John Jijadi
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resonance structure of benzoate ion
Can the lone pair electrons of oxygen in benzoate ion delocalized into benzene ring?
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No, since for this to happen, you will have to get the lone pair electrons to add to the carbon-oxygen bond (thus forming a double
bond), and with this transfer of electrons you have two options (delocalized electrons can't go farther than atom-to-bond) :
A. Take electrons from the double bond of the other carbon-oxygen into the oxygen (a property of the carboxylate ion which makes it more stabilize,
but helps you not with the "electrons into ring" issue).
B. Having the electrons from the already-double-bonded oxygen creating a carbon-carbon bond with an aromatic carbon... which leads to a five-bonded
carbon, in whatever way you look at it. A big no no.
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but remember that the lone pair IS delocalized among the oxygen atoms, which are conjugated with the ring system
There will likely be some partial overlap between the P orbitals of the oxygen and the pi bonds in the ring
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overlap of orbitals is not resonance, nor delocalizing.
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To quote from p 447 of Anslyn and Dougherty's Modern Physical Organic Chemistry:
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The negative charge of benzoate anion is not in conjugation with the aromatic ring, and so it cannot be stabilized by resonance.
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btw, peppovsky, you're using the wrong type of arrows for resonance 
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Quote: Originally posted by DDTea  | To quote from p 447 of Anslyn and Dougherty's Modern Physical Organic Chemistry:
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The negative charge of benzoate anion is not in conjugation with the aromatic ring, and so it cannot be stabilized by resonance.
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btw, peppovsky, you're using the wrong type of arrows for resonance
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Your "resonance" does not exist, it is just fiction (or trick if you like).
In chemistry fiction cannot stabilize anything. It is possible only on paper, in more or less shitty books, equally modern and old.
Do not mess physical delocalization of electrons with (not existing in reality) "resonance".
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Of course "resonance" is a fiction; it's a model (well, the result of a model really). No model is perfectly accurate, but they're accurate enough to
give good results. If they aren't accurate enough to give meaningful/usable results, then you switch to a different, often more complicated model. A
hybrid valence bond/MO approach is sufficient to answer this question (as is used in a lot of A & D's book). There's no need to be pedantic with
a simple, likely sophomore O. Chem question, though--that distracts from the answer.
Of course, if you really want to, you could go and calculate the molecular Hamiltonian or go Computational on this, but that approach isn't very
useful when it comes to solving O. Chem problems
By the way, I'd hardly call Anslyn & Dougherty's book "shitty," but if you feel you can write a better one, go ahead.
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| Quote: Originally posted by peppovsky | No, since for this to happen, you will have to get the lone pair electrons to add to the carbon-oxygen bond (thus forming a double
bond), and with this transfer of electrons you have two options (delocalized electrons can't go farther than atom-to-bond) :
A. Take electrons from the double bond of the other carbon-oxygen into the oxygen (a property of the carboxylate ion which makes it more stabilize,
but helps you not with the "electrons into ring" issue).
B. Having the electrons from the already-double-bonded oxygen creating a carbon-carbon bond with an aromatic carbon... which leads to a five-bonded
carbon, in whatever way you look at it. A big no no.
[Edited on 27-1-2011 by peppovsky]
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I have two questions.
First:How is it possible,that electrons can't go farther than atom-to-bond?After all,this is the princip of the resonance effect,isn it?In phenol,for
example electrons move through the whole benzene ring...
And second:
You wrote:,, Having the electrons from the already-double-bonded oxygen creating a carbon-carbon bond with an aromatic carbon... which leads to a
five-bonded carbon, in whatever way you look at it. A big no no."
But carbon will be not five-bonded,because electrons from carbon ring will move,like in phenol or other examples.Or am I wrong?
Thanks
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Have a look at page 9, all you want to know 
http://www.auburn.edu/~deruija/pda1_acids1.pdf
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Here,carboxylic group conjugate to ring: http://www.google.sk/imgres?q=benzoic+acid%2Bresonance+struc...
And carbon isn t 5-bonded,because electrons move to adjacent carbon and so on.....Am I right?
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No, see my post above.
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I have read this article.But I still understand.Here is link,why: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1B7CAXUEJ8Grs3Ci8W_GfvLPB...
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Moving the electrons from the double bond would give you a positively charged oxygen and a negative charge on a ring carbon.
This would be a highly unstable structure.
Have a look at the following tables. 3 and 4- Nitrobenzoic acids are weaker than 2- Nitrobenzoic which is due to the neighbouring group effect, like
chloroacetic acid compared with acetic acid.
2 and 4-Nitrophenols are stronger than 3-Nitrophenol, resonance effect.
Formula Name Temp pKa
C7H5NO4 2-Nitrobenzoic acid 18 2.16
C7H5NO4 3-Nitrobenzoic acid 25 3.47
C7H5NO4 4-Nitrobenzoic acid 25 3.41
C6H5NO3 2-Nitrophenol 25 7.17
C6H5NO3 3-Nitrophenol 25 8.28
C6H5NO3 4-Nitrophenol 25 7.15
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According to a single point energy computation using GAMESS-US, the partial charges on atoms don't change hugely between neutral acid and anion.
The charge plot estimates that only the 1-C ring atom experiences significant electron density decrease by simple proximity to the carboxylic moiety,
as do the ortho ring carbons to a lesser extent.
If you reproduce this calculation, be warned that each one took about an hour on a 6-core SMP machine.
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Thanks for answers
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Beating a dead horse:
The acidic carboxy function has its own PI orbital system.
The anion's PI system delocalizes over the whole ring.
Benzoic Acid
Benzoate anion
Note: the single point energy eigenvalues were produced by MOPAC2009, from OpenMopac
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| Quote: Originally posted by arsphenamine | Beating a dead horse:
The acidic carboxy function has its own PI orbital system.
The anion's PI system delocalizes over the whole ring.
Benzoic Acid
Benzoate anion
Note: the single point energy eigenvalues were produced by MOPAC2009, from OpenMopac
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So that means,carboxyl group is in conjugation with ring?Benzene can take pi electrons from carboxyl group?If yes,that means,that benzoic acid is
stronger acid like for example formic acid,because negative charge is stabilized over whole ring----more stable,Is it true?
[Edited on 15-2-2012 by thedy]
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| Quote: Originally posted by thedy | | Quote: Originally posted by arsphenamine | Beating a dead horse:
The acidic carboxy function has its own PI orbital system.
The anion's PI system delocalizes over the whole ring.
Benzoic Acid
Benzoate anion
Note: the single point energy eigenvalues were produced by MOPAC2009, from OpenMopac
[Edited on 10-2-2012 by arsphenamine] |
So that means,carboxyl group is in conjugation with ring?Benzene can take pi electrons from carboxyl group?If yes,that means,that benzoic acid is
stronger acid like for example formic acid,because negative charge is stabilized over whole ring----more stable,Is it true?
[Edited on 15-2-2012 by thedy]
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pKa Formic acid 3.77
pKa Benzoic acid 4.21
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| Quote: | | So that means,carboxyl group is in conjugation with ring?Benzene can take pi electrons from carboxyl group?If yes,that means,that benzoic acid is
stronger acid like for example formic acid,because negative charge is stabilized over whole ring----more stable,Is it true? |
More stable electronically doesn't mean a stronger acid.
A 4.19 pKa means the benzoate Gibbs free energy (= -RT ln(Ka)) is 23.9 kJ/mol or ~5.7 kCal/mol, about 4x the energy in a hydrogen bond.
The enthalpy of formation is a bit higher which means there is a significant entropy change when the anion forms.
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