Phenols p-substituted

A Hammett plot of the pK values of p-substituted phenols against the Op values shows serious deviations for the members of the series at the extremes of the o scale, that is, for substituents that are strongly electron donating or electron withdrawing. It was recognized very early that such deviations could be rectified by choosing an appropriate o value for such substituents in effect, this means a different model reaction was adopted. The chemical basis of the procedure can be illustrated with the p-nitro substituent. The p-nitrophenolate ion is stabilized by through resonance as shown in 2. 

Nishioka and Fujita 78> have determined the Kd values for a- and P-cyclodextrin complexes with m- and p-substituted phenols at pH 7.0. Taking into account the directionality in inclusion of a guest molecule, they assumed three and two probable orientational isomers for the cyclodextrin complexes with m- and p-substituted phenols respectively (Fig. 6). Then the observed Kd values were divided into two or three terms corresponding to the dissociation of the orientational isomers involved (Eqs. 16, 17) ... 

Fig. 6. Probable orientational isomers for cyclodextrin complexes with m- and p-substituted phenols...

Upon formulating these relationships, phenols with branched alkyl substituents were not included in the data of a-cyclodextrin systems, though they were included in (3-cyclodextrin systems. In all the above equations, the n term was statistically significant at the 99.5 % level of confidence, indicating that the hydrophobic interaction plays a decisive role in the complexation of cyclodextrin with phenols. The Ibrnch term was statistically significant at the 99.5% level of confidence for (3-cyclo-dextrin complexes with m- and p-substituted phenols. The stability of the complexes increases with an increasing number of branches in substituents. This was ascribed to the attractive van der Waals interaction due to the close fitness of the branched substituents to the (3-cyclodextrin cavity. The steric effect of substituents was also observed for a-cyclodextrin complexes with p-substituted phenols (Eq. 22). In this case, the B parameter was used in place of Ibmch, since no phenol with a branched... 

Yukawa, Tsuno and their colleagues121 have made studies more specifically related to determining substituent constants, which have included both methylsulfinyl and methylsulfonyl groups. Hydroxyl chemical shifts were determined for a large number of m-and p-substituted phenols in DMF and in DMSO. The results were treated by the LArSR relationship121 (usually called the Yukawa-Tsuno equation, see Section II.B) ... 

It is not only p-substituted phenols that have been connected by methylene groups an extended calixarene based on naphthalene units [57] has also been synthesized and its acidity constants have been measured (see Table 25 Poh and Lim, 1989, 1990). In contrast to the calix[4]arenes, the pKa of the expanded calixarene [57] did not differ much from the of the analogue [58]. This may have two explanations (i) the conformation of the expanded calixarene is different from phenol-based calix[4]arenes and a special stabilization of the anion does not occur, (ii) this stabilization occurs but it is also present in the analogue. A stabilization by the neighbouring... 

The following empirical equations have been reported for series of bases with t-BuOH " or with p-substituted phenols . 

There are also data on pX values of various substituted phenols, as shown in Table 3. The electron-withdrawing effect of the ammonio group is due only to its inductive effect and this can be seen in the higher acidity of the m-substituted compared with the p-substituted phenol the value of is negative, — 0.08. In contrast, all the tricoordinate and tetracoordinate sulfur groups exert a stronger electron-withdrawing effect from the p-position than from the m-position, as is evident from the positive values of This is the same trend as in the acid dissociations of nitrophenols, in which is -I- 0.53. 

Torres RA, Torres W, Peringer P, Pulgarin C (2003) Electrochemical degradation of p-substituted phenols of industrial interest on Pt electrodes. Attempt of a structure-reactivity relationship assessment. Chemosphere 50 97-104... 

The dienone intermediate (53a), as well as enolising to the phenol (52a), is itself capable of undergoing a Cope rearrangement to yield a second dienone (cf. 56a), whose enol is the p-substituted phenol (c/ 57a). Enolisation normally predominates, but where (51) has o-substituents, i.e. (54a), o-enolisation cannot take place, and only the p-phenol (57a) is then obtained. That this product is indeed formed not by direct migration of the allyl group, but by two successive shifts, is suggested by the double inversion of the position of the, 4C label in the allyl group that is found to occur ... 

Anderson, N. H., Davis, S. S., James, M. and Kojima, I. (1983). Thermodynamics of distribution of p-substituted phenols between aqueous solution and organic solvents and phospholipid vesicles, J. Pharmaceut. Sci., 72, 443 148. 

Mendez, F., Romero, M. d. L., De Proft, F., and Geerlings, P. 1998. The basicity of p-substituted phenolates and the elimination-substitution ratio in p-nitrophenethyl bromide A HSAB theoretical study. J. Org. Chem. 63 5774-5778. 

Ohe T, Mashino T, Hirobe M. Substituent elimination from p-substituted phenols by cytochrome P450. Ipso-substitution by the oxygen atom of the active species. Drug Metab Dispos 1997 25(1) 116-122. 

The hydrolysis of substituted phenyl acetates has been studied in the presence of cyclodextrins (Van Etten et al, 1967a, b). No correlation was found between the rate constants for hydrolysis and a for the substituent group. Specificity was directed towards meta-substituents. m-t-Butylphenyl acetate hydrolyses 240 times faster in the presence of 0-01 M cyclohepta-amylose. Comparison of spectral shifts upon inclusion of p-t-butyl and m-t-butylphenol indicated that benzene rings of p-substituted phenols are included within the cavity of cyclodextrins [45], but that the benzene ring of the meta-isomer... 

