Subject substitution, catalysis

Reaction of nitrosyl disulphonate, 0N(S03), with hydroxylamine-N-sulphonate is reported to be subject to catalysis by ferric salts at low concentrations, and to depend on the alkalinity through the hydrolysis of the catalyst . In mildly alkaline solution (pH 6-11), the rates of decomposition of this sul-phonate have been shown to be consistent with the existence of two reaction paths, one forming NO and the other sulphite radicals . The processes are assumed to represent bimolecular nucleophilic substitution by water. 

A similar substitution on anilines causes the reverse effect. Nitro groups in ortho position either in the isocyanate or the aniline lower the reactivity by steric hindrance. These authors also reported that the reaction is subject to catalysis by pyridine, tertiary bases, and certain carboxylic acids but is unaffected by water, inorganic acids, bases, or salts. Relative rates for the reactions of some primary aliphatic amines with phenyl isocyanates have been determined by Davis and Ebersole (52). 

The rates of oxidation of p- and m-substituted phenoxyacetic acids in ACOH-H2O-HCIO4 by TPCC increase with increasing AcOH%. The rate is accelerated by electronreleasing substituents and subject to catalysis by Al + ions." ... 

Chiral oxazolines developed by Albert I. Meyers and coworkers have been employed as activating groups and/or chiral auxiliaries in nucleophilic addition and substitution reactions that lead to the asymmetric construction of carbon-carbon bonds. For example, metalation of chiral oxazoline 1 followed by alkylation and hydrolysis affords enantioenriched carboxylic acid 2. Enantioenriched dihydronaphthalenes are produced via addition of alkyllithium reagents to 1-naphthyloxazoline 3 followed by alkylation of the resulting anion with an alkyl halide to give 4, which is subjected to reductive cleavage of the oxazoline moiety to yield aldehyde 5. Chiral oxazolines have also found numerous applications as ligands in asymmetric catalysis these applications have been recently reviewed, and are not discussed in this chapter. ... 

Carbonyl reactions are extremely important in chemistry and biochemistry, yet they are often given short shrift in textbooks on physical organic chemistry, partly because the subject was historically developed by the study of nucleophilic substitution at saturated carbon, and partly because carbonyl reactions are often more difhcult to study. They are generally reversible under usual conditions and involve complicated multistep mechanisms and general acid/base catalysis. In thinking about carbonyl reactions, 1 find it helpful to consider the carbonyl group as a (very) stabilized carbenium ion, with an O substituent. Then one can immediately draw on everything one has learned about carbenium ion reactivity and see that the reactivity order for carbonyl compounds ... 

Przystas and Fife427 have studied the hydrolysis of substituted benzaldehyde methyl 8-quinolyl acetals such as (135) in 50% dioxane-water at 30 °C. These acetals are subject to both general and specific acid catalysis. A variety of divalent metal ions (Cu11, Co11, Ni11, Mn11 and Zn11) exert... 

Catalysis by cobalt(III) has been the subject of several papers.185-187 The N.N-bis(sahcyldene)ethylnediaminocobalt(III)-catalysed oxidative carbonylation of o-, m-and -substituted primary aromatic amines in MeOH gives ureas, isocyanates, carbamates, and azo derivatives. A Hammett p value of —0.5 for the reaction indicates that electrophilic attack of CO at a nitrogen anion complexed to Co in the TS is... 

Nucleophilic catalysis in the unimolecular mechanism is straightforward, since there is but one reactant that can bring the nucleophile into the transition state. If, however, a bimolecular substitution is found to be subject to nucleophilic catalysis and if it is concluded that, say, one molecule of the nucleophile, B, is involved in the transition state, then two main possibilities exist. The nucleophile may be brought into the transition state either by the organometallic substrate as in process (22) or by the electrophile as in process (23), viz. 

The various mechanisms outlined in Section 2 (p. 16) can, in principle, all be subject to nucleophilic catalysis. Without enumerating them again, the arguments and discussions of Section 3 can readily be applied to these substitutions with rearrangement. 

The substitution leading from (155) to (156) is a prerequisite to application of the theory for the case of mechanism (153) but it may be noted that equation (157) is itself entirely predictive, since the fractionation factor of the substrate, SL, is in principle amenable to measurement (e.g. by isotopic equilibration in an acidic medium if the reaction is not also subject to acid catalysis). 

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