Reaction of the water-soluble reagent N-ethyl-N'-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide with nucleophiles: participation of the tautomeric cyclic ammonioamidine as a kinetically important intermediate
Reaction of the water-soluble reagent N-ethyl-N'-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide with nucleophiles: participation of the tautomeric cyclic ammonioamidine as a kinetically important intermediate
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水溶性试剂 N-乙基-N-(3-二甲基氨基丙基)碳二亚胺与亲核试剂的反应:互变异构环氨脒作为动力学上重要的中间体的参与
DOI:
10.1021/ja00491a053
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
A. Williams
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作者:
I. T. Ibrahim;A. Williams
Communications to the Editor 7421 rium from Scheme I with an equation similar to eq 1; 5b using the known values for K2K2 and K4 we may estimate K2 and K2 to be< 10 “11 and> 1, respectively. The ionization pAla for the amidine {K2) is relatively low presumably owing to the pow-erfully electron-withdrawingammonio group. Assuming equilibrium of the species II—VI and rate-limiting proton-catalyzed hydrolysis of the free carbodiimide VI, we may estimate the acid plateau rate constant (pH 0-4) from proton attack on the trimethylammonio model (&h= 3 X 102 M-1 s_1). The overall rate constant for reagent I becomes kt\K\K2K2/Kh5q in the acid plateau region which gives 3 X 10-2 s_l on substituting values for the equilibrium constants and &· The estimated value is much larger than that observed (10~ 3 s_1) indicating that one of the steps]-is rate limiting for the carbodiimide mechanism. The decomposition rate constant for VI increases with decrease in pH and it is likely that K2 becomes the rate-limiting step because this is pH independent and the other steps involve proton transfer to and from electronegative atoms. The overall rate constant for production of V is hydroxide ion dependent and the observation of the low, pH independentrate constant in the acid region is therefore consistent with a different mechanism, namely water attack on the ammonioamidinium dication (II). Hydrolysis of I in the alkaline pH region follows the hy-drolysis of the neutral model A/TV'-di-w-propylcarbodiimide. Assuming that species II—VI are in equilibrium and using values of the equilibrium constants deduced above, we estimate that the fraction of reagent I present as V is 50% in the alkaline region; the other 50% is IV. Thus we should expect an observed rate constant some 50% less than that of the model at the corresponding pH. The close proximity of the data (Figure 1) confirms that the alkaline hydrolysis proceeds via the neutral carbodiimide V.Attack of acetate (1 M) buffer on the trimethylammoniocarbodiimide at pH 5.4 has the rateconstant 1.6 X10-3 s_ 1; at pH 5.4 the proportion of protonated carbodiimide VI is calculated to be 0.091 usingthe equilibrium constants determined above. The predicted rateconstant for I with 1