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Concerted Acetyl Group Transfer between Substituted Phenolate Ion Nucleophiles: Variation of Transition-State Structure as a Function of Substituent
Ba-Saif, Salem,Luthra, Ajay K.,Williams, Andrew
, p. 2647 - 2652 (1989)
Second-order rate constants (kArO) have been measured for the concerted displacement of aryl oxide from aryl acetates in aqueous solution by substituted phenoxide ions.Values of kArO obey linear Bronsted correlations when either the leaving group or the attacking phenolate ion structures are varied.The Bronsted coefficients obey the equations βnuc = 0.20pK1g - 0.68 and β1g = 0.15pKnuc - 1.73 to a good degree of precision, and the variation indicates that the structure of the transition-state changes within the range of phenolate ions studied; this alsoprovides confirmation that a concerted mechanism operates.The equations for βnuc and β1g predict the equation (log kii = 0.17pKa2 - 2.41pKa + C) for kii, the rate constant for the reaction of aryl oxide ion with acetates bearing identical aryl oxide leaving groups.The identity rate constants may be interpolated from the observed rate constants (kArO) and exhibit excellent fit to the above equation with the single disposable parameter, C, set at 6.5.This is the first report of curvature in a Bronsted plot of identity rate constants.Effective charge development and loss on leaving and attacking oxyanions is fully balanced in the transition state when entering and leaving nucleophiles have a pKa of 7.1.Tetrahedral or acylium ion-like transition-state structures are predicted for hypothetical phenols with pKa's of 11.7 and 2.0, respectively.
Proton transfers among oxygen and nitrogen acids and bases in DMSO solution
Ritchie, Calvin D.,Lu, Shanzheng
, p. 7748 - 7756 (2007/10/02)
Rate constants for the proton-transfer reactions between conjugate acids and bases of several amines, phenols, carboxylic acids, and the solvated proton in DMSO-d6 at 20 °C have been determined by the use of NMR line-shape analysis. Equilibrium constants for the same reactions are obtained from the pKa's of the acids in dimethyl sulfoxide, some of which have been reported in earlier work and the rest obtained in the present work by use of Bordwell's indicator techniques. All of the reactions have rale constants considerably below expected diffusion-controlled limits for the proton transfers in the thermodynamically favorable direction, and several of the reactions, including the identity reactions of carboxylic acids, have kinetic deuterium isotope effects, kH/kD, between 0.8 and 1.3. For reactions of N,N-dimethylbenzylammonium ion with several phenoxides, carboxylates, and solvent, the rate constants for transfers in the unfavorable directions show a reasonable Bronsted correlation with β ≈ 1 and a reasonably constant reverse rate constant of ≈3 × 106 M-1 s-1. The data clearly indicate that the proton-transfer step is not rate-limiting in these reactions. Most likely, desolvation is involved in the rate-limiting steps, but the rate constants are not simple functions of acidities as might have been expected if hydrogen bonding of acid to solvent were the major factor involved in the solvation Other factors, particularly dispersion interactions of solvent with solutes, are discussed. We suggest that the formation of an acid-base complex with proper orientation to allow contact between the proton and the basic site is rate-determining and involves desolvation along with detailed steric interactions of the acid-base pair.
