A comparison of the mechanisms of hydrolysis of benzimidates, esters, and amides in sulfuric acid media

2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (9) ◽  
pp. 1391-1399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A Cox
Keyword(s):  
Sulfuric Acid ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
Ester Hydrolysis ◽  
Water Molecules ◽  
Acid Media ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Amide Hydrolysis ◽  
Solvent Isotope ◽  
Reaction Media ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

The mechanisms given in textbooks for both ester and amide hydrolysis in acid media are in need of revision. To illustrate this, benzimidates were chosen as model compounds for oxygen protonated benzamides. In aqueous sulfuric acid media they hydrolyze either by a mechanism involving attack of two water molecules at the carbonyl carbon to give a neutral tetrahedral intermediate directly, as in ester hydrolysis, or by an SN2 attack of two water molecules at the alkyl group of the alkoxy oxygen to form the corresponding amide, or by both mechanisms, depending on the structure of the benzimidate. The major line of evidence leading to these conclusions is the behavior of the excess acidity plots resulting from the rate constants obtained for the hydrolyses as functions of acid concentration and temperature. The first of these mechanisms is in fact very similar to one found for the hydrolysis of benzamides, as inferred from: (1) similar excess acidity plot behaviour; and (2) the observed solvent isotope effects for amide hydrolysis, which are fully consistent with the involvement of two water molecules, but not with one or with three (or more). This mechanism starts out as essentially the same one as that found for ester hydrolysis under the same conditions. Differences arise because the neutral tetrahedral intermediate, formed directly as a result of the protonated substrate being attacked by two water molecules (not one), possesses an easily protonated nitrogen in the amide and benzimidate cases, explaining both the lack of 18O exchange observed for amide hydrolysis and the irreversibility of the reaction. Protonated tetrahedral intermediates are too unstable to exist in the reaction media; in fact, protonation of an sp3 hybridized oxygen to put a full positive charge on it is extremely difficult. (This means that individual protonated alcohol or ether species are unlikely to exist in these media either.) Thus, the reaction of the intermediate going to product or exchanged reactant is a general-acid-catalyzed process for esters. For amide hydrolysis, the situation is complicated by the fact that another, different, mechanism takes over in more strongly acidic media, according to the excess acidity plots. Some possibilities for this are given.Key words: esters, amides, benzimidates, hydrolysis, excess acidity, mechanism, acid media.

Phosphato complexes of cobalt(III). IV. Hydrolysis in basic solution

1968 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1733 ◽  
Author(s):  
SF Lincoln ◽  
DR Stranks
Keyword(s):  
Isotope Effects ◽  
Base Hydrolysis ◽  
Basic Solution ◽  
Tracer Technique ◽  
Hydroxide Ion ◽  
Solvent Water ◽  
Coordination Spheres ◽  
Solvent Isotope ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Solvent Isotope Effects

The rates of hydrolysis of phosphato complexes of cobalt(111) in sodium hydroxide concentrations ranging from 0.02M to 0.37M, and at several ionic strengths, have been measured with a tracer technique. Bidentate phosphato complexes exhibit the same rates of hydrolysis as the corresponding monodentate complexes, due to a rapid conversion of the bidentate into the monodentate form. The general rate law for base hydrolysis of all the phosphato complexes is: d[PO34]/dt = {kH2O + kOH[OH-]}[complex] At 60� and at unit ionic strength, the rate constants for the complexes cis-[Co(NH3)4OH.PO4]-, cis-[Co en2OH.PO4]-, and [Co(NH3)5PO4] respectively are: 103kH2O (min-l) 85.0, 2.0, <1; and 103kOH (1. mole-1 min-l) 42.7, 12.0, 69.5. Mechanistic conclusions have been based on the measured enthalpies and entropies of activation and deuterium solvent isotope effects. For all complexes, kH2O is identified with an aquation mechanism involving synchronous interchange of the phosphate and solvent water between the first and second coordination spheres of the complexes. In the case of the tetrammine and bis(ethylenediamine) complexes, kOH is identified with a process involving synchronous interchange of phosphate and hydroxide ion between the first and second coordination spheres of the complexes. In the case of the pentammine complex, an SN2CB mechanism is considered to be more probable. A comparison with the base hydrolysis of halogen complexes of cobalt(111) is presented.

