Kinetics, electrophilic addition

Furthermore kinetic studies reveal that electrophilic addition of hydrogen halides to alkynes follows a rate law that is third order overall and second order in hydrogen halide... 

When the major product of a reaction is the one that is formed at the fastest rate we say that the reaction is governed by kinetic control Most organic reactions fall into this category and the electrophilic addition of hydrogen bromide to 1 3 butadiene at low temperature is a kmetically controlled reaction... 

The electrophilic addition of HBr to 1,3-butadiene is a good example of how a change in experimental conditions can change the product of a reaction. The concept of thermodynamic control versus kinetic control is a useful one that we can sometimes take advantage of in the laboratory. 

Figure 14.6 Energy diagram for the electrophilic addition of HBr to 1,3-butadiene. The 1.2 adduct is the kinetic product because it forms faster, but the 1,4 adduct is the thermodynamic product because it is more stable.

The Lead-Off Reaction Addition of HBr to Alkenes Students usually attach great-importance to a text s lead-off reaction because it is the first reaction they see and is discussed in such detail. 1 use the addition of HBr to an alkene as the lead-off to illustrate general principles of organic chemistry for several reasons the reaction is relatively straightforward it involves a common but important functional group no prior knowledge of stereochemistry or kinetics in needed to understand it and, most important, it is a polar reaction. As such, 1 believe that electrophilic addition reactions represent a much more useful and realistic introduction to functional-group chemistry than a lead-off such as radical alkane chlorination. 

In contrast to the behavior of 3-hexyne in trifluoroacetic acid, addition of HCl in acetic acid yields essentially rra s-3-chloro-3-hexene (48%) and 3-hexanone (52%) as products, with less than 1% of the cis chloride (31,42,43). The 3-hexanone has been shown to arise from an intermediate vinyl acetate. The kinetics are complicated, but they seem to be of first order in substrate and second order in HCl. Added tetramethylammonium chloride increases the rate of product formation and changes the product composition to >95% trans-3-chloro-3-hexene and <5% 3-hexanone. A termolecular electrophilic addition via an intermediate such as 14 has been proposed (31,42) to account for these data. 

Gallo, 1983), and how the polar effects disappear totally this result is probably fortuitous and again due to the relationship between a and Es. It must therefore be concluded that parameter scales are inadequate to describe the kinetic influence of alkyl groups in bromination and in electrophilic additions in general. 

It is concluded that the selectivities of electrophilic additions are not directly related to the reactivities but to the transition-state positions. Extensive comparison with similar data on the bromination and hydration of other ethylenic compounds bearing a conjugated group shows that this unexpected reactivity-selectivity behaviour can arise from an imbalance between polar and resonance effects (Ruasse, 1985). Increasing resonance in the ground state would make the transition state earlier and attenuate the kinetic selectivity more strongly than it enhances the reactivity. Hydration and halogenation probably respond differently to this imbalance. 

The few kinetic results and the extensive product data on the electrophilic reactions of these dienes have been mainly interpreted in terms of the simplistic mechanism described in equation 1 and postulated by analogy to that established a long time ago5 for the reactions of monoethylenic compounds. According to this naive picture, an ionic intermediate with two possible limiting structures would be formed by electrophilic addition... 

The kinetics of chlorination of ethylene, allyl chloride, 3,4-dichlorobutene, 2,3-dichlo-ropropene, and 1,2-dichloroethylene in 1,2-dichloroethane have been investigated in the presence of BU4NCI. The mathematical treatment of the results was performed with due regard to the equilibrium constants of the formation of complexes between CI2 and CP. For all the substrates at 256K, the introduction of CP into the system has been found to result in an increase in the rate of the addition. The reaction turned out to be of first order with respect to both the substrate and the salt and second order with respect to chlorine. As expected, the dependence of the reaction rate on the substiments at the double bond is compatible with the electrophilic addition, initiated by electrophilic chlorine."... 

In contrast, electrophilic additions to the double bond of acetal 70 (derived from 64 ) gave adduct mixtures 71/72 with regioselectivities opposite to those of reactions 64 + EX — 68 + 69, 72 being the major adducts. Tests were carried out to confirm that adducts 68 + 69 and 71+72 were formed under conditions of kinetic control. Acetal 70 was obtained optically pure via resolution of lactol 73 by medium pressure chromatographic (silica gel) separation of the diastereomeric acetals 74 derived from (-)-menthol. ... 

Exercise 10-14 Predict the major product(s) of each of the following electrophilic addition reactions (under conditions of kinetic control) ... 

While the regiochemistry of simple electrophilic additions to double bonds is controlled by a combination of electronic (Maikovnikov rule), stereoelectronic (trans diaxial addition to cyclohexenes) and steric factors,9 the intramolecular nature of electrophilic heteroatom cyclizations introduces additional conformational, stereoelectronic and entropic factors. The combination of these factors in cyclofunctionalization reactions results in a general preference for exo cyclization over endo cyclization (Scheme 4).310 However, endo closure may predominate in cases where electronic or ring strain factors strongly favor that mode of cyclization. The observed regiochemistry may differ under conditions of kinetic control from that observed under conditions of thermodynamic control. 

LiBr and in the presence of cyclopentene as a scavenger olefin. The kinetics, determined by monitoring the formation of strong acids (TfOH or HBr), show that the rate of solvolysis of 65 is dependent on [Br-] (at a constant ionic strength). In the presence of Br-, the products are trans- 1,2-dibromides and bromo-solvates of both cyclohexene and cyclopentene. The cyclopentenyl products have been shown to arise from the electrophilic addition of Br2/Br3 to cyclopentene, while trans-l, 2-dibromocyciohexane 67 is formed by Br- capture of the bromonium ion 66 on carbon. The Br2 required for bromination of cyclopentene results from attack by Br- on the bromonium ion 66 on Br+. On the basis of the ratio of the cyclopentyl products to 67, Br- capture of the solvolytically produced bromonium ion 66 (by attack on Br+) is 4-5 times more prevalent than attack on carbon in AcOH, and ca 25 times more preferred in MeOH123. 

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