Formation and reactions of heteroaromatic anions in the gas phase
Formation and reactions of heteroaromatic anions in the gas phase
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00254a001
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发表时间:
1988-09
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
C. DePuy;S. Kass;G. P. Bean
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作者:
C. DePuy;S. Kass;G. P. Bean
The gas-phase acidities of furan, thiophene, pyridine, 1-methylpyrrole, and a number of their methyl derivatives have been determined in a flowing afterglow apparatus. The AGacid (kcal/mol) and site of deprotonation of the parent heterocycles are as follows: furan 380±3 (2-position), thiophene 373±3 (2-position), pyridine 384±3 (3-and/or 4-position), 1-methylpyrrole 386±3 (methyl group). For the methylated species studied the acidities are 2-methylfuran 377±3, 2-methylthiophene 373±3, 3-methylthiophene 373±3, 3-methylpyridine 371±3, 2-methylpyridine 370±3, and 4-methylpyridine 368±3. The relative acidities of the hydrogens in the other sites in these molecules have been estimated by hydrogen-deuterium exchange studies and byother chemical methods. Anions (M- 1) from these molecules have been allowed to react with N20, 02, COS, and CS2 and the ionic products determined. The gas-phase acidities have been compared with those calculated by the semiempirical methods AMI and MNDO.In solution many five-and six-membered heteroaromatic compounds are sufficiently acidic that their conjugate bases can readily be formed by hydrogen abstraction re-actions. 1 For example, 2-lithiofuran results from reaction of furan with n-butyllithium2 and lithiopyridines from pyridine and n-butyllithium-potassium tert-butoxide. 3 In each case, the resulting carbanion can be put to synthetic use to form substituted heteroaromatics in good to ex-cellent yield. Both synthetic and mechanistic investiga-tions have shown that the particular isomeric form of the ion produced by hydrogen abstraction is a function of the experimental conditions. For example, Verbeek and Brandsma3 found that the relative amounts of 2-, 3-, and 4-lithiopyridine formed “depends strongly upon the length of the time between addition of pyridine to the base and addition of the (quenching) reagent”, and Zoltewicz, Grahe, and Smith4 showed that the relative rates of H, D exchange among the 2-, 3-, and 4-positions of pyridine changes in going from a solution of CH3OD-CH3ONa to ND3-NaND2. Indeed, it appears that for pyridinein solution, hydrogens at the 2, 6-positions are kinetically the most reactive, whereas the 4-hydrogen is the most acidic thermodynam-ically. 3 From these and other data it appears likely that, at least in solution, the kinetic acidity and the thermodynamic acidity are not the same in many of these com-pounds.