Evidence for a solvent-induced change in the rate-determining step in the water-catalyzed hydrolysis of the dimethylimmonium ion of benzophenone

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 768-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesa Gopalakrishnan ◽  
John L. Hogg

Author(s):  
Ik-Hwan Um ◽  
Seungjae Kim

Second-order rate constants (kN) for reactions of p-nitrophenyl acetate (1) and S-p-nitrophenyl thioacetate (2) with OH‒ have been measured spectrophotometrically in DMSO-H2O mixtures of varying compositions at 25.0 ± 0.1 oC. The kN value increases from 11.6 to 32,800 M‒1s‒1 for the reactions of 1 and from 5.90 to 190,000 M‒1s‒1 for those of 2 as the reaction medium changes from H2O to 80 mol % DMSO, indicating that the effect of medium on reactivity is more remarkable for the reactions of 2 than for those of 1. Although 2 possesses a better leaving group than 1, the former is less reactive than the latter by a factor of 2 in H2O. This implies that expulsion of the leaving group is not advanced in the rate-determining transition state (TS), i.e., the reactions of 1 and 2 with OH‒ proceed through a stepwise mechanism, in which expulsion of the leaving group from the addition intermediate occurs after the rate-determining step (RDS). Addition of DMSO to H2O would destabilize OH‒ through electronic repulsion between the anion and the negative-dipole end in DMSO. However, destabilization of OH‒ in the ground state (GS) is not solely responsible for the remarkably enhanced reactivity upon addition of DMSO to the medium. The effect of medium on reactivity has been dissected into the GS and TS contributions through combination of the kinetic data with the transfer enthalpies (ΔΔHtr) from H2O to DMSO-H2O mixtures for OH‒ ion.





1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Chiang ◽  
W. K. Chwang ◽  
A. J. Kresge ◽  
S. Szilagyi

Rates of hydrolysis of 1-ethoxy-3,3,5,5-tetramethylcyclopentene and 1-methoxy-2,3,3,5,5-pentamethylcyclopentene measured in mineral acid and formic and acetic acid buffer solutions show general acid catalysis and give large kinetic isotope effects in the normal direction (kH/kD > 1). This indicates that these reactions proceed by the conventional mechanism for vinyl ether hydrolysis in which proton transfer from the catalyzing acid to the substrate is rate-determining, and that the I-strain in these substrates is insufficiently great to shift the reaction mechanism to rapidly reversible substrate protonation followed by rate-determining hydration of the ensuing cationic intermediate.



1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 307 ◽  
Author(s):  
CJ Giffney ◽  
CJ O'Connor

A new kinetic equation, based on a reaction mechanism in which water attacks the N-protonated conjugate acid in the rate-determining step, is formulated for the acid-catalysed hydrolysis of arnides. The equation is well fitted by 60 sets of data for hydrolysis of both aliphatic and aromatic amides.



2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 603-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khamis A. Abbas

The rate constants of the hydrolysis of p-substituted benzonitriles with sulfuric acid solutions (18.2 M to 10 M) have been determined spectrophotometrically at (25.1±0.1) °C. It was found that the catalytic activity of sulfuric acid was strongly inhibited by water. The logarithms of the observed rate constants were correlated with different substituent inductive (localized) and resonance (delocalized) constants. The results of the correlation studies indicated that the rate-determining step of the hydrolysis of benzonitriles in 18.2 M sulfuric acid was the addition of a nucleophile, and the hydrolysis was clearly enhanced by the electron-withdrawing inductive effect, while the rate-determining step of the hydrolysis of p-substituted benzonitriles in 10.0 M sulfuric acid was most probably the protonation of benzonitriles, and the rate constants increased by both electron-donating resonance and inductive effects. A mixture of the two mechanisms most probably occurred in 15.3 to 17.0 M sulfuric acid. HSO4 − rather thanwater most probably acted as nucleophile in the hydrolysis of benzonitriles especially at high concentrations of sulfuric acid solutions.



2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (31) ◽  
pp. 7365-7374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramprasad Misra ◽  
Amiram Hirshfeld ◽  
Mordechai Sheves

Studies of microbial rhodopsins revealed that hydrolysis of the retinal protonated Schiff base is the rate-determining step of the thermal denaturation process.



1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 567-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otmane Bouab ◽  
Gérard Lamaty ◽  
Claude Moreau ◽  
Odile Pomares ◽  
Pierre Deslongchamps ◽  
...  

The rates of hydrolysis of orthoesters, 2,4,10-trioxaadamantanes, substituted in position 3 (R = H, CH3, C2H5, C6H5) have been determined at 25 and 40 °C in dioxane/water (60:40 by volume). Substitution of hydrogen by the groups CH3, C2H5, and C6H5 shows clearly a decrease in rate: 0.018 (CH3), 0.014 (C2H5), and 0.003 (C6H5). This decrease, in accord with substituent effects, plus the strongly negative entropies of activation observed, suggests that the rate-determining step is the addition of water to the carboxonium ion intermediate.



1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (8) ◽  
pp. 1093-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A. Cox

The mechanism of the hydrolysis of acetylimidazole in aqueous perchloric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric acid mixtures has been determined. Benzoylimidazole was also studied in the latter two acids. The method of analyzing the available data, pseudo-first-order reaction rate constants as a function of acid concentration and, in one case, temperature, is the excess acidity method, here applied to the same reaction in the three different acid media, allowing their comparison. The reaction is not acid catalyzed; the rates decrease with increasing acidity. The substrate reacts in the form that is monoprotonated on the imidazole ring; it is 100% protonated at acidities much lower than those used here. Acetylimidazole is shown to become diprotonated at high acidity [Formula: see text], protonating on the carbonyl oxygen, but the diprotonated form is not reactive. The hydrolysis involves the reversible addition of one water molecule to the substrate to give a tetrahedral intermediate; at low acidities the decomposition of this hydrate is the rate-determining step, but as the acidity increases and the water activity decreases its formation becomes rate limiting. Hydroxide catalysis was also observed in dilute perchloric acid, but this is swamped by nucleophilic catalysis by the acid anion in HCl and H2SO4. Keywords: acylimidazoles, excess acidity, hydrolysis, protonation, tetrahedral intermediate.



1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 2569 ◽  
Author(s):  
SC Chan ◽  
PY Leung

The disappearance of trans-[Co(LH)2(NH3)X] (LH = dimethylglyoximate ion, X = chloride or bromide) has been studied in aqueous solutions over a range of alkali concentrations at various temperatures. The kinetics were done with excess of hydroxide ion at a constant ionic strength so that pseudo first-order rate constants were obtained in all the runs. The results were interpreted in terms of the rapid formation of a pre- equilibrium species which then reacts in a rate-determining step to give products. The relatively large equilibrium constants support a conjugate-base pre-equilibrium, in which the proton is lost from oxygen, while the relatively low reactivities of the conjugate-bases are consistent with the absence of electropositive electromeric effects. The similarity in the reactivities of the chloro and the bromo conjugate-bases suggests the possibility of an SN2CB mechanism.



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