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The influence of nucleophile substituents on the orientation in the reaction between 2,4-difluoronitrobenzene and lithium phenoxides in liquid ammonia
Politanskaya, Larisa,Malykhin, Evgenij,Shteingarts, Vitalij
, p. 405 - 411 (2001)
The dependence of the orientation of aryloxydefluorination of 2,4-difluoronitrobenzene (1) (o/p ratio) by the action of X-substituted lithium phenoxides 2 (X = p-OMe, p-Me, p-Et, p-iPr, p-tBu, m-Me, H, p-F) in liquid ammonia in the temperature range from -55 to -35 °C has been investigated. The enthalpic preference for ortho-fluorine substitution decreases with weakening substituent electron-donating capability in the order: p-OMe > p-Me ≈ p-Et > m-Me > H ≥ p-F. The predominant fluorine substitution at the ortho position for X = p-Me, p-Et turns into a preference for substitution at the para position when X = p-iPr, and this increases further on going to X = p-tBu, PM3, AM1 and MNDO MO calculations showed greater stability of the intermediate anionic σ-complexes formed on nucleophile addition at the para position, thus suggesting that the predominant ortho substitution manifested for X = p-OMe, m-Me, H, p-F and p-Alk = Me, Et is due to control over orientation by the charge distribution in the substrate. The substrate electronic structure, as a controlling factor, is probably changed by the relative stability of intermediate anionic σ-complexes on going to p-Alk = iPr, tBu, as a consequence of an enhancement of the substituent's electron-withdrawing nature with the increase in alkyl group polarizability in the order: p-Me ≈ p-Et p-iPr p-tBu.
