Displacement reactivity ratios

Iodine can, however, be displaced cleanly with bromine<150) and with chlorine if iodine monochloride or sulfuryl chloride and benzoyl peroxide are used as chlorinating agents.reactivity ratios for the displacement of bromine by chlorine from substituted bromo-benzenes have been found to be in the order p-phenyl > o-methoxy > p-chloro > un-... 

Recently, more accurate determinations of isomer distributions and a /3 reactivity ratios in electrophilic substitutions of benzofuran and benzothiophene have been determined using the gas chromatographic technique.77 The data are summarized in Table XVI which also includes a /3 reactivity ratios referring to electrophilic displacement reactions such as protodesilylation and to side-chain reactions related to electrophilic substitution, such as the solvolysis of 1-arylethyl-acetates239 and 1-arylethyl- -nitrobenzoates.240... 

Nucleophilic Displacement Reactions. The presence of activating groups, eg, o,p mX.1.0 groups, makes aromatic fluorine reactive in nucleophilic displacement reactions. This has been demonstrated by deterrnination of the relative fluorine—chlorine displacement ratios from the reaction of halonitroben2enes with sodium methoxide in methanol (137) F is displaced 200—300 times more readily than Cl. 

Polyetherification is similar to a polycondensation process formation of high molecular weight polymer requires precise adjustment of composition to approximately 1 1 ratio of bisphenol to dihalosulfone. Trace amounts of water gready reduce the molecular weight attainable owing to side reactions that unbalance the stoichiometry (76). The reactivity of the halosulfone is in the order expected for two-step nucleophilic aromatic displacement reactions ... 

Rates of debromination of bromonitro-thiophenes and -selenophenes with sodium thio-phenoxide and sodium selenophenoxide have been studied. Selenophene compounds were about four times more reactive than the corresponding thiophene derivatives. The rate ratio was not significantly different whether attack was occurring at the a- or /3-position. As in benzenoid chemistry, numerous nucleophilic displacement reactions are found to be copper catalyzed. Illustrative of these reactions is the displacement of bromide from 3-bromothiophene-2-carboxylic acid and 3-bromothiophene-4-carboxylic acid by active methylene compounds (e.g. AcCH2C02Et) in the presence of copper and sodium ethoxide (Scheme 77) (75JCS(P1)1390). 

Table XIV, line 3). The rates are equal (only at 20°) due to a large, compensating difference between the entropies of activation. In piperidino-dechlorination, 4-chloroquinoline (Table XI, line 3) has a higher and a lower rate (by about 200-fold at 20°) than 1-chloroisoquinoline (Table XIV, line 1). This reversal of reactivity and of the relationship of the activation energies is attributed to the factors in amination reactions mentioned above. The relative reactivity of the chloro groups in 2,4-dichloroquinoline with methanolic methoxide is given as a 2 1 rate ratio of 4- to 2-displacement. 

There thenfollowed reports by Katz [13] and Grubbs [14] and their co-workers on studies that aimed to simplify and confirm the analysis. The key remaining issue was whether a modified pairwise mechanism, in which another alkene can coordinate to the metal and equilibrate with the product prior to product displacement, would also explain the appearance of the anomalous cross-over products early in the reaction evolution. However, a statistical kinetic analysis showed that for a 1 1 mixture of equally reactive alkenes, the kinetic ratio of cross-metathesis should be 1 1.6 1 for the pairwise mechanism and 1 2 1 for the Chauvin mechanism. Any equilibration (substrate or product) would, of course, cause an approach towards a statistical distribution (1 2 1) and thus allow no distinction between the mechanisms. 

In reaction (d) the transition state probably resembles the reactants, and we may assume that the relative reactivity of the two nucleophilic atoms is related to the ratio of their charge densities in the ambident ion (5o/qp). Thus for a displacement reaction in general,... 

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