Substitution solvent effects

Claverie P, J P Daudey, J Lmglet, B Pullman, D Piazzola and M J Huron 1978. Studies of Solvent Effects. I. Discrete, Continuum and Discrete-Continuum Models and Their Comparison for Some Simple Cases NH, CH3OH and substituted NH4. Journal of Physical Chemistry 82 405-418. 

Solvent Effects on the Rate of Substitution by the S l Mechanism Table 8 6 lists the relative rate of solvolysis of tert butyl chloride m several media m order of increasing dielectric constant (e) Dielectric constant is a measure of the ability of a material m this case the solvent to moderate the force of attraction between oppositely charged par tides compared with that of a standard The standard dielectric is a vacuum which is assigned a value e of exactly 1 The higher the dielectric constant e the better the medium is able to support separated positively and negatively charged species 8olvents... 

Solvent Effects on the Rate of Substitution by the S 2 Mechanism Polar solvents are required m typical bimolecular substitutions because ionic substances such as the sodium and potassium salts cited earlier m Table 8 1 are not sufficiently soluble m nonpolar solvents to give a high enough concentration of the nucleophile to allow the reaction to occur at a rapid rate Other than the requirement that the solvent be polar enough to dis solve ionic compounds however the effect of solvent polarity on the rate of 8 2 reactions IS small What is most important is whether or not the polar solvent is protic or aprotic Water (HOH) alcohols (ROH) and carboxylic acids (RCO2H) are classified as polar protic solvents they all have OH groups that allow them to form hydrogen bonds... 

Studies of reaction mechanisms ia O-enriched water show the foUowiag cleavage of dialkyl sulfates is primarily at the C—O bond under alkaline and acid conditions, and monoalkyl sulfates cleave at the C—O bond under alkaline conditions and at the S—O bond under acid conditions (45,54). An optically active half ester (j -butyl sulfate [3004-76-0]) hydroly2es at 100°C with iaversion under alkaline conditions and with retention plus some racemization under acid conditions (55). Effects of solvent and substituted stmcture have been studied, with moist dioxane giving marked rate enhancement (44,56,57). Hydrolysis of monophenyl sulfate [4074-56-0] has been similarly examined (58). 

Diels-Alder reactions, 4, 842 flash vapour phase pyrolysis, 4, 846 reactions with 6-dimethylaminofuKenov, 4, 844 reactions with JV,n-diphenylnitrone, 4, 841 reactions with mesitonitrile oxide, 4, 841 structure, 4, 715, 725 synthesis, 4, 725, 767-769, 930 theoretical methods, 4, 3 tricarbonyl iron complexes, 4, 847 dipole moments, 4, 716 n-directing effect, 4, 44 2,5-disubstituted synthesis, 4, 116-117 from l,3-dithiolylium-4-olates, 6, 826 electrocyclization, 4, 748-750 electron bombardment, 4, 739 electronic deformation, 4, 722-723 electronic structure, 4, 715 electrophilic substitution, 4, 43, 44, 717-719, 751 directing effects, 4, 752-753 fluorescence spectra, 4, 735-736 fluorinated derivatives, 4, 679 H NMR, 4, 731 Friedel-Crafts acylation, 4, 777 with fused six-membered heterocyclic rings, 4, 973-1036 fused small rings structure, 4, 720-721 gas phase UV spectrum, 4, 734 H NMR, 4, 7, 728-731, 939 solvent effects, 4, 730 substituent constants, 4, 731 halo... 

Another example is the acidities of a series of carboxylic acids. It is known that the substitution effect on these compounds also depends on the environment. The behavior of the halo-substituted acetic acids is one of the prototype problems for the solvent effect on acidity The order in strength of the haloacetic acids in the gas phase is... 

The range of nueleophiles whieh have been observed to partieipate in nueleophilie aromatie substitution is similar to that for S[, 2 reactions and includes alkoxides, phenoxides, sulftdes, fluoride ion, and amines. Substitutions by earbanions are somewhat less common. This may be because there are frequently complications resulting from eleetron-transfer proeesses with nitroaromatics. Solvent effects on nucleophilic aromatic substitutions are similar to those discussed for S 2 reactions. Dipolar... 

Substitution means the replacement of a hazardous material or process with an alternative which reduces or eliminates the hazard. Process designers, line managers, and plant technical staff should continually ask if less hazardous alternatives can be effectively substituted for all hazardous materials used in a manufacturing process. Examples of substitution in two categories are discussed—reaction chemistry and solvent usage. There are many other areas where opportunities for substitution of less hazardous materials can be found, for example, materials of construction, heat transfer media, insulation, and shipping containers. 

