Alcohols nucleophilic substitution reactions

The reactions of alcohols with hydrogen halides to give alkyl halides (Chapter 4) are nucleophilic substitution reactions of alkyloxonium ions m which water is the leaving group Primary alcohols react by an 8 2 like displacement of water from the alkyloxonium ion by halide Sec ondary and tertiary alcohols give alkyloxonium ions which form carbo cations m an S l like process Rearrangements are possible with secondary alcohols and substitution takes place with predominant but not complete inversion of configuration... 

Sulfonate esters are especially useful substrates in nucleophilic substitution reactions used in synthesis. They have a high level of reactivity, and, unlike alkyl halides, they can be prepared from alcohols by reactions that do not directly involve bonds to the carbon atom imdeigoing substitution. The latter aspect is particularly important in cases in which the stereochemical and structural integrity of the reactant must be maintained. Sulfonate esters are usually prepared by reaction of an alcohol with a sulfonyl halide in the presence of pyridine ... 

Two kinds of starting materials have been examined in nucleophilic substitution reactions to this point. In Chapter 4 we saw that alcohols can be converted to alkyl halides by reaction with hydrogen halides and pointed out that this process is a nucleophilic substitution taking place on the protonated fonm of the alcohol, with water serving as the... 

Acidic ether cleavages are typical nucleophilic substitution reactions, either SN1 or Sn2 depending on the structure of the substrate. Ethers with only primary and secondary alkyl groups react by an S 2 mechanism, in which or Br attacks the protonated ether at the less hindered site. This usually results in a selective cleavage into a single alcohol and a single alkyl halide. For example, ethyl isopropyl ether yields exclusively isopropyl alcohol and iodoethane on cleavage by HI because nucleophilic attack by iodide ion occurs at the less hindered primary site rather than at the more hindered secondary site. 

The Mitsunobu conditions also can be used to effect a variety of other important and useful nucleophilic substitution reactions, such as conversion of alcohols to mixed phosphite esters.56 The active phosphitylating agent is believed to be a mixed phospho-ramidite. 

Alternatively, the Sn2 nucleophilic substitution reaction between alcohols (phenols) and organic halides under basic conditions is the classical Williamson ether synthesis. Recently, it was found that water-soluble calix[n]arenes (n = 4, 6, 8) containing trimethylammonium groups on the upper rim (e.g., calix[4]arene 5.2) were inverse phase-transfer catalysts for alkylation of alcohols and phenols with alkyl halides in aqueous NaOH solution to give the corresponding alkylated products in good-to-high yields.56... 

The mechanism of these bimolecular nucleophilic substitution reactions is shown in Scheme 11.3 for the reaction between a primary amine and the intermediate dichlorotriazine. A corresponding scheme can be drawn for reaction of a secondary amine, an alcohol or any other nucleophile in any of the replacement steps. It follows from this mechanism that the rate of reaction depends on ... 

Alkyl sulfonates provide an indirect method for carrying out nucleophilic substitution reactions on alcohols. 

K. Motokura, N. Nakagiri, T. Mizugaki, K. Ebitani, and K. Kaneda, Nucleophilic substitution reactions of alcohols with use of montmorillonite catalysts as solid Br0nsted acids, J. Org. Chem., 72 (2007) 6006-6015. 

Nucleophilic substitution reaction of alcohol with ammonia MOR, RHO, CHA, FAU... 

By heating an alkyl halide with an alcoholic solution of ammonia in a sealed tube, a mixture of amines is formed by nucleophilic substitution reaction. 

The first evidence that an elimination-addition mechanism could be important in nucleophilic substitution reactions of alkanesulfonyl derivatives was provided by the observation (Truce et al., 1964 Truce and Campbell, 1966 King and Durst, 1964, 1965) that when alkanesulfonyl chlorides RCH2S02C1 were treated in the presence of an alcohol R OD with a tertiary amine (usually Et3N) the product was a sulfonate ester RCHDS020R with exactly one atom of deuterium on the carbon alpha to the sulfonyl group. Had the ester been formed by a base-catalysed direct substitution reaction of R OD with the sulfonyl chloride there would have been no deuterium at the er-position. Had the deuterium been incorporated by a separate exchange reaction, either of the sulfonyl chloride before its reaction to form the ester, or of the ester subsequent to its formation, then the amount of deuterium incorporated would not have been uniformly one atom of D per molecule. The observed results are only consistent with the elimination-addition mechanism involving a sulfene intermediate shown in (201). Subsequent kinetic studies... 

