Carboxylic esterification

Scheme 5.11 Carboxylative coupling of organostannanes with organic halides, showing a scrambling of the ligands during the carboxylation/esterification step [47],...

Day JNE, Ingold CK (1941) Mechanism and kinetics of carboxylic ester hydrolysis and carboxyl esterification. Trans Faraday Soc 37 686-705... 

C—0—H Carboxyl Esterification with alcohols reaction with... 

II. . —C—0—H Carboxyl Esterification with alcohols reaction with phosphoms pentachloride to yield acid chlorides... 

Acid catalyzed condensation of an alcohol and a carboxylic acid yields an ester and water and IS known as the Fischer esterification... 

Fischer esterification is reversible and the position of equilibrium lies slightly to the side of products when the reactants are simple alcohols and carboxylic acids When the Fis cher esterification is used for preparative purposes the position of equilibrium can be made more favorable by using either the alcohol or the carboxylic acid m excess In the following example m which an excess of the alcohol was employed the yield indicated IS based on the carboxylic acid as the limiting reactant... 

The acyl group of the carboxylic acid acyl chloride or acid anhydride is trans ferred to the oxygen of the alcohol This fact is most clearly evident m the esterification of chiral alcohols where because none of the bonds to the chirality center is broken m the process retention of configuration is observed... 

Although the term ester used without a modifier is normally taken to mean an ester of a carboxylic acid alcohols can react with inorganic acids m a process similar to the Fis cher esterification The products are esters of inorganic acids For example alkyl nitrates are esters formed by the reaction of alcohols with nitric acid... 

Esterification with carboxylic acid anhydrides (Section 15 8) Car... 

The most apparent chemical property of carboxylic acids their acidity has already been examined m earlier sections of this chapter Three reactions of carboxylic acids—con version to acyl chlorides reduction and esterification—have been encountered m pre vious chapters and are reviewed m Table 19 5 Acid catalyzed esterification of carboxylic acids IS one of the fundamental reactions of organic chemistry and this portion of the chapter begins with an examination of the mechanism by which it occurs Later m Sec tions 19 16 and 19 17 two new reactions of carboxylic acids that are of synthetic value will be described... 

Esterification (Section 15 8) In the pres ence of an acid catalyst carboxylic acids and alcohols react to form esters The reac tion IS an equilibrium process but can be driven to favor the ester by removing the water that is formed... 

The answer to this question is critical because it tells us whether the carbon-oxygen bond of the alcohol or a carbon-oxygen of the carboxylic acid is broken during esterification... 

The results of the Roberts-Urey experiment tell us that the C—O bond of the alco hoi IS preserved during esterification The oxygen that is lost as a water molecule must come from the carboxylic acid... 

Hydroxy acids compounds that contain both a hydroxyl and a carboxylic acid function have the capacity to form cyclic esters called lactones This intramolecular esterification takes place spontaneously when the ring that is formed is five or six membered Lac tones that contain a five membered cyclic ester are referred to as 7 lactones, their six membered analogs are known as 8 lactones... 

Esterification of carboxylic acids involves nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl group as a key step In this respect the carbonyl group of a carboxylic acid resembles that of an aldehyde or a ketone Do carboxylic acids resemble aldehydes and ketones m other ways Do they for example form enols and can they be halogenated at their a carbon atom via an enol m the way that aldehydes and ketones can ... 

Section 19 14 The mechanism of acid catalyzed esterification involves some key fea tures that are fundamental to the chemistry of carboxylic acids and then-derivatives... 

Section 19 15 An intramolecular esterification can occur when a molecule contains both a hydroxyl and a carboxyl group Cyclic esters are called lactones and are most stable when the nng is five or six membered... 

From carboxylic acids (Sections 15 8 and 19 14) In the pres ence of an acid catalyst alco hols and carboxylic acids react to form an ester and water This IS the Fischer esterification... 

Fischer esterification m which a phenol and a carboxylic acid condense m the pres ence of an acid catalyst is not used to prepare aryl esters... 

Carboxyl groups of ammo acids and peptides are normally protected as esters Methyl and ethyl esters are prepared by Fischer esterification Deprotection of methyl and ethyl esters is accomplished by hydrolysis m base Benzyl esters are a popular choice because they can also be removed by hydrogenolysis Thus a synthetic peptide protected at both... 

Section 27 5 Ammo acids undergo reactions characteristic of the ammo group (e g amide formation) and the carboxyl group (e g esterification) Ammo acid side chains undergo reactions characteristic of the functional groups they contain... 

Fingerprint region (Section 13 20) The region 1400-625 cm of an infrared spectrum This region is less character istic of functional groups than others but varies so much from one molecule to another that it can be used to deter mine whether two substances are identical or not Fischer esterification (Sections 15 8 and 19 14) Acid cat alyzed ester formation between an alcohol and a carboxylic acid... 

One of the most sensitive tests of the dependence of chemical reactivity on the size of the reacting molecules is the comparison of the rates of reaction for compounds which are members of a homologous series with different chain lengths. Studies by Flory and others on the rates of esterification and saponification of esters were the first investigations conducted to clarify the dependence of reactivity on molecular size. The rate constants for these reactions are observed to converge quite rapidly to a constant value which is independent of molecular size, after an initial dependence on molecular size for small molecules. The effect is reminiscent of the discussion on the uniqueness of end groups in connection with Example 1.1. In the esterification of carboxylic acids, for example, the rate constants are different for acetic, propionic, and butyric acids, but constant for carboxyUc acids with 4-18 carbon atoms. This observation on nonpolymeric compounds has been generalized to apply to polymerization reactions as well. The latter are subject to several complications which are not involved in the study of simple model compounds, but when these complications are properly considered, the independence of reactivity on molecular size has been repeatedly verified. 

Suppose the total number of carboxyl groups in the original mixture is 2 mol, of which 1.0% is present as acetic acid to render the resulting polymer inert to subsequent esterification. What value of p would be required to produce the desired polymer in this case, assuming no other stoichiometric imbalance ... 

Acetylation of hydroxyl groups and esterification of carboxyl groups have been observed ia a limited number of cases but, ia geaeral, have ao preparative advantage over chemical methods. By comparison, phosphorylation has been useful ia the preparatioa of modified purine and pyrimidine mononucleotides from their corresponding nucleosides, eg, 6-thioguanosiae [85-31-4] (51) (97). 

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