Basicity steric effects

This basic LFER approach has later been extended to the more general concept of fragmentation. Molecules are dissected into substructures and each substructure is seen to contribute a constant inaement to the free-energy based property. The promise of strict linearity does not hold true in most cases, so corrections have to be applied in the majority of methods based on a fragmentation approach. Correction terms are often related to long range interactions such as resonance or steric effects. 

If the medium is sufficiently basic to generate the arabident anion 31. mixtures of products resulting from N-nng and N-exocyclic reactivity are observed. Here again steric effects can preferentially orient the whole reaction toward one of the two nitrogens. A general study clearly delineating the rules of behavior for 31 accordine to the nature of R. the... 

Equation 4 can be classified as S, , ie, substitution nucleophilic bimolecular (221). The rate of the reaction is influenced by several parameters basicity of the amine, steric effects, reactivity of the alkylating agent, and solvent polarity. The reaction is often carried out in a polar solvent, eg, isopropanol, which may increase the rate of reaction and make handling of the product easier. 

Hydrolysis reactions involving tetrahedral intermediates are subject to steric and electronic effects. Electron-withdrawing substituents faciUtate, but electron-donating and bulky substituents retard basic hydrolysis. Steric effects in acid-cataly2ed hydrolysis are similar to those in base-cataly2ed hydrolysis, but electronic effects are much less important in acid-cataly2ed reactions. Higher temperatures also accelerate the reaction. 

Studies of the alkylation of indazoles (67HC(22)1) have been updated by Nunn (73JCS(PD2371) and Palmer (75JCS(P1)1695). The ratio of methylation at positions 1 and 2 is relatively sensitive to the steric effect of substituents at positions 3 and 7 as shown by the results obtained in basic medium for unsubstituted indazole (55 45) and its 3-phenyl (74 26) and7-nitro derivatives (29 71). 

This approach to carbonyl protection uses the relative differences in the basicity and the differences in steric effects to protect selectively either the more basic... 

An explanation of the overall 10-fold variation in the rates for the various complexes has been given by invoking steric factors . Steric effects may account also for the fact that, although HCOO is less basic than CH3COO , the formato complex reacts much more rapidly than the acetato one . 

The Z-selectivity seems to be associated primarily with reduced basicity of the amide anion. It is postulated that the shift to Z-stereoselectivity is the result of a looser TS, in which the steric effects of the chair TS are reduced. 

There has been a HO study of the stereoelectronic effects in methy1phosphines (90). Steric effects were found to concentrate in the HOHO and accounted for half the substituent effects on the pK values, whilst electronic effects on the HOHO was minimal.242 The relative basicities of polymethoxytriarylphosphines have been measured. Tris(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)phosphine was considerably more basic than piperidine.243 The basicities of P-N compounds have been reviewed and their correlation with P-N bond lengths invest igated.2 4 4... 

The literature on basic- and acid-catalyzed alkylation of phenol and of its derivatives is wide [1,2], since this class of reactions finds industrial application for the synthesis of several intermediates 2-methylphenol as a monomer for the synthesis of epoxy cresol novolac resin 2,5-dimethylphenol as an intermediate for the synthesis of antiseptics, dyes and antioxidants 2,6-dimethylphenol used for the manufacture of polyphenylenoxide resins, and 2,3,6-trimethylphenol as a starting material for the synthesis of vitamin E. The nature of the products obtained in phenol methylation is affected by the surface characteristics of the catalyst, since catalysts having acid features address the electrophilic substitution in the ortho and para positions with respect to the hydroxy group (steric effects in confined environments may however affect the ortho/para-C-alkylation ratio), while with basic catalysts the ortho positions become the... 

Scheme 52 explains the [(Cp )Rh(MeCN)3]2+-assisted regioselective hydrogenation of pyridines, benzoquinolines, acridines as well as indoles and benzothiophene.258 The relative hydrogenation rates were attributed to both electronic and steric effects, the rate generally decreasing with increasing basicity and steric hindrance at the nitrogen atom. 

Outer-Sphere Electron Transfer The minimal interpenetration of the coordination spheres of the reactants is inherent in any mechanistic formulation of the outer-sphere process for electron transfer. As such, steric effects provide a basic experimental criterion to establish this mechanism. Therefore we wish to employ the series of structurally related donors possessing the finely graded steric and polar properties described in the foregoing section for the study of both homogeneous and heterogeneous processes for electron transfer. 

Angelici and Brink (40) have found that in the reactions of amine with trans-M(CO),(PPhMe2)2+ (M = Mn or Re), the rate of carbamoyl formation follows the order, n-butylamine > cyclohexyl-amine >, isopropylamine > sec-butylamine >> tert-butylamine, implying a strong steric effect in carbamoyl formation. A similar order has been observed in the rate of reaction of organic esters with amines to form amides (41). The data in Table III indicate that a steric effect may be operative in the Ru (CO) /NR3-catalyzed WGSR, since with tertiary amines the rate follows the order, NMeQ > MeNC.H > NEt > NBu0, which does not reflect the basicity of these amines. 

Streck and coworkers showed that in a range of solvents, the 13C carbonyl shifts in dialkyl ketones were affected similarly by branching at the a-position.127 In chloroform, the carbonyls of di-tert-butylketone and diisopropylketone were 11-12 ppm downfield of that of acetone, which they attributed to a mixture of inductive and steric effects. With tertiary systems, particularly in dipolar solvents, hindrance to solvent stabilisation of the polar, basic form of the carbonyl offsets the inductive stabilisation of the branched alkyl. 13C NMR data presented here support this. 

If A, B, C and D are all identical, then there will be only one possible product, but if they are all different, then there are four possible products. Basically the theory distinguishes only the disrotatory modes or conrotatory modes. But predictions can be made on the basis of steric effects. 

The constants of ion pair formation of 33 amines with 2,4-dinitrophenol in benzene (Ab) have been compared with the pAa in water56. The effects of structural variations on basicity are larger in water than in benzene for primary and secondary cyclic amines, but similar for tertiary amines. The Taft and Hancock equation [where <7 has the usual meaning and E° (R ) is the steric effect of a component substituent]... 

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