Substituent effect on reaction rate

Thus, although quantitative interpretation of substituent effects on reaction rates is possible in some cases, it is much less generally applicable in crystals than in fluids. 

Substituent Effects on Reaction Rates of Diels-Alder Reactions... 

This kind of procedure, i. e. empirical estimation of solvent polarity with the aid of actual chemical or physical reference processes, is very common in chemistry. The well-known Hammett equation for the calculation of substituent effects on reaction rates and chemical equilibria, was introduced in 1937 by Hammett using the ionization of meta-ox /iflra-substituted benzoic acids in water at 25 °C as a reference process in much the same way [10]. Usually, the functional relationships between substituent or solvent parameters and various substituent- or solvent-dependent processes take the form of a linear Gibbs energy relationship, frequently still referred to as a linear free-energy (LFE) relationship [11-15, 125-127]. 

Cocyclotrimerization of Aryl Acetylenes Substituent Effects on Reaction Rate... 

Historically, QSRR has its foundation in the efforts of physical organic chemists who rationalize solute substituent effects on reaction rates and equilibria. The most notorious of all, the Hammett equation (9), inaugurates the linear free energy relationships (LFER), where the logarithm of the reaction equilibrium constant, K, is a linear function of the substituent constant (o), an arbitrarily derived parameter based on the ionization of benzoic acid derivatives in water, as follows ... 

The two seminal contributions of Mimoun and Sharpless laboratories led to a controversy on the reaction mechanism that was lasting longer than for two decades [82] and expanded to the olefin epoxidation with other metal peroxo complexes, in particular those of rhenium. Kinetic studies of Al-Ajlouni and Espenson [83,84] on the MTO-catalyzed olefin epoxidation with H2O2 revealed the importance of both mono- and diperoxo species in the catalytic process as well as substituent effects on reaction rates, but the molecular mechanism remained uncertain. 

The most advanced MO and DFT calculations support the idea of an aromatic transition state. The net effect on reaction rate of any substituent is determined by whether it stabilizes the transition state or the ground state more effectively. The aromatic concept of the transition state predicts Aat it would be stabilized by substituents at all positions, and this is true for phenyl substituents, as shown in Table 11.2. 

A substituent effect on the rate and stereoselectivity of INOC reaction has been observed (Eq. 1) [13]. Thus, gem-dicarboalkoxy and gem-dithioalkoxy groups were found to have profound accelerating effect on the cyclization (Entries g and h, Table 1). When C-3 in 2 was monosubstituted, good diastereoselectivity was observed depending on the relative size of the substituents (Ph > Me > C02Me). 

The most frequently encountered hydrolysis reaction in drug instability is that of the ester, but curtain esters can be stable for many years when properly formulated. Substituents can have a dramatic effect on reaction rates. For example, the tert-butyl ester of acetic acid is about 120 times more stable than the methyl ester, which, in turn, is approximately 60 times more stable than the vinyl analog [16]. Structure-reactivity relationships are dealt with in the discipline of physical organic chemistry. Substituent groups may exert electronic (inductive and resonance), steric, and/or hydrogen-bonding effects that can drastically affect the stability of compounds. A detailed treatment of substituent effects can be found in a review by Hansch et al. [17] and in the classical reference text by Hammett [18]. 

The extent to which the effect of changing substituents on the values of ks and kp is the result of a change in the thermodynamic driving force for the reaction (AG°), a change in the relative intrinsic activation barriers A for ks and kp, or whether changes in both of these quantities contribute to the overall substituent effect. This requires at least a crude Marcus analysis of the substituent effect on the rate and equilibrium constants for the nucleophile addition and proton transfer reactions (equation 2).71-72... 

Substituent effects on reactions between monosubstituted pyrazines and Mel in DMSO are very nearly the same as those for the corresponding pyridines. Since two different annular nitrogen atoms are present in the pyrazines, isomeric products 14 and 15 may be produced. When the total rate of alkylation is corrected for the isomer content (total rate constant x % isomer = rate constant for isomer) it is found... 

One of the characteristics of the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of esters, that is shared by ester formation also, is that substituent effects on the rate coefficients are small, and not simply related to a values (see below, p. 131). The data in Table 14 show that this is also true for the, sO-exchange reaction of substituted benzoic acids. This is borne out by the relative constancy of the ratio khyJkexch for the different substituted acids it was not possible to obtain a meaningful p value from the data of Table 14, because of the small number of points and the large amount of scatter evident on the Hammett plot. Mesitoic acid is highly unreactive, compared with the m- and p-substi-tuted esters used, as is its methyl ester towards alkaline hydrolysis138, and presumably reacts by the seriously hindered Aac2 route. 

The term polar effect refers to the influence, other than steric, that nonconjugated substituents exert on reaction rates. It does not define whether the mechanism for its transmission is through bonds (inductive effect) or through space (field effect). 

This modified charge distribution in the transition state leads to a mismatch between substituent effects on the rate of reaction and on the equilibrium constant. With respect to the fluorine substituents in Scheme 31, these decrease both the stability of the carbocation and the stability of the transition state. However, while there must be less carbocation character in the transition state than in the carbocation itself the positive charge is located to a greater degree on the benzylic carbon atom and therefore will be more sensitive to stabilization by substituents. If substituent effects at the a-carbon atom in the carbocation and in the transition state are then of comparable magnitude, there will be no net effect on the rate of reaction, as is observed. 

Substituent effects on the rate of electrophilic amination of phenylmagnesium bromides, magnesium diphenylcuprates, and catalytic phenylzinc cyanocuprates with O-methylhydroxylamine in THF have been investigated in a competitive kinetic study.169 The mechanistic differences between these three reactions were discussed on the basis of the experimental results. 

It can be seen from the examples displayed above that the Claisen rearrangement of allyl vinyl ethers with an amino substituent at C(n and C(2) proceeds much faster than that of allyl vinyl ether itself. Several models98- 00 have been proposed in order to interpret the substituent effect on the rate of Claisen rearrangement. Both the acceleration of the rearrangements of / -allyloxyenamine and 0-allylketene TV, 0-acetals and deceleration of the reaction of enamine 120 are in agreement with the prediction of the models. 

Since phosphates and sulfates with long chain alkyl substituents form micelles at concentrations above their CMC, the hydrolysis of these esters can be subject to micellar catalysis thereby providing a simplified system in which micelle formation and structure are not alfected by the presence of a foreign solubilizate. The hydrolysis of such surfactants must be considered, however, in investigations of their effects on reaction rates. Fortunately, the rate constants for the neutral hydrolysis of esters such as sodium dodecyl sulfate are extremely slow at 90° = 296 days at pH = 8-63), and the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the same ester is some three orders of magnitude faster and thus is still negligible in most cases (Kurz, 1962). 

Substituent effects on the rate of reaction operate on the slow step with a nearly pyramidal transition state whereas substituent effects on the equilibrium will be largely determined, it is argued, by changes in the stability of the nitronate ion. Hence it is not unreasonable that substituents have different effects on the rate and equilibrium. The effect of a substituent on the free energy of the transition state may be smaller, greater, or opposite to the effect on the free energy of the nitronate ion. A similar argument was used to explain the inverse orders of rates and acidity in the series nitromethane, nitroethane and 2-nitropropane [109(b), 109(c)]. 

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