Substitution hypothesis

Investigation of the kinetics of the reaction of 4-chloro-2-pentene, an allylic chloride model for the unstable moiety of polyfvinyl chloride), with several thermal stabilizers for the polymer has led to a better understanding of the stabilization mechanism. One general feature of the mechanism is complexing of the labile chlorine atom by the metal atom of the stabilizer. A second general feature is substitution of the complexed chlorine atom by a ligand (either carboxylate or mercaptide) bound to the metal. Stabilization requires that the new allylic substituent (ester or sulfide) be more thermally stable than the allylic chlorine. The isolation of products from stabilizer-model compound reactions supports the substitution hypothesis of poly(vinyl chloride) stabilization. 

The data in Table II demonstrate that the effectiveness for poly (vinyl chloride) stabilization of dibutyltin salts of maleic acid or monoesters of maleic acid is caused by a high rate of reaction with allylic chloride moieties. Thus, it is not necessary to postulate, as has been done several times in the literature, that these compounds are effective because they are dieneophiles and therefore capable of disrupting the long chains of unsaturation responsible for color formation. It is gratifying that the performance of the maleate stabilizers is consistent with the Frye-Horst substitution hypothesis. 

The water substitute concept states that the stabilizer replaces the water and forms hydrogen bonds with the protein, like water also does. These bonds maintain the native protein conformation and, in this way, stabilize the protein. The water substitution hypothesis has been confirmed either by spectroscopy studies (FTIR), or by experimental observations that have shown that the most efficient stabilizers are sugars which form strong hydrogen bonds with the protein. Indeed, freeze-dried systems with loss of activity present notably altered IR spectra. 

One hypothesis says that fluorine can be substituted for hydrogen wherever it occurs in organic compounds, which could lead to an astronomical number of new fluorine compounds. Compounds of fluorine with rare gases have now been confirmed in fluorides of xenon, radon, and krypton. 

Mutagenicity. The AJ-nitrosamines, in general, induce mutations in standard bacterial-tester strains (117). As with carcinogenicity, enzymatic activation, typically with Hver microsomal preparations, is required. Certain substituted A/-nitrosamine derivatives (12) induce mutations without microsomal activation (31,33,34). Because the a-acetoxy derivatives can hydroly2e to the corresponding a-hydroxy compounds, this is consistent with the hypothesis that enzymatic oxidation leads to the formation of such unstable a-hydroxy intermediates (13) (118). However, for simple /V-nitrosamines, no systematic relationship has been found between carcinogenicity and mutagenicity (117,119—123). 

The real world of Sn reactions is not quite as simple as the discussion has so far suggested. The preceding treatment in terms of two clearly distinct mechanisms, SnI and Sn2, implies that all substitution reactions will follow one or the other of these mechanisms. This is an oversimplification. The strength of the dual mechanism hypothesis and its limitations are revealed by these relative rates of solvolysis of alkyl bromides in 80% ethanol methyl bromide, 2.51 ethyl bromide, 1.00 isopropyl bromide, 1.70 /er/-butyl bromide, 8600. Addition of lyate ions increases the rate for the methyl, ethyl, and isopropyl bromides, whereas the tert-butyl bromide solvolysis rate is unchanged. The reaction with lyate ions is overall second-order for methyl and ethyl, first-order for tert-butyl, and first- or second-order for the isopropyl member, depending upon the concentrations. Similar results are found in other solvents. These data show that the methyl and ethyl bromides solvolyze by the Sn2 mechanism, and tert-butyl bromide by the SnI mech-... 

One of the merits of the above treatment, which justifies its inclusion in this review, is that it allows a quantitative comparison of the selectivity of nucleophilic heteroaromatic substitution (expressed by the reaction constant) with that for the analogous reaction with nitro-activated systems. Values for the latter are in the range 3.6 to 6.0. The fact that in both cases high p-values of similar magnitude are found is consistent with the hypothesis of similar mechanisms for both classes of compounds. 

Available information on the mechanism of cyclocondensation is rather contradictory. According to one hypothesis, both the condensation of aryl halides with copper acetylides and the cyclization occur in the same copper complex (63JOC2163 63JOC3313). An alternative two-stage reaction route has also been considered condensation followed by cyclization (66JOC4071 69JA6464). However, there is no clear evidence for this assumption in the literature and information on the reaction of acetylenyl-substituted acids in conditions of acetylide synthesis is absent. 

When we proposed the possibility of nucleophilic substitution reactions on indole nitrogen in our hypothesis, we were taken to be eccentric. Fortunately, we have been able to demonstrate examples that seem to accord with the prediction. 

Much earlier information on the structure of diazonium ions than that derived from X-ray analyses (but still useful today) was obtained by infrared spectroscopy. The pioneers in the application of this technique to diazonium and diazo compounds were Le Fevre and his school, who provided the first IR evidence for the triple bonds by identifying the characteristic stretching vibration band at 2260 cm-1 (Aroney et al., 1955 see also Whetsel et al., 1956). Its frequency lies between the Raman frequency of dinitrogen (2330 cm-1, Schrotter, 1970) and the stretching vibration frequency of the C = N group in benzonitrile (2255 cm-1, Aroney et al., 1955). In substituted benzenediazonium salts the frequency of the NN stretching vibration follows Hammett op relationships. Electron donor substituents reduce the frequency, whereas acceptor substituents increase it. The 4-dimethylamino group, for example, shifts it by 103 cm-1 to 2177 cm-1 (Nuttall et al., 1961). This result supports the hypothesis that... 

Since diazoates can be considered to be derived from oximes by substitution of nitrogen for the methine group, Hantzsch (1894) put forward the hypothesis that configurational isomerism was also occurring here. He therefore represented the isomeric diazoates by the structures 7.1 and 7.2, assigning the syn structure (7.1) to the labile diazoate and the anti (7.2) to the stable isomer. Nowadays the description recommended by IUPAC (1979) for such configurational isomers, namely (Z) instead of syn and (E) instead of anti, should be used. 

First we will discuss reaction systems of the types shown here in which adducts were detected analytically and characterized as 7T-complexes. The idea of 7T-com-plexes as intermediates on the path to products of an electrophilic aromatic substitution was originally suggested by Dewar (1949). He did not, however, follow his hypothesis further. It was taken up again by Olah, particularly in relation to nitration (reviews Olah, 1971 Olah et al., 1987, 1989). 

As discussed by Zollinger, 1995 (Sec. 7.5) this hypothesis of a detour around intermediates of very low stability is also useful for the differentiation of classical and nonclassical ion intermediates in nucleophilic substitutions of 2-norbornyl and related compounds. 

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