Kinetics of the reaction of 5-substituted orotic acids with diazodiphenylmethane

Abstract

Rate konstants for the reaction of eight 5-substituted orotic acids with diazodiphenylmethane (DDM) in dimethylformamide (DMF) were determined at 30 ºC by the known spectrophotometric method. The determined rate constants were correlated with the equations: log k2 = as1 + bsR + h log k2 = as1 + bsR + yn + h to detect the presence and investigate the influence of both electrical and steric substituent effects. The obtained results show that the electrical effect (the localized – field and delocalized – resonance) is predominant and that the steric effect, althought present, is releatively small in this reaction.

Keywords

• orotic acids
• diazodiphenylmethane
• reaction kinetics dimethylformamide