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Spring 2009. Dr. Halligan CHM 236. Chapter 18. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Background. The characteristic reaction of benzene is electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) —a hydrogen atom is replaced by an electrophile. Background.

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  1. Spring 2009 Dr. Halligan CHM 236 Chapter 18 Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution 1 1 1 1 1

  2. Background • The characteristic reaction of benzene is electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS)—a hydrogen atom is replaced by an electrophile.

  3. Background • Why doesn’t benzene undergo typical addition reactions? • Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution of a hydrogen keeps the aromatic ring intact.

  4. Figure 18.1 Five examples of electrophilic aromatic substitution

  5. Background • All EAS reactions occur by the same mechanism. • Make the electrophile (E+). • Attack the electrophile (E+). • Re-aromatize the ring.

  6. Background • After formation of the E+, the next step in the EAS mechanism forms a carbocation, for which three resonance structures can be drawn.

  7. Background • The energy changes in electrophilic aromatic substitution are shown below: Figure 18.2 Energy diagram for electrophilic aromatic substitution: PhH + E+→ PhE + H+

  8. Halogenation • In halogenation, benzene reacts with Cl2 or Br2in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst, such as FeCl3 or FeBr3, to give the aryl halides chlorobenzene or bromobenzene respectively. • Analogous reactions with I2 and F2 are not synthetically useful because I2 is too unreactive and F2 reacts too violently.

  9. Halogenation • Chlorination proceeds by a similar mechanism.

  10. Halogenation Figure 18.3 Examples of biologically active aryl chlorides

  11. Nitration and Sulfonation • Nitration and sulfonation introduce two different functional groups into the aromatic ring. • Nitration is especially useful because the nitro group can be reduced to an NH2 group.

  12. Nitration and Sulfonation • Generation of the electrophile in nitration requires strong acid (H2SO4).

  13. Nitration and Sulfonation • Generation of the electrophile in sulfonation requires strong acid (H2SO4).

  14. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation • In Friedel-Crafts alkylation, treatment of benzene with an alkyl halide and a Lewis acid (AlCl3) forms an alkyl benzene.

  15. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation • In Friedel-Crafts acylation, a benzene ring is treated with an acid chloride (RCOCl) and AlCl3 to form a ketone. • Because the new group bonded to the benzene ring is called an acyl group, the transfer of an acyl group from one atom to another is an acylation.

  16. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation

  17. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation

  18. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation • In Friedel-Crafts acylation, the Lewis acid AlCl3ionizes the carbon-halogen bond of the acid chloride, thus forming a positively charged carbon electrophile called an acylium ion, which is resonance stabilized. • The positively charged carbon atom of the acylium ion then goes on to react with benzene in the two step mechanism of electrophilic aromatic substitution.

  19. Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Benzene • Charles Friedel and James Crafts discovered the Friedel-Crafts “acyl” and “alkylation” reactions in 1877. • In the first reaction, an acyl group reacts with a catalyst to form an acylium ion electrophile. • Then the electrophile gets attacked by the benzene ring and after an aqueous work-up procedure, the acylated benzene derivative is isolated.

  20. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation Three additional facts about Friedel-Crafts alkylation should be kept in mind. [1] Vinyl halides and aryl halides do not react in Friedel- Crafts alkylation.

  21. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation [2] Rearrangements can occur. These results can be explained by carbocation rearrangements.

  22. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation

  23. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation Rearrangements can occur even when no free carbocation is formed initially.

  24. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation [3] Other functional groups that form carbocations can also be used as starting materials.

  25. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation Each carbocation can then go on to react with benzene to form a product of electrophilic aromatic substitution. For example:

  26. Alkylation of Benzene by Acylation-Reduction • There is a better way to make alkylbenzene derivatives containing straight-chain alkyl groups. • In this method, a Friedel-Crafts acylation is done first and then reduction of the carbonyl moiety with H2/Pd provides the desired alkyl-substituted benzene.

  27. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation Starting materials that contain both a benzene ring and an electrophile are capable of intramolecular Friedel-Crafts reactions.

