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Formation of Bromocarbenium Bromide Ion Pairs in the Electrophilic Bromination of Highly Reactive Olefins in Chlorinated Aprotic Solvents
Bellucci, Giuseppe,Chiappe, Cinzia,Moro, Giacomo Lo
, p. 3176 - 3182 (2007/10/03)
The kinetics and the products of bromination of several substituted stilbenes with tetrabutylammonium tribromide (TBAT) have been investigated in aprotic solvents at different temperatures. Stilbenes bearing electron-withdrawing or moderately electron-donating substituents gave stereospecifically the anti addition products. The reactions followed a second-order rate law, and an inverse kinetic isotope effect (KIE), kH/kD = 0.85(0.05), was found for the bromination of cis-stilbene. The reactions of cis- and trans-4,4-dimethoxystilbenes yielded mixtures of meso and d,l dibromides both in chloroform and 1,2-dichloroethane. The rate constants (kBr3-) measured for the latter olefins deviated considerably from the Hammett correlations, and added bromide had a significant effect on the rates. The reactions of these activated stilbenes with molecular Br2, carried out at low Br2 concentration, followed a mixed second/third-order rate law. The kinetic and product distribution data for the reaction, with TBAT, of stilbenes bearing electron-withdrawing or moderately electron-donating substituents are interpreted on the basis of the known mechanism involving a product-and rate-determining nucleophilic attack by bromide on the olefin-Br2 π-complex. The data related to the bromination of the more activated methoxystilbenes are rationalized considering that, for these olefins, even in aprotic solvents, the ionization of the initially formed 1:1 π-complex to a bromocarbenium bromide ion pair can compete both with the formation of a bromonium-tribromide ion pair and with the nucleophilic attack by Br-. For this second-order process (first order in Br2), the kinetic constants and the activation parameters have been measured in chloroform and 1,2-dichloroethane and the activation parameters have been compared with those related to the third-order Br2 addition and to the reaction with TBAT.
