Correlations of the rate constants of phosphorylation reactions with the empirical parameters of the solvent polarity

Regression analysis of the solvent effects on the rate constants of nucleophilic substitution at the phosphoryl group was performed with the use of the empirical parameters of solvent polarity which characterize the ability of the solvents to electrophilic and nucleophilic solvation. The nucleophilic solvation of reagents by solvents, as a rule, favors the phosphorylation reactions. In the phosphorylation reactions of anionic nucleophiles, the electrophilic solvation of anions influences negatively the reactions rates. The phosphorylation of amines by chlorides of phosphorus acids is facilitated by the electrophilic solvation of a separated anion. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 271–274, February, 1998.