Isotope effects inverse secondary

An inverse isotope effect will occur if coordination at the reaction center increases in the transition state. The bending vibration will become more restricted. Entry 4 in Scheme 4.2 exenqilifies such a case involving conversion of a tricoordinate carbonyl group to a letravalent cyanohydrin. In this case the secondary isotope effect is 0.73. 

The secondary isotope effects come out to be inverse, as they should be483, and likewise have a value of about 12 % per atom484. If these effects are neglected,... 

Apart from a few studies (ref. 7), the use of deuterium kinetic isotope effects (kie s) appears to have had limited use in mechanistic studies of electrophilic bromination of olefins. Secondary alpha D-kie s have been reported for two cases, trans-stilbene fi and p-substituted a-d-styrenes 2, these giving relatively small inverse kie s of... 

The oxidations of formic acid by Co(III) and V(V) are straightforward, being first-order with respect to both oxidant and substrate and acid-inverse and slightly acid-catalysed respectively. The primary kinetic isotope effects are l.Sj (25°C)forCo(IU)and4.1 (61.5 C°)for V(V). The low value for Co(lII) is analogous to those for Co(IIl) oxidations of secondary alcohols, formaldehyde and m-nitrobenzaldehyde vide supra). A djo/ h20 for the Co(III) oxidation is about 1.0, which is curiously high for an acid-inverse reaction . The mechanisms clearly parallel those for oxidation of alcohols (p. 376) where Rj and R2 become doubly bonded oxygen. 

The secondary a-deuterium KIEs calculated for the uncatalysed reaction were in the range found experimentally for other SN2 methyl transfers. The calculated KIE was also analysed in terms of the zero-point energy (ZPE), the molecular mass-moment of inertia (MMI) and the excitation (EXC) contributions to the total isotope effect. The inverse KIE was found to arise from an... 

The important observation is that all of the isotope effects are large and inverse. Therefore, the transition states in these reactions must be very crowded, i.e. the Ca—H(D) out-of-plane bending vibrations in the transition state must be high energy (Poirier et al., 1994). As a result, these workers concluded that nitrogen-a-carbon bond formation is more advanced than a-carbon-iodine bond rupture in the transition state. It is interesting, however, that in spite of the small secondary a-deuterium KIEs, these authors concluded that the N—C bond formation is only approximately 30% complete in the transition state. 

Subsequent work confirmed this apparently abnormal behaviour. Deuteriation at remote sites (the S- or e-position) induces small inverse secondary isotope effects in a-cleavages occurring in the ion source, but normal isotope effects in the decomposition of metastable ions in the field-free regions94,95. The time dependence of the isotope effect was also studied by field ionization kinetics, which permit the analysis of fragmentations occurring after lifetimes as short as 10 12 s-1. It was found that the inverse isotope effect favouring loss of the deuteriated radical operates at times shorter than 10 9 s95. 

Finally, it is worth noting that the substituent effects are different on the two types of Menshutkin reactions as well. For the benzyl substrates, changing to a better nucleophile, i.e. changing the substituent on the nucleophile from the meta-nitro to a para-methoxy substituent, leads to a later, more product-like transition state with more inverse secondary incoming nucleophile deuterium kinetic isotope effects. Flowever, the same change in nucleophile in the reactions with the methyl and ethyl substrates leads to an earlier transition state and less inverse secondary incoming nucleophile deuterium kinetic isotope effects. 

A second example of an inverse statistical weight isotope effect is that of the secondary H/D KIE on C-C bond rupture during the gas phase unimolecular isomerization of cyclopropane to propene. Theory and experiment are compared in Fig. 14.2 for reactions 14.37 and 14.38. 

Schneider, F.W. and Rabinovitch, B. S., The unimolecular isomerization of methyl-d3 isocyanide. Statistical-weight inverse secondary intermolecular kinetic isotope effects in nonequilibrium thermal systems. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 85, 2365 (1963). 

In the following year, Cleland and his coworkers reported further and more emphatic examples of the phenomenon of exaltation of the a-secondary isotope effects in enzymic hydride-transfer reactions. The cases shown in Table 1 for their studies of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase and horse-liver alcohol dehydrogenase would have been expected on traditional grounds to show kinetic isotope effects between 1.00 and 1.13 but in fact values of 1.38 and 1.50 were found. Even more impressively, the oxidation of formate by NAD was expected to exhibit an isotope effect between 1.00 and 1/1.13 = 0.89 - an inverse isotope effect because NAD" was being converted to NADH. The observed value was 1.22, normal rather than inverse. Again the model of coupled motion, with a citation to Kurz and Frieden, was invoked to interpret the findings. 

Veith, H.J. Gross, J.H. Alkene Loss From Metastable Methyleneinunonium Ions Unusual Inverse Secondary Isotope Effect in Ion-Neutral Complex Intermediate Fragmentations. Org. Mass Spectrom. 1991,26, 1097-1105. 

Reactions of (ii)-l-decenyl(phenyl)iodonium salt (6a) with halide ions have been examined under various conditions. The products are those of substitution and elimination, usually (Z)-l-halodec-l-ene (6b) and dec-l-yne (6c), as well as iodobenzene (6d), but F gives exclusively elimination. In kinetic studies of secondary kinetic isotope effects, leaving-group substituent effects, and pressure effects on the rate, the results are compatible with the in-plane vinylic mechanism for substitution with inversion. The reactions of four ( )-jS-alkylvinyl(phenyl)iodonium salts with CP in MeCN and other solvents at 25 °C have been examined. Substitution with inversion is usually in competition with elimination to form the alk-l-yne. 

A corollary of this argument is that a change from sp to sp hybridization should result in an inverse secondary isotope effect (i.e., C/ko < 1). 

Cl and C2 are unequal. However, the larger isotope effect at Cl implies more advanced binding at this carbon atom in the transition state (19). Note too the inverse ot-secondary ( h/ d) isotope effects at the hydrogens bonded to Cl and C2. These carbons rehybridize from sp toward sp as the addition proceeds, so that h/ d < 0 is expected. The greater effect at H-C versus H-C2 is also consis tent with greater carbene binding to the alkene s terminal C in the transition state. 

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