Abstract
Pseudobase formation and methoxide ion addition have been investigated spectroscopically for some N-methylacridinium, -phenanthridinium, and -benzoquinolinium cations. Susceptibility to nucleophilic attack decreases in the order 10-methylacridinium (pKROH = 9.86) > 5-methylphenanthridinium (pKROH = 11.94) > 1-methyl-5,6-benzoquinolinium ≈ 1-methyl-7,8-benzoquinolinium (pKROH &([a-z]+); 14). A qualitative correlation of pKROH with loss of resonance energy upon pseudobase formation is shown to exist. For the 9,10-dimethylacridinium cation, the C-9 pseudobase (or methoxide adduct) is the kinetically preferred product in basic solutions but this is subsequently converted to the thermodynamically more stable anhydrobase. With the corresponding 9-ethyl- and 9-benzyl-10-methylacridinium cations, the pseudobase, rather than the anhydrobase, seems to predominate at equilibrium.
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