Issue 42, 2019

Correlating ionic liquid solvent effects with solvent parameters for a reaction that proceeds through a xanthylium intermediate

Abstract

A unimolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction that proceeds through a xanthylium carbocation was studied in seven ionic liquid solvents. It was found that the general trend in the rate constant with changing proportion of ionic liquid in the reaction mixture was different to that seen for other unimolecular processes, with the rate constant increasing as more ionic liquid was added to the reaction mixture. A significant correlation was found between the natural logarithm of the rate constant and a combination of the Kamlet–Taft solvent parameters. This relationship indicated that the principal interaction involved hydrogen bonding between the ionic liquid and some species along the reaction coordinate. Further, this correlation enables prediction of the effects that other ionic liquids will have on this, and other, reactions that proceed through a similar intermediate.

Graphical abstract: Correlating ionic liquid solvent effects with solvent parameters for a reaction that proceeds through a xanthylium intermediate

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Aug 2019
Accepted
07 Oct 2019
First published
07 Oct 2019

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 9336-9342

Correlating ionic liquid solvent effects with solvent parameters for a reaction that proceeds through a xanthylium intermediate

A. Gilbert, G. Bucher, R. S. Haines and J. B. Harper, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019, 17, 9336 DOI: 10.1039/C9OB01807G

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