Intermediates in nucleophilic aromatic substitution. 15. Spiro Meisenheimer complex from catechol 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl ether. Rate-limiting proton transfer as a consequence of a very fast intramolecular nucleophilic attack

1976 ◽  
Vol 98 (20) ◽  
pp. 6265-6270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude F. Bernasconi ◽  
Hsien-Chang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Proton Transfer ◽  
Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Aromatic Substitution ◽  
Rate Limiting

scholarly journals Study of Kinetics, Equilibrium and the Influence of Steric Effects on Proton-Transfer in the Reactions of 2, 2, 4- and 2, 6- Substituted Anilines with 2-Phenoxy-3,5-dinitropyridine in DMSO

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 253-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basim H. Asghar
Keyword(s):  
Proton Transfer ◽  
Steric Effect ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Steric Effects ◽  
Substituted Anilines ◽  
Phenoxy Group ◽  
Kinetics Studies ◽  
Zwitterionic Intermediate ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Step Mechanism

Kinetic and equilibrium results for the reactions of 2-phenoxy-3,5-dinitropyridine (1), with a series of 2, 2, 4- and 2, 6- substituted anilines (2a-f), in the presence of DABCO in DMSO are reported. The reactions yield the 2-anilino derivatives (5), without the accumulation of intermediates. Kinetics studies are compatible with a two-step mechanism involving initial nucleophilic attack by amine at the ring carbon substituted by phenoxy group followed by either base-catalyzed or uncatalyzed conversion to the product. The base-catalyzed pathway is likely to involve rate-limiting proton-transfer from the zwitterionic intermediate to base. This work indicates a steric effect to proton transfer in reactions involving 2, 6-disubstituted anilines. The results were compared with those for reactions of 1, 3, 5-trinitrobenzene with anilines.

Concerted rate-limiting proton transfer to sulfur with nucleophilic attack at phosphorus — A new proposed mechanism for hydrolytic decomposition of the P=S pesticide, Diazinon, in moderately acidic sulfuric acid media

2007 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 421-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen Churchill ◽  
Julian M Dust ◽  
Erwin Buncel
Keyword(s):  
Proton Transfer ◽  
Organophosphorus Pesticide ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Acid Media ◽  
Hydronium Ion ◽  
Neutral Aqueous Solution ◽  
Region Product ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Acid Region

We report herein the first kinetic study of a P=S containing organophosphorus pesticide, Diazinon (1), in the moderately concentrated acid region. Product analyses (31P NMR) show that reaction occurs only at the P centre. The rate-acidity profile (kobs vs. molarity of H2SO4) appears as a curve in which the initial slight downward trace (molarity = 1 to ca. 5) is followed by sharper upward curve (molarity ca. 5 to 14). Using treatments involving the excess acidity (X) method, the A-1 and A-2 mechanistic possibilities were found to be inoperative over the full acidity range. A novel mechanism is proposed for the higher acidity (X ca. 2–6) region. This mechanism involves proton transfer to P=S from hydronium ion with concomitant proton transfer from water, which effectively delivers hydroxide to the P centre in a variant of the A-SE2 process. A putative A-2 mechanism in this region is supplanted by the proposed A-SE2 variant where the cyclic array results in proton transfer being efficiently coupled with nucleophilic attack involving water. This constitutes the first report of rate-limiting proton transfer at the P=S functionality in acid hydrolysis of this class of organophosphorus neutroxins. A 600 000-fold acceleration in the decomposition of Diazinon is associated with the change of medium from neutral aqueous solution to the most acidic medium studied (X ca. 6). Key words: phosphorothioate ester hydrolysis, acid catalysis, rate-limiting proton transfer at P=S, excess acidity analysis, new A-SE2 variant mechanism.

Reactions of 1-substituted 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenes with nucleophiles

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1453-1459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaromír Kaválek ◽  
Ahmad Ashfaq ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba
Keyword(s):  
Methyl Ether ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Equilibrium Constants ◽  
Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution ◽  
Aromatic Substitution ◽  
Phenyl Ester ◽  
Methyl Derivative ◽  
Rate Limiting Step ◽  
Limiting Step ◽  
Rate Limiting

Rate constants have been determined of nucleophilic aromatic substitution of 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl methyl ether (Ia), 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl ethanoate (Ic), 2,4,6-trinitrochlorobenzene (Ib), 2,4,6-trinitrodiphenyl ether (Id), 2,4,6-trinitro-4'-bromodiphenyl ether (Ie), 2,3',4,6-tetranitrodiphenyl ether (If) and 2,4,4',6-tetranitrodiphenyl ether (Ig) with methoxide, ethanoate and methyl cyanoethanoate (II) anions in methanol. For the compounds Ia,b rate and equilibrium constants of addition of the anion II(-) at positions 3 and 5 have been measured, too. In reactions of the compounds Ia to Ig with ethanoate anion the first (rate-limiting) step produces the phenyl ester Ic which reacts with a further ethanoate anion to give 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (Ih) and ethanoic anhydride. In reactions of the bromo derivative Ie and, to a still larger extent, compound Id the methyl derivative Ia is formed besides the compound Ih.

