Fluorides reactivity order

Especially for large-scale work, esters may be more safely and efficiently prepared by reaction of carboxylate salts with alkyl halides or tosylates. Carboxylate anions are not very reactive nucleophiles so the best results are obtained in polar aprotic solvents45 or with crown ether catalysts.46 The reactivity order for carboxylate salts is Na+ < K+ < Rb+ < Cs+. Cesium carboxylates are especially useful in polar aprotic solvents. The enhanced reactivity of the cesium salts is due to both high solubility and minimal ion pairing with the anion 47 Acetone is a good solvent for reaction of carboxylate anions with alkyl iodides48 Cesium fluoride in DMF is another useful... 

Aluminum trichloride and boron trifluoride as additives have a similar effect on the fluorination of (trichloromethyl)benzene by antimony(III) fluoride. With the additives, the reaction starts even at O C but no exchange is observed in the absence of the catalysts.12 The relative exchange reactivity order of the antimony halides is as follows antimony(III) fluoride < anti-mony(III) fluoride + antimony/V) chloride < antimony(V) dichlorotrifluoride, antimony/V) di-bromotrifluoride < antimony/V) fluoride.3... 

At the exotic end of the Lewis acid scale is tetrafluorosilane (mp -90 5C, bp -86 UC) first proposed by Corey and Yi as a mild and selective reagent for the cleavage of silyl-protected alcohols with the reactivity order being EtiSi > f-Bu-Me2Si f-BuPhiSi/ 1 The substrate in dichloromethane or acetonitrile, is stirred at room temperature under an atmosphere of excess tetrafluorosilane provided by a gas-filled balloon. The reaction is slow in dichloromethane but quite fast (ca. 15 min) in acetonitrile. In the final step of Yamamoto s synthesis of the Hemibrevetoxin B [Scheme 4.40]61 the secondary TIPS and TBS ethers were removed from 40.1 with tetrafluorosilane. Identical conditions were used by Nicolaou et al to remove two TBS ethers in the final step of their synthesis of Hemibrevetoxin B.62 In the example shown in Scheme 4,41, deprotection with fluoride (basic) or cerium(lV) ammonium nitrate (CAN) in methanol (neutral) isomerised the angelate to the more thermodynamically stable tiglate.63 However, with tetrafluorosilane, no isomerisation occurred during the deprotection step. 

Generally, the reaction rates of aryl halides follow the order iodides > bromides > chlorides > fluorides. This fact can be used for the selective substimtion in polyhalogenated systems. For instance, 2-bromo -chlorotoluene gives 76% of 5-chloro-2-methylphenol by treatment with sodium hydroxide at 200 °C. Nevertheless, polyhalogenated systems which contain fluorides have a variable behaviour depending on the reaction temperature. At lower temperatures preferential hydrolysis of the fluoride takes place and at >200 °C the usual reactivity order iodides > bromides > chlorides > fluorides is observed. For instance, l,2-dibromo-3,4,5,6-tetrafluorobenzene affords 2,3-dibromo-4,5,6-trifluorophenol in 87% yield by treatment with potassium hydroxide at 85 °C. Under the same conditions, 1,4-dibromo-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzene produces a 78% yield of 2,5-dibromo-3,4,6-trifluorophenol. However, 4-fluorobromobenzene with NaOH at 200 °C gives 4-fluorophenol in 70-79% yield. ... 

A detailed study of the transmetaUation in the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction by the group of Amatore and Jutand shows that hydroxide [261] and fluoride anions [262] form the key trans-[ArPdX(L)2] complexes that react with the boronic acid in a rate-determining transmetaUation. In addition, the anions promote the reductive elimination. Conversely, the anions disfavor the reaction by formation of nonreactive anionic [Ar B(OH)3 X ] (7t=l-3). Countercations M" " (Na" ", K" ", and Cs+) of anionic bases in the palladium-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura reactions decelerate the transmetaUation step in the following decreasing reactivity order nBu4NOH > KOH > CsOH > NaOH this is due to the complexation of the hydroxy ligand in [ArPd(OH)(PPh3)2] by M+[263]. 

Replacement of the 4(R)-mesyloxy group (44) with fluoride (48) and chloride moieties (49), respectively, gave 70% and 75% of the inverted 4-phenyl adduct (46). These reactions required progressively higher reaction temperatures, consistent with the reactivity order of halides with Lewis acids (vide supra). The lower reactivity of the 4(/ )-chloride (49) corresponded... 

Competitive reactions of FCN, F2C=NF, and F3CN=CF2 over CsF or KF establish the reactivity order towards the fluoride anion CF2=NF>CF3N = CF2>FCN. The reaction of N2F4 with RC=CR in inert solvents gives RFC(NF2)C(F)=NF via an intermediate RC(NF2) = C(NF2)R. Under solvolysis conditions, reaction can involve S yl cleavage of the N—F bond. Slow exchange of fluorine between CIF5 and CsF in anhydrous HF occurs via the formation of [CIF ]". 

