By anionic nucleophiles

Other measures of nucleophilicity have been proposed. Brauman et al. studied Sn2 reactions in the gas phase and applied Marcus theory to obtain the intrinsic barriers of identity reactions. These quantities were interpreted as intrinsic nucleo-philicities. Streitwieser has shown that the reactivity of anionic nucleophiles toward methyl iodide in dimethylformamide (DMF) is correlated with the overall heat of reaction in the gas phase he concludes that bond strength and electron affinity are the important factors controlling nucleophilicity. The dominant role of the solvent in controlling nucleophilicity was shown by Parker, who found solvent effects on nucleophilic reactivity of many orders of magnitude. For example, most anions are more nucleophilic in DMF than in methanol by factors as large as 10, because they are less effectively shielded by solvation in the aprotic solvent. Liotta et al. have measured rates of substitution by anionic nucleophiles in acetonitrile solution containing a crown ether, which forms an inclusion complex with the cation (K ) of the nucleophile. These rates correlate with gas phase rates of the same nucleophiles, which, in this crown ether-acetonitrile system, are considered to be naked anions. The solvation of anionic nucleophiles is treated in Section 8.3. 

Effective Sn2 substitution reactions are also greatly effected by anion nucleophilicity. An anion will be less nucleophilic when it is effectively solvated and when it is restricted by its counterion. This can be circumvented by selection of a tetraalkylammonium counterion, addition of a crown ether, and use of a solvent that effectively solvate cations. 

Early kinetic measurements on the thermal anation of [Co(CN)5(HiO)] by anionic nucleophiles (Y = N3", SCN ) indicated that substitution proceeded with a less-than-first-order dependence on [Y] and approached a limiting rate at high concentrations. This, together with the substantial agreement between the limiting rates for the thiocyanate and azide systems and the apparent water-exchange rate on [Co(CN)s(H20)] , indicated that substitution occurred via a limiting... 

Oxacyclopropane is subject to bimolecular ring opening by anionic nucleophiles. Because of the symmetry of the substrate, substimtion occurs to the same extent at either carbon. The reaction proceeds by nucleophilic attack, with the ether oxygen functioning as an intramolecular leaving group. 

The most general methods for the syntheses of 1,2-difunctional molecules are based on the oxidation of carbon-carbon multiple bonds (p. 117) and the opening of oxiranes by hetero atoms (p. 123fl.). There exist, however, also a few useful reactions in which an a - and a d -synthon or two r -synthons are combined. The classical polar reaction is the addition of cyanide anion to carbonyl groups, which leads to a-hydroxynitriles (cyanohydrins). It is used, for example, in Strecker s synthesis of amino acids and in the homologization of monosaccharides. The ff-hydroxy group of a nitrile can be easily substituted by various nucleophiles, the nitrile can be solvolyzed or reduced. Therefore a large variety of terminal difunctional molecules with one additional carbon atom can be made. Equally versatile are a-methylsulfinyl ketones (H.G. Hauthal, 1971 T. Durst, 1979 O. DeLucchi, 1991), which are available from acid chlorides or esters and the dimsyl anion. Carbanions of these compounds can also be used for the synthesis of 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds (p. 65f.). 

This is also confirmed by the observation that in the reaction of 2.4- or 2,5-dihalogenothiazoles with anionic nucleophiles, the halogen in position 2 reacts first (8, 9, 35). This halogen is strongly activated by the aza substituent and by the other halogen substituent. Only when the halogen in position 2 is substituted more than 90% can the substitution proceed in position 4 or 5,... 

The 8n2 mechanism is believed to describe most substitutions m which simple pri mary and secondary alkyl halides react with anionic nucleophiles All the examples cited in Table 8 1 proceed by the 8 2 mechanism (or a mechanism very much like 8 2— remember mechanisms can never be established with certainty but represent only our best present explanations of experimental observations) We 11 examine the 8 2 mecha nism particularly the structure of the transition state in more detail in 8ection 8 5 after hrst looking at some stereochemical studies carried out by Hughes and Ingold... 

Ethylene oxide is a very reactive substance It reacts rapidly and exothermically with anionic nucleophiles to yield 2 substituted derivatives of ethanol by cleaving the car bon-oxygen bond of the nng... 

