Benzene derivatives inductive effects

Charton has recently examined substituent effects in the ortho position in benzene derivatives and in the a-position in pyridines, quinolines, and isoquinolines. He concludes that, in benzene derivatives, the effects in the ortho position are proportional to the effects in the para position op). However, he finds that effects of a-sub-stituents on reactions involving the sp lone pair of the nitrogen atoms in pyridine, quinoline, and isoquinoline are approximately proportional to CT -values, or possibly to inductive effects (Taft s a ). He also notes that the effects of substituents on proton-deuterium exchange in the ortho position of substituted benzenes are comparable to the effects of the same substituents in the a-position of the heterocycles. 

Let us illustrate this with the example of the bromination of monosubstituted benzene derivatives. Observations on the product distributions and relative reaction rates compared with unsubstituted benzene led chemists to conceive the notion of inductive and resonance effects that made it possible to explain" the experimental observations. On an even more quantitative basis, linear free energy relationships of the form of the Hammett equation allowed the estimation of relative rates. It has to be emphasized that inductive and resonance effects were conceived, not from theoretical calculations, but as constructs to order observations. The explanation" is built on analogy, not on any theoretical method. 

The reduction of the C— Br and C—1 group moments from 1.10 and 0.90 in bromo- and iodo-benzene to about 0.80 and 0.50 in 2-bromo- and 2-iodo-thiophene has been ascribed to the larger weight of resonance forms such as (8) and (9) in the thiophene series. The chlorine, nuclear, quadrupole, resonance frequencies of chloro-substituted thiophenes are much higher than those of the corresponding benzene derivatives. This has been ascribed to a relayed inductive effect originating in the polarity of the C—S o-bond in thiophenes. The refractive indices, densities, and surface tension of thiophene, alkyl- and halo-thiophenes, and of some other derivatives have been... 

Taft, R. W. and Lewis, I. C. The general applicability of a fixed scale of inductive effects. II. Inductive effects of dipolar substituents in the reactivities of m- and p-substituted derivatives of benzene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 80, 2436 (1958). 

Orientation effects in benzene derivatives operate in two ways. If the substituent is inductive there are large first order charge displacements at the ortho and para positions, and these can be estimated approximately using the atom polarizabilities (which is very small at the meta position). The changes of bond order, however, and consequently of free valence, vanish in first order and hence depend on Sa. The charge g g at position s therefore increases or decreases from the value unity in the... 

A well understood case is that of quinoline reaction at position 2 is kinetically favored as compared with reaction at position 4, but the adduct from the latter is thermodynamically more stable. This situation, where the site of attack leading to the more stable adduct is the y position, is analogous with those regarding the formation of Meisenheimer adducts from benzene and pyridine derivatives and RCT nucleophiles. Presumably, with quinoline kinetic control favors the position that is more strongly influenced by the inductive effect of the heteroatom. The fact that position 2 of quinoline is the most reactive toward nucleophilic reagents is probably related to the lower 71-electron density at that position.123 However, the predominance of the C-4 adduct at equilibrium can be better justified by the atom localization energies for nucleophilic attachment at the different positions of quinoline. Moreover, both 7t-electron densities and atom localization energies indicate position 1 of isoquinoline to be the most favored one for nucleophilic addition. 

Substitutinghaloidsareassignedapositivemesomeric andanegative induction effects. C6o solubility in halogen derivatives of benzene increases in a series ... 

Polymerization and Cyclization of Alkynes (163). In 1940 Reppe and Schweckendieck 163) discovered that the substitution derivatives of tetracarbonylnickel with phosphines, and particularly those of the type Ni(CO)2(PR3)2, catalyze the linear polymerization and the cyclization to benzene derivatives of alkynes. Schrauzer 167) more recently showed that stoichiometric amounts of bisacrylonitrilenickel give the cyclization reaction. The reaction becomes, on the contrary, catalytic in the presence of a tertiary phosphine. Meriwether and co-workers (57, 136, 137, I40) studied the possible mechanism of Reppe s reaction. They showed that both the polymerization and the cyclization reactions are particularly effective with monosubstituted acetylenes, and that the cyclization reaction is infiuenced by steric and electronic effects. They then proposed a mechanism by which the induction time is ascribed to this rather slow reaction ... 

Like CH3, other alkyl groups release electrons, and like —CH3 they activate the ring. For example, Icrt-butylbenzene is 16 times as reactive as benzene toward nitration. Electron release by —NH2 and —OH, and by their derivatives -- OCH3 and —NHCOCH3, is due not to their inductive effect but to resonance, and is discussed later (Sec. 11.20). 

Taft, R.W. and Lewis, I.C (1958). The General Applicability of a Fixed Scale of Inductive Effects. II. Inductive Effects of Dipolar Substituents in the Reactivities of m- and p-Substi-tuted Derivatives of Benzene. J.Am.Chem.Soc., 80,2436-2443. 

The ortho coupling in benzene derivatives varies over the relatively small range of 6.7-8.5 Hz, depending on the resonance and inductive effects of the substituents. The presence of heteroatoms in the ring expands the range at the lower end down to 2 Hz, because of the effects of electronegativity (pyridines) and of smaller rings (furans and pyrroles). 

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