STUDIES ON THE MECHANISM OF OXIME AND SEMICARBAZONE FORMATION
STUDIES ON THE MECHANISM OF OXIME AND SEMICARBAZONE FORMATION
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01511a053
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发表时间:
1959-01-01
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15
通讯作者:
JENCKS, WP
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作者:
JENCKS, WP
At neutral pH hydroxylamine and semicarbazide react rapidly with a number of aldehydes and ketones to form addition compounds which lack the ultraviolet and infrared absorption of the original carbonyl compound. These addition com-pounds undergo a slow, acid-catalyzeddehydration to form oxime or semicarbazone. The decrease in the rate of oxime formation at acid pH appears to be due to a transition to a rate-limiting attack of free nitrogen base on the carbonyl com-pound and is not dependent on general acid catalysis. Dehydration of the addition complex, addition of water to the oxime or semicarbazone and addition of semicarbazide to the carbonyl group are subject to both specific and general acid catalysis, while the addition of the stronger base, hydroxylamine, to the carbonyl group is specific acid-catalyzed to only a small extent.The classical experiments of Barrett and Lapworth, 2 Olander, 3 Conant and Bartlett, 4 and West-heimer5 demonstrated that the reactions of car-bonyl compounds with such nitrogen bases as hydroxylamine and semicarbazide exhibit striking maxima in their pH-rate profiles. These pH op-tima have been attributed to the opposing effects of general acid catalysis and the decrease in the con-