Deuterium, “inductive effect

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. 

The importance of the inductive effect in controlling the reaction rates was further shown by Streitweiser and Humphrey596, who measured the rates of dedeuteration of toluene (a, a-d2), (a, 2,4,6-g 4), and (a, 2,3,4,5,6-g 6) by lithium cyclohexylamide at 50 °C and found the rate to be reduced by 0.4 %, 0.4 %, and 1.8 % for a deuterium atom in the ortho, meta and para positions respectively. The retardation is consistent with the +1 effect of deuterium but the differential positional effect could not be rationalised in simple and general terms. 

Both sets of results may also be discussed in terms of inductive differences between hydrogen and deuterium (see Halevi, 1963). Brown et al. (1966) jDoint out that both the inductive and steric explanations qualitatively predict isotope effects in the same direction, but that an inductive effect would be expected to operate from the 3 and 4 positions nearly as effectively as from the 2 position . Furthermore, there is no observable isotope effect on the heat of reaction of 2,6-(dimethyl-de)-pyridine with the relatively small molecule diborane A AH = —20 18 cal mol ), but a significant effect is obtained with the larger molecule boron trifluoride AAH = 230 + 150 cal mol ). 

It was of course not possible to introduce the deuterium atoms closer than three bonds away from the center of reaction , but the attenuation of the inductive effect with distance was not expected to affect the validity of the conclusions, especially considering the work of Streit-wieser and Klein (1964), who found that the isotope effect per deuterium in the solvolysis of benzhydryl chloride only decreased from 1 9% for deuterium in the ortho positions to l-5% for deuterium in the meta positions. 

The rate constants for the KIEs were measured using UV spectroscopy in separate kinetic runs using the undeuterated and deuterated substrates. Although this normal secondary /3-deuterium KIE could be due to hyperconjugation, the authors, like Streitwieser and Van Sickle (1962), preferred to attribute it to an inductive effect. 

The secondary /3-deuterium KIEs observed for the reaction of the same substrate with hydroxide ion and with tris(hydroxymethyl)methylamine in aqueous solution at 25°C were small, i.e. kH/kD = 1.09 0.01 and 1.10 0.01, respectively. While Kresge argued that the EIE was primarily due to hyperconjugation, the secondary /3-deuterium KIEs were attributed partly to hyperconjugation and partly to a polar (inductive) effect. The rate constants for the evaluation of both the EIE and the KIEs were determined in separate kinetic runs by following the increase in the absorbance due to the nitronate ion by UV spectroscopy. 

A large inverse secondary deuterium KIE of 0.64 was observed in acetic acid at 25°C when the perdeutero (d2o) compound was the deuterated substrate. This large inverse deuterium KIE was attributed to the KIE for the rate-determining formation of the bromonium ion (62). Although a portion of this KIE is undoubtedly due to the inductive effect (deuterium is more electron-donating than hydrogen and the deuterated bromonium ion would... 

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The a-secondary IE of two deuteriums on the rate of base-catalyzed CD exchange of toluene, 3A ( PhC112D)/k(PhCD is 1.31, and the [3-secondary D IE on the rate of base-catalyzed a-C-D exchange of ethylbenzene, k(PhCHDCH3)//t(PhCHDCD3), is 1.11 0.03.58 Similarly, from the rates of base-catalyzed a-C-D exchange of tolucne-a,4-r/2, -a,2,4,6-c/4, and -a,2,3,4,5,6-d6 and with an assumption of linearity of IEs, the contributions of ortho, meta, and para deuteration lead to rate retardations of 2.4, 0.4, and 1.8%, respectively.59 These are all kinetic IEs, but to the extent that the transition state resembles closely the carbanion, or to the extent that the reverse reprotonation is encounter-controlled and independent of isotopic substitution, these kinetic IEs represent equilibrium IEs on acidity. The IEs were interpreted in terms of an electron-donating inductive effect of D relative to H. 

