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Long range electrical field effects in solvolysis and 13 C‐NMR shielding of androstanes with halogen, hydroxy and oxo substituents
Author(s) -
Schneider HansJörg,
Becker Norman
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of physical organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1395
pISSN - 0894-3230
DOI - 10.1002/poc.610020304
Subject(s) - chemistry , solvolysis , halogen , electromagnetic shielding , computational chemistry , medicinal chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , hydrolysis , alkyl , electrical engineering , engineering
The solvolysis of 21 different 3‐ or 17‐androstanyl tosylates or chlorides with halogen, hydroxy or oxo substituents in 17‐ or 3‐position shows rate constant variations in hexafluoro isopropanol of up to 6·3 with regular differences for epimeric substituents. Similar variations ae seen over a distance of ∼10 Å in 13 C‐NMR shifts at C‐17‐ones of androstan‐17‐ones with varied halogen substituents in C‐3, whereas the shielding observed at other distant carbon atoms excludes significant through bond effects. It is shown how, on the basis of suitable Coulomb‐type equations and of force field minimized geometries, both the stability variation of carbocationic transition states and the carbonyl group polarization are predictable by linear electric field effects, using the same parametrization.