GENERAL BASE CATALYSIS OF ESTER HYDROLYSIS
GENERAL BASE CATALYSIS OF ESTER HYDROLYSIS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01468a044
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发表时间:
1961-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
CARRIUOLO, J
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作者:
JENCKS, WP;CARRIUOLO, J
The hydrolysis of esters activated in the acyl portion, including the ethyl chloroacetates, ethyl difluoroacetate, ethyl oxamide and glycine ethyl ester hydrochloride, is catalyzed by general bases. This catalysis follows the Bronsted catalysis law with a slope of 0.47, for ethyl dichloroacetate, is decreased two-to threefold in deuterium oxide solution, is not a function of the nucleophilic reactivity of the catalyzing base and, in the case of aniline, does not result in acylation of the catalyzing base. In contrast to esters activated in the alcohol portion, which are subject to nucleophilic catalysis by bases, it therefore appears that esters activatedin the acyl portion are subject to classicalgeneral base-catalyzed hydrolysis. The rate of neutral,“uncatalyzed” hydrolysis is also two-to threefold decreased in deuterium oxide solution and water falls on the same Bronsted plot as other general bases, suggesting that the neutral hydrolysis of these esters involves water as a proton transferring agent as well as a nucleophilic reagent.It has not been clear whether ester hydrolysis is subject to classical general acid-base catalysis. Early studies, particularly those of Dawson and co-workers, suggested the existence of such catalysis in ethyl acetate hydrolysis2-4 and Hinshelwood re-ported general acid catalysis of the esterification of a variety of acids in alcohol solution. 6 It has been difficult, however, to differentiate this type of catalysis from salt effects6 and in at least one case,