Methyl Anion Affinities of the Canonical Organic Functional Groups

Autor: Dora Kadish, Pierre Baldi, David L. Van Vranken, Mohammadamin Tavakoli, Eugene S. Gutman, Aaron Mood
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 85:4096-4102
ISSN: 1520-6904
0022-3263
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b03187
Popis: Calculated methyl anion affinities are known to correlate with experimentally determined Mayr E parameters for individual organic functional group classes but not between neutral and cationic organic electrophiles. We demonstrate that methyl anion affinities calculated with a solvation model (MAA*) give a linear correlation with Mayr E parameters for a broad range of functional groups. Methyl anion affinities (MAA*), plotted on the log scale of Mayr E, provide insights into the full range of electrophilicity of organic functional groups. On the Mayr E scale, the electrophilicity toward the methyl anion spans 180 orders of magnitude.
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