Substitution, aromatic, electrophilic groups

The reactivity of a particular electrophile determines which aromatic compounds can be successfully substituted. The electrophiles grouped in the first category are sufficiently reactive to attack almost all aromatic compounds, even those having strongly... 

Sometimes the orientation of two substituents m an aromatic compound precludes Its straightforward synthesis m Chloroethylbenzene for example has two ortho para directing groups m a meta relationship and so can t be prepared either from chloroben zene or ethylbenzene In cases such as this we couple electrophilic aromatic substitution with functional group manipulation to produce the desired compound... 

A tertiary carbonium ion is more stable than a secondary carbonium ion, which is in turn more stable than a primary carbonium ion. Therefore, the alkylation of ben2ene with isobutylene is much easier than is alkylation with ethylene. The reactivity of substituted aromatics for electrophilic substitution is affected by the inductive and resonance effects of a substituent. An electron-donating group, such as the hydroxyl and methyl groups, activates the alkylation and an electron-withdrawing group, such as chloride, deactivates it. 

Substituents which are not directly bound to the aromatic ring can also influence the course of electrophilic aromatic substitution. Several alkyl groups bearing electron-... 

Equation (1-3) is an aromatic electrophilic substitution (Se), the nitronium ion being the electrophile and the proton the leaving group (electrafuge). 

Compared with the aromatic electrophilic substitution approach, the SNAr approach general requires higher reaction temperatures. The polymers generally have well-defined structures. Therefore, it is more facile to control the structures of die products. In addition, it is more tolerable to some reactive functional groups, which makes it possible to synthesize reactive-group end-capped prepolymers and functional copolymers using functional monomers. 

In most known examples of catalyzed aromatic nucleophilic substitution (Sr I), the preliminary step aims at producing an aromatic electrophilic radical. Such electrophilicity is obtained, in general " , by substitution on the phenyl ring with a strongly electron-withdrawing substituent (E) which also activates the leaving of the other group (X) and the creation of a transient a radical. 

Chapter 11 focuses on aromatic substitution, including electrophilic aromatic substitution, reactions of diazonium ions, and palladium-catalyzed nucleophilic aromatic substitution. Chapter 12 discusses oxidation reactions and is organized on the basis of functional group transformations. Oxidants are subdivided as transition metals, oxygen and peroxides, and other oxidants. 

In conclusion, it should be mentioned that though the great majority of aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions involve displacement of hydrogen, other atoms or groups can be involved. Thus we have already seen the displacement of S03H in the reversal of sulphonation (p. 140), of alkyl in dealkylation (p. 143), and a further, less common, displacement is that of SiR3 in protodesilylation (cf. also p. 161) ... 

Ethers may be prepared by (1) dehydration of alcohols and (11) Williamson synthesis. The boiling points of ethers resemble those of alkanes while their solubility Is comparable to those of alcohols having same molecular mass. The C-O bond In ethers can be cleaved by hydrogen halides. In electrophilic substitution, the alkoxy group activates the aromatic ring and directs the Incoming group to ortho and para positions. 

Iv) Although amino group Is o- and p- directing in aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions, aniline on nitration gives a substantial amount of m-nitroanlllne. 

Table 8.1 Directing effects of substituents in electrophilic aromatic substitution Electron-releasing groups ortho and para directors...

Aromatic electrophilic substitution is used commercially to produce styrene polymers with ion-exchange properties by the incorporation of sulfonic acid or quaternary ammonium groups [Brydson, 1999 Lucas et al., 1980 Miller et al., 1963]. Crosslinked styrene-divinyl-benzene copolymers are used as the starting polymer to obtain insoluble final products, usually in the form of beads and also membranes. The use of polystyrene itself would yield soluble ion-exchange products. An anion-exchange product is obtained by chloromethylation followed by reaction with a tertiary amine (Eq. 9-38) while sulfonation yields a cation-exchange product (Eq. 9-39) ... 

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