The Hydrolysis of Amides in Acid Solutions - A New Kinetic Equation

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.



1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (22) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
C. JANET GIFFNEY ◽  
CHARMIAN J. O'CONNOR


1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1074-1080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. McClelland ◽  
Patrick W. K. Lam

A detailed kinetic study of the hydrolysis of a series of 3-aryl-2,4,10-trioxaadamantanes is reported. These ortho esters equilibrate with the ring-opened dialkoxycarbocation, in a very rapid process which could be studied using temperature-jump spectroscopy for aryl = 2,4-dimethylphenyl. Relaxation rate constants are of the order of 104 s−1; these could be analyzed to provide the rate constants for both the ring opening and the ring closing. Product formation from this equilibrating mixture is much slower. In acid solutions (0.01 M H+ −50% H2SO4), first-order rate constants for product formation initially increase with increasing acidity, but a maximum is reached at 20–35% H2SO4 and the rate then falls. This behavior is explained by a counterbalancing of two factors. Increasing acidity increases the amount of the dialkoxycarbocation in the initial equilibrium, but, outside the pH region, it decreases the rate of hydrolysis of this cation through a medium effect. Rate constants over a range of pH have been measured for two trioxaadamantanes and for the cation DEt+ derived by treatment of the ortho ester with triethyloxonium tetraafluoroborate. The latter models the cation formed in the ortho ester hydrolysis but it cannot ring close. Rate–pH profiles obtained in these systems are more complex than expected on the basis of rate-determining cation hydration. An interpretation is proposed with a change in rate-determining step between high pH and low pH. Cation hydration is rate determining at high pH but at low pH hemiorthoester decomposition becomes rate determining. Under these conditions the hemiorthoester equilibrates with both the dialkoxycarbocation and with the trioxaadamantane. The change in rate-determining step occurs because acid-catalyzed reversion of the hemiorthoester to dialkoxycarbocation is a faster process than acid-catalyzed hemiorthoester decomposition. This makes the latter rate-determining in acid solutions. Additional pathways available to the decomposition, however, make it the faster process at higher pH. A kinetic analysis furnishes all of the rate and equilibrium constants for the system, and provides support for the mechanistic interpretation. A comparison of these numbers with those obtained for the three stages in the hydrolysis of a simple monocyclic ortho ester underlines the novelty of the trioxaadamantane system.



2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayyed Mostafa Habibi-Khorassani ◽  
Mehdi Shahraki ◽  
Sadegh Talaiefar

Aims and Objective: The main objective of the kinetic investigation of the reaction among ethyl acetoacetate 1, ammoniumacetat 2, dimedone 3 and diverse substitutions of benzaldehyde 4-X, (X= H, NO2, CN, CF3, Cl, CH (CH3)2, CH3, OCH3, OCH3, and OH) for the generation of 4-substituted 1, 4-dihydropyridine derivatives (product 5) was the recognition of the most realistic reaction mechanism. The layout of the reaction mechanism studied kinetically by means of the UV-visible spectrophotometry approach. Materials and Methods: Among the various mechanisms, only mechanism1 (path1) involving 12 steps was recognized as a dominant mechanism (path1). Herein, the reaction between reactants 1 and 2 (kobs= 814.04 M-1 .min-1 ) and also compound 3 and 4-H (kobs= 151.18 M-1 .min-1 ) were the logical possibilities for the first and second fast steps (step1 and step2, respectively). Amongst the remaining steps, only step9 of the dominant mechanism (path1) had substituent groups (X) near the reaction centre that could be directly resonated with it. Results and Discussion: Para electron-withdrawing or donating groups on the compound 4-X increases the rate of the reaction 4 times more or decreases 8.7 times less than the benzaldehyde alone. So, this step is sensitive for monitoring any small or huge changes in the reaction rate. For this reason, step9 is the rate-determining step of the reaction mechanism (path1). Conclusion: The recent result is the agreement with the Hammett description with an excellent dual substituent factor (r = 0.990) and positive value of reaction constant (ρ = +0.9502) which confirmed both the resonance and inductive effects “altogether” contributed on the reaction centre of step9 in the dominant mechanism (path1).





1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Burt ◽  
Y. Chiang ◽  
A. J. Kresge ◽  
S. Szilagyi

The acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the nine-membered ring cyclic vinyl ether, oxacyclonon-2,8-diene, occurs with a normal isotope effect, [Formula: see text], which indicates that this reaction proceeds by the conventional vinyl ether hydrolysis mechanism involving rate-determining proton transfer to carbon. The specific rate of this reaction, [Formula: see text], may then be used to show that there is no significant ring-size effect on the rate of hydrolysis of a vinyl ether group in a nine-membered ring. The previously noted unusually great reactivity of the vinyl ether group in 9-methoxyoxacyclonon-2-ene, for which an unorthodox reaction mechanism has been claimed, must therefore be due to some other cause.



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.



2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 3212-3225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiila-Riikka Kiema ◽  
Rajesh K. Harijan ◽  
Malgorzata Strozyk ◽  
Toshiyuki Fukao ◽  
Stefan E. H. Alexson ◽  
...  

Crystal structures of human mitochondrial 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase (hT1) in the apo form and in complex with CoA have been determined at 2.0 Å resolution. The structures confirm the tetrameric quaternary structure of this degradative thiolase. The active site is surprisingly similar to the active site of theZoogloea ramigerabiosynthetic tetrameric thiolase (PDB entries 1dm3 and 1m1o) and different from the active site of the peroxisomal dimeric degradative thiolase (PDB entries 1afw and 2iik). A cavity analysis suggests a mode of binding for the fatty-acyl tail in a tunnel lined by the Nβ2–Nα2 loop of the adjacent subunit and the Lα1 helix of the loop domain. Soaking of the apo hT1 crystals with octanoyl-CoA resulted in a crystal structure in complex with CoA owing to the intrinsic acyl-CoA thioesterase activity of hT1. Solution studies confirm that hT1 has low acyl-CoA thioesterase activity for fatty acyl-CoA substrates. The fastest rate is observed for the hydrolysis of butyryl-CoA. It is also shown that T1 has significant biosynthetic thiolase activity, which is predicted to be of physiological importance.



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