摘要:
The kinetic isotope effects in deuterium and tritium exchange in benzene, fluorobenzene, pyridine, pyridine N-oxide, and quinoline with a solution of an alkali metal amide in liquid ammonia k(D)(NH3)/k(T)(NH3) were determined, where k(D)(NH3) and k(T)(NH3) are the experimental rate constants of protodedeuteration and protodetritiation, respectively. The variation of the tritium exchange rates in benzene in going from NH3 to ND3 (k(T)(NH3) and k(T)(ND3)) was evaluated. The deviation of the observed ratios k(D)(NH3)/k(T)(NH3) and k(H)(ND3)/k(T)(ND3) from the maximum possible values corresponding to the Swan-Shaad equation suggests the reaction mechanism in which both elementary stages, ionization of the CH acid and diffusion separation of the complex of the carbanion with the ammonia molecule, are partially limiting. A small decrease in the secondary isotope effect of the solvent, defined as k(T)(ND3)/k(T)(NH3) as compared to the theoretical maximum of 2.4, is assumed to be due to similar structures of the transition state and the equilibrium carbanion. A theoretical explanation was given for the observed dependences of the primary isotope effect of the substrate on pK(a) for deutero (tritio) derivatives of fluorobenzene [4D(t) < 3D(t) < 2D(t)], for reactions in the series pyridine-2D(t) < pyridine-3D(t) < quinoline3D(t), and for hydrogen exchange in pyridine-2D(t) N-oxide (k(D)(NH3)/k(T)(NH3) similar to 1).