A negligibly small primary kinetic isotope effect for slow proton transfer from a protonated amine
Abstract
The primary kinetic isotope effect (kH/kD) for proton transfer from protonated 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)-2,7-dimethoxynaphthalene to bases has a value of unity even for reactions for which the proton donor and acceptor have similar pK values, a condition which would have been expected to lead to a maximum isotope effect.