Reactivity effects electrophilic attack

The 1,3-azoles are not very reactive towards electrophilic attack due to the deactivating effect of the pyridine-like nitrogen. However, electron-donating groups can facilitate electrophilic attack, as in the preparation of oxazoles 3.34 and 3.35. Dimethylamino oxazole 3.33 is essentially functioning like an enamine in this reaction. 

With substitutions effected in acid media, the possible role of pyrrole cations has not been elucidated. However, in electrophilic substitutions it seems most improbable that any entity other than the neutral molecule should be involved. Not only must it be more reactive to electrophilic attack than are the cations, but also it is difficult to formulate any other mechanism such as, for example, nucleophilic attack upon the cation, followed by electrophilic attack and elimination. The consequences of nucleophilic attack upon the j8-protonated pyrrole cation are seen in the trimerization of pyrrole. 

Iron-complexed diene systems have a reduced electron density due to 7t-donation to the iron center. This makes them less reactive towards electrophilic attack that stands for the majority of reactions at olefmic systems. But also oxidation, reduction, and cycloaddition reactions proceed more slowly or can be completely suppressed when the diene is ligated to an iron center. Moreover, the iron complex blocks one face of the diene system. Incoming reagents, whether at the diene unit or at the periphery, are directed anti to the iron complex fragment. This allows stereospecific reactions that are otherwise difficult to achieve. The stereodirecting effect can be exploited for reactions... 

The steric and electronic effects of substituents on the electrophilic attack at the nitrogen atom have been discussed in the general chapter on reactivity (Section 4.02.1.3). All the conclusions are valid for pyrazoles and indazoles. The effect on equilibrium constants will be discussed in detail in the sections dealing with values (Sections 4.04.2.1.3(iv) and (v)) and the kinetic effects on the rates of quaternization in the corresponding section (4.04.2.1.3(vii)). 

Ipso substitution, in which the electrophile attacks a position already carrying a substituent, is relatively rare in electrophilic aromatic substitution and was not explicitly covered in Section 10.2 in the discussion of substituent effects on reactivity and selectivity Using qualitative MO cOTicepts, discuss the effect of the following types of substituents on the energy of the transition state for ipso substitution. 

The rates of phenylchlorocarbene have also been compared with the fluoro and bromo analogs.120 The data show slightly decreased rates in the order Br > Cl > F. The alkene reactivity difference is consistent with an electrophilic attack. These reactions have low activation barriers and the reactivity differences are dominated by entropy effects. 

As a result of these substituent-induced polarizations, the complementary conjugative interactions at each ring site become somewhat imbalanced (so that, e.g., the donor-acceptor interaction from C3—C4 to C5—C(, is 23.1 kcal mol-1, but that in the opposite direction is only 16.4 kcal mol-1). From the polarization pattern in (3.133) one can recognize that excess pi density is accumulated at the ortho (C2, C6) and para (C4) positions, and thus that the reactivity of these sites should increase with respect to electrophilic attack. This is in accord with the well-known o, /(-directing effect of amino substitution in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions. Although the localized NBO analysis has been carried out for the specific Kckule structure of aniline shown in Fig. 3.40, it is easy to verify that exactly the same physical conclusions are drawn if one starts from the alternative Kekule structure. 

In most cases, the orbital relaxation contribution is negligible and the Fukui function and the FMO reactivity indicators give the same results. For example, the Fukui functions and the FMO densities both predict that electrophilic attack on propylene occurs on the double bond (Figure 18.1) and that nucleophilic attack on BF3 occurs at the Boron center (Figure 18.2). The rare cases where orbital relaxation effects are nonnegligible are precisely the cases where the Fukui functions should be preferred over the FMO reactivity indicators [19-22], In short, while FMO theory is based on orbitals from an independent electron approximation like Hartree-Fock or Kohn-Sham, the Fukui function is based on the true many-electron density. 

Also other Type B and C series from Table II are consistent with the above elimination mechanisms. The dehydration rate of the alcohols ROH on an acid clay (series 16) increased with the calculated inductive effect of the group R. For the dehydrochlorination of polychloroethanes on basic catalysts (series 20), the rate could be correlated with a quantum-chemical reactivity index, namely the delocalizability of the hydrogen atoms by a nucleophilic attack similar indices for a radical or electrophilic attack on the chlorine atoms did not fit the data. The rates of alkylbenzene cracking on silica-alumina catalysts have been correlated with the enthalpies of formation of the corresponding alkylcarbonium ions (series 24). Similar correlations have been obtained for the dehydrosulfidation of alkanethiols and dialkyl sulfides on silica-alumina (series 36 and 37) in these cases, correlation by the Taft equation is also possible. The rate of cracking of 1,1-diarylethanes increased with the increasing basicity of the reactants (series 33). 

Silyl enol ethers offer both enhanced reactivity and an effective termination step. Electrophilic attack is followed by desilylation to give an a-substituted carbonyl compound. The carbocations can be generated from tertiary chlorides and a Lewis acid, such as TiCl4. This reaction provides a method for introducing tertiary alkyl groups a to a carbonyl, a transformation which cannot be achieved by base-catalyzed alkylation because... 

When substituted benzene undergoes electrophilic attack, groups already on the ring affect the reactivity of the benzene ring as weU as the orientation of the reachon. A summary of these effects of substituents on reachvity and orienta-hon of electrophihc substituhon of substituted benzene is presented below. 

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