Substituent effects nature

The applicability of the two-parameter equation and the constants devised by Brown to electrophilic aromatic substitutions was tested by plotting values of the partial rate factors for a reaction against the appropriate substituent constants. It was maintained that such comparisons yielded satisfactory linear correlations for the results of many electrophilic substitutions, the slopes of the correlations giving the values of the reaction constants. If the existence of linear free energy relationships in electrophilic aromatic substitutions were not in dispute, the above procedure would suffice, and the precision of the correlation would measure the usefulness of the p+cr+ equation. However, a point at issue was whether the effect of a substituent could be represented by a constant, or whether its nature depended on the specific reaction. To investigate the effect of a particular substituent in different reactions, the values for the various reactions of the logarithms of the partial rate factors for the substituent were plotted against the p+ values of the reactions. This procedure should show more readily whether the effect of a substituent depends on the reaction, in which case deviations from a hnear relationship would occur. It was concluded that any variation in substituent effects was random, and not a function of electron demand by the electrophile. ... 

It is always important to keep in mind the relative nature of substituent effects. Thus, the effect of the chlorine atoms in the case of trichloroacetic acid is primarily to stabilize the dissociated anion. The acid is more highly dissociated than in the unsubstituted case because there is a more favorable energy difference between the parent acid and the anion. It is the energy differences, not the absolute energies, that determine the equilibrium constant for ionization. As we will discuss more fully in Chapter 4, there are other mechanisms by which substituents affect the energy of reactants and products. The detailed understanding of substituent effects will require that we separate polar effects fiom these other factors. 

The substituent effects in aromatic electrophilic substitution are dominated by resonance effects. In other systems, stereoelectronic effects or steric effects might be more important. Whatever the nature of the substituent effects, the Hammond postulate insists diat structural discussion of transition states in terms of reactants, intermediates, or products is valid only when their structures and energies are similar. 

Research on the nature of substituent constants continues, with results that can bewilder the nonspecialist. The dominant approach is a statistical one, and the main goal is to dissect substituent effects into separate electronic causes. This has led to a proliferation of terms, symbols, and conclusions. A central issue is (here we change terminology somewhat from our earlier usage) to determine the balance of field and inductive effects contributing to the observed polar electronic effect. In... 

To understand the unpredictable nature of the Pictet-Gams reaction, Hartwig and Whaley conducted the first mechanistic studies in 1949. Their work focused on substituent effects when directly attached to the ethylamine side chain. They also investigated a variety of dehydration agents in order to identify optimal reaction conditions. It was determined that formation of the isoquinoline structure was virtually impossible when alkyl or phenyl substituents were placed in the 4-position of the ethylamine side chain. 

The second aspect is more fundamental. It is related to the very nature of chemistry (quantum chemistry is physics). Chemistry deals with fuzzy objects, like solvent or substituent effects, that are of paramount importance in tautomerism. These effects can be modeled using LFER (Linear Free Energy Relationships), like the famous Hammett and Taft equations, with considerable success. Quantum calculations apply to individual molecules and perturbations remain relatively difficult to consider (an exception is general solvation using an Onsager-type approach). However, preliminary attempts have been made to treat families of compounds in a variational way [81AQ(C)105]. 

In summary then, the kinetics and related data are most consistent with protonated acetyl nitrate as the reagent in this medium. It is unfortunate that there is doubt as to the nature of the electrophile, as this medium combines high reactivity with good solvent properties, which has made it popular for studying substituent effects in nitration. Some relative reactivities (mostly obtained under competition conditions) are given in Table 20. 

Aromatic compounds can be hydroxylated, benzoxylated and acetoxylated and the isomer distributions and substituent effects indicate that the reaction is an electrophilic substitution132. Very little kinetic work has been carried out so that the nature of the electrophile is in some doubt. 

The nature of the initial bond cleavage (homolytic, heterolytic, or by a concerted pathway) cannot be generalized because it depends on substituent effects and/or reaction conditions. 

Kuzuya M., Noguchi A. The Nature of Substituent Effects on Tautomeric Equilibria of 2-Pyridones and Their Reactions Trends Org. Chem. 1991 2 73-92 Keywords chemo- and regiochemistry of Diels-Alder reactions with benzyne,... 

Evidence is provided by this analysis that (a) structural considerations discriminate among at least four practical classes of pi delocalization behavior, each of which has limited generality (b) the blend of polar and pi delocalization effect contributions to the observed effect of a substituent is widely variable among different reaction or data sets (the contributions may be opposite as well as alike in direction), depending upon structural considerations and the nature of the measurement (c) solvent may play an important role in determination of the observed blend of effects (d) it is the first three conditions which lead to the deterioration of the single substituent parameter treatment as a means of general and relatively precise description of observed electronic substituent effects in the benzene series. 

The maximum rate reported at very high acidity accords with protonation of the ester °. To summarise, the ester meehanism has gained general acceptance, although the substituent effects have yet to be explained wholly satisfactorily and the exact nature of the transition state, i.e. whether it is of considerable or only slight carbonyl character, remains a contentious issue ... 

To provide further experimental clues to the nature of substituent effects, we decided to test the additivity of orf/io-substituent effects. Specifically, we set out to compare methyl torsional potentials in S0, Sp and D0 for the sequence of molecules o-fluorotoluene (studied by Ito and coworkers), o-chlorotoluene, and 2-fluoro-6-chlorotoluene. 

Methods have been presented, with examples, for obtaining quantitative structure-property relationships for alternating conjugated and cross-conjugated dienes and polyenes, and for adjacent dienes and polyenes. The examples include chemical reactivities, chemical properties and physical properties. A method of estimating electrical effect substituent constants for dienyl and polyenyl substituents has been described. The nature of these substituents has been discussed, but unfortunately the discussion is very largely based on estimated values. A full understanding of structural effects on dienyl and polyenyl systems awaits much further experimental study. It would be particularly useful to have more chemical reactivity studies on their substituent effects, and it would be especially helpful if chemical reactivity studies on the transmission of electrical effects in adjacent multiply doubly bonded systems were available. Only further experimental work will show how valid our estimates and predictions are. 

The substituent effects predicted for vinyl radicals are rather similar to those already observed for alkyl radicals (Table 4). Attachment of alkyl groups or it systems to the radical center stabilize the radical while the introduction of a-acceptors in the a- or / -position are destabilizing. The nature of the... 

Some time later the feasibility of obtaining 170 spectra for natural abundance samples at relatively low concentration was demonstrated55,56. This was an important step because intermolecular interactions can markedly affect chemical shifts and, if only electronic substituent effects are to examined, then all extraneous influences must be minimized. 

Substituent effects on the 170 chemical shifts in meta- and para-substituted nitrobenzenes are presented in Table 13, showing that these shifts are quite sensitive to the nature of the substituent, and range over nearly 40 ppm. Examination of Table 13 shows that the direction of substituent effects is different for 15N and 170 shifts, with electron-withdrawing substituents (such as NO2, CN or CF3) causing upheld 15N and... 

Deprotonation processes are exclusively governed by intrinsic structural effects, without any external stabilization. Therefore, the thermodynamic data are affected by the nature of the atom bound to the proton, its hybridization, the adjacent functionality and the transmitted substituent effects. 

Similarly, < (170) of 34 is 8 ppm lower than that of 28. Accordingly, although the 1,3-diene system of 33 does not possess the nature and thermochemical stability of ordinary conjugated 1,3-dienes, substituent effects are transmitted at least as efficiently through this system as they are transmitted through the aromatic system of 34. 

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