The effect of HMPA on the reactivity of epoxides, aziridines, and alkyl halides with organolithium reagents.

نویسندگان

  • Hans J Reich
  • Aaron W Sanders
  • Adam T Fiedler
  • Martin J Bevan
چکیده

A kinetic study of the effect of added HMPA cosolvent on the reaction of 2-lithio-1,3-dithiane (1), bis(phenylthio)methyllithium (2), and bis(3,5-bistrifluoromethylphenylthio)methyllithium (3) with methyloxirane (propylene oxide), N-tosyl-2-methylaziridine, and the several alkyl halides (BuCl, BuBr, BuI, allyl chloride) was carried out. Widely varied rate effects of HMPA on these SN2 substitutions were observed, ranging from >108 rate increases for 1 and butyl chloride to >103 rate decreases for 3 and methyloxirane. These reactions appear to go through separated ion pair intermediates, so a key effect is the ease of ion pair separation of the lithium reagent (3 > 2 > 1). Because 3 is already almost fully separated in THF, HMPA has no effect on the rate of halide substitution, but a large reduction is observed with the epoxide as substrate, a consequence of strong lithium assistance to the ring opening which is suppressed when excess HMPA is present. When ion pair separation is difficult (1), modest rate increases (104) are seen for epoxide opening, but very large increases are seen for aziridine (106) and alkyl halide reactions (108), for which lithium assistance is much less important. Reagent 2 shows more complicated behavior in reaction with the epoxide: 1-2 equiv of HMPA causes a small rate increase, while larger amounts cause a large rate decrease. Here the rate-accelerating effects of SIP formation are more nearly balanced with the rate-retarding effects of suppression of lithium catalysis.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

دوره 124 45  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002