scholarly journals The mechanism of the hydrolysis of acylimidazoles in aqueous mineral acids. The excess acidity method for reactions that are not acid catalyzed

1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (8) ◽  
pp. 1093-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Imidazole Ring ◽  
Carbonyl Oxygen ◽  
Pseudo First Order Reaction ◽  
Acid Media ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Reaction Rate Constants ◽  
Rate Determining Step ◽  
Reversible Addition ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

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.

The Hydrolysis of Disubstituted Alkyl Phosphorochloridates and N,N,N′,N′-Tetra-stibstituted Phosphorodiamidic Chlorides in Water and Deuterium Oxide: Heat Capacity of Activation and Kinetic Solvent Isotope Effects

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. F. Ko ◽  
R. E. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Heat Capacity ◽  
Thermodynamic Parameters ◽  
Alkyl Group ◽  
Deuterium Oxide ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
Potential Relationship ◽  
Mechanism Of Reaction ◽  
Solvent Isotope ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Solvent Isotope Effects

The pseudo-thermodynamic parameters, ΔH≠, ΔS≠, and ΔCp≠ and the kinetic solvent isotope effects have been determined for the three alkyl-phosphorochloridates, where the alkyl group is ethylisopropyl and n-propyl; for tetra-methyl and tetra-ethyl phosphorodiamidic chlorides; the di-n-propyl and di-isopropyl analog, the di(isopropylmethylcarbinyl)phosphorochloridate and the tetra-ethylthiophosphorodiamidic chloride. These compounds have a potential relationship to compounds used as insecticides and as polymers. The mechanism of reaction is discussed on the basis of these data.

Solvent isotope effects in the oxidation of dipeptides by aqueous chlorine

1999 ◽  
Vol 77 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 997-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
X L Armesto ◽  
M Canle L. ◽  
V García ◽  
J A Santaballa
Keyword(s):  
Isotope Effect ◽  
Deuterium Oxide ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Solvent Isotope Effect ◽  
General Base ◽  
Peptide Oxidation ◽  
Solvent Isotope ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Solvent Isotope Effects

A kinetic study of the mechanism of oxidation of Ala-Gly and Pro-Gly by aqueous chlorine has been carried out. Among other experimental facts, the deuterium solvent isotope effects were used to clarify the mechanisms involved. In a first stage, N-chlorination takes place, and then the (N-Cl)-dipeptide decomposes through two possible mechanisms, depending on the acidity of the medium. The initial chlorination step shows a small isotope effect. In alkaline medium, two consecutive processes take place: first, the general base-catalyzed formation of an azomethine (β ca. 0.27), which has an inverse deuterium solvent isotope effect (kOH-/kOD- ~ 0.8). In a second step, the hydrolysis of the azomethine intermediate takes place, which is also general base-catalyzed, without deuterium solvent isotope effect, the corresponding uncatalyzed process having a normal deuterium solvent isotope effect (kH2O/kD2O ~ 2). In acid medium, the (N-Cl)-dipeptide undergoes disproportionation to a (N,N)-di-Cl-dipeptide, the very fast decomposition of the latter in deuterium oxide preventing a reliable estimation of the solvent isotope effect.Key words: chlorination, deuterium isotope effects, fractionation factors, peptide oxidation, water treatment.

