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Aromatic iodination: A new investigation on the nature of the mechanism
Fabbrini, Maura,Galli, Carlo,Gentili, Patrizia,Macchitella, Daniele,Petride, Horia
, p. 1516 - 1521 (2001)
Following a suggestion by the late Lennart Eberson, we have employed the ICl-HFP (HFP being hexafluoropropan-2-ol) system in iodination reactions, and found unambiguous evidence for the occurrence of an ET-mechanism of halogenation. The evidence is based on the use of 'intelligent' substrates, which make it possible to fix the boundaries between the occurrence of an ET-mechanism and of a conventional polar mechanism. In an 'intelligent' substrate, in fact, the nature of the product(s) changes significantly depending on the operating mechanism. The ICl-HFP combination is instrumental to the onset of a one-electron oxidation with electron-rich substrates, followed by halogenation. The most prominent example is that of the electron-rich substrate durene (1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene, DUR), when compared to mesitylene (1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, MES): with a 'conventional' iodination system (i.e., I2/ Ag+) and in common solvents, where the polar mechanism holds, durene is less reactive (kMES/kDUR = 46 ± 3), but becomes more reactive (kMES/kDUR = 0.23) in HFP with ICl, where the ET-mechanism takes over. Other substrates also support the onset of ET-pathways in HFP. Finally, a preliminary survey of a biohalogenation reaction induced by laccase indicates the modest occurrence of a polar process of iodination with a few substrates.