Carbon versus oxygen nucleophilic selectivity in the reaction of the aryloxide ions, 2,6- and 3,5-di-tert-butylphenoxide, with the 2-[(nitro)\dn6 xaryl]-4,6-dinitrobenzotriazole 1-oxide series of super-electrophiles. Stereoelectronic factors on C-7 Meisenheimer complex formation versus C-1' SNAr displacement

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 662-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian M Dust ◽  
Richard A Manderville
Keyword(s):  
Nmr Spectroscopy ◽  
Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Aromatic Substitution ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Sterically Demanding ◽  
Biphenyl Derivative ◽  
First Time ◽  
Electrophilic Site

The 2-[(nitro)xaryl]-4,6-dinitrobenzotriazole 1-oxides (1, Pi-DNBT (x = 3); 2, DNP-DNBT (x = 2); 3, NP-DNBT (x = 1)) are electron-deficient nitro-substituted heteroaromatic substrates that possess two sites for nucleophilic attachment: C-7 and C-1'. Generally, attack at the super-electrophilic C-7 site yields spectroscopically observable anionic sigma -bonded adducts, whereas attack at C-1' leads to displacement products in an overall process of nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr). To gain an understanding of the factors affecting C-1' versus C-7 attack by potentially ambident aryloxide (C- and O-)nucleophiles, we have monitored the reactions of 1-3 with 2,6-di-tert-butylphenoxide (2,6-ArO-) and 3,5-di-tert-butylphenoxide (3,5-ArO-) using 400 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy (deuterated dimethyl sulfoxide solvent at ambient temperature). The results indicate that 2,6-ArO- acts only as a C-nucleophile with O-attack precluded, presumably by the sterically demanding tert-butyl groups flanking the O-nucleophilic centre. Although 2,6-ArO- reacts preferentially at C-7 of 1-3, the biphenyl derivative that arises from C-1' attack is also observed with 1, the first time that C-nucleophilic attack has been seen at this electrophilic site. In contrast, 3,5-ArO- acts only as an O-nucleophile, also as a consequence of the steric hindrance to the C-4 position; this aryloxide reacts entirely at C-1' of Pi-DNBT but also exclusively at C-7 of 3. However, with DNP-DNBT, 2, both the C-7 O-adduct and C-1' displacement products are noted; attack at C-1' is dominant. The selectivity (C-7 versus C-1') found in these reactions is discussed with emphasis given to stereoelectronic factors that may stabilize the putative C-1' O-adducts.Key words: aryloxides, super-electrophiles, Meisenheimer complexes, 2-[(nitro)xaryl]-4,6-dinitrobenzotriazole 1-oxides.

scholarly journals Utilizing the σ-complex stability for quantifying reactivity in nucleophilic substitution of aromatic fluorides

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 791-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Liljenberg ◽  
Tore Brinck ◽  
Tobias Rein ◽  
Mats Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Nucleophilic Substitution ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Reaction Rates ◽  
Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution ◽  
Aromatic Substitution ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Aromatic Substrates ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
Mechanistic Analysis ◽  
Rate Limiting

A computational approach using density functional theory to compute the energies of the possible σ-complex reaction intermediates, the “σ-complex approach”, has been shown to be very useful in predicting regioselectivity, in electrophilic as well as nucleophilic aromatic substitution. In this article we give a short overview of the background for these investigations and the general requirements for predictive reactivity models for the pharmaceutical industry. We also present new results regarding the reaction rates and regioselectivities in nucleophilic substitution of fluorinated aromatics. They were rationalized by investigating linear correlations between experimental rate constants (k) from the literature with a theoretical quantity, which we call the sigma stability (SS). The SS is the energy change associated with formation of the intermediate σ-complex by attachment of the nucleophile to the aromatic ring. The correlations, which include both neutral (NH3) and anionic (MeO−) nucleophiles are quite satisfactory (r = 0.93 to r = 0.99), and SS is thus useful for quantifying both global (substrate) and local (positional) reactivity in SNAr reactions of fluorinated aromatic substrates. A mechanistic analysis shows that the geometric structure of the σ-complex resembles the rate-limiting transition state and that this provides a rationale for the observed correlations between the SS and the reaction rate.

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