Because of the rapid ring opening by the nucleophile, ayiridinium salts cannot usually be isolated. However, in a few cases it is possible to isolate such compounds (54), eg, at low temperatures, when the ayiridinium salts ate sparingly soluble or where there is steric hindrance to substitution. Stable ethyleneiminium salts can be prepared by reaction of ethyleneimine with acids not containing nucleophilic anions, for example HBF (55). 

Certain base adducts of borane, such as triethylamine borane [1722-26-5] (C2H )2N BH, dimethyl sulfide borane [13292-87-OJ, (CH2)2S BH, and tetrahydrofuran borane [14044-65-6] C HgO BH, are more easily and safely handled than B2H and are commercially available. These compounds find wide use as reducing agents and in hydroboration reactions (57). A wide variety of borane reducing agents and hydroborating agents is available from Aldrich Chemical Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Base displacement reactions can be used to convert one adduct to another. The relative stabiUties of BH adducts as a function of Group 15 and 16 donor atoms are P > N and S > O. This order has sparked controversy because the trend opposes the normal order estabUshed by BF. In the case of anionic nucleophiles, base displacement leads to ionic hydroborate adducts (eqs. 20,21). 

Virtually all of the organo derivatives of CA are produced by reactions characteristic of a cycHc imide, wherein isocyanurate nitrogen (frequendy as the anion) nucleophilically attacks a positively polarized carbon of the second reactant. Cyanuric acid and ethylene oxide react neady quantitatively at 100°C to form tris(2-hydroxyethyl)isocyanurate [839-90-7] (THEIC) (48—52). Substitution of propylene oxide yields the hydroxypropyl analogue (48,49). At elevated temperatures (- 200° C). CA and alkylene oxides react in inert solvent to give A/-hydroxyalkyloxazohdones in approximately 70% yield (53). Alternatively, THEIC can be prepared by reaction of CA and 2-chloroethanol in aqueous caustic (52). THEIC can react further via its hydroxyl fiinctionahty to form esters, ethers, urethanes, phosphites, etc (54). Reaction of CA with epichlorohydrin in alkaline dioxane solution gives... 

The ionization mechanism for nucleophilic substitution proceeds by rate-determining heterolytic dissociation of the reactant to a tricoordinate carbocation (also sometimes referred to as a carbonium ion or carbenium ion f and the leaving group. This dissociation is followed by rapid combination of the highly electrophilic carbocation with a Lewis base (nucleophile) present in the medium. A two-dimensional potential energy diagram representing this process for a neutral reactant and anionic nucleophile is shown in Fig. 

Ruonne atoms in aromatic nitrogen heterocycles are readily replaced by oxygen nucleophiles [77] Bistnfluoromethyl hydroxylarmne anion is an mterest-ing nucleophile for the mtroduction of oxygen mto perfluoropyndine Rearrangement of the product occurs at 125 °C [18] (equation 12)... 

Several methods for the preparation of unsymmetrical sulfur diimides RN=S=NR have been developed. One approach involves the addition of a catalytic amount of an alkali metal to a mixture of two symmetrical sulfur diimides, RN=S=NR and RT8i=S=NR. A second method makes use of alkali-metal derivatives of [RNSN] anions.Eor example, derivatives in which one of the substituents is a fluoroheteroaryl group can be prepared by the reaction of the anionic nucleophile [RN=S=N] with pentafluoropyridine. Sulfur diimides of the type RN=S=NH (R = 2,4,6- Bu3C6H2S) have also been prepared. "... 

In cases where comparable data are available, the activation energy for nucleophilic substitution by anions such as methoxide ion is... 

Some substituents such as the acylamino group are readily decomposed by many nucleophiles to give a poorer leaving group (e.g., amino). Others, such as nitroamino and sulfonylamino, are less reactive when they are anionized by the nucleophile. 3-Nitroamino-pyridazine (117) and its 6-methyl derivative are readily aminated with benzylamine (130°, short time ). 4,6-Dimethyl- and 6-methyl-2-nitroaminopyrimidine undergo 2-substitution on warming a few minutes with hydroxylamine, hydrazine, primary or secondary alkylamines, or anilines. 

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