Reexamination of the Mechanisms of Decomposition of Simple .alpha.-Acetoxynitrosamines in the Physiological pH Range
作者:Cynthia Revis、Markku Rajamaki、James C. Fishbein
DOI:10.1021/jo00129a011
日期:1995.12
Rate constants, k(0), for the buffer independent decay of eight alpha-(acyloxy)nitrosamines were determined in aqueous media, 25 degrees C, ionic strength 1 M (NaClO4), 1% (v/v) in acetonitrile in the pH range 2-13. The pH-rate profile of log k(0) against pH, from pH 2 to 13, indicates a rate law that includes two terms: k(1), a pH independent term, and k(OH), a hydroxide ion dependent term. Values of the entropy of activation for the pH independent reactions of 1-(N-nitrosoethylamino)ethyl acetate (3), (N-nitrosomethylamino)methyl acetate (1), and (N-nitrosobutylamino)methyl acetate (9) are determined to be Delta S-double dagger = 0.7 (+/-1.5), 3 (+/-3), and -5 (+/-3) cal deg(-1) mol(-1), respectively. (N-Nitrosobutylamino)methyl benzoate (11) and (N-nitrosobutylamino)methyl pivaloate (12) decompose with pH independent rate constants that are larger than that of the corresponding acetate 9 by factors of 2.3 and 3.4, respectively. The value of rho(*) for allkyl substituents attached to nitrogen; not containing the acetoxy group, is rho(*) = -5.99 for four methyl acetates. It is concluded that the pH independent decomposition involves the formation of N-nitrosiminium ion intermediates. The greater reactivity of the benzoate and pivaloate, compared to the acetate, in the case of (N-nitrosobutylamino)methyl esters, combined with the product analysis previously reported for the reaction of the ethyl acetates indicates no measurable anchimeric assistance in the decay of the Z forms of the alpha-(acyloxy)nitrosamines studied in the present report. The value of rho(*) for the pH independent decay of the ethyl acetates is rho(*) = -1.50. The smaller value, in comparison to that for the methyl acetates, is ascribed either to a change in transition structure or to a difference, between methyl and ethyl acetates, in the nature of the rate-limiting step of the reactions. The rate constants, k(OH), for the hydroxide ion-catalyzed decay of (N-nitrosobutylamino)methyl benzoate (11) and (N-nitrosobutylamino)methyl pivaloate (12) are smaller than that for the corresponding acetate 9 by factors of 7 and 16, respectively. This observation is consistent with the deduction of others that the mechanism of this reaction involves a rate-limiting reaction at the carbonyl group.