Substituent environment

The electronic environment of an a-substituent on pyridine (467) approaches that of a substituent on the corresponding imino compound (468) and is intermediate between those of substituents on benzene (469) and substituents attached to carbonyl groups (470) (c/. discussion in Chapter 3.2). Substituents attached to certain positions in azole rings show similar properties to those of a- and y-substituents on pyridine. However, the azoles also possess one heteroatom which behaves as an electron source and which tends to oppose the effect of other heteroatom(s). 

In azolium cations, the electron-pull of the positively charged heteroatom is strong, and substituents attached a or y to positive poles in azolium rings show correspondingly enhanced reactivity. 

Azolinones and azole A-oxides possess systems which can act either as an electron source or as an electron sink, depending on the requirements of the reaction. 

Reactivity of Five-membered Rings with Two or More Heteroatoms 

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Optical properties of cyanines can be usefiil for both chiral substituents/environments and also third-order nonlinear optical properties in polymer films. Methine-chain substituted die arbo cyanines have been prepared from a chiral dialdehyde (S)-(+)-2-j -butylmalonaldehyde [127473-57-8] (79), where the chiral properties are introduced via the chiral j -butyl group on the central methine carbon of the pentamethine (die arbo cyanine) chromophore. For a nonchiral oxadicarbocyanine, the dimeric aggregate form of the dye shows circular dichroism when trapped in y-cyclodextrin (80). Attempts to prepare polymers with carbocyanine repeat units (linked by flexible chains) gave oligomers with only two or three repeat units (81). However, these materials... 

Table 4 Substituent Environments in Azines Listed in Order of Increasing Reactivity...

Table 4 Substituent environments in azines listed in order of increasing reactivity...

Ruzo LO, Casida JE. Metabolism and toxicology of pyrethroids with dihalovinyl substituents. Environ Health Perspect 1977 21 285-292. 

Dubois and Bauer have suggested that the overall structural effect of the MCR can be divided into two effects one of which is due to the substituents ( environ-... 

Hall, L. M., Maynard, E. L. and Kier, L. B. (1989) Structure-activity relationship studies on the toxicity of benzene derivatives III. Predictions and extension to new substituents. Environ. Toxicol Chem., 8, 431-6. 

In order to obtain more insight into the local environment for the catalysed reaction, we investigated the influence of substituents on the rate of this process in micellar solution and compared this influence to the correspondirg effect in different aqueous and organic solvents. Plots of the logarithms of the rate constants versus the Hammett -value show good linear dependences for all... 

The log(k/ko) value for 4-isopropyl-2,5-dimethylthiazole is twice that expected if the curve were linear, which implies a rate constant 6.5 times smaller than expected. This result can be explained by the existence of a privileged conformation, induced by the presence of the methyl group in the 5-position and that has a lower reactivity (258). This result also leads to a limitation in the use of Tafts Eg parameter to cases where the environment of a substituent does not induce particular conformation for this latter (258). 

To investigate the triads by NMR, the resonances associated with the chain substituent are examined, since structures [XV] -[XVII] show that it is these that experience different environments in the various triads. If dyad information is sufficient, the resonances of the methylenes in the chain backbone are measured. Structures [XIII] and [XIV] show that these serve as probes of the environment in dyads. 

Reduction of Nitro Substituents. These reactions are very common in anaerobic environments and result in amine-substituted pesticides anaerobic bacteria capable of reducing nitrate to ammonia appear to be primarily responsible. All nitro-substituted pesticides appear to be susceptible to this transformation, eg, methyl parathion (7) (eq. 9), triduralin, and pendimethalin. 

Compounds in which one or more carbon atoms have four nonidentical substituents are the largest class of chiral molecules. Carbon atoms with four nonidentical ligands are referred to as asymmetric carbon atoms because the molecular environment at such a carbon atom possesses no element of symmetry. Asymmetric carbons are a specific example of a stereogenic center. A stereogenic center is any structural feature that gives rise to chirality in a molecule. 2-Butanol is an example of a chiral molecule and exists as two nonsuperimposable mirror images. Carbon-2 is a stereogenic center. 

It would therefore be deduced that the availability of the electron pair, as influenced by the ring containing the nitrogen atom, the substituents present in that ring, and the steric environment, should affect the rate of quaternization. Furthermore, the solvent for the reactants and the nature of the group R in Eq. (1) would be expected to be important factors in determining the course of the reaction. In the following sections the importance of each of these factors is considered. 

We describe the situation by saying that the receptor provides a chiral environment for the substrate. In the absence of a chiral environment, the two red substituents are chemically identical, but in the presence of the chiral environment, they are chemically distinctive (Figure 9.18a). The situation is similar to what happens when you pick up a coffee mug. By itself, the mug has a plane of symmetry and is achiral. You could, if you wanted, drink from on either side of the handle. When you pick up the mug, however, your hand provides a chiral environment so one side becomes much more accessible and easier to drink from than the other (Figure 9.18b). 

Figure 9.18 (a) When a prochiral molecule is held in a chiral environment, the two seemingly identical substituents (red) are distinguishable, (b) Similarly, when an achiral coffee mug is held in the chiral environment of your hand, it s much easier to drink from one side than the other because the two sides of the mug are now distinguishable. 

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