The order of reactivity of the hydrogen halides parallels their acidity HI > HBr > HCl >> HF Hydrogen iodide is used infrequently however and the reaction of alco hols with hydrogen fluoride is not a useful method for the preparation of alkyl fluorides Among the various classes of alcohols tertiary alcohols are observed to be the most reactive and primary alcohols the least reactive... 

The order of alkyl halide reactivity in nucleophilic substitutions is the same as their order m eliminations Iodine has the weakest bond to carbon and iodide is the best leaving group Alkyl iodides are several times more reactive than alkyl bromides and from 50 to 100 times more reactive than alkyl chlorides Fluorine has the strongest bond to car bon and fluonde is the poorest leaving group Alkyl fluorides are rarely used as sub states m nucleophilic substitution because they are several thousand times less reactive than alkyl chlorides... 

The order of hydrogen halide reactivity is HI > HBr >> HCl Hydrogen fluoride IS not effective... 

The halogen fluorides are best prepared by the reaction of fluorine with the corresponding halogen. These compounds are powerful oxidising agents chlorine trifluoride approaches the reactivity of fluorine. In descending order of reactivity the halogen fluorides are chlorine pentafluoride [13637-63-3] 1 5 chlorine trifluoride [7790-91-2] 3 bromine pentafluoride [7789-30-2], BrF iodine heptafluoride [16921 -96-3], chlorine... 

Potassium fluoride [7789-23-3], KF, is the most frequently used of the alkaU metal fluorides, although reactivity of the alkaU fluorides is in the order CsF > RbF > KF > NaF > LiF (6). The preference for KF is based on cost and availabiUty traded off against relative reactivity. In its anhydrous form it can be used to convert alkyl haUdes and sulfonyl haUdes to the fluorides. The versatility makes it suitable for halogen exchange in various functional organic compounds like alcohols, acids and esters (7). For example, 2,2-difluoroethanol [359-13-7] can be made as shown in equation 9 and methyl difluoroacetate [433-53 ] as in equation 10. 

A few results have been reported on the oxidation of cyclohexanol by acidic permanganate In the absence of added fluoride ions the reaction is first-order in both alcohol and oxidant , the apparent first-order rate coefficient (for excess alcohol) at 25 °C following an acidity dependence k = 3.5-1-16.0 [H30 ]sec fcg/A , depends on acidity (3.2 in dilute acid, 2.4 in 1 M acid) and D2o/ H20 is f-74. Addition of fluoride permitted observation of the reaction for longer periods (before precipitation) and under these conditions methanol is attacked at about the same rates as di-isopropyl ether, although dioxan is oxidised over twenty times more slowly. The lack of specificity and the isotope effect indicates that a hydride-ion abstraction mechanism operates under these conditions. (The reactivity of di-isopropyl ether towards two-equivalent oxidants is illustrated by its reaction with Hg(II).) Similar results were obtained with buffered permanganate. 

The ease of dehalogenation of C H X by Ni(ll)/ IMes HCl 1/NaO Pr decreased in the order 1 > Br > Cl F. Subsequent work showed that a 1 1 combination of Ni and NHC in the presence of NaOCHEt resulted in enhanced reactivity towards aryl fluorides [6], Again, the A-mesityl substituted ligand IMes HCl 1 imparted the highest level of catalytic activity. Table 8.2 illustrates that hydrodefluorination is sensitive to both the nature of the substituents on the aromatic ring and the specific regioisomer. Thus, 2- or 4-fluorotoluene (Table 8.2, entry 2) proceeded to only 30% conversion after 15 h, whereas quantitative conversion of 2-fluoroanisole (Table 8.2, entry 3) and high conversion of 3-fluoropyridine (Table 8.2, entry 5) was achieved in only 2-3.5 h. The reactivity of 2-fluoropyridine was compromised by more efficient nucleophilic aromatic substitution. 

The order of reactivity of halides is RI > RBr > RC1 (Alkyl and aryl fluorides are seldom used in the preparation of organolithium compounds). 

When different types of reactive sites are compared, however, there can be dramatic inversions of acidity order. Fluoride is a relatively weak base in solution, with pAjfHF) = 3.2 in aqueous solution. In contrast, in the gas phase, fluoride is strong enough to exothermically deprotonate acetone, which has a p of about 20... 

Nucleophilic displacement using [ F] fluoride works well in aUphatic systems where reactive haUdes or sulfonates esters can undergo substitution at unhindered sites. In order to introduce a F fluorine atom in a secondary or tertiary position, a two steps strategy was developed. It involves a F-bromofluorination of alkenes, followed by reductive debromination (n-BujSnH, AIBN). [ F]BrF is usually generated in situ from [ F]potassium fluoride and l,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin (DBH) in sulfuric acid. This methodology was successfully applied to label steroids at the 11 and 6a positions [245] (Scheme 60) and to prepare [ F]fluorocyclohexanes [246]. 

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