Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.5562/cca2447

Proton Affinities of Organocatalysts Derived from Pyridine N-oxide

Jiří Váňa ; Department of Organic Chemistry, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 12843 Prague 2, Czech Republic
Jana Roithová orcid.org/0000-0001-5144-0688 ; Department of Organic Chemistry, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 12843 Prague 2, Czech Republic
Martin Kotora ; Department of Organic Chemistry, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 12843 Prague 2, Czech Republic;Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Pavel Beran ; Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Lubomír Rulíšek ; Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Pavel Kočovský ; Department of Organic Chemistry, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 12843 Prague 2, Czech Republic;Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Abstract

Proton affinities of several efficient organocatalysts METHOX, QUINOX, ANETOX, KOTOX, FUREOX, and FUROOX bearing a pyridine N-oxide or 2,2′-bipyridyl N,N′-dioxide moiety were de-termined by using extended kinetic method and density functional theory calculations. Proton affinities are in the range of 1030–1060 kJ mol–1. Using isodesmic reactions, the effect of combining two pyridine
N-oxide units in the neutral and the protonated molecule was studied: The combination of an unfavorable interaction in the former case and a favorable interaction in the latter accounts for the superbasic proper¬ties of 2,2′-bipyridyl N,N′-dioxides. Last but not least, the theoretically predicted pKa in ethanol are 0.1,
–2.7, 0.9, 1.8, 1.9, and 2.3 for the METHOX, QUINOX, ANETOX, FUROOX, FUREOX, and KOTOX, respectively.

Keywords

density functional theory; isodesmic reactions; kinetic method; mass spectrometry; organocatalysis; proton affinity; superbases

Hrčak ID:

131528

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/131528

Publication date:

22.12.2014.

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