Steric effects in substitution

Steric effects in substituted halocarbonyls of molybdenum and tungsten. R. Colton, Coord. Chem. Rev., 1971, 6,269-284 (29). 

R. Colton Coord. Chem. Rev. 6, Steric effects in substituted halo- 16 Complexes with chelating bis-... 

Figure 4 Stabilization of Cu1 by steric effects in substituted bipy ligands, resulting in tetrahedral geometry...

This article is concerned with six- and seven-coordinate halocarbonyl complexes of molybdenum(II) and tungsten(II) (Section II), of which earlier reviews by Colton et al.2 on substituted halocarbonyls of group 6 transition metals and on steric effects in substituted halocarbonyls of molybdenum and tungsten3 have been published. Also, reviews on the structures of seven-coordinate compounds by Drew in 19774 and by Melnik and Sharrock in 1985s contain relevant material. 

Substitutions which remove hydrophobic interactions lead to a loss of 1-2 kcal/mol in the absence of further disruptive or steric effects. In substitutions of Leu-54 — Gly or Asn in dihydrofolate reductase, it is likely that the space caused by the substitution is filled by water in the mutant, leading to a greater loss of hydrophobic interaction energy. 

We may now turn our attention to the possible existence of steric effects. Very large substituents such as bulky aryl groups have been reported to show no steric effects in substituted acetic acids of the type X X X CC02H in their reaction with diazodiphenylmethane (23,24). As the rate-determining step in this reaction is believed to involve proton transfer from the acid to the diazodiphenylmethane, those observations are significant. We have correlated pXaS for this type of acetic acid with the modified Taft equation in the form... 

For most vinyl polymers, head-to-tail addition is the dominant mode of addition. Variations from this generalization become more common for polymerizations which are carried out at higher temperatures. Head-to-head addition is also somewhat more abundant in the case of halogenated monomers such as vinyl chloride. The preponderance of head-to-tail additions is understood to arise from a combination of resonance and steric effects. In many cases the ionic or free-radical reaction center occurs at the substituted carbon due to the possibility of resonance stabilization or electron delocalization through the substituent group. Head-to-tail attachment is also sterically favored, since the substituent groups on successive repeat units are separated by a methylene... 

The steric effects in isocyanates are best demonstrated by the formation of flexible foams from TDI. In the 2,4-isomer (4), the initial reaction occurs at the nonhindered isocyanate group in the 4-position. The unsymmetrically substituted ureas formed in the subsequent reaction with water are more soluble in the developing polymer matrix. Low density flexible foams are not readily produced from MDI or PMDI enrichment of PMDI with the 2,4 -isomer of MDI (5) affords a steric environment similar to the one in TDI, which allows the production of low density flexible foams that have good physical properties. The use of high performance polyols based on a copolymer polyol allows production of high resiHency (HR) slabstock foam from either TDI or MDI (2). 

Satisfactory Brpnsted correlations for a-substituted azoles offer further evidence of the lesser importance of steric effects in the azole series (78AHC(22)7l). 

Taft began the LFER attack on steric effects as part of his separation of electronic and steric effects in aliphatic compounds, which is discussed in Section 7.3. For our present purposes we abstract from that treatment the portion relevant to aromatic substrates. Hammett p values for alkaline ester hydrolysis are in the range +2.2 to +2.8, whereas for acid ester hydrolysis p is close to zero (see Table 7-2). Taft, therefore, concluded that electronic effects of substituents are much greater in the alkaline than in the acid series and. in fact, that they are negligible in the acid series. This left the steric effect alone controlling relative reactivity in the acid series. A steric substituent constant was defined [by analogy with the definition of cr in Eq. (7-22)] by Eq. (7-43), where k is the rate constant for acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of an orr/to-substituted benzoate ester and k is the corresponding rate constant for the on/to-methyl ester note that CH3, not H, is the reference substituent. ... 

The selective reaction of anionic 3,6-dichloro-4-sulfanilamidopy-ridazine with excess methanolic methoxide at the 3-position is another indication of the absence of major steric effects in most nucleophilic substitutions, as a result of the direction of nucleophilic attack (cf. Section II, A, 1). The selectivity at the 3-position is an example of the interaction of substituent effects. The sulfonamide anion deactivates both the 3-chloro (ortho direct deactivation) and... 

The k term is independent of Y and would, therefore, appear to be dissociative, but it is in fact found to be solvent-dependent and so it is thought to be associative. (It is also found to be sensitive to steric effects in the same manner as the k2 pathway.) A plausible pathway for the k route is slow solvolysis followed by fast substitution... 

If the substituents are nonpolar, such as an alkyl or aryl group, the control is exerted mainly by steric effects. In particular, for a-substituted aldehydes, the Felkin TS model can be taken as the starting point for analysis, in combination with the cyclic TS. (See Section 2.4.1.3, Part A to review the Felkin model.) The analysis and prediction of the direction of the preferred reaction depends on the same principles as for simple diastereoselectivity and are done by consideration of the attractive and repulsive interactions in the presumed TS. In the Felkin model for nucleophilic addition to carbonyl centers the larger a-substituent is aligned anti to the approaching enolate and yields the 3,4-syn product. If reaction occurs by an alternative approach, the stereochemistry is reversed, and this is called an anti-Felkin approach. 

Similarly to peroxycarboxylic acids, DMDO is subject to cis or syn stereoselectivity by hydroxy and other hydrogen-bonding functional groups.93 However a study of several substituted cyclohexenes in CH3CN —H20 suggested a dominance by steric effects. In particular, the hydroxy groups in cyclohex-2-enol and... 

The literature on basic- and acid-catalyzed alkylation of phenol and of its derivatives is wide [1,2], since this class of reactions finds industrial application for the synthesis of several intermediates 2-methylphenol as a monomer for the synthesis of epoxy cresol novolac resin 2,5-dimethylphenol as an intermediate for the synthesis of antiseptics, dyes and antioxidants 2,6-dimethylphenol used for the manufacture of polyphenylenoxide resins, and 2,3,6-trimethylphenol as a starting material for the synthesis of vitamin E. The nature of the products obtained in phenol methylation is affected by the surface characteristics of the catalyst, since catalysts having acid features address the electrophilic substitution in the ortho and para positions with respect to the hydroxy group (steric effects in confined environments may however affect the ortho/para-C-alkylation ratio), while with basic catalysts the ortho positions become the... 

These effects can occur when the active site at which a measurable phenomenon occurs is in close proximity to the substituent. Among the many systems exhibiting direct steric effects are ortho-substituted benzenes, 1, cis-substituted ethylenes, 2, and the ortho- (1,2-, 2,1- and 2,3-) and peri- (1,8-) substituted naphthalenes, 3, 4, 5 and 6, respectively. Other examples are d.v-1,2-disubstiUited cyclopropanes, c/ s-2,3-disubstituted norbornanes and ci.s-2,3-disubstituted [2.2.2]-bicyclooctanes, 7, 8 and 9, respectively. Some systems generally do not show steric effects. Vicinally substituted systems such as disubstituted methanes, 10, and 1,1-disubstituted ethenes, 11, are examples, 2,3-Disubstituted heteroarenes with five-membered rings such as thiophenes and selenophenes... 

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