Acid-catalysed chlorine transfer from N-chloramines to iodide ion: experimental evidence for a predicted change in mechanism
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Abstract
Rate constants for acid catalysis of the reactions of N-chlorodimethylamine (1), N-chloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethylamine (2) and N,N-dichlorotaurine (3) with iodide ion were determined in H(2)O at 25 degrees C and I = 0.5 (NaClO(4)). The failure to detect significant catalysis by general acids of chlorine transfer from 1 to the nucleophile, together with the observed inverse solvent deuterium isotope effect on the hydronium ion-catalysed reaction (k(H)/k(D) = 0.37), indicates that this process occurs by protonation of 1 in a fast equilibrium step, followed by rate determining chlorine transfer to iodide ion. The appearance of general acid catalysis for the reactions of 2 and 3 shows that increasing the leaving group ability leads to a change to a concerted mechanism, which is suggested to be enforced by the absence of a significant lifetime of the protonated chloramine intermediate in the presence of iodide ion.
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