Chemometric Analysis of Substituent Effects. XI. Solvent Effects on Dissociation of 2,6-Disubstituted Benzoic Acids

1997 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 913-924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Kulhánek ◽  
Oldřich Pytela

Eleven symmetrically 2,6-disubstituted benzoic acids (with the following substituents: OCH3, OC2H5, OC3H7, OCH(CH3)2, OC4H9, CH3, F, Cl, Br, I, and NO2) have been synthesized and their dissociation constants measured potentiometrically in methanol, ethanol, propan-1-ol, propan-2-ol, butan-2-ol, acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethylformamide, acetonitrile, pyridine, and 1,2-dichloroethane. The experimental data obtained have been analyzed from the point of view of solvent effects on acidity of the individual derivatives. Different behaviour found with benzoic acid and the disubstituted derivatives in protic solvents is due to changes in solvation. The different character of solvation of benzoic acid and the disubstituted derivatives depends on the type of substitution, being manifested only in 2,6-disubstituted benzoic acids. The graphical analysis has shown a distinct trend in the increase of magnitude of deviation of the point of benzoic acid in the series: propan-2-ol, butan-2-ol, propan-1-ol, ethanol, methanol. This order correlates with the steric demands of carbon chain of the alcohols used. The abnormal behaviour of benzoic acid in the dissociation in these alcohols as compared with that of its 2,6-disubstituted derivatives is due to the different extent of solvation of the reaction centre caused by steric hindrance. Against the expectation, benzoic acid appears to be a weaker acid in protic solvents, whereas its alkoxy derivatives are stronger acids. The solvation also minimizes the inductive effect of alkoxy groups in the symmetrically 2,6-disubstituted derivatives. In aprotic solvents the acidity of 2,6-dialkoxybenzoic acids is also increased, in this case as a result of sterically forced deviation of the reaction centre and/or the substituents out of the plane of benzene ring.

1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 1617-1628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Ondřej Prusek

Three model compounds have been selected to study the relationship between ortho and para substitution: benzoic acid, phenol, and aniline. Sixteen substituents have been chosen involving also those capable of potential interaction between ortho substituent and the reaction centre. For the combinations given, literature presents 25 pairs of data obtained by measuring a particular process for both the ortho and para substituted derivatives. The missing dissociation constants of 16 ortho substituted benzoic acids in water and ethanol and 16 para substituted benzoic acids in dimethyl sulfoxide and pyridine have been measured by potentiometric titration. The data matrices were submitted to analysis by the methods of projection of latent structures (PLS) and principal component analysis (PCA). It has been found that the substituent effects from ortho and para positions have the same character unless the ortho substituents interact with the reaction centre. Such interactions can change the experimentally found value by as much as 20% of its magnitude. The most significant interaction is a hydrogen bond formation. Out of the three models studied the most extensive interactions are present in benzoic acid, whereas almost none were observed in aniline. The capability of donation of electron pair to a hydrogen bond decreases in the substituent series COCH3 > SO2CH3 > NO2. The capability of donation of proton to a hydrogen bond with electron-pair donor decreases in the substituent series OH > NHCOCH3 ≈ SH > NH2 > SO2NH2.


1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 2135-2142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Ludwig ◽  
Václav Baron ◽  
Karel Kalfus ◽  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Miroslav Večeřa

Potentiometric titration has been used to measure dissociation constants of 38 monosubstituted benzoic acids in water and in 6 organic solvents (methanol, ethanol, dimethylformamide, acetonitrile, sulfolane, acetone). The results have been analyzed and interpreted from the point of view of substituent and solvent effects on the dissociation of the title substrates. It has been proved that solvents affect not only the reaction constant but also the substituent constant of the Hammett equation.


1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 829-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Kulhánek ◽  
Oldřich Pytela

Ten 2,6-disubstituted benzoic acids have been synthesized containing all possible combinations of the following substituents: CH3, OCH3, Cl, and NO2. The dissociation constants of these acids have been measured by potentiometric titration in methanol, acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethylformamide, acetonitrile, pyridine, and 1,2-dichloroethane. The experimental data obtained together with the pK values of 2-substituted benzoic acids in the same solvents have been analyzed from the point of view of ortho effect and additivity of disubstitution. The mutual interaction between substituents was found to represent only 0.12% of the variability due to substitution and to contribute to the overall variability of data less than the interaction between the substituent and solvent by a factor of about 13. The analysis of data by the method of multiple linear regression revealed a contribution of steric effects beside the effects transmitted through the aromatic skeleton. The 2- and 6-substituents effects are additive within the validity of the Hammett equation, and an addition of a multiplicative term describing interactions between the substituents is statistically insignificant. Nonlinear regression has been adopted in the additive model with multiplicative term to find the inner substituent constants including all the effects of substituents from ortho position: the term describing the interaction between 2- and 6-substituents is statistically insignificant in this model. An application of the method of conjugated deviations revealed two statistically significant latent variables. The first one explains 91.5% of the variability of data and is connected with the substituent effects transmitted through the aromatic skeleton. The second one explains 7.5% of variability of data and predominantly reflects the steric effects of substituents.


