Why Are Vinyl Cations Sluggish Electrophiles?
| Autor: | Shinjiro Kobayashi, Peter A. Byrne, Ernst-Ulrich Würthwein, Herbert Mayr, Johannes Ammer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Vinyl cations
Nucleophilicity Halide Alcohol 010402 general chemistry Photochemistry 01 natural sciences Biochemistry Medicinal chemistry Catalysis Reaction rate chemistry.chemical_compound Colloid and Surface Chemistry Nucleophile Reactivity (chemistry) Solvolysis Electrophilicity 010405 organic chemistry General Chemistry 0104 chemical sciences chemistry Electrophile Flash photolysis Marcus theory Intrinsic barrier |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(4) |
| ISSN: | 1520-5126 |
| Popis: | The kinetics of the reactions of the vinyl cations 2 [Ph2C═C+–(4-MeO–C6H4)] and 3 [Me2C═C+–(4-MeO–C6H4)] (generated by laser flash photolysis) with diverse nucleophiles (e.g., pyrroles, halide ions, and solvents containing variable amounts of water or alcohol) have been determined photometrically. It was found that the reactivity order of the nucleophiles toward these vinyl cations is the same as that toward diarylcarbenium ions (benzhydrylium ions). However, the reaction rates of vinyl cations are affected only half as much by variation of the nucleophiles as those of the benzhydrylium ions. For that reason, the relative reactivities of vinyl cations and benzhydrylium ions depend strongly on the nature of the nucleophiles. It is shown that vinyl cations 2 and 3 react, respectively, 227 and 14 times more slowly with trifluoroethanol than the parent benzhydrylium ion (Ph)2CH+, even though in solvolysis reactions (80% aqueous ethanol at 25 °C) the vinyl bromides leading to 2 and 3 ionize much more slowly (half-lives 1.15 yrs and 33 days) than (Ph)2CH-Br (half-life 23 s). The origin of this counterintuitive phenomenon was investigated by high-level MO calculations. We report that vinyl cations are not exceptionally high energy intermediates, and that high intrinsic barriers for the sp2 ⇌ sp rehybridizations account for the general phenomenon that vinyl cations are formed slowly by solvolytic cleavage of vinyl derivatives, and are also consumed slowly by reactions with nucleophiles. |
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