Nucleophilic anionic substitutions

A nitro group is a strongly activating substituent in nucleophilic aromatic substitution where it stabilizes the key cyclohexadienyl anion intermediate... 

Other aryl halides that give stabilized anions can undergo nucleophilic aromatic substitution by the addition-elimination mechanism Two exam pies are hexafluorobenzene and 2 chloropyridme... 

Cycloalkene (Section 5 1) A cyclic hydrocarbon characterized by a double bond between two of the nng carbons Cycloalkyne (Section 9 4) A cyclic hydrocarbon characterized by a tnple bond between two of the nng carbons Cyclohexadienyl anion (Section 23 6) The key intermediate in nucleophilic aromatic substitution by the addition-elimination mechanism It is represented by the general structure shown where Y is the nucleophile and X is the leaving group... 

Because of the rapid ring opening by the nucleophile, ayiridinium salts cannot usually be isolated. However, in a few cases it is possible to isolate such compounds (54), eg, at low temperatures, when the ayiridinium salts ate sparingly soluble or where there is steric hindrance to substitution. Stable ethyleneiminium salts can be prepared by reaction of ethyleneimine with acids not containing nucleophilic anions, for example HBF (55). 

Cyclohexadienyl anion (Section 23.6) The key intermediate in nucleophilic aromatic substitution by the addition-elimination mechanism. It is represented by the general structure shown, where Y is the nucleophile and X is the leaving group. 

THF) at room temperature (Scheme 18) (95T8605). The proposed mechanism for this conversion involves the abstraction of H3 by basic attack of NaH to give an enolate anion, which, via ring opening, affords the 2(5//)-furanone 61 by a straightforward intramolecular nucleophilic acyl substitution (Scheme 18) (95T8605). 

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution of the anion from ary lace ton itrile 113 on the dichloroni-trobenzene 114 results in replacement of the para halogen and formation of 115. Reduction of the nitro group gives the corresponding aniline (116). Acylation of the amine with 3,5-diiodoacetylsa-licylic acid 117 by means of the mixed anhydride formed by use of ethyl chloroformate, gives, after alkaline hydroly.sis, the anthelmintic agent closantel (118) [28]. 

Antidepressant activity is retained when the two carbon bridge in imipramine is replaced by a larger, more complex, function. Nucleophilic aromatic substitution on chloropyridine 31 by means of p-aminobenzophenone (32) gives the bicyclic intermediate 33. Reduction of the nitro group (34), followed by intramolecular Schiff base formation gives the required heterocyclic ring system 35. Alkylation of the anion from 35 with l-dimethylamino-3-chloropropane leads to tampramine 36 [8]. 

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution occurs only if the aromatic ring has an electron-withdrawing substituent in a position ortho or para to the leaving group. The more such substituents there are, the faster the reaction. As shown in Figure 16.18, only ortho and para electron-withdrawing substituents stabilize the anion intermediate through resonance a meta substituent offers no such resonance stabilization. Thus, p-ch oronitrobenzene and o-chloronitrobenzene react with hydroxide ion at 130 °C to yield substitution products, but m-chloronitrobenzene is inert to OH-. 

Halobenzenes undergo nucleophilic aromatic substitution through either of two mechanisms. If the halobenzene has a strongly electron-withdrawing substituent in the ortho or para position, substitution occurs by addition of a nucleophile to the ring, followed by elimination of halide from the intermediate anion. If the halobenzene is not activated by an electron-withdrawing substituent, substitution can occur by elimination of HX to give a benzyne, followed by addition of a nucleophile. 

Conversion of Acid Halides into Anhydrides Nucleophilic acyl substitution reaction of an acid chloride with a carboxylate anion gives an acid anhydride. Both symmetrical and unsymmetrical acid anhydrides can be prepared in this way. 

The phenol is deprotonated by KOH to give an anion that carries out a nucleophilic acyl substitution reaction on the fluoronitrobenzene. 

