Publication Type Journal Article
Title Hydrolysis of aryl N-methyl-N-arylsulfonylcarbamates
Authors M. Eduarda Araújo M Campelo Jim Iley F Norberto
Groups HC
Journal JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2
Year 2001
Month April
Volume
Number 4
Pages 494-497
Abstract Tertiary sulfonylcarbamates 1 were prepared by reaction of a sulfonamide anion with aryl chloroformates. These previously unreported compounds hydrolyse in aqueous media to the parent sulfonamide and phenol. The pH-rate profile shows both spontaneous and base-catalysed processes. The reaction is also catalysed by buffers. Kinetic data for the hydrolysis of these compounds by HO- are best interpreted in terms of a mechanism involving rate-limiting formation of a tetrahedral intermediate from nucleophilic attack of hydroxide ion at the carbamate carbonyl carbon atom. For the 4-nitrophenylsulfonyl compound Ih decomposition of the tetrahedral intermediate appears to be rate-limiting with the sulfonamide anion, rather than the phenoxide, functioning as the leaving group. The buffer-catalysed process is consistent with general base-catalysed attack of water at the carbamate carbonyl carbon atom.
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b009146o
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ISSN 1472-779X
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Bibtex ID ISI:000168123900012
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