Nucleophilic substitution, single electron

Nucleophilic substitution, in phosphate esters, mechanism and catalysis of, 25,99 Nucleophilic substitution, single electron transfer and, 26, 1 Nucleophilic vinylic substitution, 7,1... 

Basicity is not the only general property of radical anions, anions, and dianions. Each may act as a nucleophile, a single-electron transfer agent, and as a base—sometimes all three As with conventionally generated bases, in what Baizer has dubbed secular chemistry, sterically hindered EGBs are useful because proton abstraction becomes favored over nucleophilic substitutions and additions. 

The reactivities of the substrate and the nucleophilic reagent change vyhen fluorine atoms are introduced into their structures This perturbation becomes more impor tant when the number of atoms of this element increases A striking example is the reactivity of alkyl halides S l and mechanisms operate when few fluorine atoms are incorporated in the aliphatic chain, but perfluoroalkyl halides are usually resistant to these classical processes However, formal substitution at carbon can arise from other mecharasms For example nucleophilic attack at chlorine, bromine, or iodine (halogenophilic reaction, occurring either by a direct electron-pair transfer or by two successive one-electron transfers) gives carbanions These intermediates can then decompose to carbenes or olefins, which react further (see equations 15 and 47) Single-electron transfer (SET) from the nucleophile to the halide can produce intermediate radicals that react by an SrnI process (see equation 57) When these chain mechanisms can occur, they allow reactions that were previously unknown Perfluoroalkylation, which used to be very rare, can now be accomplished by new methods (see for example equations 48-56, 65-70, 79, 107-108, 110, 113-135, 138-141, and 145-146)... 

C-Methylation products, o-nitrotoluene and p-nitrotoluene, were obtained when nitrobenzene was treated with dimethylsulfoxonium methylide (I)." The ratio for the ortho and para-methylation products was about 10-15 1 for the aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction. The reaction appeared to proceed via the single-electron transfer (SET) mechanism according to ESR studies. 

It has been well known since the pioneering work of Bunnett59 that some nucleophilic aromatic substitutions can be catalyzed by single electron transfer. Electrochemistry was shown60,61 to be an efficient technique both for inducing reactions and for determining mechanisms and thermodynamic data concerning equilibria in the overall process. 

The electrode reaction of an organic substance that does not occur through electrocatalysis begins with the acceptance of a single electron (for reduction) or the loss of an electron (for oxidation). However, the substance need not react in the form predominating in solution, but, for example, in a protonated form. The radical formed can further accept or lose another electron or can react with the solvent, with the base electrolyte (this term is used here rather than the term indifferent electrolyte) or with another molecule of the electroactive substance or a radical product. These processes include substitution, addition, elimination, or dimerization reactions. In the reactions of the intermediates in an anodic process, the reaction partner is usually nucleophilic in nature, while the intermediate in a cathodic process reacts with an electrophilic partner. 

Since the publication of the review on Single Electron Transfer and Nucleophilic Substitution in this same series,1 reviews or research accounts have appeared concerning several particular points among those addressed here, namely, dynamics of dissociative electron transfer,2-6 single electron transfer and Sn2 reactions,2,7 9 and SRN1 reactions.10,11... 

Electron transfer, in thermal and photochemical activation of electron donor-acceptor complexes in organic and organometallic reactions, 29,185 Electron-transfer, single, and nucleophilic substitution, 26,1 Electron-transfer, spin trapping and, 31,91 Electron-transfer paradigm for organic reactivity, 35, 193... 

Fig. 23 Entropy effects on intramolecular reactions of polymethylene chains. Plot of 9AS (e.u.) against number of single bonds for (O) nucleophilic substitutions at saturated carbon ( ) electron-exchange reactions (A) quenching of benzophenone phosphorescence. The straight line has intercept +30 e.u. and slope —4.0 e.u. per rotor. The right-hand ordinate reports the purely entropic EM s calculated as exp(0AS /J )...

When the nucleophile is an electron-rich molecule, RC60+ can be reduced via single electron transfer, producing a dimer (47). Thus, electrophilic aromatic substitution normally occurs with substituted benzenes (Figure 22, [A]), but the mode of the reaction is switched if the benzene is strongly activated (Figure 22, [B]). 

Saveant, J-M. Single Electron Transfer and Nucleophilic Substitution, in Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Bethel, D., Ed., Academic Press New York, 1990, Vol. 26, pp. 1-130. 

These alkylations can be looked upon as aliphatic nucleophilic substitutions, usually thoughtto proceed via SnI, Sn2, or hybrids of these mechanisms. However, in recent years more and more evidence for a single-electron transfer (SET) mechanism, represented in Eqs. (28-31), was obtained, and it was suggested that Sn2 and SET are just limiting cases of the same single-electron transfer mechanism [205, 206]. The S ET pathway involves first a transfer of an electron from the nucleophile to the electrophile followed by bond formation, whereas the Sn2 reaction involves a... 

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