2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 596-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Jiří Kulhánek

Potentiometric titration at 25 °C has been used to measure the dissociation constants of 2- and 4-substituted benzoic acids with electron-acceptor substituents in methanol, N,N-dimethylformamide, acetonitrile, and acetone. But for a few exceptions, no significant differences have been found between the dissociation constants measured and those given in literature. Using the measured pKa values, those of 3-substituted derivatives taken from literature (measured in the same solvents) and those of 3- and 4-substituted derivatives measured in water, the so far missing substituent constants σi of NO and CH3SO substituents have been determined by Alternative Interpretation of Substituent Effects (AISE). The previously published relationships and the σi constants have been used to calculate the σm and σp constants for the given substituents and compare them with literature. The agreement was the better, the more reliable the corresponding Hammett substituent constant was. Using a non-linear regression model, we have analysed the structure of matrix of pKa values of ten 2-X-benzoic acids (X is electron-acceptor substituent) measured in the given organic solvents and in water. It has been found that in non-aqueous solvents the conjugate base of benzoic acid is stabilised by intramolecular hydrogen bond if X is COOH and SO2NH2 or electrostatic force if X is CH3SO. On the other hand, in water the carboxylate group is out of the plane of the benzene ring due to interaction between the solvated reaction centre and substituent, this being the case with all the substituents except for X = CHO, CH3CO, NO, and CN. In all the solvents used, intramolecular ring closure takes place between the carboxylate group and substituent X = CH3CO, CHO, and NO, this phenomenon being the most important in water.


1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 2005-2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Josef Liška

The dissociation constants of nineteen ortho substituted benzoic acids have been determined in eight organic solvents (methanol, ethanol, acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethylformamide, acetonitrile, pyridine, 1,2-dichloroethane). The correlation between the σI, σR, and υ constants were unsuccessful due to neglecting the description of intramolecular hydrogen bond effect. The method of conjugated deviations has been applied to the results obtained and to those given in literature for ortho substituted benzoic acids (the dissociation constants, the reaction with diphenyldiazomethane, 33 sets), and values of three types of substituent constants have been determined for 29 substituents. The first of these substituent constants, σoi, describes the electronic effects and was adjusted with the application of the isoparameter relation (σoi as a function of σmi) suggested in previous communications. This constant (after excluding the substituents NHCOCH3 and OCOCH3) correlates very well (R = 0.993) with the σI and σR constants. The second substituent constant, σHGi, describes the interaction of the reaction centre (the oxygen atom of carboxylate anion) with the substituent, and it has non-zero values for the substituents OH, SH, NH2, NHCH3, NHCOCH3, COOH, CONH2, and SO2NH2. The third substituent constant, σSi, describes the steric effects and is not significantly related to any of the known quantities of this type. The set given was tested together with the triad of σI, σR, and υ on the definition set and on a set extended by other 28 sets of processes with ortho substituted compounds. On the whole, the set of substituent constants suggested explains 94.6% of variability of data, whereas only 66.0% are explained with the use of σI, σR, and u constants. Moreover, the tests have shown that the σoi constant is not suitable for interpretations of processes involving direct conjugation between the reaction centre and substituent.


1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 2143-2150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Miroslav Ludwig ◽  
Miroslav Večeřa

The dissociation constants measured earlier for 35 substituted benzoic acids in seven solvents (water, methanol, ethanol, dimethylformamide, acetonitrile, sulfolane, and acetone) have been submitted to the principal components analysis and the factor analysis to produce sets of the Hammett substituent constants. The solvent effects have been evaluated on the dissociation constants of the substituted benzoic acids and, hence, also on the respective substituent constants. He differences have been compared between the substituent constants determined by the principal components analysis and by the factor analysis, the latter being found to be more suitable. The obtained sets of substituent constants have been confronted with literature data, and an excellent agreement has been found between the σ constants derived from the measurements in water with the sets of primary substituent constants and some other sets.


1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 1637-1644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Jiří Kulhánek ◽  
Miroslav Ludwig

Ten 3,5-disubstituted benzoic acids have been synthesized containing all possible combinations of the following substituents: CH3O, CH3, Cl/Br, NO2. The dissociation constants of these acids have been measured in seven organic solvents (methanol, acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethylformamide, acetonitrile, pyridine, 1,2-dichloroethane). It has been found that the effect of disubstitution is smaller than that due to interaction of substituents or their solvation and represents only about 0.2% of the effect caused by the individual substituents. The additivity in 3,5-disubstitution is about 2 - 3 times as good as that in 3,4-disubstitution. The quantitative description of substituent effects at the 3 and 5 positions is additive within the range of validity of the Hammett equation irrespective of the type of the substituent constants adopted, the addition of the multiplicative term being statistically insignificant. The solvent effect on 3,4- and 3,5-disubstituted derivatives is somewhat different at the same value of the reaction constant, due predominantly to the specific solvation of the 4-CH3O and 4-NO2 groups.


2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanta K. Sen Gupta ◽  
Rajendra Prasad

Studies of substituent effects on NMR chemical shifts are of great benefit in determining fine details of electron distribution in molecules. Interestingly, NMR substituent effects are often different and even opposite to those associated with chemical reactivity. Among molecules exhibiting anomalous (reverse) substituent effects is benzoic acid, the standard model for studying substituent effects. The substituent effect on the 13C chemical shift of its carboxyl carbon (δ CO) is just the opposite of that on its acid strength or reactivity. To develop insights into the origin of the anomalous effect of a substituent on δ CO, occupancies of natural atomic orbitals at the carboxyl and ring carbons of a set of 10 meta-substituted benzoic acids have been calculated at the density functional theory level using the B3LYP function with split valance 6–311G++** basis set. Statistical correlations obtained for the 13C chemical shifts, δ CO and δ C-ring of these benzoic acids with the natural atomic orbital occupancies calculated for respective carbon atoms on one hand and with Taft’s inductive and resonance parameters (σ I and σ R BA ) of the substituents on the other hand have been critically analyzed. The findings have established firmly that a meta-substituent’s anomalous effect on δ CO is caused by the substituent-induced changes in the total occupancy of only the p z natural atomic orbitals at the carboxyl carbon. The study has demonstrated further that the transmission of the anomalous effect can be successfully interpreted by a 5.5:–2.5:1 combination of the localized, extended, and resonance-induced π-polarization effects.


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