Vinyl ether hydrolysis. XXIV. 1-Methoxycyclooctene and the question of reversibility of the carbon protonation step

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Kresge ◽  
Y. Yin
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Mechanism ◽  
Proton Transfer ◽  
Vinyl Ether ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
Hydrolysis Rate ◽  
Hydronium Ion ◽  
Mineral Acids ◽  
Dilute Aqueous Solutions ◽  
Solvent Isotope ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

An argument is presented which suggests that hydrolysis of the vinyl ether group of 1-methoxycyclooctene may occur by reversible proton transfer from a catalyzing acid to the β-carbon atom of the substrate, instead of by the conventional reaction mechanism in which this proton transfer is rate determining and not reversible. Hydrolysis of this substrate is then examined by measuring rates of reaction in dilute aqueous solutions of strong mineral acids (perchloric and hydrochloric) as well as in buffer solutions of seven carboxylic acids, biphosphate ion, and 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propanol. General acid catalysis is observed and a Brønsted relation with the exponent α = 0.73 is constructed. That, plus the isotope effects kH/kD = 2.9 and 6.0 for catalysis by hydronium ion and acetic acid respectively, as well as the lack of deuterium incorporation into the substrate when the reaction is carried out in D2O with D2PO4−/DPO42− buffer at pD = 8, show that carbon protonation of the substrate is not reversible and that the conventional reaction mechanism is operative. Key words: 1-methoxycyclooctene, vinyl ether hydrolysis, rate-determining proton transfer, Brønsted relation, solvent isotope effect.

Studies of azo and azoxy dyestuffs. Part 18. Kinetics and mechanism of the hydrolysis of 3- and 4-(p′-methoxyphenylazo)pyridines in aqueous sulfuric acid media

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (11) ◽  
pp. 2115-2126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin Buncel ◽  
Ikenna Onyido
Keyword(s):  
Sulfuric Acid ◽  
Transition States ◽  
Activation Parameters ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Acid Solutions ◽  
Acid Media ◽  
Charge Delocalization ◽  
Leaving Group ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

The kinetics of hydrolysis of 4-(p′-methoxyphenylazo)pyridine, 1, and its 3-isomer, 2, have been studied in moderately concentrated sulfuric acid media at 25 °C. In all the acid solutions investigated, 1 reacted faster than 2; rate differences between the two compounds varied from ca. 1000-fold in the dilute region of acidity to ca. 250-fold in the more concentrated acid solutions. The observed first-order rate constants, kψ, for both substrates exhibit a maximum, at ca. 42% H2SO4 and 47% H2SO4 for 1 and 2 respectively. Activation parameters have also been determined. The pKa values for the second protonation equilibria of 1 and 2 have been evaluated and structures of the diprotonated species are discussed. Hydrolysis is shown to occur from the diprotonated substrates and two main mechanisms are operative. The first is an A-2 type mechanism, which involves rate-limiting attack of H2O on the aryl carbon center giving delocalized transition states and intermediates in which the pyridinium and azonium functions are involved in charge delocalization. Subsequent transfer of a proton and detachment of the leaving group are fast processes. In the second A-SE2 type mechanism, nucleophilic attack and transfer of the proton are fast steps preceding the slow general acid catalyzed separation of the leaving group. The difference in reactivity of the two compounds is attributed to differences in extent of charge delocalization in the transition states of the reactions: for 1 both the pyridinium and protonated azonium functions are involved whereas for 2 only the azonium function participates in charge delocalization.

Kinetic Solvent Isotope Effect for the Spontaneous Solvolysis Acetic and Propionic Anhydrides

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (22) ◽  
pp. 3665-3670 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Robertson ◽  
B. Rossall ◽  
W. A. Redmond
Keyword(s):  
Acetic Anhydride ◽  
Isotope Effect ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
Temperature Dependency ◽  
Solvent Isotope Effect ◽  
Propionic Anhydride ◽  
Solvent Isotope ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Solvent Isotope Effects

The large kinetic solvent isotope effects for the neutral hydrolysis of acetic and propionic anhydride show unusual temperature dependency; the former passing through a maximum at about 15°, the latter showing a minimum at 30°. This unusual temperature dependency is the consequence of widely different values of the apparent ΔCp≠ in H2O and D2O: the value for acetic anhydride in H2O being −74 ± 2 cal deg−1 mol−1 but −32 ± 4 in D2O. The corresponding values for propionic anhydride being −31 ± 2 in H2O but −94 ± 10 in D2O. The implications of these differences are discussed.

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