Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 2000, 65, 227-242
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc20000227

Quaternary Pyridinium Ketoximes - New Efficient Micellar Hydrolytic Catalysts

Radek Cibulkaa, František Hampla,*, Hana Kotoučováa, Jiří Mazáčb and František Liškaa

a Department of Organic Chemistry, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
b Ministry of Finance, Customs Technical Laboratory, 180 00 Prague 8, Czech Republic

Abstract

A series of quaternized alkyl pyridyl ketoximes was synthesized and tested as micellar hydrolytic catalysts. 2- And 4-[1-(hydroxyimino)tridecyl]-1-methylpyridinium bromides were surprisingly efficient, most probably due to the location of their nucleophilic hydroxyimino group below the micellar surface. Absorbance of the reaction mixture vs time plots exhibited remarkable positive deviation from the first-order kinetics when hydrolysis of 4-nitrophenyl phosphates was catalyzed by 1-dodecyl-3-[1-(hydroxyimino)ethyl]- or 3-[1-(hydroxyimino)tridecyl]-1-methylpyridinium bromide.

Keywords: Micelles; Pyridinium salts; Oximes; Phosphates; Hydrolyses; Kinetics; Micellar catalysis.

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