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Reaction Of Ketone Lab Report

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Reactions of amines with ketone and aldehydes have been the subject of considerable study for over half a century. In 1960, Jencks recognized that imine formation involves two steps and second-order overall.1 Both reaction steps can be the rate-determining step and it depends on the solution pH. The reaction being studied in the experiment is shown in scheme 1. Scheme 1: Reaction of benzyldehyde and semicarbazide The first step of the reaction is nucleophile attack and second step is dehydration. The propose of the experiment is to measure the pseudo-first order rate constant of different meta- or para- substituted Benzaldehyde and calculate reaction constant ρ to determine the rate-determining step using the Hammett plot. The initial benzaldehyde …show more content…

The N1 has resonance stabilization with carbonyl group as shown in figure 5. So the N2 is more nucleophile than the N1. Figure 4: Structure of semicarbazide Figure 5: The resonances of semicabazide The amount of reactive unprotonated semicarbazide presented in the condition of pH=7 can be calculated using the equation: pKa = pH-log ([A-]/[HA]). The literature value of pKa was 3.82. The concentration of HA from this experiment was 0.4M. The concentration of [A-] can be calculated; the amount of reactive unprotonated semicarbazide is 3.003 x 10-3 M. The second-order rate constant for the reaction between benzaldehyde and semicarbazide can be determined experimentally, the second-order rate equation is d[B]/dt = k1[A][B]. By rearrangement, d[B]/dt = kobs[B] where kobs = k1[A]. Use the concentration of A, which is semicarbazide hydrochloride in the experiment, and use the calculated kobs for each substituted benzaldehyde, the second-order rate constant k1 can be …show more content…

With the electron-donating group, positive charge develops at reaction center in transition state during rate-determining step, so the rate-determining step is till the step 1, and the second dehydration step is faster (scheme 2). With electron-withdrawing group, negative charge develops at reaction center in transition state of the rate-determining step, and the dehydration (step 2) builds up a positive charge near the aromatic ring, because of the resonance stabilized positive iminium ion, the dehydration step (step 2)) slows down and becomes the rate-determining step with EWG at pH

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