Substitution reactions elimination-addition mechanism

The generally accepted mechanism for nucleophilic aromatic substitution m nitro substituted aryl halides illustrated for the reaction of p fluoromtrobenzene with sodium methoxide is outlined m Figure 23 3 It is a two step addition-elimination mechanism, m which addition of the nucleophile to the aryl halide is followed by elimination of the halide leaving group Figure 23 4 shows the structure of the key intermediate The mech anism is consistent with the following experimental observations... 

The product of this reaction as its sodium salt is called a Meisenheimer complex after the Ger man chemist Jacob Meisenheimer who reported on their formation and reactions in 1902 A Meisenheimer complex corresponds to the product of the nucleophilic addition stage in the addition-elimination mechanism for nucleophilic aromatic substitution... 

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution (Chapter 23) A reaction m which a nucleophile replaces a leaving group as a sub stituent on an aromatic nng Substitution may proceed by an addition-elimination mechanism or an elimination-addition mechanism... 

Kinetic studies have shown that the enolate and phosphorus nucleophiles all react at about the same rate. This suggests that the only step directly involving the nucleophile (step 2 of the propagation sequence) occurs at essentially the diffusion-controlled rate so that there is little selectivity among the individual nucleophiles. The synthetic potential of the reaction lies in the fact that other substituents which activate the halide to substitution are not required in this reaction, in contrast to aromatic nucleophilic substitution which proceeds by an addition-elimination mechanism (see Seetion 10.5). 

A fluormated enol ether formed by the reaction of sodium ethoxide with chlorotnfluoroethylene is much less reactive than the starting fluoroolefin To replace the second fluorine atom, it is necessary to reflux the reaction mixture. The nucleophilic substitution proceeds by the addition-elimination mechanism [30] (equation 26). 

The reaction of benzenesulfonic acid with sodium hydroxide (first entry in Table 24.3) proceeds by the addition-elimination mechanism of nucleophilic aromatic substitution (Section 23.6). Hydroxide replaces sulfite ion (S03 ) at the carbon atom that bear s the leaving group. Thus, p-toluenesulfonic acid is converted exclusively to p-cresol by an analogous reaction ... 

Since chlorine is always in more than a hundred-fold excess compared to bromine the reaction is occurring by pseudo monomolecular kinetics. The reaction occurs via nucleophilic aromatic substitution by an addition-elimination mechanism, the so-called SjsfAr mechanism (ref. 24). 

The difference in reactivity is not as much as is generally observed in nucleophilic aromatic substitution in solution by an addition-elimination mechanism (ref. 25). Substituents with electron withdrawing capabilities enhance the rate of the reaction therefore decabromobiphenyl ether reacts nearly 2 times faster than 1,2,3,4-tetrabromodibenzodioxin. 

Some of the reactions in this chapter operate by still other mechanisms, among them an addition-elimination mechanism (see 13-15). A new mechanism has been reported in aromatic chemistry, a reductively activated polar nucleophilic aromatic substitution. The reaction of phenoxide with p-dinitrobenzene in DMF shows radical features that cannot be attributed to a radical anion, and it is not Srn2. The new designation was proposed to account for these results. 

Although the high reactivity of metal-chalcogen double bonds of isolated heavy ketones is somewhat suppressed by the steric protecting groups, Tbt-substituted heavy ketones allow the examination of their intermolecular reactions with relatively small substrates. The most important feature in the reactivity of a carbonyl functionality is reversibility in reactions across its carbon-oxygen double bond (addition-elimination mechanism via a tetracoordinate intermediate) as is observed, for example, in reactions with water and alcohols. The energetic basis... 

It seems that no general mechanistic description fits all these experiments. Some of the reactions proceed via an addition-elimination mechanism, while in others the primary step is electron transfer from the arene with formation of a radical cation. This second mechanism is then very similar to the electrochemical anodic substitution/addition sequence. 

An access to iV-substituted 4,6-dioxo-imidazo[3,4-c]thiazoles 185 was developed considering first the reaction of 2-chloroethylisocyanate with methyl thiazolidine 4-carboxylate 183 that generated the ureide 184. Cyclization of the imidazole ring occurred in acidic medium via an addition-elimination mechanism and delivered the imidazothiazole 185 (Equation 81) <2001MI1117>. 

The addition-elimination mechanism also provides a reasonable explanation for nucleophilic substitution reactions at sulfur that occur with retention of configuration. It is assumed that nucleophilic attack occurs at sulfur in an apical position opposite a substituent... 

Finally, although sulfurane intermediates have been proposed in many cases, they have not been isolated from nucleophilic substitution reactions. However, the concept of an addition-elimination mechanism is supported by the independent syntheses of a number of stable sulfuranes these compounds have a trigonal-bipyramidal structure and in some cases the ligand reorganization was found to occur very easily (189-191). 

Several other observations suggest that nucleophilic carbene complexes, similarly to, e.g., sulfur ylides, can cyclopropanate acceptor-substituted olefins by an addition-elimination mechanism. If, e.g., acceptor-substituted olefins are added to a mixture of a simple alkene and the metathesis catalyst PhWCl3/AlCl3, the metathesis reaction is quenched and small amounts of acceptor-substituted cyclopropanes can be isolated [34]. 

The leaving group dependence of activation parameters found for reaction of 2-( 3, 3-dihalovinyl)-5-nitrothiophenes with NaOMe in MeOH isS negative for Cl, zero for Br, and positive for I) suggest that the substitution reaction proceeds via an addition-elimination mechanism, with formation of an intermediate haloalkyne, for the bromide and iodide. ... 

The addition-elimination mechanism is also very common in the monocyclic oxygen and sulfur heterocycles (e.g. equation 20), a fact frequently cited as evidence for their low aromaticity. Pyran-2-ones can react with electrophiles at the 3- and 5-positions and pyran-4-ones at the 3-position (they also react at the carbonyl oxygen atom, but this is classified as a substituent reaction). Moreover, while the position of substitution can often be predicted on the basis of charge distribution and substituent effects, the choice of experimental conditions can also profoundly affect the outcome of the reaction, as illustrated in Schemes 2 and 3. 

Nucleophilic substitution at a vinylic carbon218 is difficult (see p. 341), but many examples are known. The most common mechanisms are the tetrahedral mechanism and the closely related addition-elimination mechanism. Both of these mechanisms are impossible at a saturated substrate. The addition-elimination mechanism has been demonstrated for the reaction between 1,1-dichloroethene (72) and ArS", catalyzed by EtO".2l9The product was... 

It is well known that not all attempts to explain the reactivity of individual positions in electrophilic substitution reactions have been successful. There are three main lines along which attempts have been made to remove discrepancies between theory and experiment (for a summary, see ref. 147) (1) introduction into the HMO treatment of additional empirical parameters (inductive effect), (2) invoking the addition-elimination mechanism, and (3) invoking different reactivity of the protonated and unprotonated forms. 

Reactions of powerful alkyllithiums with halo pyridines, quinolines, and diazines may lead to nucleophilic substitution (by addition-elimination or hetaryne mechanisms), ring opening, halogen-scrambling, and coupling reactions, which compete with the desired DoM process. 

Intramolecular nucleophilic substitution by the anions of o-haloanilides is another viable oxindole synthesis. This is a special example of the category Ic process described in Section 3.06.2.3. The reaction is photo-stimulated and the mechanism is believed to be of the electron-transfer type SRN1 rather than a classical addition-elimination mechanism. The reaction is effective when R = H if 2 equivalents of the base are used to generate the dianion (equation 202) (80JA3646). 

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