Solution and gas-phase basicities of pyridines with bulky α-substituents
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2
- No. 1,p. 45-48
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p29830000045
Abstract
Steric hindrance to solvation of pyridinium cations is largest for two α-t-butyl substituents, less for one t-butyl and one phenyl, less for two α-phenyl groups, and least for one phenyl and one alkyl. The effect of α-phenyl groups is reduced by buttressing. Gas-phase proton affinities of the pyridine determined by dimer dissociation do not correlate with the solution pKa values. Steric accelerations of pyridinium dealkylation show fair correlation with solution pKa; reasons for discrepancies are discussed.Keywords
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