The application of phase-transfer catalysis to the Williamson synthesis of ethers has been exploited widely and is far superior to any classical method for the synthesis of aliphatic ethers. Probably the first example of the use of a quaternary ammonium salt to promote a nucleophilic substitution reaction is the formation of a benzyl ether using a stoichiometric amount of tetraethylammonium hydroxide [1]. Starks mentions the potential value of the quaternary ammonium catalyst for Williamson synthesis of ethers [2] and its versatility in the synthesis of methyl ethers and other alkyl ethers was soon established [3-5]. The procedure has considerable advantages over the classical Williamson synthesis both in reaction time and yields and is certainly more convenient than the use of diazomethane for the preparation of methyl ethers. Under liquidrliquid two-phase conditions, tertiary and secondary alcohols react less readily than do primary alcohols, and secondary alkyl halides tend to be ineffective. However, reactions which one might expect to be sterically inhibited are successful under phase-transfer catalytic conditions [e.g. 6]. Microwave irradiation and solidrliquid phase-transfer catalytic conditions reduce reaction times considerably [7]. 

Consider a proposed nucleophilic substitution reaction on the secondary alcohol shown using aqueous HBr. As a secondary alcohol, either Sn2 or SnI mechanisms are possible (see Section 6.2.3), but SnI is favoured because of the acidic environment and the large fert-butyl group hindering approach of the nucleophile. The expected SnI bromide product is formed, together with a smaller amount of the El-derived alkene in a competing reaction. 

Recently, Lewis-acid-catalyzed nucleophilic substitution reactions of propargyl alcohols have been described. In general, costly transition metals such as Ru, Re, Pd or Au are used in these transformations. At this point Bi(III) salts are believed to be a cheap and environmentally benign alternative. 

Z- and 4-alkoxyquinazolines are readily prepared by nucleophilic substitution reactions, and 2,4-dialkoxyquinazolines can simply be prepared by boiling 2,4-dichloroquinazolines with 2 equiv of an alkoxide in the appropriate alcohol solvent <1996HC(55)1>. The first substitution is in the more reactive 4-position, so it is possible to isolate both 4-alkoxy and 4-phenoxy monosubstitution products <1977EJM325, 2005BMC3681>, and this selectivity has been used to attach both 2,4,6- and 2,4,7-trichloroquinazoline to a solid support, via the 4-position, for subsequent solid-phase synthesis of 2,6- and 2,7-diamino-4(377)-quinazolinones <2003TL7533>. 

Whereas l.l-dialkoxy-2.4.6-triphenyl-X -phosphorins do not show any nucleophilic substitution reactions, one of the alkoxy groups of the spiro compounds 192a and b can easily be substituted with alcohols by an alkoxy group in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid to 190. Treatment with dimethylamine in acidic me-... 

The hydroxyl (—OH) group in alcohol is polarized due to the electronegativity difference between atoms. The oxygen of the —OH group can react as either a base or a nucleophile in the nucleophilic substitution reactions. 

Epoxides are much more reactive than simple ethers due to ring strain, and are useful intermediates because of their chemical versatility. They undergo nucleophilic substitution reactions with both acids and bases to produce alcohols (see Sections 4.3.7 and 5.5.4). 

A nucleophile is an electron rich species that reacts with an electrophile. The term electrophile literally means electron-loving , and is an electron-deficient species that can accept an electron pair. A number of nucleophilic substitution reactions can occur with alkyl halides, alcohols and epoxides. However, it can also take place with carboxylic acid derivatives, and is called nucleophilic acyl substitution. 

Id (Scheme 3)13. This was prepared via the corresponding phosphite, which can be synthesized by reaction of the alcohol with chlorodiethyl phosphite and triethylamine. The phosphite then undergoes nucleophilic substitution reaction with anhydrous H2O2 forming the hydroperoxide Id (enantiomeric ratio S/R 65/35) and isomeric hydroperoxide le in a 2 1 mixture in 74% overall yield starting from the alcohol. Purification was possible by normal-phase HPLC. So in this case transformation of the phosphite to the hydroperoxide proceeds with partially retained configuration. 

HO-OH2+.14 This reaction forms two water molecules and a carbenium ion, which is then hydrated to form the protonated alcohol. The degenerate gas-phase reactions between HF and protonated alkyl fluorides RFH+ (R = Me, Et, i-Pr, r-Bu) were investigated by ab initio methods.15 With the exception of MeFFi+, the protonated alkyl fluorides can be viewed as weak complexes of the carbocation R+ and FiF. Both frontside and backside substitutions occur, supporting the proposal (see Introduction)8 that nucleophilic substitution reactions are better understood through such a competition as opposed to the traditional S /S 2 competition. 

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