Methylated phenols, kinetics

In a more recent report, a novel dinuclear N,N,0-donor Schiff base-calcium complex [(DAIP)2Ca]2 where DAIP = 2-[2(-dimethylamino-ethylimino)methyl] phenol 76 (Fig. 12) was shown to initiate ROP of L-lactide in a controlled fashion in the presence of benzyl alcohol giving a 96% conversion within 30-60 min at room temperature, yielding polymers with high molecular weight and low PDIs [89]. Taking into account the dimeric molecular structures of hexa- and hepta-coordinated Ca" in the solid state and the kinetic results gained from this study (first order dependency on [LA] a first order dependency on [BnOH] with d[LA]/ df = prop[LA] [BnOH] and a p op constant of 1.95 s ), a coordinatio-... 

If it is possible for quinone methides to be reduced to methyl phenols, we would predict this to be more strongly favoured, from a kinetic perspective, when the quinone... 

The one-electron reduction potentials, (E°) for the phenoxyl-phenolate and phenoxyl-phenol couples in water (pH 2-13.5) have been measured by kinetic [pulse radiolysis (41)] and electrochemical methods (cyclic voltammetry). Table I summarizes some important results (41-50). The effect of substituents in the para position relative to the OH group has been studied in some detail. Methyl, methoxy, and hydroxy substituents decrease the redox potentials making the phe-noxyls more easily accessible while acetyls and carboxyls increase these values (42). Merenyi and co-workers (49) found a linear Hammett plot of log K = E°l0.059 versus Op values of substituents (the inductive Hammett parameter) in the 4 position, where E° in volts is the one-electron reduction potential of 4-substituted phenoxyls. They also reported the bond dissociation energies, D(O-H) (and electron affinities), of these phenols that span the range 75.5 kcal mol 1 for 4-amino-... 

We have examined the proton transfer reaction AH-B A -H+B in liquid methyl chloride, where the AH-B complex corresponds to phenol-amine. The intermolecular and the complex-solvent potentials have a Lennard-Jones and a Coulomb component as described in detail in the original papers. There have been other quantum studies of this system. Azzouz and Borgis performed two calculations one based on centroid theory and another on the Landau-Zener theory. The two methods gave similar results. Hammes-Schiffer and Tully used a mixed quantum-classical method and predicted a rate that is one order of magnitude larger and a kinetic isotope effect that is one order of magnitude smaller than the Azzouz-Borgis results. 

The hydrolysis at 25 °C of p-nitrophcnyl picolinate (71) catalysed by the Cu(II) complex of 4-chloro-2,6-di(iV-hydroxyethylaminomethyl)phenol (72 R = CH2NH CH2CH2OH) was studied kinetically at different pH in the presence of three surfactants hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide, sodium lauroylsarcosinate, and polyoxyethylene (23) lauryl ether.69 The Cu(II) complexes of two iV-alkyl-3,5-di(hydroxy-methyl)-1,2,4-triazoles (73 R = CioH2i, Ci2H2s) were better than the Ni(II) complexes as catalysts for the hydrolysis of p-nitrophcnyl picolinate (71) in CTAB micelles.70... 

The kinetics of polycondensation hy nucleophilic aromatic substitution in highly polar solvents and solvent mixtures to yield linear, high molecular weight aromatic polyethers were measured. The basic reaction studied was between a di-phenoxide salt and a dihaloaromatic compound. The role of steric and inductive effects was elucidated on the basis of the kinetics determined for model compounds. The polymerization rate of the dipotassium salt of various bis-phenols with 4,4 -dichlorodiphenylsulfone in methyl sulfoxide solvent follows second-order kinetics. The rate constant at the monomer stage was found to be greater than the rate constant at the dimer and subsequent polymerization stages. 

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