Electrophilic aromatic substitution sulfonation

Unlike most other electrophilic aromatic substitutions, sulfonation is often reversible (see Section 17-4). When one sample of toluene is sulfonated at 0 °C and another sample is sulfonated at 100 °C, the following ratios of substitution products result ... 

Complexation of bromine with iron(III) bromide makes bromine more elec trophilic and it attacks benzene to give a cyclohexadienyl intermediate as shown m step 1 of the mechanism (Figure 12 6) In step 2 as m nitration and sulfonation loss of a proton from the cyclohexadienyl cation is rapid and gives the product of electrophilic aromatic substitution... 

Electrophilic aromatic substitution (Sec tion 22 14) Arylamines are very reac tive toward electrophilic aromatic sub stitution It IS customary to protect arylamines as their N acyl derivatives before carrying out ring nitration chio rination bromination sulfonation or Friedel-Crafts reactions... 

Sulfonation (Section 12 4) Replacement of a hydrogen by an —SO3H group The term is usually used in connection with electrophilic aromatic substitution... 

The azo coupling reaction proceeds by the electrophilic aromatic substitution mechanism. In the case of 4-chlorobenzenediazonium compound with l-naphthol-4-sulfonic acid [84-87-7] the reaction is not base-catalyzed, but that with l-naphthol-3-sulfonic acid and 2-naphthol-8-sulfonic acid [92-40-0] is moderately and strongly base-catalyzed, respectively. The different rates of reaction agree with kinetic studies of hydrogen isotope effects in coupling components. The magnitude of the isotope effect increases with increased steric hindrance at the coupler reaction site. The addition of bases, even if pH is not changed, can affect the reaction rate. In polar aprotic media, reaction rate is different with alkyl-ammonium ions. Cationic, anionic, and nonionic surfactants can also influence the reaction rate (27). 

The hydroxyl group is a strongly activating, ortho- and para-directing substituent in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions (Section 16.4). As a result, phenols are highly reactive substrates for electrophilic halogenation, nitration, sulfonation, and lTiedel-Crafts reactions. 

The y-nitrogen atom of a sulfonic acid azide is electrophilic and reacts in an electrophilic aromatic substitution with an activated benzene or naphthalene derivative, e.g., a phenoxide ion, forming a l-tosyl-3-aryltriazene (2.47). The 1,4-quinone diazide is obtained by hydrolysis (Scheme 2-30, Tedder and Webster, 1960). The general applicability of this reaction seems to be doubtful. With 1-naphthol the 1,2-naphthoquinone diazide was obtained, not the 1,4-isomer. 

The general approaches for the synthesis of poly(arylene ether)s include electrophilic aromatic substitution, nucleophilic aromatic substitution, and metal-catalyzed coupling reactions. Poly(arylene ether sulfone)s and poly(arylene ether ketone)s have quite similar structures and properties, and the synthesis approaches are quite similar in many respects. However, most of the poly(arylene ether sul-fone)s are amorphous while some of the poly(arylene ether)s are semicrystalline, which requires different reaction conditions and approaches to the synthesis of these two polymer families in many cases. In the following sections, the methods for the synthesis of these two families will be reviewed. 

Except for these studies of their protonation behavior, almost the only other aspect of the chemistry of sulfonic acids that has been investigated to any extent from a mechanistic point of view is the desulfonation of aromatic sulfonic acids or sulfonates. Since this subject has been well reviewed by Cerfontain (1968), and since the reaction is really more of interest as a type of electrophilic aromatic substitution than as sulfur chemistry, we shall not deal with it here. One should note that the mechanism of formation of aromatic sulfonic acids by sulfonation of aromatic hydrocarbons has also been intensively investigated, particularly by Cerfontain and his associates, and several... 

The Bis A-PSF can be sulfonated on the Bis A residue, but the Bis S-PSF will not sulfonate due to the deactivating effect of -SO2- on electrophilic aromatic substitution. Therefore, such a block copolymer would allow the study of sequence length effects on membrane performance. 

The product of electrophilic aromatic substitution is a sulfonic acid (see Section 7.13.1). Unnsnally, sulfonation is found to be reversible it is possible... 

Equipped with these reference trends for steric and electronic effects, one is prepared to survey more general classes of electrophilic aromatic substitution on benzocycloalkenes. Such reactions include nitration, halogenation, sulfonation, and alkylation. Each has its own mechanistic peculiarities, but their product distributions can be rationalized by consideration of the appropriate reference. 

A historically important method, first used about 1900, is sulfonation of benzene followed by desulfonation with caustic. This is classic aromatic chemistry. In 1924 a chlorination route was discovered. Both the sulfonation and chlorination reactions are good examples of electrophilic aromatic substitution on an aromatic ring. Know the mechanism of these reactions. These routes are no longer used commercially. 

These equations show the general theoretical basis for the empirical order of rate constants given earlier for electrophilic attack on an aromatic ligand L, its metal complex ML, and its protonated form HL, one finds kt > n > hl. Conflicting reports in the literature state that coordination can both accelerate electrophilic aromatic substitution (30) and slow it down enormously (2). In the first case the rates of nitration of the diprotonated form of 0-phenanthroline and its Co(III) and Fe(III) complexes were compared. Here coordination prevents protonation in the mixed acid medium used for nitration and kML > h2l. In the second case the phenolate form of 8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonic acid and its metal chelates were compared. The complexes underwent iodination much more slowly, if at all, and kL > kML ... 

Interestingly, exclusive ipso substitution was observed in the reaction of trialkylarylstannanes with arenesulfonyl chlorides [118]. Diaryl sulfones, with substitution patterns different from those available via electrophilic aromatic substitution, were obtained in good to excellent yields. The... 

The text points out that C-l of naphthalene is more reactive than C-2 toward electrophilic aromatic substitution. Thus, of the two possible products of sulfonation, naphthalene-1-sulfonic acid should be formed faster and should be the major product under conditions of kinetic control. Since the problem states that the product under conditions of thermodynamic control is the other isomer, naphthalene-2-sulfonic acid is the major product at elevated temperature. 

The text states that electrophilic aromatic substitution in furan, thiophene, and pyrrole occurs at C-2. The sulfonation of thiophene gives thiophene-2-sulfonic acid. 

Molten 2-ethoxybenzoic acid (7) was added to a mixture of chlorosulfonic acid and thionyl chloride while keeping the reaction temperature below 25 °C. In this straightforward electrophilic aromatic substitution the ethoxy group directs the electrophile towards the ortho and para position whereas the carboxylic acid directs meta giving an overall selectivity for the attack at C-5. It was necessary to add thionyl chloride to transform the intermediate sulfonic acid into... 

Aromatic compounds react mainly by electrophilic aromatic substitution, in which one or more ring hydrogens are replaced by various electrophiles. Typical reactions are chlorination, bromination, nitration, sulfonation, alkylation, and acylation (the last two are Friedel-Crafts reactions). The mechanism involves two steps addition of the electrophile to a ring carbon, to produce an intermediate benzenonium ion, followed by proton loss to again achieve the (now substituted) aromatic system. 

Know the meaning of electrophilic aromatic substitution, halogenation, nitration, sulfonation, alkylation, acylation, Friedel-Crafts reaction. 

Sulfonation of polystyrene occurs by an electrophilic aromatic substitution... 

The sulfoxidation of benzene (Table 4, entry 38) yields benzenesulfonic acids and the respective derivatives. The electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction gives high yields and aqueous sulfuric acid or oleum is used for the sulfonation reaction, which is performed in cascades of reactor vessels. 

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