ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 22, Number 4
JKCSEZ 22(4)
August 20, 1978 

Rates of reactions of 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene and 2,4-dinitrobromobenzene with para substituted anilines in acetonitrile-methanol binary mixtures have been measured. It has been shown that methanol acts as nucleophilic catalyst upon reaction of 2,4-dinitrobromobenzene with anilines and as bifunctional catalyst upon reaction of 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene with anilines. The electrophilic catalysis by methanol probably consists of formation of hydrogen bond in the transition state between alcoholic hydrogen and leaving group, fluorine. Nucleophilic catalysis by methanol may be ascribed to formation of hydrogen bond between alcoholic oxygen and amine hydrogen in the transition state.