Hammett correlation method

Another method capable of inducing a TEMPO-catalysed oxidation is the one reported by Minisci and coworkers, which exploits Mn(II)-Co(II) nitrates in AcOH solution at 20-40 °C in the presence of 02 °. Primary and secondary alcohols, including aliphatic ones, are oxidized very efficiently. This procedure gave a good Hammett correlation vs. a in the oxidation of X-substituted benzyl alcohols with a large p value of —1.44... 

By similar treatments, the effects of many substituents and combinations of substituents were evaluated, and found to give a reasonably linear correlation with reaction rates when plotted by the Hammett-Taft method. The value of —3.3, determined graphically, is close to the value of — 3.49 reported for solvolysis of substituted cyclohexyl tosylates. Although the general validity of the multiple-path treatment has still to be demonstrated, it may be noted that similar calculations, using an attenuation factor of 0.51, produced a reasonable correlation of substituent effects at C(3> and C(i7) with rates of bromine addition to the 5,6-ethylenic bond [17]. 

Catalytic activities of the sulfates of Fe, Al, Sc, Cu, Ni, Mg, etc. on Si02 for isomerization of a-butene were reported to correlate well with the acid strengths of the sulfates expressed by the electronegativities of the metal ions or measured by the Hammett indicator method. ... 

In subsequent studies attempting to find a correlation of physicochemical properties and antimicrobial activity, other parameters have been employed, such as Hammett O values, electronic distribution calculated by molecular orbital methods, spectral characteristics, and hydrophobicity constants. No new insight on the role of physiochemical properties of the sulfonamides has resulted. Acid dissociation appears to play a predominant role, since it affects aqueous solubiUty, partition coefficient and transport across membranes, protein binding, tubular secretion, and reabsorption in the kidneys. An exhaustive discussion of these studies has been provided (10). 

The most reliable method of preparing benzofuroxans is by decomposition of o-nitrophenyl azides. Decomposition can be achieved by irradiation, or more usually by pyrolysis temperatures between 100° and 1.50° are commonly used. Refluxing in glacial acetic acid is the recommended procedure for 4- or 5-sub-stituted 2-nitrophenyl azides, but with 3- or 6-substituted compounds higher boiling solvents are usually necessary. Quantitative studies on the reaction rate have been made, and a cyclic transition state invoked, an argument which has been used to account for the greater difficulty of decomposition of the 6-substituted 2-nitrophenyl azides. Substituent effects on the reaction rate have also been correlated with Hammett a constants, ... 

The proton dissociation constants, of two series of 3,7-bis(arylazo)-2,6-diphenyl-1 //-irnidazo[l,2-7]pyrazoles, in the ground state and the excited state were determined by the spectrophotometric method and utilizing the Forster energy cycle, respectively. These constants were correlated by the Hammett equation and the results of such correlations with spectral data indicated that both series of compounds exist in solution almost exclusively in the l//-bis-(arylazo) tautomeric form A <2002T2875> (Scheme 3). 

In order to put the discussion on a more quantitative basis we consider one of the more traditional and conceptually simpler methods. Obviously, when speaking about ligands one must take into account that a ligand can bear different substituents. To correlate the variation of the redox potential of a metal complex with the electronic effects played by the substituents of an aromatic ring ligand one uses the Hammett equation in its electrochemical form ... 

Statistical and computational methods have been used to quantify structure-activi relationships leading to quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR). The concqpt of QSAR can be dated back to the work of Crum, Brown and Fraser from 1868 to 1869, and Richardson, also in 1869. Many notable papers were published in the period leading up to the twentieth century by men such as Berthelot and Jungfleisch in 1872, Nemst in 1891, Ov ton in 1897 and Meyer in 1899 (7). Professor Corwin Hansch is now regarded by many as the father of QSAR, because of his work in the development of new and innovative techniques for QSAR. He and his co-woikers produced a paper that was to be known as the birtii of QSAR, and was oititled "Correlation of biological activity of phenoxyacetic acids with Hammett substituent constants and partition coefficients" (2). 

Correlation with Hammett substituent constants alone was not satisfactory. The reaction has been extended to ortho substituted anilines also the results have been treated by the Fujita-Nishioka method. Combining these with the previous data for meta and para substituted anilines, a multiparameter regression equation (2) has been developed (79JCS(P2)219>. 

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