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Solvolytic Behavior of Aryl and Alkyl Carbonates. Impact of the Intrinsic Barrier on Relative Reactivities of Leaving Groups
Mati?, Mirela,Kati?, Matija,Denegri, Bernard,Kronja, Olga
, p. 7820 - 7831 (2017/08/14)
The effect of negative hyperconjugation on the solvolytic behavior of carbonate diesters has been investigated kinetically by applying the LFER equation log k = sf(Ef + Nf). The observation that carbonate diesters solvolyze faster than the corresponding carboxylates and that the enhancement of aromatic carbonates is more pronounced indicates that the negative hyperconjugation and π-resonance within the carboxylate moiety is operative in TS. The plots of ΔG? vs approximated ΔrG° for solvolysis of benzhydryl aryl/alkyl carbonates and benzhydryl carboxylates reveal that a given carbonate solvolyzes over the higher Marcus intrinsic barrier and over the earlier transition state than carboxylate that produces an anion of similar stability. Due to the lag in development of the electronic effects along the reaction coordinate, the impact of the intrinsic barrier on solvolytic behavior of carbonates is more important than in the case of carboxylates and phenolates. Consequently, the solvolytic reaction constants (sf) are generally lower for carbonates than for carboxylates. Because of considerable lower reaction constants of carbonates, an inversion of relative reactivities between aryl/alkyl carbonate and another leaving group of similar nucleofugality (Nf) may occur if the electrofuge moiety of a substrate is switched.
Solvolytic Behavior of Aliphatic Carboxylates
Matic, Mirela,Denegri, Bernard,Kronja, Olga
, p. 1477 - 1486 (2015/10/05)
The leaving group abilities (nucleofugalities) of a series of aliphatic carboxylates have been obtained by determining the nucleofuge-specific parameters (Nf and sf) from solvolysis rate constants of X,Y-substituted benzhydryl carboxylates in a series of aqueous ethanol mixtures by applyication of the linear free energy relationship (LFER) equation: log k = sf (Ef + Nf). These values can be employed to compare reactivities of carboxylates with those of other leaving groups previously included in the nucleofugality scale, and also to estimate the solvolysis rates of various carboxylates. It is confirmed that the inductive effect is the most important variable governing the reactivities of halogenated carboxylates in solution. Moreover, both the Hammett correlation and the solvolytic activation parameters have revealed a strong influence of the inductive effect on the nucleofugality of alkyl-substituted carboxylates. The reaction constants (sf) indicate that carboxylate substrates with weaker leaving groups solvolyze via later, more carbocation-like, transition states, which is in accord with the Hammond postulate. In addition, due to the weaker demand for solvation of transition states that produce more strongly stabilized benzhydrylium ions, in which more efficient charge delocalization occurs, the reaction constants (sf) obtained with most of the leaving groups investigated here increase as the polarity of the solvent decreases.
Nucleofugality and nucleophilicity of fluoride in protic solvents
Nolte, Christoph,Ammer, Johannes,Mayr, Herbert
experimental part, p. 3325 - 3335 (2012/06/17)
A series of p-substituted benzhydryl fluorides (diarylfluoromethanes) were prepared and subjected to solvolysis reactions, which were followed conductometrically. The observed first-order rate constants k1(25 °C) were found to follow the correlation equation log k1(25 °C) = sf(Nf + Ef), which allowed us to determine the nucleofuge-specific parameters Nf and sf for fluoride in different aqueous and alcoholic solvents. The rates of the reverse reactions were measured by generating benzhydrylium ions (diarylcarbenium ions) laser flash photolytically in various alcoholic and aqueous solvents in the presence of fluoride ions and monitoring the rate of consumption of the benzhydrylium ions by UV-vis spectroscopy. The resulting second-order rate constants k-1(20 °C) were substituted into the correlation equation log k-1 = sN(N + E) to derive the nucleophilicity parameters N and sN for fluoride in various protic solvents. Complete Gibbs energy profiles for the solvolysis reactions of benzhydryl fluorides are constructed.
Generation of diarylcarbenium ion poolsviaelectrochemical C-H bond dissociation
Okajima, Masayuki,Soga, Kazuya,Watanabe, Takashi,Terao, Kimitada,Nokami, Toshiki,Suga, Seiji,Yoshida, Jun-Ichi
experimental part, p. 594 - 599 (2009/11/30)
The "cation pools" of diarylcarbenium ions have been generated by the low-temperature electrochemical oxidation of diphenylmethane derivatives. In addition to diphenylmethanes having various substituents, 9,10-dihydroanthracene, dibenzosuberane, and xanth
The nature of the transition state in diarylmethyl cation - Nucleophile combination reactions as probed by secondary α-deuterium isotope effects
Van Pham, Thuy,McClelland, Robert A.
