KINETIC ISOTOPE-EFFECTS FOR REACTIONS OF METHYL FORMATE-METHOXYL-O-18
KINETIC ISOTOPE-EFFECTS FOR REACTIONS OF METHYL FORMATE-METHOXYL-O-18
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00803a027
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
KIRSCH, JF
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作者:
SAWYER, CB;KIRSCH, JF
Values of h> 0/h» o have been measured for several reactions of methyl formate-methoxyl-nO. The ratios for acid-catalyzed hydrolysis, alkaline hydrolysis, and general base catalyzed hydrolysisin succinate buffer are 1.0009±0.0004, 1.0091±0.0002, and 1.0115±0.0002, respectively. The maximum expected effect, 1.052, for rate-determining scission of the acyl carbon-methoxyl oxygen bond was calculated from the observed difference in the stretching frequencies between leO and lsO ester. The observed isotope effect for hydrazinolysis under conditions of rate-determiningbreakdown of the tetrahedral intermediate at low pH is 1.0621±0.0008, while at high pH, where attackof hydrazine on the ester or a proton transport step is rate determining, it is only 1.0048±0.0006. The values of the ratios of the rates of hydrolysis to carbonyl oxygen exchange for methyl formate are 11.4±0.1 in acidand 18.3±0.4 in alkaline solution. The extremely small kinetic isotope effect observed for acid-catalyzed hydrolysis suggests a mechanism in which equilibrium protonation of the ester is counterbalanced by the normal kinetic isotopeeffect for the attack of water on the oxocarbonium ion. The small but significant isotope effects observed for alkalinehydrolysis, general base catalyzed hydrolysis, and hydrazinolysis at highpH suggest a transi-tion state in which the order of the acyl carbon-methoxyl oxygen bond of 1.15 in the ester is only slightly reduced in the transition state.