A simple inductive effect, wherein deuterium is more electron-donating than protium, cannot be responsible. If that were the case, deuterium would not only increase basicity but also accelerate solvolysis. Instead the inductive effect... 

Moreover, the inductive contribution of a p deuterium to the IE on amine basicity was estimated.31 The inductive effect on pK due to an sp2-sp3 C-C bond, with a dipole moment of 0.35 D, as in propene, can be assigned as 0.95, the ApAf between allylamine and methylamine. Above, in connection with the structural question of the extent to which IEs affect dipole moments, dCu dco is 0.5 pm and dfi/dd is 0.004e. These combine to a ApAT on deuteration of 0.001, which is much smaller than the measured IEs in Table 5. An inductive contribution does exist, but it is negligible. 

Another estimate seemed to support an inductive contribution to deuterium IEs on the acidity of carboxylic acids.37 This IE on acidity of some carboxylic acids was attributed to an inductive effect arising from the electrostatic interaction of the C-H or C-D dipole with the negative charge of the carboxylate, as expressed in Equation (31). The derivative dpK/dfi was estimated from the effect of a C-Cl dipole on acidity, using the difference in pATas of trichloroacetic acid (0.63) and acetic acid (4.75) and the difference between the dipole moments of t-butyl chloride (2.13 D) and isobutane (-0.13 D). Next Afj, was estimated as 0.0086 D, the difference between the dipole moments of (CH3)3CD and (CH3)3CH. Thus ApK was estimated as 0.005 per D, in excellent agreement with the observed 0.014 for acetic-d3 acid. Moreover, the IE of 0.002 per D in pivalic-J9 acid is consistent with a 2.8-fold falloff factor for inductive effects. Yet those estimates depend crucially on the difference between the dipole moments of isobutane and isobutane-d, which is unusually large, amounting to 6.5% of either s total dipole moment. 

The alternative estimate of this A// above, based on a dcu dCr> of 0.5 pm and a d /dd of 0.004e, is 0.0001 D.32 Application to Equation (31) then leads to a revised ApAT per deuterium of only 0.00006, which is two orders of magnitude lower than either the earlier estimate or the observed IE. Therefore the contribution to the IE from an inductive effect dependent upon anharmonicity is again found to be negligible. 

One remaining puzzle is the decreasing ApA), per D from methylamine to dimethylamine to trimethylamine in solution. Such behavior was ascribed to an inductive effect,51,53 but inductive effects ought to be linear in the number of deuteriums. It may be that conformational restraints due to additional methyls increase the negative hyperconjugation. Computations might be informative. 

The inductive effect of the donating C—D bonds to the observed large inverse secondary deuterium isotope effect has not been given proper consideration but treated as a rather minor component superimposed on the important steric component caused by larger amplitudes of vibrations of C—H bonds than those of the C—D bonds. 14C KIE have not been studied in this reaction. The C2, C V. C3 , C3, endo hydrogens are separated only by 2.11 A, substantially less than van der Waals radii (2 x 1.2 A)404. 

The major reaction product formed from the solvolysis of the trans y-silyl ester was cyclohexene formed from the carbocation 138 (Scheme 18) by 1,2-hydrogen migration to give the p-silyl cation 139 followed by loss of the silicon substituent. In contrast to the behavior shown by 136, the cis y-silyl ester 134 exhibited a small inverse p-d4 isotope effect (kH/kn = 0.97) attributed to the inductive effect of the P-deuteriums and implies that there is very little hyperconjugative stabilization of... 

The positive inductive effect of a 3-methyl group is transferred to the adjacent 2-position more effectively than that of a 2-methyl to the more remote 5-position. Compared with the rate of a-deuterium exchange for selenophene, itself, the rate is about 0.1 for 5-methyl-2-deuterioselenophene and 0.05 for 3-methyl-2-deuterioselenophene in the presence of strong bases, whereas in acidic media it is about 100 and 1000, respectively.79 The same effect of a methyl group was found... 

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