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ABSTRACT: The kinetics of oxidation of four vicinal diols, four nonvicinal diols, and one of
their monoethers by pyridinium bromochromate (PBC) have been studied in dimethyl sulf-
oxide. The main product of oxidation is the corresponding hydroxyaldehyde. The reaction is
first-order with respect to each the diol and PBC. The reaction is acid-catalyzed and the acid
dependence has the form: kobs ⫽ a ⫹ b[H⫹]. The oxidation of [1,1,2,2-2H4]ethanediol exhibited
a primary kinetic isotope effect (kH/kD ⫽ 6.70 at 298 K). The reaction has been studied in 19
organic solvents including dimethyl sulfoxide and the solvent effect has been analyzed using
multiparametric equations. The temperature dependence of the kinetic isotope effect indicates
the presence of a symmetrical transition state in the rate-determining step. A suitable mech-
anism has been proposed. 䉷 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 30: 285– 290, 1998.
INTRODUCTION EXPERIMENTAL
2 mol dm⫺3 HCl. The precipitated 2,4-dinitropheny- ing the relation: k2 ⫽ kobs/[redutant]. All experiments,
lhydrazone(DNP) was filtered off, dried, recrystallized other than those for studying the effect of hydrogen
from ethanol, and weighed. The DNP derivatives were ions, were carried out in the absence of TsOH.
found to be homogeneous by TLC. The identity of the
products were established by comparing the m.p. of
the DNP derivatives with the literature values [10]. In RESULTS
the oxidation of ethanediol and butane-1,3-diol, the
identity of the products were confirmed by determin- The rate laws and other experimental data were ob-
ing the m.m.p. with authentic samples of DNP of hy- tained for all the diols investigated. As the results were
droxyethanal and 3-hydroxybutanal, respectively. The similar, only representative data are given here. There
melting points were obtained in open capillaries and
are uncorrected. The results are summarized in Ta-
ble I.
The oxidation state of chromium in completely re-
duced reaction mixtures, determined by an iodometric Table II Rate Constants for the Oxidation of
method, was 3.95 ⫾ 0.09. The overall reaction may, Ethanediol by PBC at 298 K in DMSO
therefore, be written as the following equation: 103 [PBC] [diol] [TsOH] 104 kobs
Table III Rate Constants and Activation Parameters of the Oxidation of Diols and 3-Methoxybutan-1-ol by PBC in
DMSO
103k2 /mol⫺1 dm3 s⫺1 ⌬ H* ⌬ S* ⌬ G*
Diol 298 K 308 K 318 K 328 K kJ mol⫺1 J mol⫺1 K⫺1 kJ mol⫺1
Ethane-1,2-diol 4.04 8.50 17.0 32.9 54.2 ⫾ 0.2 ⫺109 ⫾1 86.7 ⫾ 0.1
Propane-1,2-diol 17.0 32.8 61.5 114 49.0 ⫾ 0.3 ⫺115 ⫾1 83.1 ⫾ 0.3
Butane-2,3-diol 24.5 46.5 86.1 160 48.2 ⫾ 0.5 ⫺115 ⫾2 82.2 ⫾ 0.4
Butane-1,2-diol 71.9 127 215 404 43.8 ⫾ 1.3 ⫺121 ⫾4 79.6 ⫾ 1.0
Propane-1,3-diol 8.58 16.2 31.4 60.7 50.5 ⫾ 0.9 ⫺116 ⫾3 84.9 ⫾ 0.7
Butane-1,3-diol 10.5 22.1 43.0 83.8 53.5 ⫾ 0.3 ⫺104 ⫾1 84.3 ⫾ 0.2
Butane-1,4-diol 13.0 25.6 49.2 94.5 51.1 ⫾ 0.5 ⫺110 ⫾2 83.8 ⫾ 0.4
Pentane-1,5-diol 14.1 30.4 64.0 128 57.3 ⫾ 0.1 ⫺ 89 ⫾1 83.6 ⫾ 0.1
3-Methoxybutan-1-ol 24.0 45.6 86.6 162 49.2 ⫾ 0.6 ⫺112 ⫾2 82.3 ⫾ 0.4
DEDa 0.603 1.28 2.70 5.90 59.1 ⫾ 1.1 ⫺109 ⫾3 91.5 ⫾ 0.8
kH /kD 6.70 6.64 6.30 5.58
[diol] ⫺ 0.1– 1.0 mol dm⫺3; [PBC] ⫺ 0.001 mol dm⫺3.
a [1,1,2,2-2 H ]Ethane-1,2-diol.
