摘要:
Kinetic studies of the reactions of p-nitrophenyl N-phenylcarbamates with benzylamines were carried out in acetonitrile at 25.0 degrees C. Second-order (k(2)) and third-order (k(3)) rate constants were observed for all the Y-substituted carbamates except for Y=m-Cl. The relatively large magnitude of rho(X) (for X-substituted benzylamines) and rho(Y) together with a positive cross-interaction constant rho(XY) supports a stepwise mechanism involving rate-limiting breakdown of the zwitterionic tetrahedral intermediate T+/-. Kinetic isotope effect studies with deuterated benzylamine (XC6H4CH2ND2) indicate that in the base-catalyzed path, k(3), rate-limiting deprotonation occurs at the amino group of benzylamine within the T+/- intermediate. The low Delta H-not equal and Delta S-not equal values for the k(3) process are in accord with the proposed mechanism. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.