NONLINEAR STRUCTURE-REACTIVITY CORRELATIONS - ACYL TRANSFER BETWEEN SULFUR AND OXYGEN NUCLEOPHILES
NONLINEAR STRUCTURE-REACTIVITY CORRELATIONS - ACYL TRANSFER BETWEEN SULFUR AND OXYGEN NUCLEOPHILES
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00444a023
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
JENCKS, WP
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作者:
HUPE, DJ;JENCKS, WP
The Br^ nsted-type correlation with thiol basicity of log Kcq for the transfer of acetyl groups to a series of thiol anions has a slope,/? cq, of 1.38, which is larger than that for the addition of a proton, but smaller than the value of deq= 1.6±0.1 for the transferof acetyl groups to oxyanions or nitrogen. Rate constants for acyl transfer from p-nitrothiophenyl acetate to thiol anions show a small sensitivity to thiol basicity (/3nuc= 0.27) for rate-determining attackof basic thiols and a sharp break to a slope approaching 0nuc= 1.0 for thiols that are less basicthan the leaving group; this break is caused by a change in rate-de-termining step to breakdown of the tetrahedral addition intermediate. Variation of the leaving thiol group gives a value for dig of—0.32 for rate-determining attack. The attack of basic thiol anions on substituted phenyl acetates shows similar behavior with the same dependence on thiol basicity (dnuc= 0.27) and a break near= 0 to a slope of dnuc= 0.84 as the pAof the thiol is decreased and phenolate expulsion becomes rate determining. Similarly, variation of the phenolate leaving group gives a small dependence on basicity, dig=—0.33, for rate-determining attack and a larger dependence, with dig~—0.9, for rate-determining breakdown. The rate-determining attack of substituted phenoxide ions on thiol esters exhibits a large dependence on phenoxide basicity with dnuc= 0.68, but a break to a small dependence (dmic~ 0.2) for alkoxide anions. Identical behavior is observed for reactions with theoxygen ester p-nitrophenyl acetate. The hypothesis that this break is caused by a requirement for partial desolvation of attacking alkoxide ions is examined. Aliphatic thiolate anions are less reactive toward p-nitrophenyl acetate than the corresponding, more basic alcohólate anions, but are more reactive toward the corresponding thiol ester.In spite of the great importance of acyl-transferreactions in chemistry and biochemistry and the large amount of re-search that has been carried out in this area, there are still many facets of these reactions that are incompletely under-stood. These include the interpretation of the effects of polar substituents in the attacking and leaving groups on rate and equilibrium constants, the nature of the rate-determining step, the mechanism of general acid-base catalysis, and the question of whether these reactions are concerted or proceed through stepwise pathwaysinvolving metastable tetrahedral interme-