Polar functions solvents

If a catalyst is to work well in solution, it (and tire reactants) must be sufficiently soluble and stable. Most polar catalysts (e.g., acids and bases) are used in water and most organometallic catalysts (compounds of metals witli organic ligands bonded to tliem) are used in organic solvents. Some enzymes function in aqueous biological solutions, witli tlieir solubilities detennined by the polar functional groups (R groups) on tlieir outer surfaces. 

The less hindered f/ans-olefins may be obtained by reduction with lithium or sodium metal in liquid ammonia or amine solvents (Birch reduction). This reagent, however, attacks most polar functional groups (except for carboxylic acids R.E.A. Dear, 1963 J. Fried, 1968), and their protection is necessary (see section 2.6). 

We consider first the Sn2 type of process. (In some important Sn2 reactions the solvent may function as the nucleophile. We will treat solvent nucleophilicity as a separate topic in Chapter 8.) Basicity toward the proton, that is, the pKa of the conjugate acid of the nucleophile, has been found to be less successful as a model property for reactions at saturated carbon than for nucleophilic acyl transfers, although basicity must have some relationship to nucleophilicity. Bordwell et al. have demonstrated very satisfactory Brjinsted-type plots for nucleophilic displacements at saturated carbon when the basicities and reactivities are measured in polar aprotic solvents like dimethylsulfoxide. The problem of establishing such simple correlations in hydroxylic solvents lies in the varying solvation stabilization within a reaction series in H-bond donor solvents. 

In the case of nonionic but polar compounds such as sugars, the excellent solvent properties of water stem from its ability to readily form hydrogen bonds with the polar functional groups on these compounds, such as hydroxyls, amines, and carbonyls. These polar interactions between solvent and solute are stronger than the intermolecular attractions between solute molecules caused by van der Waals forces and weaker hydrogen bonding. Thus, the solute molecules readily dissolve in water. 

Polar aprotic solvent (Section 11.3) A polar solvent that can t function as a hydrogen ion donor. Polar aprotic solvents such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and dimethyl-formamide (DMF) are particularly useful in Sn2 reactions because of their ability to solvate cations. 

This technique is based on the same separation mechanisms as found in liquid chromatography (LC). In LC, the solubility and the functional group interaction of sample, sorbent, and solvent are optimized to effect separation. In SPE, these interactions are optimized to effect retention or elution. Polar stationary phases, such as silica gel, Florisil and alumina, retain compounds with polar functional group (e.g., phenols, humic acids, and amines). A nonpolar organic solvent (e.g. hexane, dichloromethane) is used to remove nonpolar inferences where the target analyte is a polar compound. Conversely, the same nonpolar solvent may be used to elute a nonpolar analyte, leaving polar inferences adsorbed on the column. 

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Furthermore, it is often possible to extract from the structural analysis of solid solvates a significant information on solvation patterns and their relation to induced structural polymorphism. An interesting illustration has been provided by crystal structure determinations of solvated 2,4-dichloro-5-carboxy-benzsulfonimide (5)35). This compound contains a large number of polar functions and potential donors and acceptors of hydrogen bonds and appears to have only a few conformational degrees of freedom associated with soft modes of torsional isomerism. It co-crystallizes with a variety of solvents in different structural forms. The observed modes of crystallization and molecular conformation of the host compound were found to be primarily dependent on the nature of the solvent environment. Thus, from protic media such as water and wet acetic acid layered structures were formed which resemble intercalation type compounds. 

The general utility of the oxidative addition of functionalized organic halides to zinc was demonstrated by the formation of organozinc iodides 28 from protected (3- and 7-amino acids (Scheme 26).73 The organozinc iodides prepared in this manner were neither sufficiently stable nor sufficiently reactive in THF, but excellent yields were obtained in more polar aprotic solvents, such as DMF and DMSO. 

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