HYDROLYSIS OF SUBSTITUTED ETHYLENE OXIDES IN H2O18 SOLUTIONS
HYDROLYSIS OF SUBSTITUTED ETHYLENE OXIDES IN H2O18 SOLUTIONS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01593a001
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发表时间:
1956-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
PRITCHARD, JG
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作者:
LONG, FA;PRITCHARD, JG
Propylene and isobutylene oxides havebeen hydrolyzed in 018-labeled water under acidic, basic and neutral conditions. The detailed paths of the hydrolysis havebeen established by a mass spectrometric analysis of the resulting glycols. The base-catalyzed reaction occurs predominantly at the primary carbon for propylene oxide and exclusively so for isobutylene oxide. In contrast the acid-catalyzed reaction occurs exclusively at the branched carbon for isobutylene oxide and pre-dominantly so for propylene oxide. It is concluded that the basic reaction goes by an Sn2 mechanism and that the acidcatalyzed reaction involves a carbonium ion mechanism. Data are also givenfor the kinetics of the hydrolysis of isobutylene oxide at 25 in the pH range of from 3 to 14.It is well known that there are at least three kinetically distinguishable paths for the hydrolysis of ethylene oxide in aqueous solution. 2-7 There is an acid-catalyzed hydrolysis, a base-catalyzed hydroly-sis and a pH independent,“water” reaction. It will be shown in the next paper of this series8 91011that in solutions of perchloric acid the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of ethylene oxide and of several substituted oxides follows the Hammett acidity function, Ho-In accord with similar hydrolysis studies9-11 this result indicates that a water molecule is not involved in the rate-determining step and suggests that the mechanism involves a carbonium ion as