In flavin-dependent monooxygenases, a flavin-oxygen intermediate reacts with the substrate, also producing water in a second step, and requiring cofactors for regeneration of the flavin moiety. The unusual flavoprotein vanillyl-alcohol oxidase (EC 1.1.3.38), in which the flavin moiety is covalently bound, catalyzes the oxidation of p-substituted phenols as well as deamination, hydroxylation and dehydrogenation reactions [10]. 

Figure 9 shows plots of Hammett fr+ values versus E j2 for the 8-p-X-Ph-dG adducts. In Fig. 9A, the OH (—0.92 ) fr+ value was used and the regression deviated from linearity. However, Fig. 9B shows that the regression is improved to almost unity when the O (2.30 ) fr+ value is used. These results suggested that the oxidation of 8-p-PhOH-dG may be coupled with phenol deprotonation. As shown in Scheme 12, resonance structures for the radical cation of 8-p-PhOH-dG create a p-substituted phenol radical cation, which possess negative pAa values (pifa for phenol radical cation ). Phenolic radical cations undergo deprotonation rapidly in the presence of water (0.6-6 x to yield neutral phenolic radicals. In the anhydrous DMF solvent used for electrochemical measurements, an N-7 adduct atom or adventitious water in the solvent could serve as base to facilitate phenolic radical production. 

Kita and Tohma found that exposure of p-substituted phenol ethers to [bis(tri-fluoroacetoxy)iodo]benzene 12 in the presence of some nucleophiles in polar, less nucleophilic solvents results in direct nucleophilic aromatic substitution [Eq. (84)] [156]. Involvement of a single-electron transfer (SET) from phenol ethers to A3-iodane 12 generating arene cation radicals was suggested by the detailed UV-vis and ESR studies. SET was involved in the oxidative biaryl coupling of phenol ethers by 12 in the presence of BF3-Et20 [157]. 

Intramolecular oxidative cyclizations in the appropriately substituted phenols and phenol ethers provide a powerful tool for the construction of various practically important polycyclic systems. Especially interesting and synthetically useful is the oxidation of the p-substituted phenols 12 with [bis(acyloxy)iodo]-arenes in the presence of an appropriate external or internal nucleophile (Nu) leading to the respective spiro dienones 15 according to Scheme 6. It is assumed that this reaction proceeds via concerted addition-elimination in the intermediate product 13, or via phenoxenium ions 14 [18 - 21]. The recently reported lack of chirality induction in the phenolic oxidation in the presence of dibenzoyltar-taric acid supports the hypothesis that of mechanism proceeding via phenoxenium ions 14 [18]. The o-substituted phenols can be oxidized similarly with the formation of the respective 2,4-cyclohexadienone derivatives. 

Calixarenes are formed by condensation of a p-substituted phenol with formaldehyde [8]. These macrocycles are conformationally quite flexible but, by introducing suitable substituents in the aromatic subunits, the so-called cone conformation, in which all aromatic subunits point into the same direction, can be stabilized. This conformation is usually best suited to complex guest molecules because it has a well defined hydrophobic cavity. An inclusion of cations such as ammonium ions or quaternary ammonium ions into this cavity can be demonstrated, for example, by the characteristic upfield shifts of guest signals in the NMR, an effect that is a consequence of the close proximity of the corresponding protons to the surfaces of the aromatic receptor subunits in the complex. 

Romero, M. de L. and Mendez, F., The local HSAB principle and bond dissociation energy of p-substituted phenols, J. Phys. Chem. A, 107, 5874-5875, 2003b. 

Again at the beginning of the 1970 s, other classes of synthetic macrocycles were being investigated, not necessarily in connection with biological problems. For instance, the rich chemistry of Schiff base derivatives (Fig. 4.8) was being developed and yielded the first macrocyclic complexes in 1979 (Fig. 4.9). Another type of interesting macrocyclic molecules are the calixarenes (Fig. 4.8) the history of which can be traced back to the first experiments, in Berlin in 1872, of Adolf von Baeyer (Nobel prize in chemistry in 1905) who treated p-substituted phenols with formaldehyde in the presence of acid or base. 

Recent examples of calixarenes having chiral substituents attached to the wide rim are calix[n]arenes la and lb which were obtained by one-pot synthesis from the respective p-substituted phenol in moderate15 to low yield.16... 

In the case of the rhenium-catalyzed oxidation of methoxy- and hydroxy-substituted substrates, there is some complementary work concerning the general mechanism of the arene oxidation [10b, 11]. Since the major products in the oxidation of such arenes or phenols are the quinones, the formation of intermediary epoxides seems to be a predominant reaction step. When p-substituted phenols such as 2,6-di( -butyl)-4-methylphenol are treated with the MTO/H2O2 oxidant and acetic acid as solvent, the formation of hydroxydienones is observed. This is also reported for the oxidation using dimethyldioxirane as oxidant [20]. Since an arene oxide intermediate was postulated for the dioxirane oxidation, a similar mechanism is plausible here [11], e. g., for the oxidation of l,2,3-trimethoxy-5-methylbenzene (Scheme 3) or 2,6-di(f-butyl)-4-methyl-phenol. 

Noting Zinke s claim to have isolated cyclic tetramers from the condensation of p-substituted phenols and formaldehyde, Hayes and Hunter in 1956 sought to... 

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