, p. 1887 - 1897 (2007/10/03)
Transition-state structures for the carbocation-nucleophile combination reactions of (4-substituted-4′-methoxydiphenyl)methyl cations with water, chloride, and bromide ions in acetonitrile-water mixtures have been investigated by measuring the secondary α-deuterium kinetic and equilibrium isotope effects. Rate constants in the combination direction were measured with laser flash photolysis. Equilibrium constants were measured for the water reaction by a comparison method in moderately concentrated sulfuric acid solutions, for the bromide reaction via the observation of reversible combination, and for the chloride reaction from the ratio of the combination rate constant and the rate constant for the ionization of the diarylmethyl chloride product. The fraction of bond making in the transition state has been calculated as the ratio log (kinetic isotope effect):log (equilibrium isotope effect). For the water reaction, there is 50-65% bond making in the transition state; this is also true for cations that are many orders of magnitude less reactive. The same conclusions, 50-65% bond formation in the transition state independent of reactivity, have previously been made in corre-lations of log kw vs. log KR. Thus, two quite different measures of transition structure provide the same result. The kH:kD values for the halide combinations in 100% acetonitrile are within experimental error of unity. This is consistent with suggestions that these reactions are occurring with diffusional encounter as the rate-limiting step. Addition of water has a dramatic retarding effect on the halide reactions, with rate constants decreasing steadily with increased water content. Small inverse kinetic isotope effects are observed (in 20% acetonitrile:80% water) indicating that carbon-halogen bond formation is rate-limiting. Comparison of the kinetic and equilibrium isotope effects shows ～25 and ～40% bond formation in the transition states for the reactions with bromide and chloride, respectively.
Flash-Photolysis Generation and Reactivities of Triarylmethyl and Diarylmethyl Cations in Aqueous Solutions
McClelland, Robert A.,Kanagasabapathy, V. M.,Banait, Narinder S.,Steenken, Steen
, p. 3966 - 3972 (2007/10/02)
A series of 18 triarylmethyl cations and 10 diarylmethyl cations have been generated by nanosecond laser flash photolysis of cyanide, 4-cyanophenyl ether, and acetate precursors in acetonitrile/water (AN/W) solutions and first-order rate constants for their reaction with the solvent (ks) have been directly measured following the decay in their optical density.In the standard solvent employed, 1:2 AN/W, the triarylmethyl cations which were studied had ks values at 20 deg C ranging from 1E1 s-1 (for the 4,4',4''-(MeO)3-substituted ion) to 9*1E6 s-1 (4,4'-(CF3)2), while diarylmethyl cations had ks values ranging from 1E5 s-1 (4,4'-(MeO)2) to 3*1E7 s-1 (4,4'-Me2).The parent diphenylmethyl cation and its derivative with one 4-methyl substituent were too short-lived (s of varying the amounts of acetonitrile were investigated for several cations.As water is added to 100percent acetonitrile, ks increases significantly, but at around 15percent by volume water, there is a leveling and from that point to 100percent water, ks is almost unchanged, decreasing by about 20percent.A plot of log ks versus ?+ constructed for the triarylmethyl cations shows significant deviations from linearity for the points for the ? donors, in the direction which indicates that ?+ is underestimating the stabilizing effect of these substituents for a fully formed cation.A plot versus ?C+, a parameter obtained from the analysis of NMR spectra of solutions of carbocations, is reasonably linear.A two-parameter correlation indicates that polar andresonance interactions of substituents do not proceed in parallel along the reaction coordinate, the addition of water to cation resulting at the transition state in the loss of 73percent of the equilibrium resonance effect but only a 33percent loss of the polar effect.A rate-equilibrium plot (log ks versus pKR) was constructed which covers 23 pKR units.A single line of slope 0.64 can be drawn to include the entire set of data for both triarylmethyl and diarylmethyl cations.From a small extrapolation the ks value for the tert-butyl cation in water is obtained as 1E10.5 s-1.
Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Carbocations. 10. Variation of Cationic Carbon Chemical Shifts with Increasing Electron Demand in 1,1-Diaryl-1-methyl (Benzhydryl) Carbocations
Kelly, David P.,Jenkins, Margot J.
, p. 409 - 413 (2007/10/02)
A series of 28 1-X-phenyl-1-Z-phenyl-1-methyl (benzhydryl) carbocations, where the X and Z substituents have been varied over the range of electron demand (3,4-CH2CH2O, 11; 4-OCH3, 12; 4-CH3, 13; 4-F, 14; 4-H, 1; 4-CF3, 15; 3,5-(CF3)2, 16), have been prepared from the corresponding alcohols by ionization in superacids and their 13C NMR spectra recorded at low temperatures (-70 to -10 deg C).Plots of the substituent chemical shifts of the cationic carbons (ΔδC+) at -70 deg C against ?C+ are linear for the electron donors (Z = 3,4-CH2CH2O to Z = H) of 13 - 16 and 1 but deviate upward from this correlation line (relative shielding) for the electron acceptors (Z = H to Z = 3,5-(CF3)2).The plots of the highly stabilized cations 11 and 12 approximate shallow curves where groups more electron demanding than 4-CH3 cause relative shielding of the cationic carbon.All these plots are interpreted in terms of competing resonance and localized inductive ?-polarization effects.
