Salt effects, specific

The composite rate constant shows a large kinetic isotope effect for ArCDj (kii/ko = 4.5-7.3), strong salt effects, specific cation accelerations (Na" ) and inhibitions (BU4N ), and a marked dependence on solvent ratio and dielectric constant. Marcus-equation estimates of k, and fc i, the latter diffusion controlled, yield 2 = 3.6 x 10 (OAc ) and 80 (H2O) M s". ... 

Furthermore, the number of diene - dienoplrile combinations that can be expected to undergo a Lewis-acid catalysed Diels-Alder reaction is limited. Studies by Wijnen leave little doubt that the rate of typical Diels-Alder reactions, where the dienophile is activated by one or more carbonyl functionalities, does not respond to the presence of Lewis acids in aqueous solution , at least not beyond the extent that is expected for non-specific interactions (salt effects). No coordination of the Lewis acid to the dienophile was observed in these cases, which is perhaps not surprising. Water is... 

Salt effects on the reaction of 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene with amines or alkoxides have been investigated.Reinheimer et al. have studied decelerative ion pairing of alkali metal methoxides in reaction with this substrate cations and anions in added salts have specific effects on ion pairing. 

The rate of a reaction that shows specific acid (or base, or acid-base) catalysis does not depend on the buffer chosen to adjust the pH. Of course, an inert salt must be used to maintain constant ionic strength so that kinetic salt effects do not distort the pH profile. 

Only low yields of the azide ion adduct are obtained from the reaction of simple tertiary derivatives in the presence of azide ion 2145 46 and it is not possible to rigorously determine the kinetic order of the reaction of azide ion, owing to uncertainties in the magnitude of specific salt effects on the rate constants for the solvolysis and elimination reactions. Therefore, these experiments do not distinguish between stepwise and concerted mechanisms for substitution reactions at tertiary carbon. 

Other reactions in which cations other than protons are catalyti-cally effective are esterification and acetal formation, catalyzed by calcium salts,277 and the bromination of ethyl cyclopentanone-2-carboxylate, catalyzed by magnesium, calcium, cupric, and nickel, but not by sodium or potassium ions.278 One interpretative difficulty, of course, is the separation of catalysis from the less specific salt effects. The boundary line between salt effects (medium effects) and salt effects (catalysis) is not sharp either in concept or experimentally. 

There are, however, many specific and anomalous kinetic salt effects, especially at higher salt concentrations, the origin of which lies in the effects on nonelectrolyte reactant activity coefficients. This is often the most interesting effect for enzymes, because the charge on the substrate is frequently zero, making the product ZiZ also zero. The exact charge on the enzyme molecules can be difficult to determine if one is working at a pH removed from the isoelectric point of the enzyme. 

The difference between A obsd and caic might be due to a specific salt effect on the rate constant for solvolysis. However, this is unlikely because perchlorate ion acts to stabilize carbocations relative to neutral substrates.At high concentrations of sodium bromide, the rate-limiting step for solvolysis of 1-Br is the capture of 1 by solvent (ks Scheme 5A). Substitution of Br for CIO4 should destabilize the carbocation-like transition state for this step relative to the starting neutral substrate, and this would lead to a negative, rather than positive deviation of obsd for equations (3A) and (3B). 

The yield of the nucleophilic substitution product from the stepwise preassociation mechanism k[ = k. Scheme 2.4) is small, because of the low concentration of the preassociation complex (Xas 0.7 M for the reaction of X-2-Y). Formally, the stepwise preassociation reaction is kinetically bimolecular, because both the nucleophile and the substrate are present in the rate-determining step ( j). In fact, these reactions are borderline between S l and Sn2 because the kinetic order with respect to the nucleophile cannot be rigorously determined. A small rate increase may be due to either formation of nucleophile adduct by bimolecular nucleophilic substitution or a positive specific salt effect, whUe a formally bhnole-cular reaction may appear unimolecular due to an offsetting negative specific salt effect on the reaction rate. 

The rate constant for solvolysis of the model tertiary substrate 5-Cl is independent of the concentration of added azide ion, and the reaction gives only a low yield of the azide ion adduct (e.g., 16% in the presence of 0.50 M NaNa in 50 50 (v/v) water/trifluoroethanol]." Therefore, this is a borderline reaction for which it is not possible to determine the kinetic order with respect to azide ion, because of uncertainties about specific salt effects on the reaction." ... 

From the results, it can be concluded that large perturbations of phase equilibria may be obtained with relatively small salt concentrations in certain systems, and that the salt effect is specific. Salt effects can become important... 

Seawater contains dissolved inorganic salts. An aqueous solution of about 35 gL-1 NaCl is often taken as a model solution for seawater. The salt effect on the solubility of nonelectrolyte organic compounds has been investigated systematically by Sechenov [68] and by Long and McDevit [69]. Correlations between pure water solubility, Sw, and the solubility at different salt concentrations are compound dependent. For example, the seawater solubility, 5SW, of PAHs are from 30 to 60% below their freshwater solubilities [1], depending on the particular structure of the PAH. We concentrate our interest on the question if, for certain compound classes, Ssw can be estimated from known Sw without any input of further compound-specific parameters. 

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