Steric Effects Including Hydrogen Bonding

Acidity and basicity depend on the various factors that influence the position of the equilibrium between an acid HA and its conjugate base A. These include orbital effects, electronegativity, inductive effects, resonance effects, solvation hydrogen bonding, steric effects, and aromaticity. 

Deviations from this generalization may have several sources, including charge repulsion, steric effects, statistical factors, intramolecular hydrogen bonding, and other structural effects that alter electron density at the reaction site. Hague - ° P has discussed these effects. 

The ortho effect may consist of several components. The normal electronic effect may receive contributions from inductive and resonance factors, just as with tneta and para substituents. There may also be a proximity or field electronic effect that operates directly between the substituent and the reaction site. In addition there may exist a true steric effect, as a result of the space-filling nature of the substituent (itself ultimately an electronic effect). Finally it is possible that non-covalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding or charge transfer, may take place. The role of the solvent in both the initial state and the transition state may be different in the presence of ortho substitution. Many attempts have been made to separate these several effects. For example. Farthing and Nam defined an ortho substituent constant in the usual way by = log (K/K ) for the ionization of benzoic acids, postulating that includes both electronic and steric components. They assumed that the electronic portion of the ortho effect is identical to the para effect, writing CTe = o-p, and that the steric component is equal to the difference between the total effect and the electronic effect, or cts = cr — cte- They then used a multiple LFER to correlate data for orrAo-substituted reactants. 

The selection of the solvent is based on the retention mechanism. The retention of analytes on stationary phase material is based on the physicochemical interactions. The molecular interactions in thin-layer chromatography have been extensively discussed, and are related to the solubility of solutes in the solvent. The solubility is explained as the sum of the London dispersion (van der Waals force for non-polar molecules), repulsion, Coulombic forces (compounds form a complex by ion-ion interaction, e.g. ionic crystals dissolve in solvents with a strong conductivity), dipole-dipole interactions, inductive effects, charge-transfer interactions, covalent bonding, hydrogen bonding, and ion-dipole interactions. The steric effect should be included in the above interactions in liquid chromatographic separation. 

Product or reactant stabilizing factors that have been studied thus far include resonance/charge delocalization, solvation, hyperconjugation, intramolecular hydrogen bonding, aromaticity, inductive, jr-donor, polarizability, steric, anomeric, and electrostatic effects, as well as ring strain and soft-soft interactions. Product or reactant destabilization factors are mainly represented by anti-aromaticity, steric effects in some types of reactions, and, occasionally, electrostatic effects. What makes the PNS particularly useful is that it is completely general, mathematically provable,4 and knows no exception. 

What the PNS cannot deal with is the effect on reactivity by factors that only operate at the transition state level but are not present in either reactant or product. Examples mentioned in this chapter include transition state aromaticity in Diels Alder reactions, steric effects on reactions of the type A + B ty C + D, or hydrogen bonding/electrostatic effects that stabilize the... 

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