Modification of Both the Electrophilic Center and Substituents on the Nonleaving Group in Pyridinolysis of <i>O</i>-4-Nitrophenyl Benzoate and Thionobenzoates
作者:Ik-Hwan Um、So-Jeong Hwang、Mi-Hwa Baek、Eun Ji Park
DOI:10.1021/jo061682x
日期:2006.11.1
[GRAPHICS]A kinetic study is reported for reactions of 4-nitrophenyl benzoate (1c) and O-4-nitrophenyl X-substituted thionobenzoates (2a-e) with a series of pyridines in 80 mol % H2O/20 mol % dimethyl sulfoxide ( DMSO) at 25.0 +/- 0.1 degrees C. O-4-Nitrophenyl thionobenzoate (2c) is more reactive than its oxygen analogue 1c toward all the pyridines studied. The Bronsted-type plot is linear with beta(nuc) = 1.06 for reactions of 1c but curved for the corresponding reactions of 2c with beta(nuc) decreasing from 1.38 to 0.38 as the pyridine basicity increases, indicating that the reaction mechanism is also influenced on changing the electrophilic center from C=O to C=S. The curvature center of the curved Bronsted-type plots (defined as pK(a)(o)) occurs at pK(a) = 9.3 regardless of the electronic nature of the substituent X in the nonleaving group. The Hammett plot for reactions of 2a-e with 4-aminopyridine is nonlinear, i.e., the substrates having an electron-donating substituent exhibit negative deviations from the Hammett plot. However, the Yukawa-Tsuno plot for the same reactions exhibits good linear correlation, indicating that the negative deviations shown by these substrates arise from stabilization of the ground state through resonance interaction between the electron-donating substituent X and the C=S bond.
Nonlinear Broensted-type plot in the pyridinolysis of 2,4-dinitrophenyl benzoate in aqueous ethanol