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Fragmentation of radical anions of polyfluorinated benzoates
Konovalov, Valery V.,Laev, Sergey S.,Beregovaya, Irina V.,Shchegoleva, Lyudmila N.,Shteingarts, Vitalij D.,Tsvetkov, Yuri D.,Bilkis, Itzhak
, p. 352 - 361 (2000)
A comprehensive study of the symmetry forbidden fragmentation of short-lived radical anions (RAs) has been undertaken for the complete set of polyfluorinated benzoates (C6FnH5-nCO22, n = 1-5). The decay rate constants (kc) of RAs have been determined in aqueous alkaline solution (pH 13.4) by electron photoinjection (EPI) from mercury electrodes and were found to increase dramatically from ≤3 × 103 s-1 (3-F - C6H4CO2-) to (1.2 ± 0.8) × 109 s-1 (C6F5CO2-). The regioselectivity of C-F bond cleavage in the RA fragmentation has been revealed by structure assignment of reduction products of the polyfluorinated benzoic acids by Na, K, and Zn in liquid NH3, as well as by Zn in aqueous NH3 and aqueous alkaline solutions. The kc values depend on the position of the cleaved fluorine to the CO2- group generally in the order para > ortho > meta, and to sharply increase if adjacent fluorine atoms are present. The observed trends reveal that the kinetics of the RA fragmentation reaction is not controlled by the reaction thermodynamics. Semiempirical UHF/INDO calculations, the validity of which has been confirmed by ab initio ROHF/6-31+G calculations, were done to rationalize the observed trends. The reaction transition state (TS) was considered to arise from the RA's and 2*states crossing avoided due to out-of-plane deviation of the cleaving C-F bond. The satisfactory linear correlation (R = 0.96) between the model reaction energy barrier Ea and log kc has been achieved with modeling the local solvation of the CO2- group by its protonation.
Proton transfer equilibria between disubstituted benzoic acids and carbinol base of crystal violet in apolar aprotic solvents. Chemometric analysis of disubstituent effects on the strength of benzoic acid in chlorobenzene
Sen Gupta, Susanta K.,Shrivastava, Ruchi
, p. 369 - 373 (2008/09/19)
Proton transfer equilibria in chlorobenzene between a set of di-substituted (2,3-,2,5-,2,6-, 3,5-dichloro and difluoro) benzoic acids including the corresponding mono-substituted acids and the carbinol base of crystal violet have been studied spectrophotometrically. To investigate the effect of disubstitution at ortho- and/or meta- positions on the strength of benzoic acid, the results have been analysed chemometrically on the basis of Fujita Nishioka's multiparameter approach and the assumption of additivity for substituent effects. The model employed explains 94% of the variance for the disubstituent effects on log K. It is observed that the substituent effect is contributed by ordinary electronic and proximity electronic effects in an almost equal ratio (52:48).
