Nucleophilic substitution conjugation, effect

There is a difference of opinion about the net effect of resonance between the leaving group and an electron-attracting heterocycle, carbocycle, or substituent- This conjugation (101, 102) has been regarded as a deactivating influence on nucleophilic substitution since the C— Le bond is lower in polarity and higher in... 

Oae and Khim measured the rates of hydrolysis of chlorophenyl phenyl sulfoxides and sulfones with hydroxide ion in aqueous DMSO at 158 °C. Both SOPh and S02Ph were found to activate the nucleophilic substitution from ortho- and para-positions, but the effect of SOjPh was considerably larger than that of SOPh. The results were interpreted in terms of 7t(pd) conjugation in the intermediate complexes. In a later paper it was shown that the introduction of a methyl group ortho to SOPh or S02Ph slightly retards the above and related reactions but this was attributed to the inductive effect of Me rather than steric inhibition of 7t(pd) conjugation (Section III.A.l). 

The reaction of EtO- with chloro compounds in ethanol is actually not an entirely satisfactory system for studying the activating effect of CN on aromatic nucleophilic substitution, because there is a tendency for CN itself to react, forming the conjugate base of iminoether, —C(OEt)=NH209. 

The very effective ir-stacking interactions between aromatic molecules and the graphitic sidewalls of SWCNTs were demonstrated by the aggregation of the bifunctional N-succinimidyl-l-pyrenebutanoate [196], irreversibly adsorbed on the hydrophobic surfaces of the SWNT. With these conjugates, the succinimidyl group was nucleophilically substituted with amino groups from proteins such as ferritin or streptavidin (Fig. 1.14) and caused immobilization of the biopolymers at the tube surfaces [196],... 

The reactivity sequence furan > selenophene > thiophene > benzene has also been observed in the nucleophilic substitutions of the halogenonitro derivatives of these rings.21,22 This shows that the observed trend does not depend on the effectiveness of lone-pair conjugation of the heteroatoms NH, O, Se, and S and the 77-electron density at the carbon atoms. It is interesting to note that a good correlation is observed between molecular ionization potentials (determined from electron impact measurements) and reactivity data in electrophilic substitution, in that higher reactivities correspond to lower ionization potentials182 pyrrole furan < selenophene < thiophene benzene (see Table VII). This is expected in view of a... 

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