Substituted Benzoic Acids (substituted + benzoic_acid)

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Kinetic investigation on the reactions of p -toluenesulfonyl chloride with p -substituted benzoic acid(s) in the presence of triethylamine in aprotic solvents

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL KINETICS, Issue 5 2009
Subbiah Ananthalakshmi
Second-order rate constants of the reactions of p -toluenesulfonyl chloride with p -substituted benzoic acids in the presence of triethylamine in acetonitrile/acetone under equimolar and pseudo-first-order conditions have been determined by the conductometric method using the Guggenheim principle at 25, 30, 35, and 40°C. The reactions follow second order with respect to the whole and first order with respect to each of the reactants. The order of reactivity of the substituents in benzoic acid is rationalized. Activation parameters are obtained by applying the usual methods. The Hammett plot has been found nonlinear, whereas the Bronsted plot shows good correlation. This may be explained on the basis of electronic effects of substituents on the reaction center. Kinetic data and the product analyses indicate that the reaction proceeds through direct nucleophilic attack on the sulfur center. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 41: 303,308, 2009 [source]


Influence of substituents on the infrared stretching frequencies of carbonyl group in esters of benzoic acid

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 10 2006
Vilve Nummert
Abstract Infrared spectra of 25 substituted phenyl esters of benzoic acid C6H5CO2C6H4 -X (XH, 3-Cl, 3-F, 3-CN, 3-NO2, 3-CH3, 3-OH, 3-NH2, 4-Cl, 4-F, 4-NO2, 4-CN, 4-OCH3, 4-CH3, 4-NH2, 2-Cl, 2-F, 2-I, 2-NO2, 2-CF3, 2-CN, 2-CH3, 2-OCH3, 2-N(CH3)2, 2-C(CH3)3), 8 alkyl benzoates C6H5CO2R (XCH3, CH2CH3, CH2Cl, CH2CN, CH2CCH, CH2CH2Cl, CH2CH2OCH3, CH2C6H5), and 22 phenyl esters of substituted benzoic acids X-C6H4CO2C6H5 (X3-Cl, 3-NO2, 3-CH3, 3-N(CH3)2, 4-F, 4-Cl, 4-Br, 4-NO2, 4-CH3, 4-C(CH3)3, 4-OCH3, 4-NH2, 2-Cl, 2-F, 2-Br, 2-I, 2-NO2, 2-CN, 2-CF3, 2-CH3, 2-OCH3, 2-NH2) were recorded in tetrachloromethane in the region of 400,4000,cm,1. Carbonyl stretching frequencies ,CO for meta - and para -substituted phenyl esters of benzoic acid and phenyl esters of meta -substituted benzoic acids were shown to correlate with the substituent constants ,o. The influence of the through resonance effect on ,CO was found to be important in the case of +Rpara substituents in the benzoyl part of phenyl benzoates as well. The carbonyl stretching frequencies of ortho derivatives in phenoxy part were shown to correlate with the inductive substituent constant ,I only. In the benzoyl part of the esters the carbonyl stretching frequencies of cis and trans conformers (relative to the carbonyl group) of ortho derivatives were nicely described by dual parameter equations: (,CO)cis,=,(,CO)o,+,c1,I,+,c3,and (,CO)trans,=,(,CO)o,+,c1,p+,+,c3, (R,=,0.99). The trans isomers of phenyl esters of ortho -substituted benzoic acids showed direct resonance similar to that for para derivatives. The positive steric term found for both the cis and trans conformers could be considered as measure of the steric inhibition of resonance between the phenyl ring and the carboxy-group caused by bulky ortho substituents. The existence of cis/trans conformations was supported by frequency calculations with Density Functional Theory (DFT) method at B3LYP/6-311+G** level for the ortho -substituted benzoates. In the case of alkyl benzoates good correlations of ,CO values were obtained when both the Taft ,* and the steric constants were used. For meta - and para -substituted phenyl benzoates s - trans conformation where the plane of the benzene ring in the benzoyl part of the ester is coplanar with the carbonyl bond plane and the plane of the benzene ring in the phenoxy part is twisted nearly perpendicular relative to the carbonyl bond plane was supported. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Ortho effect and steric inhibition of resonance: basicities of methyl-substituted acetophenones,

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 10 2003
Eva Otyepková
Abstract The basicity of 12 methyl-substituted acetophenones was measured spectrophotometrically in 46,90 vol.% sulfuric acid. The acidity function was constructed and the pKa values were calculated by a new algorithm proposed by Pytela. The substituent effects were divided into polar and steric, assuming that the former are approximately equal in the ortho and para positions. Polar effects of the methyl group bring about stronger basicity as expected; the effect is more intense than the acid weakening in equally substituted benzoic acids. Steric effects of ortho methyl groups are base strengthening. This is not due to steric inhibition of resonance since the conformation remains planar in most derivatives. Two ortho methyl groups are necessary to distort the planarity; their steric effect is more than doubled compared with one methyl group. These results do not agree with the common idea of twisted conformations with gradually increasing twisting angle but are better rationalized by the existence of two groups of derivatives, planar and non-planar. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]