Hydroxyl Group Participation in Amide Hydrolysis. The Influence of Catalysts on the Partitioning of a Tetrahedral Intermediate

1967 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 917-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Cunningham ◽  
Gaston L. Schmir
Keyword(s):  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Group Participation ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Amide Hydrolysis

A comparison of the mechanisms of hydrolysis of benzimidates, esters, and amides in sulfuric acid media

2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (9) ◽  
pp. 1391-1399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A Cox
Keyword(s):  
Sulfuric Acid ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
Ester Hydrolysis ◽  
Water Molecules ◽  
Acid Media ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediate ◽  
Amide Hydrolysis ◽  
Solvent Isotope ◽  
Reaction Media ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

The mechanisms given in textbooks for both ester and amide hydrolysis in acid media are in need of revision. To illustrate this, benzimidates were chosen as model compounds for oxygen protonated benzamides. In aqueous sulfuric acid media they hydrolyze either by a mechanism involving attack of two water molecules at the carbonyl carbon to give a neutral tetrahedral intermediate directly, as in ester hydrolysis, or by an SN2 attack of two water molecules at the alkyl group of the alkoxy oxygen to form the corresponding amide, or by both mechanisms, depending on the structure of the benzimidate. The major line of evidence leading to these conclusions is the behavior of the excess acidity plots resulting from the rate constants obtained for the hydrolyses as functions of acid concentration and temperature. The first of these mechanisms is in fact very similar to one found for the hydrolysis of benzamides, as inferred from: (1) similar excess acidity plot behaviour; and (2) the observed solvent isotope effects for amide hydrolysis, which are fully consistent with the involvement of two water molecules, but not with one or with three (or more). This mechanism starts out as essentially the same one as that found for ester hydrolysis under the same conditions. Differences arise because the neutral tetrahedral intermediate, formed directly as a result of the protonated substrate being attacked by two water molecules (not one), possesses an easily protonated nitrogen in the amide and benzimidate cases, explaining both the lack of 18O exchange observed for amide hydrolysis and the irreversibility of the reaction. Protonated tetrahedral intermediates are too unstable to exist in the reaction media; in fact, protonation of an sp3 hybridized oxygen to put a full positive charge on it is extremely difficult. (This means that individual protonated alcohol or ether species are unlikely to exist in these media either.) Thus, the reaction of the intermediate going to product or exchanged reactant is a general-acid-catalyzed process for esters. For amide hydrolysis, the situation is complicated by the fact that another, different, mechanism takes over in more strongly acidic media, according to the excess acidity plots. Some possibilities for this are given.Key words: esters, amides, benzimidates, hydrolysis, excess acidity, mechanism, acid media.

Neighboring group participation in electrophilic additions: The role of Markovnikov and Fürst-Plattner rule in hypobromous acid addition to 5,6-unsaturated cholestane derivatives

1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 3618-3628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Kočovský
Keyword(s):  
Methyl Ether ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Unsaturated Alcohol ◽  
Neighboring Group ◽  
Group Participation ◽  
Acid Addition ◽  
Hypobromous Acid ◽  
Neighboring Group Participation ◽  
Electrophilic Additions

On reaction with hypobromous acid, the unsaturated alcohol IIIa yields the diequatorial bromo epoxide XIX arising from the 5α,6α-bromonium ion XVIIIa on cleavage at C(5) by 19b-hydroxyl group with 6(O)n participation. By contrast, the bromonium ion XVIIIb generated from the unsaturated methyl ether IIIb is cleaved by water as external nucleophile to yield the unstable diaxial bromohydrin XX which undergoes cyclization to the oxirane derivative XXI. A comparison with the reaction course in homologs of the type I and II permits the conclusion that the change in regioselectivity, generally possible outcome of the 5(O)n participation, is only possible for the 6(O)n process if the participating group is a hydroxyl.

ChemInform Abstract: Neighboring Hydroxyl Group Participation in Metal-Ammonia Reduction of Spirocyclic Dienones.

ChemInform ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. IWATA ◽  
M. YAMADA ◽  
Y. IDA ◽  
T. IMAO ◽  
H. MIYAGAWA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Group Participation
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