Bromination of phenols in bromoperoxidase-catalyzed oxidations |
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Authors: | Diana WischangJens Hartung |
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Affiliation: | Fachbereich Chemie, Organische Chemie, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany |
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Abstract: | Phenol and ortho-substituted derivatives furnish products of selective para-bromination, if treated with sodium bromide, hydrogen peroxide, and the vanadate(V)-dependent bromoperoxidase I from the brown alga Ascophyllum nodosum. Relative rates of bromination in morpholine-4-ethane sulfonic acid (MES)-buffered aqueous tert-butanol (pH 6.2) increase by a factor 32, as the ortho-substituent in a phenol changes from F via Cl, OCH3, C(CH3)3, and H to CH3. The polar effect in phenol bromination by the enzymatic method, according to a Hammett-correlation (ρ=−3), compares to reactivity of molecular bromine under identical conditions (ρ=−2). Hypobromous acid is not able to electrophilically substitute bromine for hydrogen at pH 6.2 in aqueous tert-butanol. The tribromide anion behaves in MES-buffered aqueous tert-butanol as electrophile (ρ∼−3), showing a similar polar effect in phenol bromination as molecular bromine. |
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Keywords: | Ascophyllum nodosum Aromatic substitution Bromine Bromoperoxidase Hammett-correlation Hypobromous acid Linear free energy-relationship Phenol Tribromide |
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