ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 25, Number 6
JKCSEZ 25(6)
December 20, 1981 

The rates and the activation parameters for the reaction of phenacyl bromide with substituted anilines in methanol and dimethylformamide were measured. The effects of substituted anilines were discussed. The rate of the reaction was increased with the electron donating power of substituent and showed larger value in DMF than in MeOH. The isokinetic relationship was shown between ΔH≠ and ΔS≠, isokinetic temperature was 539 and 400℃ in MeOH and DMF respectively, but p-nitro aniline was deviated from linearity in both solvents caused by solvent effects. The excellent linear relationship between log k and pKα of substituted anilines was observed by following equation. log k = 0.57pKα-1.28 (r = 0.996) in MeOH at 45℃, log k = 0.65pKα-0.88 (r = 0.970) in DMF at 45℃. From the Hammett plot, this reaction was a nucleophilic displacement of aniline to phenacyl bromide and the following equation was obtained at 45℃. log k/k0 = -2.00σ + 0.06 (r = 0.985) in MeOH; log k/k0 = -2.22σ + 0.08 (r = 0.995) in DMF. Large deviation of p-nitro aniline in DMF is resulted from solvent effects too. From above results, the substituent effect of this reaction can be described as SN2 mechanism and bond formation more proceeds in DMF relative to MeOH.