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Table IV Rate Constants for the Oxidation of Ethanediol by PBC in Different Solvents at 298 K
103 k2 103 k2
Solvent mol⫺1 dm3 s⫺1 Solvent mol⫺1 dm3 s⫺1
Chloroform 1.06 Cyclohexane 0.054
Carbon disulfide 0.205 Toluene 0.395
1,2-dichloromethane 1.35 Acetophenone 1.72
Dichloromethane 1.32 Tetrahydrofuran 0.691
DMSO 4.04 t-Butylalcohol 0.424
Acetone 1.26 1,4-Dioxane 0.686
N,N-Dimethylformamide 2.25 1,2-Dimethoxyethane 0.354
Butanone 0.972 Acetic acid 0.130
Nitrobenzene 1.61 Ethyl acetate 0.514 short
Benzene 0.498
standard
[Diol] ⫺ 1.0 mol dm⫺3; [PBC] ⫺ 0.001 mol dm⫺3. long
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Table V Reaction Constants of the Oxidation of The rate constant of the oxidation of ethanediol, k2,
Vicinal Diols by PBC in DMSO in the nineteen solvents were analyzed in terms of
T/K ⌹* r2 sd ⌿ Swain’s equation [14] of cation- and anion-solvating
concept of the solvents also.
298 ⫺1.28 ⫾ 0.03 0.9991 0.02 0.02
308 ⫺1.20 ⫾ 0.03 0.9989 0.02 0.03
log k2 ⫽ aA ⫹ bB ⫹ C (3)
318 ⫺1.13 ⫾ 0.03 0.9982 0.03 0.03
328 ⫺1.12 ⫾ 0.03 0.9987 0.02 0.03
A represents the anion-solvating power of the solvent
and B the cation-solvating power. C is the intercept
term. (A ⫹ B) is postulated to represent the solvent
secondary alcohols. There was no reaction with the polarity. The rates in different solvents were analyzed
solvents chosen. The kinetics were similar in all the in terms of eq. (3), separately with A and B and with
solvents. The values of k2 are recorded in Table IV. (A ⫹ B).
The values of log k2 at 298 K for the nine compounds R2 ⫽ 0.9996; sd ⫽ 0.01; n ⫽ 19; ⫽ 0.01
are linearly related (r ⫽ 0.9911) to the corresponding
values at 328 K (Table III). The isokinetic temperature log k2 ⫽ 0.05(⫾ 0.58)A ⫺ 4.82 (5)
evaluated from this plot is 788 ⫾ 45 K [11]. The lin-
ear isokinetic correlation implies that all the com- r2 ⫽ 0.0004; sd ⫽ 0.47; n ⫽ 19; ⫽ 1.02
pounds are oxidized by the same mechanism and the
changes in the rate are governed by the changes in both log k2 ⫽ 1.73(⫾ 0.05)B ⫺ 4.29 (6)
the enthalpy and entropy of the activation [11]. The
linear correlation here involves a typical monohydric r2 ⫽ 0.9844; sd ⫽ 0.06; n ⫽ 19; ⫽ 0.09
alcohol, 3-methoxybutan-1-ol. Thus, it seems likely
that the diols also behave like monohydric alcohols log k2 ⫽ 1.27 ⫾ 0.19(A ⫹ B) ⫺ 4.34 (7)
towards PBC. This is further supported by the isolation
of the hydroxyaldehydes as the products (Table I) and r2 ⫽ 0.7318; sd ⫽ 0.24; n ⫽ 19; ⫽ 0.39
the resistance of pinacol towards oxidation by PBC.
In correlation analyses, we have used coefficient of Here n is the number of data points, i.e., the number
determination (R2 or r2), standard deviation (sd), and of solvents studied.
