Deuterium Isotope Effects in Some Acid-catalyzed Cyclizations of 2-Deuterio-2'-carboxybiphenyl

1958 ◽  
Vol 80 (13) ◽  
pp. 3285-3288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald B. Denney ◽  
Peter P. Klemchuk

1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (24) ◽  
pp. 7620-7624 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Romero ◽  
R. Stein ◽  
H. G. Bull ◽  
E. H. Cordes




1969 ◽  
Vol 91 (25) ◽  
pp. 7154-7158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeshayan Pocker ◽  
Martin J. Hill


1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (21) ◽  
pp. 3493-3501 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Edward ◽  
P. H. Tremaine

The rate-acidity profiles for the Meyer rearrangement–hydrolysis of phenylnitromethane in sulfuric, perchloric, and hydrochloric acid show a maximum near 3 M acid. Ring-substituted phenylnitromethanes also show a maximum in their rate profiles, at slightly different acid concentrations. These maxima arise because the slow formation of the aci-form is followed by two competing reactions: fast tautomerization back to the nitro-form, and fast rearrangement–hydrolysis to the Meyer products. The rearrangement is rate-limiting in dilute acid and is acid-catalyzed, causing the rate increase. In more concentrated acid, the rate-limiting step is the nitro to aci tautomerization, which is not acid-catalyzed, and which goes more slowly as the activity of water decreases.The tautomerization was studied by means of primary and solvent deuterium isotope effects, and was found to occur through proton abstraction by water, through a transition state closely resembling the products.



1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Velek ◽  
Bohumír Koutek ◽  
Milan Souček

Competitive hydration and isomerisation of the quinone methide I at 25 °C in an aqueous medium in the region of pH 2.4-13.0 was studied spectrophotometrically. The only reaction products in the studied range of pH are 4-hydroxybenzyl alcohol (II) and 4-hydroxystyrene (III). The form of the overall rate equation corresponds to a general acid-base catalysis. The mechanism of both reactions for three markedly separated pH regions is discussed on the basis of kinetic data and solvent deuterium effect.



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