mechanisms for the C-O coupling reaction were calculated. Calculations for the key reaction steps were repeated with the B3PW91, PBEH1PBE, wB97XD, CAM-B3LYP and mPW1LYP functionals. The formation of catalytic species via a single electron transfer reaction between tetramethoxysilane and copper acetate, formation of methoxy radicals and methoxylation of copper showed an overall energy barrier of 31.6 kcal mol-1, and therefore is the rate determining step.
The kinetics and mechanisms of aromatic nucleophilic substitution reactions in liquid ammonia
Ji, Pengju,Atherton, John H.,Page, Michael I.
supporting information; scheme or table, p. 3286 - 3295 (2011/07/07)
The rates of aromatic nucleophilic substitution reactions in liquid ammonia are much faster than those in protic solvents indicating that liquid ammonia behaves like a typical dipolar aprotic solvent in its solvent effects on organic reactions. Nitrofluorobenzenes (NFBs) readily undergo solvolysis in liquid ammonia and 2-nitrofluorobenzene is about 30 times more reactive than the 4-substituted isomer. Oxygen nucleophiles, such as alkoxide and phenoxide ions, readily displace fluorine of 4-NFB in liquid ammonia to give the corresponding substitution product with little or no competing solvolysis product. Using the pKa of the substituted phenols in liquid ammonia, the Bronsted βnuc for the reaction of 4-NFB with para-substituted phenoxides is 0.91, indicative of the removal of most of the negative charge on the oxygen anion and complete bond formation in the transition state and therefore suggests that the decomposition of the Meisenheimer σ-intermediate is rate limiting. The aminolysis of 4-NFB occurs without general base catalysis by the amine and the second-order rate constants generate a Bronsted βnuc of 0.36 using either the pKa of aminium ion in acetonitrile or in water, which is also interpreted in terms of rate limiting breakdown of the Meisenheimer σ-intermediate. Nitrobenzene and diazene are formed as unusual products from the reaction between sodium azide and 4-NFB, which may be due to the initially formed 4-nitroazidobenzene decomposing to give a nitrene intermediate, which may then give diazene or be trapped by ammonia to give the unstable hydrazine which then yields nitrobenzene.
