{"id":22304,"date":"2020-05-08T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T08:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=22304"},"modified":"2020-05-10T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T06:30:59","slug":"choreographing-a-chemical-ballet-what-happens-if-you-change-one-of-the-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=22304","title":{"rendered":"Choreographing a chemical ballet:  what happens if you change one of the actors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"22304\">\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=22153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I explored the choreography<\/a> or &#8220;timing&#8221;, of what might be described as the curly arrows for a typical taught reaction mechanism, the 1,4-addition of a nucleophile to an unsaturated carbonyl compound (scheme 1). I am now going to explore the consequences of changing one of the actors by adding the nucleophile to an unsaturated imine rather than carbonyl compound (scheme 2).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_22171\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/michael3.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22171\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/michael3.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Scheme 1<\/strong><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_22171\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/michael4.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22171\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/michael4.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Scheme 2<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>For the reaction shown in Scheme 1, the maximum energy point along the reaction path involves the formation of an S-C bond (arrow <strong>2<\/strong> in scheme 1) rather than transfer of a proton. Scheme 2 has a new actor in which NH replaces O and which is a better base (<em>i.e.<\/em> has a greater affinity for a proton). The mechanism again starts with arrows <strong>1<\/strong> and <strong>2<\/strong> launching proceedings. If you watch the animation below very carefully, you will notice that arrows <strong>3<\/strong> and <strong>4<\/strong> lag behind them. This means that you have to have the blue arrows\u00a0<strong>1<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>4<\/strong> as distinctly separate arrows. An alternative depiction (and in truth very probably the depiction you would find in pretty much all text books and lecture notes) would be to combine arrows <strong>1<\/strong> and <strong>4<\/strong> into the single red arrow <strong>8<\/strong>. If you do this however, you loose this subtle nuance to the mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_22309\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22309\" onclick=\"jmolApplet([430,430],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TS1.log;frame 3;set antialiasDisplay ON;vectors on;vectors 4;vectors scale 8.0;color vectors green;vibration 6;zoom 120;spin 3;','c1');\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Michael-iminoPTa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Animated\u00a0Reaction coordinate for TS1 (scheme 2)<\/strong> Click to load 3D model<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_22314\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/349_tot_ener.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22314\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/349_tot_ener.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Energy along reaction coordinate for TS1 (Scheme 2)<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The product of this first step is a zwitterionic (internal ion-pair) compound. This then goes on to form the S-C bond (arrows <strong>5<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>7<\/strong>) via <strong>TS2<\/strong>, with the energy of this second transition state being lower than than <strong>TS1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22333\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ts2.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ts2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Animated reaction coordinate for TS2 (Scheme 2)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/395_tot_ener.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/395_tot_ener.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The free energy barrier for this second step is low (\u0394G<sup>\u2020<\/sup> 0.6 kcal\/mol) because it is an ion-pair reacting to form a neutral molecule, always a facile process. Because the slowest step in this reaction (<strong>TS1<\/strong>) involves a proton transfer, this should now show a primary deuterium kinetic isotope effect. Indeed this is calculated to have the value <strong>4.0 <\/strong>at 298K.\u00a0There is a prediction for an experiment to undertake!<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Species<br \/>\n(FAIR Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/hpc\/7172\">dt5d<\/a>)<\/th>\n<th>\n<p>Relative energy<\/p>\n<p>kcal\/mol<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Reactant<\/td>\n<td>0.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TS1<\/td>\n<td>7.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Zwitterion<\/td>\n<td>2.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TS2<\/td>\n<td>2.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Product<\/td>\n<td>-12.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>To sumarise<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Changing a C=O group to a C=NH group changes the nature of the mechanism from concerted asynchrous to stepwise.<\/li>\n<li>As a result of this change, the highest energy step now involves asynchronous proton transfers rather than S-C bond formation.<\/li>\n<li>The curly arrows can be used to reflect these steps, with two (blue) arrows being preferred to a single (red) one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So by expanding the conventional number of curly arrows used to include extra ones capturing asynchronicity in the reaction, one can indeed add further information to the curly arrow formalism.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This post has DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/dt6v\">dt6v<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 22304 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, I explored the choreography or &#8220;timing&#8221;, of what might be described as the curly arrows for a typical taught reaction mechanism, the 1,4-addition of a nucleophile to an unsaturated carbonyl compound (scheme 1). 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