Other measures of nucleophilicity have been proposed. Brauman et al. studied Sn2 reactions in the gas phase and applied Marcus theory to obtain the intrinsic barriers of identity reactions. These quantities were interpreted as intrinsic nucleo-philicities. Streitwieser has shown that the reactivity of anionic nucleophiles toward methyl iodide in dimethylformamide (DMF) is correlated with the overall heat of reaction in the gas phase he concludes that bond strength and electron affinity are the important factors controlling nucleophilicity. The dominant role of the solvent in controlling nucleophilicity was shown by Parker, who found solvent effects on nucleophilic reactivity of many orders of magnitude. For example, most anions are more nucleophilic in DMF than in methanol by factors as large as 10, because they are less effectively shielded by solvation in the aprotic solvent. Liotta et al. have measured rates of substitution by anionic nucleophiles in acetonitrile solution containing a crown ether, which forms an inclusion complex with the cation (K ) of the nucleophile. These rates correlate with gas phase rates of the same nucleophiles, which, in this crown ether-acetonitrile system, are considered to be naked anions. The solvation of anionic nucleophiles is treated in Section 8.3. 

Most of the kinetic measures of solvent effects have been developed for the study of nucleophilic substitution (Sn) at saturated carbon, solvolytic reactions in particular. It may, therefore, be helpful to give a brief review of aliphatic nucleophilic substitution. Two mechanistic routes have been clearly identified. One of these is shown by... 

Resonance energies and tautomerism of substituted aromatic heterocycles and their benzo derivatives Reaction-field-supermolecule approach to calculation of solvent effects... 

Tliis interpretation is based only upon the structural and electronic properties of the pyridinium cations. Tire calculation of relative activation Ijarri-ers for the competing substitution reactions will give more reliable results —especially if solvent effects are included in the calculations. In order to assess the reliability of actual theoretical methods as applied to model sys-... 

Both of these substitution pathways in MeCN solution have been simulated using the Onsager model (Tables IV and V). Whereas pathway b is favored in the gas phase, inclusion of solvent effects in the calculations causes pathway a to be energetically favored. Substitution of Cl via pathway a is now 1.6 kcal/mol more favorable. In addition, TS(X)/TS(Pyr) calculations (Scheme 15) for the OMe (40) and OSiMes (41) cations have been performed. TS(X) of both 40 and 41 remain significantly disfavored (+66.9 kcal/mol and +46.6 kcakmol, respectively), thus indicating that pathway b should be preferred in MeCN.Tliese calculations are in complete agreement with experimental observations. 

The substituent effects on the H-bonding in an adenine-uracil (A-U) base pair were studied for a series of common functional groups [99JPC(A)8516]. Substitutions in the 5 position of uracil are of particular importance because they are located toward the major groove and can easily be introduced by several chemical methods. Based on DFT calculation with a basis set including diffuse functions, variations of about 1 kcal/mol were found for the two H-bonds. The solvent effects on three different Watson-Crick A-U base pairs (Scheme 100) have been modeled by seven water molecules creating the first solvation shell [98JPC(A)6167]. 

Esters can also be synthesized by an acid-catalyzed nucleophilic acyl substitution reaction of a carboxylic acid with an alcohol, a process called the Fischer esterification reaction. Unfortunately, the need to use an excess of a liquid alcohol as solvent effectively limits the method to the synthesis of methyl, ethyl, propyl, and butyl esters. 

The same conclusion was reached in a kinetic study of solvent effects in reactions of benzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate with substituted phenols. As expected due to the difference in solvation, the effects of para substituents are smaller in protic than in dipolar aprotic solvents. Alkyl substitution of phenol in the 2-position was found to increase the coupling rate, again as would be expected for electron-releasing substituents. However, this rate increase was larger in protic than in dipolar aprotic solvents, since in the former case the anion solvation is much stronger to begin with, and therefore steric hindrance to solvation will have a larger effect (Hashida et al., 1975 c). 

It was concluded that the variations in rate are due to variations in activation enthalpy rather than entropy, and since the rates of substitution rates at the para positions of toluene and /-butylbenzene varied by only 4 % for a change in reactivity of 6,430, it was concluded that the Baker-Nathan reactivity order does not arise from a solvent effect (c/. Table 57). 

The wide variation in the entropy factors for both the substituted phenyl and heterocyclic compounds and in particular for the methoxyphenyl and furan derivatives was considered to be strong evidence for solvent effects being predominant in determining the activation entropy. Consequently, discussion of the substituent effects in terms of electronic factors alone requires caution in this reaction. Caution is also needed since rates for the substituted phenyl compounds were only determined over a 20 °C range. The significance of entropy factors has also been indicated by the poor correlation of the data of the electrophilic reactivities of the heterocyclic compounds, as derived from protodemercuration, with the data for other electrophilic substitutions and related reactions572. 

The second group of studies tries to explain the solvent effects on enantioselectivity by means of the contribution of substrate solvation to the energetics of the reaction [38], For instance, a theoretical model based on the thermodynamics of substrate solvation was developed [39]. However, this model, based on the determination of the desolvated portion of the substrate transition state by molecular modeling and on the calculation of the activity coefficient by UNIFAC, gave contradictory results. In fact, it was successful in predicting solvent effects on the enantio- and prochiral selectivity of y-chymotrypsin with racemic 3-hydroxy-2-phenylpropionate and 2-substituted 1,3-propanediols [39], whereas it failed in the case of subtilisin and racemic sec-phenetyl alcohol and traws-sobrerol [40]. That substrate solvation by the solvent can contribute to enzyme enantioselectivity was also claimed in the case of subtilisin-catalyzed resolution of secondary alcohols [41]. 

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