Some of the reactions in this chapter operate by still other mechanisms, among them an addition-elimination mechanism (see 13-15). A new mechanism has been reported in aromatic chemistry, a reductively activated polar nucleophilic aromatic substitution. The reaction of phenoxide with p-dinitrobenzene in DMF shows radical features that cannot be attributed to a radical anion, and it is not Srn2. The new designation was proposed to account for these results. 

Then, substitution of the sulfur atom of Cys with an oxygen would greatly decrease the rate of reaction, because nucleophilicity, anion-stabilizing effect and proton-donating ability of OH group are far smaller than that of an SH group. 

The first widely used intermediates for nucleophilic aromatic substitution were the aryl diazonium salts. Aryl diazonium ions are usually prepared by reaction of an aniline with nitrous acid, which is generated in situ from a nitrite salt.81 Unlike aliphatic diazonium ions, which decompose very rapidly to molecular nitrogen and a carbocation (see Part A, Section 4.1.5), aryl diazonium ions are stable enough to exist in solution at room temperature and below. They can also be isolated as salts with nonnucleophilic anions, such as tetrafluoroborate or trifluoroacetate.82 Salts prepared with 0-benzenedisulfonimidate also appear to have potential for synthetic application.83... 

There is little mention in the literature of the use of amide salts in substitution reactions on chlorophosphazene precursors. The anilide anion was shown to be a powerful nucleophile in substitution reactions on various trimer derivatives, but investigations of such reactions with the high polymer have not been reported.22 Where strong nucleophiles (such as amide salts) with low steric requirements are employed, the usual pentacoordinate transition state (Scheme 1), may be a viable reaction intermediate which can undergo alternative modes of decomposition, perhaps involving chain cleavage and/or cross-linking. 

Aromatic nitro compounds undergo nucleophilic aromatic substitutions with various nucleophiles. In 1991 Terrier s book covered (1) SNAr reactions, mechanistic aspects (2) structure and reactivity of anionic o-complexes (3) synthetic aspects of intermolecular SNAr substitutions (4) intramolecular SNAr reactions (5) vicarious nucleophilic substitutions of hydrogen (VNS) (6) nucleophilic aromatic photo-substitutions and (7) radical nucleophilic aromatic substitutions. This chapter describes the recent development in synthetic application of SNAr and especially VNS. The environmentally friendly chemical processes are highly required in modem chemical industry. VNS reaction is an ideal process to introduce functional groups into aromatic rings because hydrogen can be substituted by nucleophiles without the need of metal catalysts. 

Amination of aromatic nitro compounds is a very important process in both industry and laboratory. A simple synthesis of 4-aminodiphenyl amine (4-ADPA) has been achieved by utilizing a nucleophilic aromatic substitution. 4-ADPA is a key intermediate in the rubber chemical family of antioxidants. By means of a nucleophibc attack of the anilide anion on a nitrobenzene, a o-complex is formed first, which is then converted into 4-nitrosodiphenylamine and 4-nitrodiphenylamine by intra- and intermolecular oxidation. Catalytic hydrogenation finally affords 4-ADPA. Azobenzene, which is formed as a by-product, can be hydrogenated to aniline and thus recycled into the process. Switching this new atom-economy route allows for a dramatic reduction of chemical waste (Scheme 9.9).73 The United States Environmental Protection Agency gave the Green Chemistry Award for this process in 1998.74... 

These reactions comprise nucleophilic SN2 substitutions, -eliminations, and nucleophilic additions to carbonyl compounds or activated double bonds, etc. They involve the reactivity of anionic species Nu associated with counterions M+ to form ion-pairs with several possible structures [52] (Scheme 3.4). 

We can also describe the differences between these reaction types in terms of Pearson s hard-soft description (Pearson, 1966 Pearson and Songstad, 1967). Cationic micellar head groups interact best with soft bases, e.g. relatively large anions of low charge density such as bromide or arenesulfo-nate, or anionic transition states such as those for nucleophilic aromatic substitution. They interact less readily with hard bases, e.g. high charge density anions such as OH ", or anionic transition states for deacylation. 

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