J. Am. Chem. SOC.1984, 106, 4840-4845
4840
Foundation. The help of V. Baillargeon and A. Erwin in obtaining the deuterated 3-chlorocyclohexene and the deuterium N M R spectra is greatly appreciated. The palladium chloride was provided under the Johnson-Matthey Metal Loan Program. The 360-MHz N M R spectra were obtained at the Colorado State
University Regional N M R Center, funded by the National Science Foundation, Grant CHE-78-1858 1. High-resolution mass spectral determinations were performed by the Midwest Center for Mass Spectrometry at the University of Nebraska, funded by the National Science Foundation, Grant CHE-8211164.
Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of IFER for MSE (Interactive Free Energy Relationship for Multiple-Substituent Effects). Mechanistic Significance of the Reaction Constant and Cross-Interaction Constant? Jacques-Emile Dubois,* Marie-Fraqoise Ruasse,* and Alain Argile Contribution from the Institute et de Topologie et de Dynamique des SystPmes, Universitt? Paris VU, associ&au C.N.R.S.,I , rue Guy de la Brosse, 75005 Paris, France. Received March 23, 1982
Abstract: Substituentsubstituent interactionsare quantitativelyinvestigated by the interactive free energy relationship (IFER), log k X Y / k H H = plHuX+ pzHuy + quxuy,which is theoretically derived on the reasonable assumption that the quadratic terms in ux2and uy2 are negligible compared to the cross term in uxuy. The IFER equation is tested for different types of substituent effects on various classes of reactions involving one or two reagents and including all the possible behaviors with respect to RSP. This equation is applied to 35 data sets of multiple-substituent effects (MSE); the additive (q = 0) and nonadditive (q # 0) effects are accurately described provided that the elementary FER'S, where only one substituent varies, are linear. With this condition, 32 values of the cross-interaction constant can be calculated, mainly from kinetic and thermodynamic data; q is found to vary markedly, from +1 to -8. As regards the kinetic effects, the IFER works regardless of the reactivityselectivity dependence. The extensive survey of q values enables interactions to be compared in rates and equilibria: the interaction constant is systematically higher for kinetic than for thermodynamic data; p for rates is twice as sensitive to the structure as p for equilibria. This result, analyzed in terms of the thermodynamic and intrinsic kinetic contributions to the reactivity, suggests that the interaction constant q reflects at least in part a change in the transition-state position induced by the substituent. The constant q is a free energy relationship parameter, complementary to the reaction constant p for investigating the structure of the transition state.
According to the Hammond postulate' and to more recent theoretical development^^^^ such as those of Marcus and LewisMore OFerrall, free energy relationships (FER) should not be linear. This intriguing deduction is the subject of frequent debate since it casts doubt upon the very significance of the FER parameters usually considered as terms characteristic of the transition-state position. Experimental proofs of curvature in FER are not common. The situation is, moreover, quite different depending on whether Br0nsted4 rate-equilibrium relationships or Hammett5 structure-reactivity relationships are concerned. While there is experimental6support for the theoretical prediction of curvature7 in Bransted relationships, very little has been done in connection with Hammett or Hammett-Brown equations.* More OFerrall has shown9 from a study on rates and equilibria in five reactions that the Hammett p for one substituent could be a variable described by the following expression. p
= po
+ 2mu
(1)
However the opposite theory, namely that structure-reactivity relationships are linear and that p is constant, has been upheldl0 on a pragmatic basis. This debate is of fundamental importance since the assumption of a constant p leads one to conclude, contrary to what is commonly agreed," that p cannot be an index of the transition-state position. In fact linearity of reactivity-structure relationships means merely that the second derivative of the reactivity12is negligible compared to the first derivative ( m
