Substitution, electrophilic solvent effects

Diels-Alder reactions, 4, 842 flash vapour phase pyrolysis, 4, 846 reactions with 6-dimethylaminofuKenov, 4, 844 reactions with JV,n-diphenylnitrone, 4, 841 reactions with mesitonitrile oxide, 4, 841 structure, 4, 715, 725 synthesis, 4, 725, 767-769, 930 theoretical methods, 4, 3 tricarbonyl iron complexes, 4, 847 dipole moments, 4, 716 n-directing effect, 4, 44 2,5-disubstituted synthesis, 4, 116-117 from l,3-dithiolylium-4-olates, 6, 826 electrocyclization, 4, 748-750 electron bombardment, 4, 739 electronic deformation, 4, 722-723 electronic structure, 4, 715 electrophilic substitution, 4, 43, 44, 717-719, 751 directing effects, 4, 752-753 fluorescence spectra, 4, 735-736 fluorinated derivatives, 4, 679 H NMR, 4, 731 Friedel-Crafts acylation, 4, 777 with fused six-membered heterocyclic rings, 4, 973-1036 fused small rings structure, 4, 720-721 gas phase UV spectrum, 4, 734 H NMR, 4, 7, 728-731, 939 solvent effects, 4, 730 substituent constants, 4, 731 halo... 

The wide variation in the entropy factors for both the substituted phenyl and heterocyclic compounds and in particular for the methoxyphenyl and furan derivatives was considered to be strong evidence for solvent effects being predominant in determining the activation entropy. Consequently, discussion of the substituent effects in terms of electronic factors alone requires caution in this reaction. Caution is also needed since rates for the substituted phenyl compounds were only determined over a 20 °C range. The significance of entropy factors has also been indicated by the poor correlation of the data of the electrophilic reactivities of the heterocyclic compounds, as derived from protodemercuration, with the data for other electrophilic substitutions and related reactions572. 

In fact, the analogy between the mechanisms of heterolytic nucleophilic substitutions and electrophilic bromine additions, shown by the similarity of kinetic substituent and solvent effects (Ruasse and Motallebi, 1991), tends to support Brown s conclusion. If cationic intermediates are formed reversibly in solvolysis, analogous bromocations obtained from bromine and an ethylenic compound could also be formed reversibly. Nevertheless, return is a priori less favourable in bromination than in solvolysis because of the charge distribution in the bromocations. Return in bromination implies that the counter-ion, a bromide ion in protic solvents, attacks the bromine atom of the bromonium ion rather than a carbon atom (see [27]). Now, it is known (Galland et al, 1990) that the charge on this bromine atom is very small in bridged intermediates and obviously nil in /f-bromocarbocations [28]. 

Salt effects and co-solvent effects in electrophilic substitution at saturated carbon... 

Satterthwait recently has found that the electrophilic substitution is sensitive to solvent effects. When the reaction withN-methylaniline is carried out in the absence of solvent, the product consists of about... 

An analysis of these results in terms of solvent effects leads to the observation of similarities with Ritchie s work on the N+ relation. Thus the constant selectivities obtained in the solvolysis reactions of certain methyl derivatives (Table 9) may indicate the existence of a basic similarity between the rate-determining process in these reaction and in the electrophile-nucleophile combination reactions correlated by the IV+ relation. The failure of the methyl halides to conform to this pattern might suggest that their substitution reactions are fundamentally different, and that the free energy of activation is dependent on factors other than desolvation. 

Many reactions become possible only in such superbasic solutions, while others can be carried out under much milder conditions. Only some examples of preparative interest (which depend on the ionization of a C—H or N—H bond) will be mentioned here. The subsequent reaction of the resulting carbanion may involve electrophilic substitution, isomerization, elimination, or condensation [321, 322]. Systematic studies of solvent effects on intrinsic rate constants of proton-transfer reactions between carbon acids and carboxylate ions as well as amines as bases in various dimethyl sulfoxide/ water mixtures have been carried out by Bernasconi et al. [769]. 

Recent observations bearing on reactivity have usually been scattered and of uneven quality. We can add very few kinetic data on additions (equation 1) to those of a previous review on the other hand, kinetic data for substitutions (equation 2) are available. Studies of substituent, steric and solvent effects, which influence nucleo-philicity and electrophilicity orders as well as stereoselectivity, are limited and usually qualitative. For these reasons, we shall treat some of the large issues in this section and pick others up later in the context of specific nucleophiles. 

We cannot, then, expect this approach to understanding chemical reactivity to explain everything. We should bear in mind its limitations, particularly when dealing with subjects like ortho/para ratios in aromatic electrophilic substitution, where steric effects are well known to be important. Likewise solvent effects (which usually make themselves felt in the entropy of activation term) are also well known to be part of the explanation of the principal of hard and soft acids and bases. Some mention of all these factors will be made again in the course of this book. Arguments based on the interaction of frontier orbitals are powerful, as we shall see, but they must not be taken so far that we forget these very important limitations. 

By far the most evidence for electrophilic sulphur is found in the sulphenyl halides (RSCl, RSBr) Although these compounds may in theory react either as sources of RS or X (X = halogen), none of the observed reactions of the sulphenyl halides indicate the latter mode of heterolysis. Kharasch et have presented good evidence for the existence of the 2,4-dinitrobenzene-sulphenium ion (Ar ) in strongly acidic media evidence has also been presented of a strong solvent effect upon the rate of reaction of 2,4-dinitroben-zenesulphenyl chloride and cyclohexene - and of a definite substituent effect in the reaction of this sulphenyl chloride with some substituted styrenes in acetic acid . Such observations are entirely consistent with an electrophilic heterolytic ad tion mechanism involving attack by the sulphenyl chloride in the sense iC -Cl. 

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