  28. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Friedel-Crafts Acylation Figure 18.4 Intramolecular Friedel-Crafts acylation in the synthesis of LSD

  29. Substituted Benzenes Many substituted benzene rings undergo EAS reactions. Each substituent either increases or decreases the electron density in the benzene ring, and this affects the course of EAS reaction.

  30. Substituted Benzenes Considering inductive effects only, the NH2 group withdraws electron density and CH3 donates electron density.

  31. Substituted Benzenes Resonance effects are only observed with substituents containing lone pairs or  bonds. An electron-donating resonance effect is observed whenever an atom Z having a lone pair of electrons is directly bonded to a benzene ring.

  32. Substituted Benzenes • An electron-withdrawing resonance effect is observed in substituted benzenes having the general structure C6H5-Y=Z, where Z is more electronegative than Y. • Seven resonance structures can be drawn for benzaldehyde (C6H5CHO). Because three of them place a positive charge on a carbon atom of the benzene ring, the CHO group withdraws electrons from the benzene ring by a resonance effect.

  33. Substituted Benzenes • To predict whether a substituted benzene is more or less electron rich than benzene itself, we must consider the net balance of both the inductive and resonance effects. • For example, alkyl groups donate electrons by an inductive effect, but they have no resonance effect because they lack nonbonded electron pairs or  bonds. • Thus, any alkyl-substituted benzene is more electron rich than benzene itself.

  34. Substituted Benzenes • The inductive and resonance effects in compounds having the general structure C6H5-Y=Z (with Z more electronegative than Y) are both electron withdrawing.

  35. Substituted Benzenes • These compounds represent examples of the general structural features in electron-donating and electron withdrawing substituents.

  36. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes • Electrophilic aromatic substitution is a general reaction of all aromatic compounds, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heterocycles, and substituted benzene derivatives. • A substituent affects two aspects of the EAS reaction: • The rate of the reaction—A substituted benzene reacts faster or slower than benzene itself. • The orientation—The new group is located either ortho, meta, or para to the existing substituent.

  37. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes • Consider toluene—Toluene reacts faster than benzene in all substitution reactions. • The electron-donating CH3 group activates the benzene ring to electrophilic attack. • Ortho and para products predominate. • The CH3 group is called an ortho, para director.

  38. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes • Consider nitrobenzene—It reacts more slowly than benzene in all substitution reactions. • The electron-withdrawing NO2 group deactivates the benzene ring to electrophilic attack. • The meta product predominates. • The NO2 group is called a meta director.

  39. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes All substituents can be divided into three general types:

  40. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes

  41. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes • Keep in mind that halogens are in a class by themselves. • Also note that:

  42. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes • To understand how substituents activate or deactivate the ring, we must consider the first step in electrophilic aromatic substitution. • The first step involves addition of the electrophile (E+) to form a resonance stabilized carbocation. • The Hammond postulate makes it possible to predict the relative rate of the reaction by looking at the stability of the carbocation intermediate.

  43. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes • The principles of inductive effects and resonance effects can now be used to predict carbocation stability.

  44. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes The energy diagrams below illustrate the effect of electron-withdrawing and electron-donating groups on the transition state energy of the rate-determining step. Figure 18.6 Energy diagrams comparing the rate of electrophilic substitution of substituted benzenes

  45. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituted Benzenes

  46. Orientation Effects in Substituted Benzenes • There are two general types of ortho, para directors and one general type of meta director. • All ortho, para directors are R groups or have a nonbonded electron pair on the atom bonded to the benzene ring. • All meta directors have a full or partial positive charge on the atom bonded to the benzene ring.

  47. Orientation Effects in Substituted Benzenes To evaluate the effects of a given substituent, we can use the following stepwise procedure:

  48. Orientation Effects in Substituted Benzenes • A CH3 group directs electrophilic attack ortho and para to itself because an electron-donating inductive effect stabilizes the carbocation intermediate.

  49. Orientation Effects in Substituted Benzenes • An NH2 group directs electrophilic attack ortho and para to itself because the carbocation intermediate has additional resonance stabilization.

  50. Orientation Effects in Substituted Benzenes • With the NO2 group (and all meta directors) meta attack occurs because attack at the ortho and para position gives a destabilized carbocation intermediate.

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