Lewis acid-base, rate complex formation

Thermodynamics of complex formation of silver with several ligands such amines,368 hindered pyridine bases,369 nitrogen donor solvents,370 and azoles371 have been carried out. Other studies include the secondary-ion mass spectra of nonvolatile silver complexes,372 the relationship between Lewis acid-base behavior in the gas phase and the aqueous solution,373 or the rates of hydride abstraction from amines via reactions with ground-state Ag+.374... 

This equation has been used in several correlations of solvent effects on solute properties such as reaction rates and equilibrium constants of solvolyses, energy of electronic transitions, solvent-induced shifts in UV/visible, IR, and NMR spectroscopy, fluorescence lifetimes, and formation constants of hydrogen-bonded and Lewis acid/base complexes [Kamlet et al., 1986b]. 

Most Other studies have led to considerably more complex behavior. The rate data for reaction of 3-methyl-l-phenylbutanone with 5-butyllithium and n-butyllithium in cyclohexane can be fit to a mechanism involving product formation both through a complex of the ketone with alkyllithium aggregate and through reaction with dissociated alkyllithium. Evidence for the initial formation of a complex can be observed in the form of a shift in the carbonyl absorption band in the infrared spectrum. Complex formation presumably involves a Lewis acid-base interaction between the carbonyl oxygen and lithium ions in the alkyllithium cluster. 

The starting material bis(pinacolato)diboron is a poor Lewis acid and 1 B-NMR of KOAc and B2bin2 in DMSO-d6 shows no evidence of the coordination of the acetoxy anion to a boron atom leading to a tetrahedral activated species. However, the formation of an (acetato)palladium(II) complex after the oxidative addition of the halide influences the reaction rate of the transmetalation step. The Pd-O bond, which consists of a hard Lewis base with a soft Lewis acid, is more reactive than a Pd-X (X=Br, I) bond. In addition, the high oxophilicity of boron has to be considered as a driving force for the transmetalation step, which involves an acetato ligand. 

It is generally admitted that skeletal transformations of hydrocarbons are catalyzed by protonic sites only. Indeed good correlations were obtained between the concentration of Bronsted acid sites and the rate of various reactions, e g. cumene dealkylation, xylene isomerization, toluene and ethylbenzene disproportionation and n-hexane cracking10 12 On the other hand, it was never demonstrated that isolated Lewis acid sites could be active for these reactions. However, it is well known that Lewis acid sites located in the vicinity of protonic sites can increase the strength (hence the activity) of these latter sites, this effect being comparable to the one observed in the formation of superacid solutions. Protonic sites are also active for non skeletal transformations of hydrocarbons e g. cis trans and double bond shift isomerization of alkenes and for many transformations of functional compounds e.g. rearrangement of functionalized saturated systems, of arenes, electrophilic substitution of arenes and heteroarenes (alkylation, acylation, nitration, etc ), hydration and dehydration etc. However, many of these transformations are more complex with simultaneously reactions on the acid and on the base sites of the solid... 

Examination of electronic and thermodynamic factors in the aforementioned conventional enolate formation revealed that steric factors were of fundamental importance in fhe reaction. One alternative is to complex a carbonyl compound with a bulky Lewis acid (Fig. 6.13). Bulky aluminum reagents usually form relatively stable 1 1 complexes irreversibly wifh carbonyl compounds. We first hypothesized that even in the presence of a strong base (LDA or LTMP), a steric environment applied in the aluminum-carbonyl complex would kinetically adjust site-selective deprotonation of carbonyl compounds which offer multiple sites for enohzation and kinetically stabilize fhe resulting bulky enolates by retarding the rate of proton transfer or other undesirable side reactions. These fundamental considerations found particular application in fhe formation and reaction of novel aluminum enolates. 

On the basis of ESl-MS observation as well as positive nmilinear effects of this system, we assumed that p-oxo-p-aiyloxy-trimer complex is the most enantiose-lective active species (Fig. 3). Therefore, Sm50(0-/Pr)i3 with a well-ordered structure would have beneficial effects for the formation of desired trimer species. Postulated catalytic cycle of the reaction based on the initial rate kinetic studies and kinetic isotope effect studies is shown in Fig. 4. In this catalyst system, both Cu and Sm are essential. We assume that the cooperative dual activation of nitroalkanes and imines with Cu and Sm is important to realize the syn-selective catalytic asymmetric nitro-Mannich-type reaction. The Sm-aryloxide moiety in the catalyst would act as a Brpnsted base to generate Sm-nitronate. On the other hand, Cu(ll) would act as a Lewis acid to control the position of iV-Boc-imine. Among possible transition states, the sterically less hindered TS-1 would be more favorable. Thus, the stereoselective C-C bond formation via TS-1 followed by protonation with phenolic proton affords syn product and regenerates the catalyst. 

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