Electrophilic aromatic substitution regioselectivity

With 2-substituted benzo[7]furans, the regioselective electrophilic aromatic substitutions of formyl and nitro groups to C-3 of 2-aryl-7-methoxy-2-phenylbenzo[ ]furans were achieved (Equation 62). Further synthetic transformations of the resulting formyl group into methyl, hydroxymethyl, 1-hydroxyethyl, and cyano groups were also reported <1992JOC7248>. 

Just as there is a marked difference m how methyl and tnfluoromethyl substituents affect the rate of electrophilic aromatic substitution so too there is a marked difference m how they affect its regioselectivity... 

Why IS there such a marked difference between methyl and trifluoromethyl substituents m their influence on electrophilic aromatic substitution s Methyl is activating and ortho para directing trifluoromethyl is deactivating and meta directing The first point to remember is that the regioselectivity of substitution is set once the cyclohexadienyl cation intermediate is formed If we can explain why... 

What is the effect of a substituent on the regioselectivity of electrophilic aromatic substitution ... 

The regioselectivity of substitution, like the rate, is strongly affected by the substituent. In the following several sections we will examine the relationship between the stiTicture of the substituent and its effect on rate and regioselectivity of electrophilic aromatic substitution. 

Would you expect the substituent —N(CH3)3 to more closel resemble —NfCHj), or —NO, in its effect on rate and regioselectivity in electrophilic aromatic substitution Why ... 

The mechanism for electrophilic aromatic substitution is addition-elimination. Using these working hypotheses, Mills and Nixon explained the regioselectivity of electrophilic substitution in 5-hydroxyindan versus 6-hydroxytetralin. 

In 2011, Hartwig and coworkers reported the total synthesis of taiwaniaquinol B (55, Scheme 11.9), a member of a family of diterpenoids that are derived from the abietane skeleton [36]. A key aspect of the Hartwig synthesis of taiwaniaquinol B was the use of the iridium-catalyzed borylation reaction to accomplish the C(5) functionalization of resorcinol derivative 53. This regioselectivity for the overall bromination is complementary to that which would be obtained using a standard electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) reaction. In the transformation of 53 to 54, a sterically controlled borylation was first accomplished, which was then followed by treatment of the boronic ester intermediate with cupric bromide to... 

As described in the previous sections, a variety of nucleophiles attack the Cy atom of ruthenium-allenylidene intermediates. Aromatic compounds should also be suitable candidates and this was found to be the case [30]. Thus, reactions of propargylic alcohols with heteroaromatic compounds such as furans, thiophenes, pyrroles, and indoles in the presence of a diruthenium catalyst such as la proceeded smoothly to afford the corresponding propargylated heteroaromatic compounds in high yields with complete regioselectivity (Scheme 7.25). The reaction is considered to be an electrophilic aromatic substitution if viewed from the side of aromatic compounds. 

How substituents control rate and regioselectivity in electrophilic aromatic substitution results from their effect on carbocation stability. An electron-releasing substituent stabilizes the cyclohexadienyl cation intermediates corresponding to ortho and para attack more than meta. 

Section 12.15 When two or more substituents are present on a ring, the regioselectivity of electrophilic aromatic substitution is generally controlled by the directing effect of the more powerful activating substituent. 

Remember from Section 12.16 that it is the more activating substituent that determines the regioselectivity of electrophilic aromatic substitution when an arene bears two different substituents. Methoxy is a strongly activating substituent fluorine is slightly deactivating. Friedel-Crafts acylation takes place at the position para to the methoxy group. 

The regioselectivity by electrophilic aromatic substitution is conserved when switching to acidic reaction conditions. Thus 2-substituted pyrazole 1-oxide 123 was nitrated regio and monoselectively at C3 by HN03-H2S04 to give 124 in quantitative yield (1992ACSA972). Further nitration takes place first at the benzyl 4-position, and then at the pyrazole 5-position (Scheme 39). 

Regioselectivity in the formation of regioisomers is also observed in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions. In the case of monosubstituted benzene derivatives, there are three possible regiosomeric products that form at different rates, based on the mechanism of the reaction (see Figure 13). see also Berzelius, Jons Jakob Chirality Dalton, John Davy, Humphry Molecular Structure Scheele, Carl Wohler, Friedrich. 

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