Benzene reaction rate data

Extension of the Investigation to other aromatic compounds provided equally interesting observations. The second-order rate constants for aromatic compounds which are less reactive than benzene were established by the study of the reaction in more acidic media. 19 21 ipjjg reaction rate data determined In this work are examined in Figure 5. 

There are relatively few kinetic data on the Friedel-Crafts reaction. Alkylation of benzene or toluene with methyl bromide or ethyl bromide with gallium bromide as catalyst is first-order in each reactant and in catalyst. With aluminum bromide as catalyst, the rate of reaction changes with time, apparently because of heterogeneity of the reaction mixture. The initial rate data fit the kinetic expression ... 

The vast majority of the kinetic detail is presented in tabular form. Amassing of data in this way has revealed a number of errors, to which attention is drawn, and also demonstrated the need for the expression of the rate data in common units. Accordingly, all units of rate coefficients in this section have been converted to mole.l-1.sec-1 for zeroth-order coefficients (k0), sec-1 for first-order coefficients (kt), l.mole-1.sec-1 for second-order coefficients (k2), l2.mole-2.sec-1 for third-order coefficients (fc3), etc., and consequently no further reference to units is made. Likewise, energies and enthalpies of activation are all in kcal. mole-1, and entropies of activation are in cal.deg-1mole-1. Where these latter parameters have been obtained over a temperature range which precludes the accuracy favoured by the authors, attention has been drawn to this and also to a few papers, mainly early ones, in which the units of the rate coefficients (and even the reaction orders) cannot be ascertained. In cases where a number of measurements have been made under the same conditions by the same workers, the average values of the observed rate coefficients are quoted. In many reactions much of the kinetic data has been obtained under competitive conditions such that rate coefficients are not available in these cases the relative reactivities (usually relative to benzene) are quoted. 

The most valuable and comprehensive kinetic studies of alkylation have been carried out by Brown et al. The first of these studies concerned benzylation of aromatics with 3,4-dichloro- and 4-nitro-benzyl chlorides (these being chosen to give convenient reaction rates) with catalysis by aluminium chloride in nitrobenzene solvent340. Reactions were complicated by dialkylation which was especially troublesome at low aromatic concentrations, but it proved possible to obtain approximately third-order kinetics, the process being first-order in halide and catalyst and roughly first-order in aromatic this is shown by the data relating to alkylation of benzene given in Table 77, where the first-order rate coefficients k1 are calculated with respect to the concentration of alkyl chloride and the second-order coefficients k2 are calculated with respect to the products of the... 

B. l,3>2>Dioxaphospholens.—The kinetics of the addition of trialkyl phosphites to benzil have been investigated spectrophotometrically. The second-order reaction of trimethyl phosphite in dioxan has activation parameters of A// = 8.4 kcal mol and AS = — 47.5 e.u. In benzene the rate constant increases linearly with low concentrations of added organic acid and decreases linearly with low concentrations of added base. The Diels-Alder mechanism is considered unlikely on the basis of these data, and the slow step is considered to be nucleophilic addition of the phosphite to the carbon of the carbonyl group (see Scheme). 

OS 31] ]R 16a] ]P 23] For benzene nitration, the results achieved in the capillary-flow micro reactor were benchmarked against results claimed in the patent literature (see Table 4.2) [97]. An analysis of conversion, by-product level, reaction time and reaction rate showed that the results achieved in micro reactors and conventional equipment are competitive, i.e. were similar. As tendencies, it seemed that the micro reactor can lead to a lower by-product level owing to its better temperature guiding and that reaction times can be further shortened. However, the corresponding results are not absolutely comparable in terms of reaction conditions and hence further data are required here. 

Here X denotes lb-moles of benzene per lb-mole of pure benzene feed and x, denotes lb-moles of diphenyl per lb-mole of pure benzene feed. The parameters k, and k2 are unknown reaction rate constants whereas K, and K2 are known equilibrium constants. The data consist of measurements of Xi and x2 in a flow reactor at eight values of the reciprocal space velocity t. The feed to the reactor was pure benzene. The experimental data are given in Table 6.2 (in Chapter 6). The governing ODEs can also be written as ... 

The isomers of benzene hexachloride (1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane) also eliminate the elements of hydrogen chloride to alkali, and comparative data regarding the proposed hypothesis are available. Table II gives reaction-rate constants for dehydrochlorination (6) and comparative toxicities to larvae of A. quadrimaculatus (12). Here, of course, the compounds differ only in stereochemistry—that is, in spatial arrangement of the atoms—and there is no apparent relationship between reactivity and toxicity. 

