Kinetics of Dialkylaminium Cation Radical Reactions: Radical Clocks, Solvent Effects, Acidity Constants, and Rate Constants for Reactions with Hydrogen Atom Donors
作者:John H. Horner、Felix N. Martinez、Osama M. Musa、Martin Newcomb、Haifa E. Shahin
DOI:10.1021/ja00150a012
日期:1995.11
Dialkylaminium cation radical kinetics were studied directly by laser flash photolysis methods. Irradiation of N-hydroxypyridine-2-thione carbamates with 355-nm light gave dialkylaminyl radicals that were protonated to produce dialkylaminium cation radicals. Fragmentation of the N-ethyl-2,2-diphenylethylaminium cation radical (2A) and cyclizations of the N-methyl-5,5-diphenyl-4-pentenaminium cation radical (6A) and the N-methyl-6,6-diphenyl-5-hexenaminium cation radical (9A) were studied. In organic solvents, these reactions are several orders of magnitude faster than analogous reactions of their neutral dialkylaminyl radical precursors and faster than reactions of isostructural carbon radical analogs. In acetonitrile and in THF with carboxylic acids as proton sources, reactions of 2A and 9A displayed saturation kinetics from which rate constants for reaction and apparent equilibrium constants for protonation could be determined by regression analysis of observed rate constants as a function of acid normality. In ethanol with perchloric acid, 9A was completely protonated. In aqueous solutions, the observed kinetics for reactions of 2A and 9A were dependent on the pH of the solutions which permitted determinations of both the rate constants for the reactions and the pK(a) values for the dialkylaminium cation radicals. Large kinetic solvent effects and a counterion effect when oxalic acid was the proton source in acetonitrile were observed. Arrhenius functions for 2A in acetonitrile and in THF and for 9A in acetonitrile, THF, and ethanol were determined. A rate constant for the 5-exo cyclization of 6A in acetonitrile at 20 degrees C was estimated by comparing the apparent second-order rate constants for reactions of the aminyl radical precursors to 6A and 9A with various carboxylic acids; with strong carboxylic acids, rate limiting protonation for the precursor to 6A apparently occurred. Second-order rate constants at ambient temperature for reactions of octanethiol and triphenylstannane with radical 2A were determined directly, and that for reaction of thiophenol with radical 9A was determined by indirect methods; the stannane, with an electron rich hydrogen, reacts much more rapidly with the aminium cation radical than with carbon radicals, whereas the thiols react less rapidly.