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16. Chemistry of Benzene: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
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16. Chemistry of Benzene: Electrophilic Aromatic

Substitution

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Substitution Reactions of Benzene and Its Derivatives

• Benzene is aromatic: a cyclic conjugated compound with 6 electrons

• Reactions of benzene lead to the retention of the aromatic core

• Electrophilic aromatic substitution replaces a proton on benzene with another electrophile

H

H

H

H

H

HH

H

H

H

H

E

+ E+ + H+

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Bromination of Aromatic Rings• Benzene’s electrons participate as a

Lewis base in reactions with Lewis acids• The product is formed by loss of a proton,

which is replaced by bromine• FeBr3 is added as a catalyst to polarize the

bromine reagent

+ Br2FeBr3

Br

+ HBr

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Addition Intermediate in Bromination

• The addition of bromine occurs in two steps• In the first step the electrons act as a nucleophile

toward Br2 (in a complex with FeBr3)• This forms a cationic addition intermediate from

benzene and a bromine cation• The intermediate is not aromatic and therefore high

in energy (see Figure 16.2)

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Formation of Product from Intermediate

• The cationic addition intermediate transfers a proton to FeBr4

- (from Br- and FeBr3)

• This restores aromaticity (in contrast with addition in alkenes)

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Aromatic Chlorination and Iodination

• Chlorine and iodine (but not fluorine, which is too reactive) can produce aromatic substitution with the addition of other reagents to promote the reaction

• Chlorination requires FeCl3

• Iodine must be oxidized to form a more powerful I+ species (with Cu+ or peroxide)

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Aromatic Nitration• The combination of nitric acid and sulfuric acid produces

NO2+ (nitronium ion)

• The reaction with benzene produces nitrobenzene

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Aromatic Sulfonation• Substitution of H by SO3 (sulfonation)• Reaction with a mixture of sulfuric acid and SO3

• Reactive species is sulfur trioxide or its conjugate acid• Reaction occurs via Wheland intermediate and is

reversible

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Alkali Fusion of Aromatic Sulfonic Acids

• Sulfonic acids are useful as intermediates• Heating with NaOH at 300 ºC followed by

neutralization with acid replaces the SO3H group with an OH

• Example is the synthesis of p-cresol

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Alkylation of Aromatic Rings: The Friedel–Crafts Reaction

• Aromatic substitution of a R+ for H

• Aluminum chloride promotes the formation of the carbocation

• Wheland intermediate forms

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Limitations of the Friedel-Crafts Alkylation

• Only alkyl halides can be used (F, Cl, I, Br)• Aryl halides and vinylic halides do not react (their

carbocations are too hard to form)• Will not work with rings containing an amino group

substituent or a strongly electron-withdrawing group

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Control Problems

• Multiple alkylations can occur because the first alkylation is activating

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Carbocation Rearrangements During Alkylation

• Similar to those that occur during electrophilic additions to alkenes

• Can involve H or alkyl shifts

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Carbocation Rearrangements During Alkylation

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Acylation of Aromatic Rings

• Reaction of an acid chloride (RCOCl) and an aromatic ring in the presence of AlCl3 introduces acyl group, COR – Benzene with acetyl chloride yields acetophenone

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Mechanism of Friedel-Crafts Acylation

• Similar to alkylation• Reactive electrophile: resonance-stabilized acyl

cation • An acyl cation does not rearrange

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Substituent Effects in Aromatic Rings

• Substituents can cause a compound to be (much) more or (much) less reactive than benzene

• Substituents affect the orientation of the reaction – the positional relationship is controlled– ortho- and para-directing activators, ortho- and para-directing

deactivators, and meta-directing deactivators

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Summary Table: Effect of Substituents in Aromatic Substitution

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Origins of Substituent Effects

• An interplay of inductive effects and resonance effects

• Inductive effect - withdrawal or donation of electrons through a bond

• Resonance effect - withdrawal or donation of electrons through a bond due to the overlap of a p orbital on the substituent with a p orbital on the aromatic ring