So far as the overall substitution reaction (— 107) is concerned, marked differences from electrophilic and nucleophilic attack become apparent as soon as the behaviour of substituted benzene derivatives (C6HjY) is considered. Thus homolytic attack on C6H5Y is found to be faster than on C6H6, no matter whether Y is electron-attracting or -withdrawing, as shown by the relative rate data for attack by Ph ... 

The Hammett equation is the best-known and most widely studied of the various linear free energy relations for correlating reaction rate and equilibrium constant data. It was first proposed to correlate the rate constants and equilibrium constants for the side chain reactions of para and meta substituted benzene derivatives. Hammett (37-39) noted that for a large number of reactions of these compounds plots of log k (or log K) for one reaction versus log k (or log K) for a second reaction of the corresponding member of a series of such derivatives was reasonably linear. Figure 7.5 is a plot of this type involving the ionization constants for phenylacetic acid derivatives and for benzoic acid derivatives. The point labeled p-Cl has for its ordinate log Ka for p-chlorophenylacetic acid and for its abscissa log Ka for p-chloroben-zoic acid. The points approximate a straight line, which can be expressed as... 

Benzene alkylation with ethene was studied over HY, LaY, and SK-500 between 488° and 599°K and for C6 C2 from 0.7 to 10. Ethylbenzene ethylation was also studied. For propene alkylation, conditions were similar except that the temperature range was 350° to 493°K, and the study was less complete than for the ethene system. The experimental rate data typically exhibited a maximum with respect to time and underwent extended decay (Figure 1). The location of the peak is a function of reaction conditions, particularly temperature. The propene system deactivated more rapidly than the ethene system. Data for the ethene system were reproducible to 10%. 

Quantitative rate data ample for an adequate test of the applicability of a linear free-energy relationship are now available. Prior to an examination of this question, however, it is convenient to present all the experimental information necessary for a discussion of the problem. The partial rate factors for sixty reactions of toluene, the most intensively studied aromatic compound, were summarized in Table 2. Other monosubstituted benzenes, although less completely investigated than toluene, provide results encompassing a broad range of relative reactivity. The data for the reactions of the simple aromatic... 

The partial rate factors for the substitution reactions of biphenyl, with the exception of a few observations, are on a firm experimental basis. The chlorination of biphenyl was examined on several occasions (de la Mare et al., 1958a Beaven et al., 1961 Mason, 1959 Dewar and Mole, 1957). There are significant differences in the reported values for the rate relative to benzene. A recent careful examination of the products (Beaven et al., 1961) indicated the formation of 2- and 4-chloro-biphenyl in 76.5% yield with 17.5% of the residual chlorine consumed via addition processes. The partial rate factors presented in the table are corrected on this basis. Two early studies of the nitration of biphenyl with acetyl nitrate in acetic anhydride yield rate data in poor agreement (Dewar et al., 1956 Simamura and Mizuno, 1957). A recent re-examination of the problem (Billings and Norman, 1961) yielded partial rate factors (ofh = 36.4 = 32.6) confirming the results... 

Many partial rate factors are available for the substitution reactions of the other alkylbenzenes, ethylbenzene, i-propylbenzene, and t-butyl-benzene, in addition to the 60 reactions of toluene. The data for these compounds are subject to the same limitations and restrictions described for toluene. The minor uncertainties which do exist are related to the experimental problems involved in the analysis for the small concentration of meta isomer. Rate data for the ortho and para positions are precise (Tables 10, 11, and 12). 

In order to determine the reaction pathway for 1,2-dichlorobenzene, Schiith fitted kinetic data and found that the primary pathway was direct reaction to benzene with a parallel reaction of sequential dechlorination through chlorobenzene to benzene. (Figure 7) These pathways were further supported by independent determination and verification of the reaction rate constant for the second hydrodechlorination step. (Schiith and Reinhard 1998)... 

There are principally two different approaches of correlating experimental rate data of electrophilic substitution with reactivity indices (1) Correlating the index with the rate data of a given reaction, e.g. bromination. For example, a satisfying correlation of Dewar reactivity numbers with the log of rate constants of the bromination of benzene, naphthalene (1- and 2-position), biphenyl (4-position), phenanthrene (9-position), and anthracene (9-position) has been observed [55]. In correlations of this type the reactivity index corresponds to the reactivity constant in the Hammett equation while the slope of the linear correlation corresponds to the reaction constant (see also Sect. 3) (2) correlating the index with experimental a values. 

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