Exner’s parameter [12]. , as the measures of good- The rate constants of oxidation of ethanediol in dif-
ness of fit. ferent solvents show an excellent correlation in
The rate constants of oxidation of ethanediol, k2 Swain’s equation with the cation-solvating power
(Table IV), in eighteen solvents (CS2 was not consid- playing the major role. In fact, the cation-solvation
ered as the complete range of solvent parameters was alone accounts for ca. 98% of the data. The solvent
not available) were correlated in terms of linear sol- polarity, represented by (A ⫹ B), accounted for ca.
vation energy relationship of Kamlet et al. [13]. 73% of the data. In view of the fact that solvent po-
larity is able to account for ca. 73% of the data, an
log k2 ⫽ A0 ⫹ p * ⫹ b ⫹ a␣ (2) attempt was made to correlate the rate with the relative
permittivity of the solvent. It was observed that a plot
In this equation, * represents the solvent polarity,  of log (rate) against the inverse of the relative permit-
the hydrogen bond acceptor basicities, and ␣ is the tivity is not linear (r2 ⫽ 0.4560; sd ⫽ 0.34; ⫽
hydrogen bond donor acidity. A0 is the intercept term. 0.59). In earlier studies with PBC also [2 – 5], it was
The results of correlation analyses in terms of eq. (2), observed that the effect of the 19 solvents on the re-
a biparametric equation involving * and , and sep- action rate did not exhibited a significant correlation
arately with * and  showed that Kamlet’s tripara- in terms of Kamlet’s equation whereas the correlations
metric equation explain ca. 85% of the effect of sol- with Swain’s equation were excellent.
vents on the oxidation. However, by Exner’s criterion
the correlation is not satisfactory [12]. The major con-
Correlation Analysis of Reactivity
tribution is of solvent polarity. It alone accounted for short
ca. 80% of the data. Both  and ␣ play relatively minor The rate constants of oxidation, k2, of the four vicinal standard
role. diols in DMSO (from Table III) showed an excellent long
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Mechanism
The absence of any effect of a radical scavenger, ac-
rylonitrile (Table II), indicated that a hydrogen ab-
straction mechanism, giving rise to free radicals, is
unlikely. The presence of a substantial kinetic isotope
effect (Table III) confirms the cleavage of an
␣-C 9 H bond in the rate-determining step. The neg-
ative value of the polar reaction constant (Table V)
indicated that the transition state approaches a carbo-
cation in character. Therefore, transfer of a hydride-
ion from the diol to the oxidant is suggested. The hy-
dride-ion transfer mechanism is also supported by the
greater role of cation-solvating power of the solvents
in the reactions.
The hydride-ion transfer may take place either by
a cyclic process via an ester intermediate or by an acy-
clic one-step bimolecular process. Kwart and Nickle
[16] have shown that a dependence of kH/kD on tem-
perature can be successfully employed to determine
whether the loss of hydrogen proceeds through a con-
certed cyclic process or by an acyclic one. The data Scheme I
for protio and deuterioethanediols (Table III),
fitted to the familiar expression kH/kD ⫽ AH/AD posed to involve the formation of a chromate ester in
exp(⫺ ⌬Ea/RT) show a direct correspondence with the a fast preequilibrium and then a decomposition of the
properties of a symmetrical transition state in which ester in a subsequent slow step via a cyclic concerted
the activation energy difference (⌬Ea) for kH/kD is symmetrical transition state leading to the product.
equal to the zero-point energy difference for the re- The observed hydrogen-ion dependence (Table II)
spective C 9 H and C 9 D bonds (⬇ 4.5 kJ/mol) and suggests that the reaction follows two mechanistic
the frequency factors and entropies of activation of the pathways, one acid-independent and another acid-de-
respective reactions are nearly equal [17,18]. Similar pendent. The acid-catalysis may well be attributed to
phenomena were observed earlier in the oxidation of a protonation of either PBC to yield a protonated
benzhydrol by PBC [1] and that of diols by PFC [6]. Cr(VI) species which is a stronger oxidant and elec-
Bordwell [19] has given very cogent evidence trophile or the chromate ester, with both the protonated
against the occurrence of concerted one-step bimolec- and unprotonated forms being reactive. Similar obser-
ular processes by hydrogen transfer and it is evident vations were recorded earlier in the reactions of struc-
that in the present reaction also the hydrogen transfer turally similar PFC [6].
does not occur by an acyclic bimolecular process. It is
well established that intrinsically concerted sigma- +
short
standard
long