Study on the Transesterification of Methyl Aryl Phosphorothioates in Methanol Promoted by Cd(II), Mn(II), and a Synthetic Pd(II) Complex
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Abstract
Methanol solutions containing Cd(II), Mn(II), and a palladacycle, (dimethanol bis(N,N-dimethylbenzylamine-2C,N)palladium(II) (3), are shown to promote the methanolytic transesterification of O-methyl O-4-nitrophenyl phosphorothioate (2b) at 25 °C with impressive rate accelerations of 10(6)-10(11) over the background methoxide promoted reaction. A detailed mechanistic investigation of the methanolytic cleavage of 2a-d having various leaving group aryl substitutions, and particularly the 4-nitrophenyl derivative (2b), catalyzed by Pd-complex 3 is presented. Plots of k(obs) versus palladacycle [3] demonstrate strong saturation binding to form 2b:3. Numerical fits of the kinetic data to a universal binding equation provide binding constants, K(b), and first order catalytic rate constants for the methanolysis reaction of the 2b:3 complex (k(cat)) which, when corrected for buffer effects, give corrected (k(cat)(corr)) rate constants. A sigmoidal shaped plot of log(k(cat)(corr)) versus (s)(s)pH (in methanol) for the cleavage of 2b displays a broad (s)(s)pH independent region from 5.6 ≤ (s)(s)pH ≤ 10 with a k(minimum) = (1.45 ± 0.24) × 10(-2) s(-1) and a [lyoxide] dependent wing plateauing above a kinetically determined (s)(s)pK(a) of 12.71 ± 0.17 to give a k(maximum) = 7.1 ± 1.7 s(-1). Brønsted plots were constructed for reaction of 2a-d at (s)(s)pH 8.7 and 14.1, corresponding to reaction in the midpoints of the low and high (s)(s)pH plateaus. The Brønsted coefficients (β(LG)) are computed as -0.01 ± 0.03 and -0.86 ± 0.004 at low and high (s)(s)pH, respectively. In the low (s)(s)pH plateau, and under conditions of saturating 3, a solvent deuterium kinetic isotope effect of k(H)/k(D) = 1.17 ± 0.08 is observed; activation parameters (ΔH(Pd)(++) = 14.0 ± 0.6 kcal/mol and ΔS(Pd)(++)= -20 ± 2 cal/mol·K) were obtained for the 3-catalyzed cleavage reaction of 2b. Possible mechanisms are discussed for the reactions catalyzed by 3 at low and high sspH. This catalytic system is shown to promote the methanolytic cleavage of O,O-dimethyl phosphorothioate in CD3OD, producing (CD3O)2P═O(S(-)) with a half time for reaction of 34 min.
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