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Inductive Effects

• Controlled by electronegativity and the polarity of bonds in functional groups

• Halogens, C=O, CN, and NO2 withdraw electrons through bond connected to ring

• Alkyl groups donate electrons

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Resonance Effects – Electron Withdrawal

• C=O, CN, NO2 substituents withdraw electrons from the aromatic ring by resonance

electrons flow from the rings to the substituents

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Resonance Effects – Electron Donation

• Halogen, OH, alkoxyl (OR), and amino substituents donate electrons

• electrons flow from the substituents to the ring• Effect is greatest at ortho and para

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An Explanation of Substituent Effects

• Activating groups donate electrons to the ring, stabilizing the Wheland intermediate (carbocation)

• Deactivating groups withdraw electrons from the ring, destabilizing the Wheland intermediate

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Ortho- and Para-Directing Activators: Alkyl Groups

• Alkyl groups activate: direct further substitution to positions ortho and para to themselves

• Alkyl group is most effective in the ortho and para positions

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Ortho- and Para-Directing Activators: OH and NH2

• Alkoxyl, and amino groups have a strong, electron-donating resonance effect

• Most pronounced at the ortho and para positions

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Ortho- and Para-Directing Deactivators: Halogens

• Electron-withdrawing inductive effect outweighs weaker electron-donating resonance effect

• Resonance effect is only at the ortho and para positions, stabilizing carbocation intermediate

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Meta-Directing Deactivators • Inductive and resonance effects reinforce each other• Ortho and para intermediates destabilized by

deactivation from carbocation intermediate• Resonance cannot produce stabilization

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Trisubstituted Benzenes: Additivity of Effects

• If the directing effects of the two groups are the same, the result is additive

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Substituents with Opposite Effects

• If the directing effects of two groups oppose each other, the more powerful activating group decides the principal outcome

• Often gives mixtures of products

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Meta-Disubstituted Compounds Are Unreactive

• The reaction site is too hindered• To make aromatic rings with three adjacent substituents, it

is best to start with an ortho-disubstituted compound

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Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution

• Aryl halides with electron-withdrawing substituents ortho and para react with nucleophiles

• Form addition intermediate (Meisenheimer complex) that is stabilized by electron-withdrawal

• Halide ion is lost to give aromatic ring

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Benzyne

• Phenol is prepared on an industrial scale by treatment of chlorobenzene with dilute aqueous NaOH at 340°C under high pressure

• The reaction involves an elimination reaction that gives a triple bond

• The intermediate is called benzyne

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Evidence for Benzyne as an Intermediate

• Bromobenzene with 14C only at C1 gives substitution product with label scrambled between C1 and C2

• Reaction proceeds through a symmetrical intermediate in which C1 and C2 are equivalent— must be benzyne

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Structure of Benzyne

• Benzyne is a highly distorted alkyne• The triple bond uses sp2-hybridized carbons, not

the usual sp• The triple bond has one bond formed by p–p

overlap and by weak sp2–sp2 overlap

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Oxidation of Aromatic Compounds

• Alkyl side chains can be oxidized to CO2H by strong reagents such as KMnO4 and Na2Cr2O7 if they have a C-H next to the ring

• Converts an alkylbenzene into a benzoic acid, ArR ArCO2H

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Bromination of Alkylbenzene Side Chains

• Reaction of an alkylbenzene with N-bromo-succinimide (NBS) and benzoyl peroxide (radical initiator) introduces Br into the side chain

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Mechanism of NBS (Radical) Reaction

• Abstraction of a benzylic hydrogen atom generates an intermediate benzylic radical

• Reacts with Br2 to yield product• Br· radical cycles back into reaction to carry chain• Br2 produced from reaction of HBr with NBS

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Reduction of Aromatic Compounds

• Aromatic rings are inert to catalytic hydrogenation under conditions that reduce alkene double bonds

• Can selectively reduce an alkene double bond in the presence of an aromatic ring

• Reduction of an aromatic ring requires more powerful reducing conditions (high pressure or rhodium catalysts)

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Reduction of Aryl Alkyl Ketones

• Aromatic ring activates neighboring carbonyl group toward reduction

• Ketone is converted into an alkylbenzene by catalytic hydrogenation over Pd catalyst

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