ISSN:
0894-3230
Keywords:
Organic Chemistry
;
Physical Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
Experimental gas-phase acidities of 2-oxopropanaloximes, XCH2COCH=NOH (X = H, CH3S, CH3SO, CH3SO2; compounds 1-4), were determined by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) spectrometry. The values are δ Gacid° = 1401, 1381, 1360 and 1351 kJ mol-1 for 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Molecular orbital calculations using the semi-empirical AM1 method provided information on the geometry and relative energy of neutrals species 1-4 and their conjugate bases, together with charge distributions and entropies of deprotonation. It is demonstrated that the proton abstraction occurs preferentially at the oxime function; the formation of an enolate as a conjugate base is unfavourable by 70-140 kJ mol-1. The large variation of the gas-phase acidities for 1-4 is explained in terms of the field/inductive empirical substituent constant σF. The variation of solution acidities appears to be comparatively strongly attenuated. This attenuation is attributed mainly to charge delocalization in the anion, which was confirmed by charge density calculations.
Additional Material:
3 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/poc.610040505
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