Esters leaving group effects

Further insights into the reaction mechanism can be obtained by studying the effects of the silane ester (leaving) group on the hydroxide catalyzed hydrolysis. Akerman has studied the hydroxide anion catalyzed hydrolysis of substituted triethylphenoxysilanes in 48.6% aqueous ethanol [38]. Humffray and Ryan have investigated a similar set of silane esters in 40% aqueous dioxane [36]. 

Scrimin, R, Tecilla, R, Tonellato, U. Leaving group effect in the cleavage of picohnate esters catalyzed by hydroxyl-functionalized metallomicelles. J. Org. Chem. 1994, 59(1), 18-24. 

All lation. In alkylation, the dialkyl sulfates react much faster than do the alkyl haHdes, because the monoalkyl sulfate anion (ROSO ) is more effective as a leaving group than a haHde ion. The high rate is most apparent with small primary alkyl groups, eg, methyl and ethyl. Some leaving groups, such as the fluorinated sulfonate anion, eg, the triflate anion, CF SO, react even faster in ester form (4). Against phenoxide anion, the reaction rate is methyl triflate [333-27-7] dimethyl sulfate methyl toluenesulfonate [23373-38-8] (5). Dialkyl sulfates, as compared to alkyl chlorides, lack chloride ions in their products chloride corrodes and requires the use of a gas instead of a Hquid. The lower sulfates are much less expensive than lower bromides or iodides, and they also alkylate quickly. 

Correlations with o in carboxylic acid derivative reactions have been most successful for variations in the acyl portion, R in RCOX. Variation in the alkyl portion of esters, R in RCOOR, has not led to many good correlations, although use of relative rates of alkaline and acidic reactions, as in the defining relation, can generate linear correlations. The failure to achieve satisfactory correlations with cr for such substrates may be a consequence of the different steric effects of substituents in the acyl and alkyl locations. It has been shown that solvolysis rates of some acetates are related to the pA", of the leaving group, that is, of the parent alcohol. The pK of alcohols has been correlated with but this relationship... 

With 1-hydroxytryptophan derivatives, similar substituent effects are observed (99H2815). In order to realize better yields of 5-substituted tryptophans, car-boxy and amino groups are transformed to ester and/or amide groups, choosing the 1-methoxy moiety as a leaving group. As a result, ( )-Ab-acetyl-5-chlorotryptophan methyl ester (219, 52%) is obtained together with 220 (7%) from ( )-218 by the reaction with aqueous HCl (Scheme 32). ( )-5-Bromo-Ab-methoxycarbonyltryptophan methylamide (222, 50%) becomes readily available... 

The net effect of nucleophilic acyl substitution is the replacement of the leaving group by the entering nucleophile. We ll see in Chapter 21, for instance, that acid chlorides are rapidly converted into esters by treatment with alkoxide ions (Figure 4). 

This reaction is rapid and can, under anhydrous conditions, be carried out at mild temperatures (60-120°C). The type of leaving group has a strong effect on attainable molecular weights. The polyamide melt syndtesis with dimediyl tereph-thalate has however not been so successful, because N-methylation takes place at high temperatures. This N-methylation is due to die mediyl ester alkylation of die amines and not due to the presence of medianol.28 40 This N-mediylation reaction is significant at temperatures over 200°C. Widi odier esters, N-alkylation takes place to a much lower extent. 

Thus acid chlorides and anhydrides react readily with ROH and NH3 to yield esters and amides, respectively, while esters react with NH3 or amines to give amides, but the simple reversal of any of these reactions on an amide, though not impossible, is usually pretty difficult. The relative reactivity will also depend on both the electronic and, more particularly, the steric effect of R. A slightly unusual leaving group is eCX3 (e.g. eCI3) in the haloform (158) reaction (cf. p. 297) ... 

Perhaps the most informative studies (Anvia and Bowden, 1990) of leaving groups are of the alkaline hydrolysis of 3-substituted phenyl 2-acetyl- and 2-benzoyl-benzoates [20], The Hammett reaction constants p are ca. 0.50 and 1.48 for the 2-acetyl and 2-benzoyl esters respectively, as. shown in Table 2. These were compared with various limiting models in a similar manner to the effective charge model (Williams, 1984,1992). This comparison indicates that all simple phenyl esters of the latter types hydrolyse by a mechanism... 

The leaving group of the oxalic ester has a strong effect on the efficiency of the peroxyoxalate chemiluminescent system. The electron-attracting power of the substituents on the phenyl rings of the substituted diphenyl oxalates is important to the overall efficiency of the chemiluminescent reactions. Steric effects... 

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