Eliminations promoted by weak bases. IX. Stereochemistry of olefin formation from trans-2-Phenylcyclopentyl p-bromobenzenesulfonate promoted by lithium chloride in acetone

1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 1821 ◽  
Author(s):  
DJ McLennan ◽  
C Lim

Parker, Winstein, and their coworkers have previously established that in the E2C elimination of trans-2-phenylcyclopentyl p-bromobenzenesulfonate induced by Bu4NCl in acetone some 9% of the olefinic product is produced by a syn-elimination. In view of the current idea that syn-eliminations in solution are assisted by association of the base with its counterion, the stereochemistry of the reaction induced by lithium chloride in acetone has been studied. There is no increase in the amount of syn-elimination, and kinetic analysis reveals that lithium chloride ion pairs are completely unreactive. 1-Phenylcyclopentene is not produced by rate-limiting attack of chloride ion on a preformed symmetrical phenonium ion pair. These results do not serve to distinguish between two alternative models of the E2C transition state.

2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
pp. 1336-1340
Author(s):  
Xicai Huang ◽  
Andrew J Bennet

The aqueous ethanolysis reactions of adamantylideneadamantyl tosylate, -bromide, and -iodide (1-OTs, 1-Br and 1-I) were monitored as a function of ionic strength. Special salt effects are observed during the solvolyses of both homoallylic halides, but not in the case of the tosylate 1-OTs. The measured α-secondary deuterium kinetic isotope effects for the solvolysis of 1-Br in 80:20 and 60:40 v/v ethanol–water mixtures at 25 °C are 1.110 ± 0.018 and 1.146 ± 0.009, respectively. The above results are consistent with the homoallylic halides reacting via a virtual transition state in which both formation and dissociation of a solvent-separated ion pair are partially rate-determining. While the corresponding transition state for adamantylideneadamantyl tosylate involves formation of the solvent-separated ion pair.Key words: salt effects, kinetic isotope effect, internal return, solvolysis, ion pairs.


1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Charles West Away ◽  
Zhu-Gen Lai

Identical secondary α-deuterium kinetic isotope effects (transition state structures) in the SN2 reaction between n-butyl chloride and a free thiophenoxide ion in aprotic and protic solvents confirm the validity of the Solvation Rule for SN2 Reactions. These isotope effects also suggest that hydrogen bonding from the solvent to the developing chloride ion in the SN2 transition state does not have a marked effect on the magnitude of the chlorine (leaving group) kinetic isotope effects. Unlike the free ion reactions, the secondary α-deuterium kinetic isotope effect (transition state structure) for the SN2 reaction between n-butyl chloride and the solvent-separated sodium thiophenoxide ion pair complex is strongly solvent dependent. These completely different responses to a change in solvent are rationalized by an extension to the Solvation Rule for SN2 Reactions. Finally, the loosest transition state in the reactions with the solvent-separated ion pair complex is found in the solvent with the smallest dielectric constant. Keywords: ion pairs, transition state, solvent effects, nucleophilic substitution, isotope effects.


1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 1246-1252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surendra Singh ◽  
Ross Elmore Robertson

The temperature dependence of the rates of hydrolysis of 2,2-dimethylcyclopropyl bromide, 2,2-cis-vinyl-trans-methylcyclopropyl bromide and 2,2-cis-methyl-trans-vinylcyclopropyl bromide have been determined in water. The temperature coefficient of the enthalpy of activation (ΔCp≠) for these compounds was determined to be −52, −27 and −37 cal deg−1 mol−1 respectively. The relative rate ratios for hydrolysis of the 2,2-methylvinylcyclopropyl bromides with respect to the appropriate 2-vinylcyclopropyl bromide isomer indicate a considerable progress towards allyl cations at the transition state in contrast to the indications of the ΔCp≠ values.The ΔCp≠ term for such reactions in water depends to an important degree on the external effects of charge development on water structure but is insensitive to internal electrostatic effects. In the three examples of ΔCp≠ reported in this study, all tend to show small external effects in spite of evidence which might suggest larger. The differences in ΔCp≠ are attributed to the particular shape and charge distribution of the quasi-ion pair.


