Solvolysis kinetics and mechanism of substituted 3-acetyl-1,3-diphenyltriazenes in acid medium; Kinetic acidity function

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (9) ◽  
pp. 2212-2216
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Martin Kaska ◽  
Miroslav Ludwig ◽  
Miroslav Večeřa

The decomposition kinetics has been measured of fourteen 3-acetyl-1,3-bis(subst. phenyl)triazenes in 40% (v/v) ethanol and sulphuric acid. The kinetic acidity function and catalytic rate constants have been determined from the rate constants observed. Mechanism has been suggested for the general acid-catalyzed solvolysis from comparison of the course of the kinetic acidity function and H0 function and from the reaction constant of the Hammett equation.

2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondřej Prusek ◽  
Filip Bureš ◽  
Oldřich Pytela

α-Methylstyrene and nine ortho-substituted analogs have been synthesized and the kinetics of their acid-catalyzed hydration in aqueous solutions of sulfuric acid at 25 °C have been investigated. The kinetic acidity function HS has been constructed from the dependence of the observed rate constants kobs on the sulfuric acid concentration. The catalytic rate constants of the acid-catalyzed hydration kortho have been calculated as well. The identical shape of the kinetic acidity functions for ortho- and para-derivatives confirms what the consistent mechanism A-SE2 of the acid-catalyzed hydration has already proved for the corresponding para-derivatives. The A-SE2 mechanism involves a rate-determining proton transfer of the hydrated proton to the substrate. From the dependence of the catalytic rate constants of the ortho-derivatives on the catalytic rate constants of the para-derivatives, it is seen that the logarithm of the catalytic rate constant for hydrogen as a substituent is markedly out of the range of the other substituents and, simultaneously, that the ortho-derivatives react significantly slower than the corresponding para-derivatives. In correlation with the substitent constants σp+, a reaction constant of ρ+ = –1.45 have been found. The constant is, in absolute value, considerably smaller than that for para-derivatives (ρ+ = –3.07). In parallel, the steric effects are enforced more significantly for the monoatomic substituents (slope of the Charton’s constants 3.92) than for substituents including more atoms (slope of the Charton’s constants 2.09). A small value of the reaction constant ρ+ has been elucidated due to the lower conjugation between the reaction centre and the benzene ring as a consequence of the geometric twist of the reaction centre out of the main aromatic plane accompanied by fading mesomeric interaction between the reaction centre and the substituents attached to the benzene ring. The isopropyl group in the carbocation is twisted less out of the aromatic plane for the monoatomic substituents and, therefore, also a small difference in the bulk of substituents has considerable steric influence on the conjugation between the carbocation and the benzene ring bearing substituents. On the contrary, the isopropyl group in the carbocations with polyatomic substituents is twisted to such a degree that changes in the bulk of substituents affect the resonant stabilization negligibly. Similar conclusions were also deduced from the correlations of the substitution constants σI and σR+.


1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Stanislava Štumrová ◽  
Miroslav Ludwig ◽  
Miroslav Večeřa

Ten 3-hydroxy-1-(X-phenyl)-3-phenyltriazines have been synthesized, and kinetics of their solvolysis have been measured in 40% (v/v) ethanol and sulphuric acid. The concept of kinetic acidity function has been generalized, its construction has been suggested, and the procedure has been applied to the solvolysis of 3-hydroxy-1,3-diphenyltriazenes. The kinetic acidity function found has been confronted with the H0 acidity function. The substituent effects have been evaluated with respect to mechanism of the acid catalyzed solvolysis.


1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Ludwig ◽  
Pavla Valášková ◽  
Oldřich Pytela

Five model 1-phenyl-3,3-dialkyltriazenes (methyl, ethyl, 2-propyl, butyl, cyclohexyl) have been synthesized and their acid-catalyzed decomposition kinetics have been investigated spectrophotometrically in aqueous ethanol (40 vol.%) with pivalic acid as the catalyst. The results show that the rate-determining step is catalyzed by the proton. The decrease in the observed rate constant at higher concentrations of pivalic acid is explained by the formation of an unreactive complex of the nondissociated acid and respective triazene. The steric effect of alkyl groups on the catalytic rate constants is discussed.


1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 2468-2474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Vladimír Dlouhý

Eight 1-(2-ethoxycarbonylphenyl)-3-aryltriazenes have been synthetized and the rate constants of their sodium-methoxide-catalyzed cyclization have been measured in methanol at 25 °C. The experimental rate constants kobs have been adopted to construct the kinetic acidity function HKM which has been shown to be identical with the -log[CH3O-] values. Two mathematical procedures have been used to determine the catalytic rate constants and their dependence on the Hammett substituent constants. A closer dependence is obtained with the σ values than with the σp- values. The ρ value found (0.3) indicates a compensation of the substituent effects upon the dissociation of the starting triazene and upon the subsequent reaction of the conjugated base. Out of the two mechanistic alternatives - E1cB and BAc2 - the latter appears to be more probable, the splitting of tetrahedral intermediate being its limiting step.


2007 ◽  
Vol 72 (8) ◽  
pp. 1025-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Bronislav Trlida

Twelve para-substituted α-methylstyrenes with substituents H, CH3, CF3, CH3O, CH3S, F, Cl, Br, CH3CO, CH3SO2, CN a NO2 were synthesised; additionally, the acid catalysed hydration kinetics of these compounds were measured in sulfuric acid in a concentration range c from 0.017 to 9.58 mol l-1, at 25.0 °C. The observed rate constants obtained were used to construct the kinetic acidity function and calculate the catalytic rate constants. Based on the evaluation of the acidity function kinetic dependence on acid medium concentration, and the substituent effects of acid catalysed hydration of α-methylstyrenes on the catalytic rate constants, the mechanism of acid catalysed hydration was verified. The mechanism involves the addition of a proton to the double bond of α-methylstyrene in the rate-limiting reaction step denoted as A-SE2. No evident difference was found between the effects of the acid medium on the acid catalysed hydration of styrenes and α-methylstyrenes, which indicates very similar activity coefficients of the reactants, and of the transition state of both substrates. The substituent effects evaluation shows that the rate-limiting step of the reaction consists in the addition of a proton to the substrate. The carbocation formation in the transition state of this reaction step proceeds roughly half-way compared with the extent of the carbocation formation by cumyl chloride hydrolysis. The obtained carbocation is in particular stabilised by the substituents with +M effect, while the influence of the substituents with -M and I effects is significantly smaller.


1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 1060-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Holeček ◽  
Karel Handlíř ◽  
Jiří Klikorka

Oxidation of acetylferrocene and 1,1'-diacetylferrocene with cerium(IV) sulphate has been studied in aqueous sulphuric acid solutions having the overall acidity H0 = +1 to -2. The first step in oxidation of the both ferrocene derivatives consists in a fast one-electron oxidation giving the corresponding unstable ferricenium cations. Their disappearance from the solution is connected with destruction of the sandwich molecule and further redox reactions. Complete destruction of acetylferrocene necessitates two equivalents of the oxidizing agent, the same reaction of 1,1'-diacetylferrocene proceeds by action of three equivalents of the oxidizing agent. On the basis of detailed kinetic measurements mechanism of the oxidation and destruction of the both derivatives has been suggested, and rate constants of decomposition of the sandwich molecules have been determined.


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