Arun Kanti Guha, Hai Whang Lee and Ikchoon Lee
The kinetics and mechanism of the aminolysis of phenyl substituted phenyl chlorophosphates with anilines are investigated in acetonitrile at 55.0 °C. Very sensitive variation of ρY (δρY 0) with the change of substituent on the nucleophile (δσX) leads to a large negative cross-interaction constant, ρXY = (δρY)/(δσX) = –1.31. The secondary kinetic isotope effects observed with deuterated aniline nucleophiles are of the inverse type (kH
/kD = 0.61–0.87), and small ΔH
‡ (1.6–9.7 kcal mol–1) and large negative ΔS
‡ (–43 to –65 e.u.) values are obtained. These results are consistent with a concerted process with a late, product-like transition state in which both bond making and leaving group departure are extensive.