1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-371
Author(s):  
Allan R. Stein

Racemization and radio-bromide exchange kinetics for 1-phenylbromoethanes in acetonitrile and in nitromethane using tetrabutylammonium bromide are reported. The results, together with those previously reported for acetone solutions, provide direct empirical support for the ion-pair mechanism for nucleophilic substitution at saturated carbon. Changing the substituents on the phenyl from the 4-nitro through to the 3,4-dimethyl substrate and the solvent from acetone to the more polar acetonitrile and nitromethane shifts the transition state for bromide substitution from an early to a late stage of the equilibria series substrate [Formula: see text] intimate ion pair [Formula: see text] various solvated ion pairs [Formula: see text] free or dissociated ions. For all the substrates in acetone and, for the species giving the less stable carbocations, in acetonitrile and nitromethane, both racemizations and exchanges are bimolecular. In the latter solvents, the substrates giving the more stable carbocations show mixed kinetics.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ascough ◽  
Fernanda Duarte ◽  
Robert Paton

The base-catalyzed rearrangement of arylindenols is a rare example of a suprafacial [1,3]-hydrogen atom transfer. The mechanism has been proposed to proceed via sequential [1,5]-sigmatropic shifts, which occur in a selective sense and avoid an achiral intermediate. A computational analysis using quantum chemistry casts serious doubt on these suggestions: these pathways have enormous activation barriers and in constrast to what is observed experimentally, they overwhelmingly favor a racemic product. Instead we propose that a suprafacial [1,3]-prototopic shift occurs in a two-step deprotonation/reprotonation sequence. This mechanism is favored by 15 kcal mol<sup>-1</sup> over that previously proposed. Most importantly, this is also consistent with stereospecificity since reprotonation occurs rapidly on the same p-face. We have used explicitly-solvated molecular dynamics studies to study the persistence and condensed-phase dynamics of the intermediate ion-pair formed in this reaction. Chirality transfer is the result of a particularly resilient contact ion-pair, held together by electrostatic attraction and a critical NH···p interaction which ensures that this species has an appreciable lifetime even in polar solvents such as DMSO and MeOH.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 2751
Author(s):  
Damian Jagleniec ◽  
Marcin Wilczek ◽  
Jan Romański

Combining three features—the high affinity of squaramides toward anions, cooperation in ion pair binding and preorganization of the binding domains in the tripodal platform—led to the effective receptor 2. The lack of at least one of these key elements in the structures of reference receptors 3 and 4 caused a lower affinity towards ion pairs. Receptor 2 was found to form an intramolecular network in wet chloroform, which changed into inorganic–organic associates after contact with ions and allowed salts to be extracted from an aqueous to an organic phase. The disparity in the binding mode of 2 with sulfates and with other monovalent anions led to the selective extraction of extremely hydrated sulfate anions in the presence of more lipophilic salts, thus overcoming the Hofmeister series.


1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. King ◽  
K. Abikar

p-Methoxy- and p-nitro substituted analogues (1b and 1c) of the diaxial β-chlorothioether 2β-chloro-3α-(phenylthio)-5α-cholestane (1a), have been prepared and found to undergo the diaxial → diequatorial rearrangement. The rates of rearrangement of these compounds show the sequence p-methoxy > H > p-nitro. It is concluded that the transition state for the rearrangement is polarized in the sense of a sulfonium chloride (3). The rearrangement of 1a is 1600 times faster in butanol than in decalin (at 110°). There is thus no inherent insensitivity to solvent change in a rearrangement in which there may be a "four-atom arrangement" in the transition state, a conclusion relevant to previous work on the diaxial → diequatorial rearrangement of 1,2-dibromides (1). It was further found that the nitro group slowed the rearrangement (at 110°) more in butanol than in decalin, an observation regarded as consistent with, but not requiring, the incursion of a merged ion-pair, cyclic concerted mechanism.


2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 6216-6222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Szymon Zdanowski ◽  
Jan Romański

A polymerizable molecular receptor able to bind ion pairs and new functional polymers containing the receptor units were synthesized and characterized.


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