Effects of neutral and charged substituents on the infrared carbonyl stretching frequencies in phenyl and alkyl benzoates in DMSO.

The carbonyl infrared stretching frequencies for 57 meta-, para- and ortho-substituted phenyl benzoates, C₆H₅CO₂C₆H₄-X and alkylbenzoates, C₆H₅CO₂R, containing besides neutral substituents the charged substituents in phenoxy and alkoxy part in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) have been recorded. The carbonyl stretching frequencies, ν_CO, for meta- and para-substituted phenyl esters of benzoic acids in the case of neutral substituents were found to correlate well with the substituent constants, σ°. The ν_CO values for ortho derivatives correlated with the inductive substituent constants, σ_I, only. The values of constants for charged substituents, σ°_±, calculated on the basis of the ν_CO and the ¹³C NMR chemical shifts, δ_CO, in DMSO agree well with the σ°_± values for the corresponding ion pairs reported by Hoefnagel and Wepster and those determined from the log k values of the alkaline in 4.4 M NaCl solution at 50 °C. Thus, the values of substituent constants for ion pairs of charged substituents estimated on the basis of aqueous data could be successfully used in non-aqueous solution (DMSO) simultaneously with neutral substituents in case the charged substituents were not completely ionized and are in ion pair form. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]