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Kinetic solvent effects on hydrogen-atom abstractions: Reliable, quantitative predictions via a single empirical equation
Snelgrove,Lusztyk,Banks,Mulder,Ingold
, p. 469 - 477 (2007/10/03)
The rate of hydrogen-atom abstraction from XH by a radical, Y·, can be solvent-dependent. In many cases, the kinetic solvent effect (KSE) is directly related to hydrogen-bonding interactions between XH and the solvent. The relative hydrogen-bond acceptor (HBA) properties of solvents are given by β2/H constants of Abraham et al. (Abraham, M. H.; Grellier, P. L.; Prior, D. V.; Morris, J. J.; Taylor, P. J. J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2 1990, 521-529). Room-temperature rate constants for hydrogen-atom abstraction, kXH/Y·/S, have been determined in a number of solvents, S, where XH refers to several substituted phenols, tert-butyl hydroperoxide or aniline and Y· is a tert-alkoxyl radical. In all cases, plots of log(kXH/Y·/S/M-1 s-1) versus β2/H gave excellent linear correlations, the slopes of which, MXH, were found to be proportional to the hydrogen-bond-donating (HBD)ability of XH, as scaled with α2/H parameters of Abraham et al. (Abraham, M. H.; Grellier, P. L.; Prior, D. V.; Duce, P. P.; Morris, J. L.; Taylor, P. J. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2 1989, 699-711), with MXH = - 8.3α2/H. This leads to a general empirical equation which quantifies KSEs at room temperature: log kXH/Y·/S = log kXH/Y·O - 8.3α2/Hβ2/H, where kXH/Y·/O refers to the rate constant in a non-HBA solvent for which β2/H = 0, generally a saturated hydrocarbon. Since MXH depends only on XH, rate constants for hydrogen-atom abstraction from XH by any Y· can be accurately predicted in any of the several hundred solvents for which β2/H is known on the basis of one single measured rate constant, provided α2/H for XH is known or measured. HBA solvents can have profound effects on some of the reactions and thermodynamic properties of hydroxylic substrates including: (i) reaction product profiles (ii) antioxidant activities, (iii) Hammett-type correlations, and (iv) O-H bond dissociation enthalpies. Finally, literature data (Nielsen, M. F.; Hammerich, O. Acta Chem. Scand, 1992, 46, 883-896) on KSEs for two proton-transfer reactions are shown to be correlated by the same equation which correlates KSEs for hydrogen-atom transfers.
2,2-Di-(4-tert-octylphenyl)-1-picrylhydrazyl as an Alkane-Soluble Standard for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies
Dziobak, M. P.,Mendenhall, G. D.
, p. 274 - 280 (2007/10/02)
The title compound, a "waxy DPPH" was synthesized in three steps from p,p'-di-tert-octyldiphenylamine.The new radical showed spectral properties that were nearly identical to those of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), and it easily dissolved in all or
