Electronic effects aromatic

Excluding the phenomenon of hyperconjugation, the only other means by which electronic effects can be transmitted within saturated molecules, or exerted by inductive substituents in aromatic molecules, is by direct electrostatic interaction, the direct field effect. In early discussions of substitution this was usually neglected for qualitative purposes since it would operate in the same direction (though it would be expected to diminish in the order ortho > meta > para) as the cr-inductive effect and assessment of the relative importance of each is difficult however, the field effect was recognised as having quantitative significance. ... 

In unsaturated molecules electronic effects can be transmitted by mesomerism as well as by inductive effects. As with the latter, the mesomeric properties of a group are described by reference to hydrogen. Groups which release electrons to the unsaturated residue of the molecule are said to exert a +Af effect, whereas groups which attract electrons are said to exert a —Af effect. In aromatic structures the important feature of an M-substituent is that it influences the 0- and p-positions selectively. 

Preformed Carbocationic Intermediates. Propargyl cations stabilized by hexacarbonyl dicobalt have been used to effect Friedel-Crafts alkylation of electron-rich aromatics, such as anisole, /V, /V- dim ethyl a n il in e and 1,2,4,-trimethoxybenzene (24). Intramolecular reactions have been found to be regio and stereo-selective, and have been used ia the preparatioa of derivatives of 9JT- uoreaes and dibenzofurans (25). 

Trialkyltin substituents are also powerful ipso-directing groups. The overall electronic effects are similar to those in silanes, but the tin substituent is a better electron donor. The electron density at carbon is increased, as is the stabilization of /S-carbocation character. Acidic cleavage of arylstannanes is formulated as an electrophilic aromatic substitution proceeding through an ipso-oriented c-complex. ... 

Taft began the LFER attack on steric effects as part of his separation of electronic and steric effects in aliphatic compounds, which is discussed in Section 7.3. For our present purposes we abstract from that treatment the portion relevant to aromatic substrates. Hammett p values for alkaline ester hydrolysis are in the range +2.2 to +2.8, whereas for acid ester hydrolysis p is close to zero (see Table 7-2). Taft, therefore, concluded that electronic effects of substituents are much greater in the alkaline than in the acid series and. in fact, that they are negligible in the acid series. This left the steric effect alone controlling relative reactivity in the acid series. A steric substituent constant was defined [by analogy with the definition of cr in Eq. (7-22)] by Eq. (7-43), where k is the rate constant for acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of an orr/to-substituted benzoate ester and k is the corresponding rate constant for the on/to-methyl ester note that CH3, not H, is the reference substituent. ... 

In most of the papers discussing tautomerism in dihydropyrimidines, the possibility of the existence of 4,5-dihydro isomer 47c (Scheme 19) was not even considered or was ruled out on the basis of H NMR spectra. In 1985, however, Kashima et al. (85TL5057) reported that, although dihydropyrimidines 47 with r = H or Pr (R = R = R = Me, R = H) indeed exist only as mixtures of 47a and 47b tautomers, for analogs with r = Ph, OEt, or SMe, 4,5-dihydro tautomers 47c were also observed in CDCI3 solution in relative amounts of 10%, 20%, and 31%, respectively. The proportion of this tautomer rises to 45% in the case of the 2-dimethylamino-substituted derivative. The electronic effects of a heteroatom or an aromatic group in the 2 position were proposed as an explanation for this phenomenon. No 4,5-dihydropyrimidine has ever been found in the solid state. 

On the basis of a naive analogy with cyclopropenones, the ground-state aromatic stabilization of which has been recently reconfirmed, some kind of aromaticity can, in principle, be assigned to these systems when Z = SO or S02, assuming a possibility for transmission of electronic effects via -conjugation. 

Inner-outer-ring dienes are very useful in the synthesis of polycyclic molecules. Their reactivity in the Diels-Alder reaction depends on the type of ring (carbo-cyclic, heterocyclic, aromatic) that bears the ethenyl group or on the electronic effects of substituents at the diene moiety [30]. 

Halterman et al. reported that 5-aryl-5-phenylcyclopentadienes 23-25 reacted with dienophiles to favor the reactions on the anti side of the more electron rich aromatic system [19]. The orbital mixing rule failed to predict this selectivity, since orbital mixing is expected to take place mainly by mediation of the JtAr-HOMo of more electron rich aromatic system (Scheme 13). Destabilization due to the orbital phase environment or stabilization due to Cieplak effects can be responsible for the selectivity (See Sects. 2.1.2 and 2.1.3). 

Electronic Effects in Metallocenes and Certain Related Systems, 10, 79 Electronic Structure of Alkali Metal Adducts of Aromatic Hydrocarbons, 2, 115 Fast Exchange Reactions of Group I, II, and III Organometallic Compounds, 8,167 Fluorocarbon Derivatives of Metals, 1, 143 Heterocyclic Organoboranes, 2, 257... 

When aromatics, even single-ring compoimds such as benzene, have one substituent already, the introduction of the next also gives rise to regioisomerism. In addition, the first one guides the introduction of the second by steric and electronic effects. 

Finaiiy, carbon chains that have an unsaturated bond, an aromatic ring or another group, can cause dangerous reactions which involve these structural elements or groups. In this case, the simultaneous presence of these structural parameters can boost their reactivity due to the electronic effects that they exert on each other. 

Numerous chemical reactions have been carried out on ferrocene and its derivatives.317 The molecule behaves as an electron-rich aromatic system, and electrophilic substitution reactions occur readily. Reagents that are relatively strong oxidizing agents, such as the halogens, effect oxidation at iron and destroy the compound. 

Vogtle, F., and Hohner, G. Stereochemistry of Multibridged, Multilayered, and Multistepped Aromatic Compounds. Transanular Steric and Electronic Effects. 74, 1-29 (1978). 

The results obtained with different amines cannot be explained merely on the effects of amine basicity. Thus, to obtain complete hydrogenation of Q to DHQ, the basicity has to be tailored by other factors such as the steric hindrance of the amine and its electronic interaction with the catalyst active sites this seems to be favored by the presence of an electron-rich aromatic ring. Of note, the positive effect of substituted aromatic amines, with a 49% DHQ yield being obtained for ethylanilines, is independent of the substituent position of the alkyl group. 

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