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Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society (BKCS)

ISSN 0253-2964(Print)
ISSN 1229-5949(Online)
Volume 28, Number 8
BKCSDE 28(8)
August 20, 2007

Title	Aminolyses of Y-substituted Phenyl 2-Furoates and Cinnamates: Effect of Nonleaving Group Substituent on Reactivity and Mechanism
Author	Ik-Hwan Um*, Kalsoom Akhtar, Youn-Min Park, Sher Bahadar Khan
Keywords	Aminolysis, Brønsted-type plot, Rate-determining step, Concerted mechanism, Stepwise mechanism.
Abstract	Second-order rate constants (kN) have been determined spectrophotometrically for reactions of Y-substituted phenyl 2-furoates (1a-h) with piperidine and morpholine in 80 mol % H₂O/20 mol % DMSO at 25.0 ± 0.1 oC. The Brønsted-type plot exhibits a downward curvature for the reactions with strongly basic piperidine but is linear for the reactions with weakly basic morpholine. The slope of the curved Brønsted-type plot changes from -1.25 to ?0.28 as the pK_a of the conjugate acid of the leaving aryloxides decreases. The pK_a at the center of the Brønsted curvature, defined as pK_a°, was determined to be 6.4. The aminolysis of 1a-h has been concluded to proceed through a stepwise mechanism on the basis of the curved Brønsted-type plot. The reactions of Ysubstituted phenyl cinnamates (2a-g) with piperidine resulted in a curved Brønsted-type plot with a pK_a° values of 6.4. However, the curved Brønsted-type plot has been suggested to be not due to a change in the RDS but due to a normal Hammond effect of a concerted mechanism, since the Brønsted-type plot for the corresponding reactions with morpholine results in also a curved Brønsted-type plot with a pK_a° values of 6.1. The furoates with a basic leaving group (i.e., 1b-g) are less reactive than the corresponding cinnamates (i.e., 2b-g). The k₂/ k_-₁ ratios for the reactions of 1b-h are much smaller than unity, which has been suggested to be responsible for their low reactivity.
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