A Generalized Solvent Basicity Scale: The Solvatochromism of 5-Nitroindoline and Its Homomorph 1-Methyl-5-nitroindoline
✍ Scribed by Catalán, Javier ;Díaz, Cristina ;López, Vicenta ;Pérez, Pilar ;De Paz, José-Luis G. ;Rodríguez, José Gonzalo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 977 KB
- Volume
- 1996
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0947-3440
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A total of 202 organic solvents and the gas phase were placed on a solvent basicity scale for hydrogen bond acceptor based on parameter SB. The value of such a parameter can readily be determined from the UV/Vis spectrum for an appropriate acid probe (5‐nitroindoline) (NI) and its non‐acid homomorph (1‐methyl‐5‐nitroindoline) (MNI). The proposed scale can advantageously substitute the more widely used solvent scales such as Gutmann's donor number (DN), the Koppel‐Palm B~(MeOD)~ scale, and the Taft‐Kamlet β scale. While data for the proposed scale are derived only from electronic transitions, they are accurately descriptive of solvent basicity in both spectroscopy (UV/Vis, IR and NMR) and miscellaneous chemical areas (thermodynamic, kinetics, and electrochemistry).