Nucleophilic addition of water

2012-08-26 4:53 am
For nucleophilic addition of water or called hydration, it mentions the treatment of an aldehyde or ketone with CH3OH, H2O, HCl, HBr, H2SO4 does not normally lead to a stable alcohol addition product. But what is the reason behind?? The book said if the nucleophile is in the type of H-X, if the Y atom is electronegative and can stabilize a negative charge, then the equilibrium will favour the carbonyl compund rather than the tetrrahedral addition product. Can anyone tell me the reason.
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己式庚辛 I want to ask about the mechanism of the necleophilic addition of H-Y of carbonyl compound. Is the first step is the protonation of the carbonyl oxygen atom or the Y atom of H-Y directly attack the partial positive carbon centre. In addition, why you mention there is no negative charge on Y

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2012-08-26 5:54 am
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Properly divide into paragraphs to facilitate reading.

2.
It's "hydration of carbonyl compd.", not just hydration -- there're many kinds of hydration!

3.
Misspell: " nucleophile in type of "H-Y".

4.
Quote your reference: Organic Chemistry by McMurray J.
So that people know what to refer to.

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Think of the reaction mechanism: your nucleophile Y attacks the partial-positive carbonyl carbon, so Y must bear lone-pair (NO negative charge, 'coz it's in form of H-Y).

What makes the lone pair more "available" and willing to approach the positive reaction site?

If Y is electronegative (O, Cl, Br) or even attached to electronegative groups (-OSO3H), electrons will be held by Y more tightly; in turn less "available" and less willing to approach the positive site.

On the other hand, if Y is not so electronegative (such as S in H2S and thiols), electrons are less-tightly held, thus more available to attack +ve site.


p.s. You may also want to consider effect of steric hindrance of some nucleophile and the carbonyl compd, but that's another story.


2012-08-31 17:15:20 補充:
1. Since you're using H-Y, so I assume that the medium is acidic; otherwise, your H-Y will deprotonate to give Y(-) anion.

2. If at acidic medium, one can expect the carbonyl oxygen is protonated first, which makes the carbonyl carbon more +ve charged (inductive / resonance).

2012-08-31 17:17:26 補充:
If you're using basic medium, then Y in HY or Y(-) anion would first attack carbonyl carbon; you may need follow-up treatment by acids then.


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