Correlations Grunwald-Winstein parameters

Univariate LSERs may possess the conventional LEER form, as exemplified by Eq. (8-67), the Grunwald-Winstein equation, or they may simply be plots of log k against a solvent parameter such as Z, (30), or ir. Brownstein developed an LEER form for the latter type of correlation, writing... 

A study of the aquation of the [Co(NH8)5(DMSO)] + ion in mixed aqueous-organic solvents which involves loss of an uncharged ligand does not show any correlation with solvent parameters, including the Grunwald-Winstein Y values, the water activity, or the heats of mixing of DMSO with solvent components. Nevertheless an 7d mechanism is proposed and the activation parameters are AH -23.9 0.7 kcal mol and AS = 0.36 2.29 cal mol. ... 

The solvolyses of p-methoxybenzyl chloride in 39 solvents are well correlated by an extended Grunwald-Winstein equation involving terms in Tci (solvent ionizing power), At (solvent nucleophilicity) and I (Kevill s aromatic ring parameter). A claim by Liu that nucleophilic participation is greater than in the solvolyses of the corresponding bromide is discussed and said to be disproved. 

The aquation kinetics of the chloropentaamminecobalt(III) ion in water-ethanol mixtures has been studied. The rate constants correlate well with the Grunwald-Winstein Y parameter and with the dielectric constant of the medium. The data supports a D mechanism for the reaction. The loss of chloride from the complexes cw-[Co(en)2(NH2CH2CH20H)Cl] and cw-[Co(en)2(NH2(CH2)3 0H)Cl] has been studied in aqueous ethyleneglycol at 40-65 °C in acidic media and at 20-35 °C in basic media.The rate constants decreased linearly with the increasing mole fraction of the cosolvent. The loss of chloride resulted in the formation of the chelated amino-alcohols as the main product. The observed solvent isotope effect (A h2oAd2o) = 112 at 50 °C, [HCIO4] =0.01 moldm for chloride release is lower than the value reported for the aquation of the cw-[Co(en)2(alkylamine)Cl] complexes (1.38-1.44). This result may indicate the lack of direct solvent intervention in the act of substitution at the cobalt(III) center, as expected for a true intramolecular reaction. 

AN is known to show good correlations with the solvation energies of anions. Also, AN has good correlations with other solvent parameters defined in different reaction systems, e.g., Grunwald and Winstein s T-value [24], Kosower s Z-value [25], Dimroth and Reichardt s T Value [26,27], etc. 

There is an ongoing controversy about whether there is any stabilization of the transition state for nucleophilic substitution at tertiary aliphatic carbon from interaction with nucleophilic solvent." ° This controversy has developed with the increasing sophistication of experiments to characterize solvent effects on the rate constants for solvolysis reactions. Grunwald and Winstein determined rate constants for solvolysis of tert-butyl chloride in a wide variety of solvents and used these data to define the solvent ionizing parameter T (Eq. 3). They next found that rate constants for solvolysis of primary and secondary aliphatic carbon show a smaller sensitivity (m) to changes in Y than those for the parent solvolysis reaction of tert-butyl chloride (for which m = 1 by definition). A second term was added ( N) to account for the effect of changes in solvent nucleophilicity on obsd that result from transition state stabilization by a nucleophilic interaction between solvent and substrate. It was first assumed that there is no significant stabilization of the transition state for solvolysis of tert-butyl chloride from such a nucleophilic interaction. However, a close examination of extensive rate data revealed, in some cases, a correlation between rate constants for solvolysis of fert-butyl derivatives and solvent nucleophicity. " ... 

Since reaction rates can be strongly affected by solvent polarity cf. Chapter 5), the introduction of solvent scales using suitable solvent-sensitive chemical reactions was obvious [33, 34]. One of the most ambitious attempts to correlate reaction rates with empirical parameters of solvent polarity has been that of Winstein and his co-workers [35-37]. They found that the SnI solvolysis of 2-chloro-2-methylpropane (t-butyl chloride, t-BuCl) is strongly accelerated by polar, especially protic solvents cf. Eq. (5-13) in Section 5.3.1. Grunwald and Winstein [35] defined a solvent ionizing power parameter Y using Eq. (7-13),... 

The general SPP scale of solvent dipolarity/polarizability and the specific SB and SA scales of solvent HBA basicity and HBD acidity, respectively, are orthogonal to one another and they can be used in the correlation analysis of solvent effects in single- or, in combination with the others, in two- or three-parameter correlation equations, depending on the solvent-influenced process under consideration see also Section 7.7. Examples of the correlation analysis of a variety of other solvent-dependent processes by means of SPP, SB, and SA values, including those used for the introduction of other solvent polarity parameters, can be found in references [335-337, 340-342]. In particular, comparisons with Kamlet and Taft s n scale [340] and Winstein and Grunwald s Y scale [341] have been made. 

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