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Relative reactivity of methyl iodide to ethyl iodide in nucleophilic substitution reactions in acetonitrile and partial desolvation accompanying activation
Kondo, Yasuhiko,Urade, Miyuki,Yamanishi, Yukari,Chen, Xinyu
, p. 1449 - 1454 (2007/10/03)
Through the examination of empirical correlations involving activation parameters for nucleophilic substitution of methyl iodide and of ethyl iodide, nucleophiles have been classified into three series: (1) nucleophiles with two equivalent reaction sites, (2) nucleophiles with a chlorine atom in the para-position, and (3) nucleophiles with a single reaction site. Three types of partial desolvation processes accompanying activation have been deduced on the basis of these classifications. A major factor determining the relative reactivity of methyl iodide to ethyl iodide in the substitution reaction of an anionic nucleophile having a single reaction site in acetonitrile (kMeI/kEtI) is suggested to be partial desolvation around the nucleophilic center on going from reactant to transition-state.
Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution. Part 28. The Mechanism of Nitration of Some 4-Substituted Anisoles and Phenols, and of Rearrangement of the Intermediate 4-Nitro-4-substituted-cyclohexa-2,5-dienones
Bloomfield, Colin,Manglik, Ajay K.,Moodie, Roy B.,Schofield, Kenneth,Tobin, Geoffrey D.
, p. 75 - 82 (2007/10/02)
The kinetics of nitration in sulphuric acid of 2-chloro-4-methyl-, 4-chloro-, 2,4-dichloro-, and 4-fluoroanisole and of the corresponding phenols have been determined.The reaction products from the anisoles and from 2-chloro-4-methyl- and 4-fluoro-phenol have been determined.Results for 4-methylanisole supplementary to earlier ones are also reported.Generally the anisoles give the 2-nitro-derivatives and the 2-nitrophenols, and from 2-chloro-4-methylanisole, 2-chloro-4-methyl-4-nitrocyclohexa-2,5-dienone was formed as an intermediate.The decomposition of this dienone in sulphuric acid, like those of others, changes from a non-acid-catalysed to an acid-catalysed form with increasing acidity.The first form is regarded as a decomposition into an aryloxyl radical and nitrogen dioxide which can recombine to give the 2-nitrophenol.The formation of a small amount of 2-(4-fluorophenoxy)-4-fluorophenol in the nitration of 4-fluorophenol is seen as support for this view.The acid-catalysed form is regarded as the decomposition of the protonated dienone into a phenol-nitronium ion encounter-pair which can give the nitrophenol.A consequence of the mechanism is that if the phenol were nitrated at less than the encounter rate, the phenol itself would in appropriate conditions be a product of the ipso-nitration of the original anisole. 4-Methyl-, 2-chloro-4-methyl-, and 4-chloro-phenol have been so identified.Quantitative analysis of the results allows evaluation of the partitioning of dienone decomposition between the two modes.The mechanism accounts for the formation from 2,4-dichloro-anisole of both 2,4-dichloro-6- and 2,4-dichloro-5-nitroanisole, but only 2,4-dichloro-6-nitrophenol.
