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Kinetics and mechanism of the aminolysis of O ‐ethyl S ‐phenyl dithiocarbonate in aqueous ethanol
Author(s) -
Castro Enrique A.,
Cabrera Mauricio,
Santos Jose G.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of chemical kinetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1097-4601
pISSN - 0538-8066
DOI - 10.1002/kin.550270107
Subject(s) - aminolysis , chemistry , piperazine , morpholine , piperidine , aqueous solution , amine gas treating , tetrahedral carbonyl addition compound , ionic strength , concerted reaction , alicyclic compound , medicinal chemistry , kinetics , reaction rate , catalysis , organic chemistry , nucleophile , physics , quantum mechanics
The reactions of secondary alicyclic amines with the title substrate (PDTC) are subjected to a kinetic study in 44 wt.% aqueous ethanol, 25.0°C, ionic strength 0.2 M (KCl). Pseudo‐first‐order rate coefficients ( k obs ) are found under amine excess. Linear plots of [ N ]/ k obs against 1/[ N ], where N is the free amine, are obtained for the reactions with piperidine, piperazine, 1‐(2‐hydroxyethyl)piperazine, and morpholine. The reaction with 1‐formylpiperazine exhibits a linear plot of k obs against [ N ] 2 . These results are interpreted through a mechanism consisting of two tetrahedral intermediates: a zwitterionic ( T ± ) and an anionic ( T − ), where the amine catalyzed proton transfer from T ± to T − is partially rate determining for the four former reactions and is fully rate determining for the reaction of 1‐formylpiperazine. The rate microcoefficients involved in the reaction scheme are either determined experimentally or estimated. Comparison with the corresponding microcoefficients reported for the same reactions in water reveals that the rate coefficient for formation of T ± from reactants ( k 1 ) is smaller and that for the reversal of this ( k −1 ) is larger in aqueous ethanol compared to water, in agreement with the expected structure of the corresponding transition state. Bronsted‐type plots are obtained for k 1 , k −1 , and K 1 (= k 1 / k −1 ) with slopes ca. 0.4, −0.6, and 1.0, respectively. Comparison of the present stepwise reactions with the concerted ones found in the same aminolysis of O ‐ethyl 2,4,6,‐(trinitrophenyl) dithiocarbonate indicates that T ± is so destabilized by the change of PhS by the 2,4,6‐trinitrobenzenethio group that T ± no longer exists and becomes a transition state. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.