Substitution nucleophilic, in thiophenes

Spinelli D, Consiglio G, Dell Erba C, Novi M (1991) Nucleophilic substitution in thiophene derivatives. In Gronowitz S, Weissberger A, Taylor EC (eds) Thiophene and its derivatives, part 4. The chemistry of heterocyclic compounds, vol 44, Chap 2. Wiley, New York/London/ SydneyAToronto... 

Secondary steric effects could become significant in aromatic nucleophilic substitution in activated halogenoben-zenes. This can be ascribed to steric inhibition of resonance. In contrast, secondary steric effects are not important in SNAr reactions of thiophene derivatives this is due to the geometry of five-membered ring derivatives, which strongly lowers the steric interactions between the substituents on the thiophene ring. This has been reconfirmed by kinetic data in methanol on SNAr reactions of the two pairs of substrates 210 and 211 with different nucleophiles (piperidine and sodium benzenethiolate) <1997J(P2)309>. 

Nucleophilic substitution in 2,3-dichlorobenzo[b] thiophene 1,1-dioxides takes place preferentially in the 3-position.352 2-Bromobenzo[i>]thiophene 1,1-dioxide is converted into the 3-bromo isomer by KNH2-NH3215 it is well established that a 2-bromine atom is replaced by a nucleophile with rearrangement to give the 3-substituted product.1 A 3-chloro substituent, activated by an adjacent ester or ketone function, is very readily replaced, and cyclization can often take place to form an additional heterocyclic... 

The preparative usefulness of the copper-catalysed nucleophilic substitution in the thiophen series is evident from the preparation of the four... 

Spinelli and co-workers have been studying increasingly subtle effects in the nucleophilic substitution of thiophens, and have contributed greatly to an understanding of these reactions. 

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The halogens of halothiophenes are more labile than those of the corresponding benzenes in accordance with theoretical considera-tions which indicate that thiophenes should also undergo nucleophilic substitutions more rapidly than benzenes. Hurd and Kreuz" found that in qualitative experiments 3,5-dinitro-2-chlorothiophene was more reactive toward piperidine and methanolic potassium hydroxide than 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene. A quantitative study on the reaction of the six isomeric bromonitrothiophenes with piperidine (Table V) shows that the thiophenes react about one thousand times... 

Millan and coworkers (99-101) also studied the effect of tacticity on the nucleophilic substitution reactions of PVC. Sodium thiophenate and phenol were used for these reactions. The central chlorine in isotactic triads and, to a lesser extent, in heterotactic triads was found to be most reactive. It was concluded that initiation of degradation may occur by normal structures, and polyene build-up may be favored by syndiotic sequence. This... 

Such configurational as well as conformational effects have been also reported by MILLAN et al. in the case of nucleophilic substitution of poly(vinyl chloride) with sodium thiophenate (14) and with sodium isooctylthioglycolate or isooctylthiosalicylate (15). The authors have shown that these reactions proceed selectively on the isotactic TT diads which can only exist either in the GTTG isotactic or in the TTTG heterotactic triads, the former ones being much more reactive than the latter ones. 

Nucleophilic substitution reactions in the selenophene series have attracted some interest. Debromination of bromonitro compounds [(50, X = S, Se) and (53, X = S, Se)] with sodium thiophenoxide and sodium selenophen-oxide72 was studied. Selenophene compounds were four times more reactive than the thiophene derivatives. The position of attack, a or /), had very little influence on the rate ratio. The kinetics of the side-chain nucleophilic reactions of selenophene derivatives, shown in Scheme 4, has been reported.7 3... 

Selenophene compounds react faster than the corresponding thiophene derivatives in both electrophilic and nucleophilic substitutions. This may be due to the capacity of selenophene to delocalize both positive and negative charges, since the selenium atom is larger and more polarizable than the sulfur atom and consequently selenophene can release its p-electrons and accept electrons into its free -orbitals more readily than thiophene. 

Such nucleophilic displacements are likely to be addition-elimination reactions, whether or not radical anions are also interposed as intermediates. The addition of methoxide ion to 2-nitrofuran in methanol or dimethyl sulfoxide affords a deep red salt of the anion 69 PMR shows the 5-proton has the greatest upfield shift, the 3- and 4-protons remaining vinylic in type.18 7 The similar additions in the thiophene series are less complete, presumably because oxygen is relatively electronegative and the furan aromaticity relatively low. Additional electronegative substituents increase the rate of addition and a second nitro group makes it necessary to use stopped flow techniques of rate measurement.141 In contrast, one acyl group (benzoyl or carboxy) does not stabilize an addition product and seldom promotes nucleophilic substitution by weaker nucleophiles such as ammonia. Whereas... 

This order of reactivity was observ for add dedeuteration, but for acetylation, formylation, and chlorination it was slightly different thieno[3,2-h]thiophene (2) > thieno[2,3-h]thiophene (1) > thiophene thieno[3,4-6]thiophene (3) was not studied. A substantially greater discrepancy between theoretical and experimental data was observed for nucleophilic substitution from the data on base dedeuteration and competitive metalation reactions/ the order of decreasing reactivity was as follows thieno[2,3-h]thiophene (1) > thieno[3,2-h]thiophene (2) > thiophene. To a certain extent this may be explained by differences in the mechanism of metalation and deuterium exchange with a base. A discrepancy between calculation and experiment was also found for free-radical substitution. ... 

Nucleophilic substitution procedures are also of use of the synthesis of j3-chlorinated thiophenes. Copper(I) chloride converted 3-bromothio-phene into its chloro analogue. Such reactions are best carried out in an... 

Vinyl ethers and amines disclose little tendency to revert to type thus, the intermediate formed by reaction with an electrophilic reagent reacts further by adding a nucleophilic species to yield an addition compound cf the sequence (8) — (11). Thiophene and pyrrole have a high degree of aromatic character consequently the initial product formed by reaction of thiophene or pyrrole with an electrophilic species subsequently loses a proton to give a substituted compound cf the reaction sequence (12) — (15). Furan has less aromatic character and often reacts by overall addition as well as by substitution. In electrophilic addition, the first step is the same as for substitution, i.e. the formation of a tr-complex (e.g. 13), but instead of losing a proton this now adds a nucleophile. 

In the thiophene (75JHC327) and benzothiophene (78JOC4379) series, nucleophilic substitution of hydride ion (Scheme 31) becomes possible due to the ability of 3d-orbitals of the sulfur atom to stabilize negative charge arising in the anionic cr-complex. 

If the thiophene ring bears one or more N02 groups, it becomes susceptible to nucleophilic attack by alkoxide ion an anionic cr-complex is thus produced which can be isolated in some cases. This is called a Meisenheimer adduct, and corresponds to the first step in many nucleophilic substitution reactions on activated thiophene substrates. The similarity between these adducts and heterocyclic pseudobases has been pointed out (79AHC(25)l). Kinetic data lead to similar rate equations for both processes both are characterized by negative entropies of activation of similar magnitude. 

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