Substituent effect, additivity electrophilic aromatic substitution

In addition to benzene and naphthalene derivatives, heteroaromatic compounds such as ferrocene[232, furan, thiophene, selenophene[233,234], and cyclobutadiene iron carbonyl complexpSS] react with alkenes to give vinyl heterocydes. The ease of the reaction of styrene with sub.stituted benzenes to give stilbene derivatives 260 increases in the order benzene < naphthalene < ferrocene < furan. The effect of substituents in this reaction is similar to that in the electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions[236]. 

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The effect of monofluorination on alkene or aromatic reactivity toward electrophiles is more difficult to predict Although a-fluonne stabilizes a carbocation relative to hydrogen, its opposing inductive effect makes olefins and aromatics more electron deficient. Fluorine therefore is activating only for electrophilic reactions with very late transition states where its resonance stabilization is maximized The faster rate of addition of trifluoroacetic acid and sulfuric acid to 2-fluoropropene vs propene is an example [775,116], but cases of such enhanced fluoroalkene reactivity in solution are quite rare [127] By contrast, there are many examples where the ortho-para-dueeting fluorine substituent is also activating in electrophilic aromatic substitutions [128]... 

Tidwell and coworkers (Chwang etai, 1977 Koshy etai, 1979) focused their interest on the reactivity-structure relationship of the hydration rates. Additivity of substituent effects of the four substituents in the ethylene has been studied. As the interaction of substituents with the positive charge in the intermediate [36C "] is analogous to that in the electrophilic aromatic substitution intermediate, the substituent effects on the hydration of [36] may... 

The propensity for C-N vs. N-H activation correlates well with substituent Hammet parameters groups that increase the basicity of aniline increase the relative rate of N-H activation, suggesting that nucleophilic attack by the amine at an empty d /dy orbital of Ta(silox)3 preceeds oxidative addition. On the other hand, electron-withdrawing substituents decrease the rate of N-H activation and increase the rate of C-N activation, similarly to the effects observed on electrophilic aromatic substitution. Nucleophilic attack by the filled d a orbital of Ta(silox)3 is expected to occur at the arylamine ipso carbon preceding C-N oxidative addition. The carbon-heteroatom cleavages can be accomodated by mechanisms using both electrophilic and nucleophilic sites on the metal center. 

The addition-elimination mechanism is also very common in the monocyclic oxygen and sulfur heterocycles (e.g. equation 20), a fact frequently cited as evidence for their low aromaticity. Pyran-2-ones can react with electrophiles at the 3- and 5-positions and pyran-4-ones at the 3-position (they also react at the carbonyl oxygen atom, but this is classified as a substituent reaction). Moreover, while the position of substitution can often be predicted on the basis of charge distribution and substituent effects, the choice of experimental conditions can also profoundly affect the outcome of the reaction, as illustrated in Schemes 2 and 3. 

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