title: Substituent effects on the gas-phase ring-chain tautomerism of 3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-2H-1,3-oxazines.
abstract: The electron ionization mass spectra of five series of seven 2-aryl,4-R-substituted (R = Me, Et, i-Pr, t-Bu or Ph) 3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-2H-1,3-oxazines were recorded at 14 and 70 eV in order to study the ring-chain tautomeric equilibria in the gas phase. Certain fragment ions were associated with the ring or with the open-chain forms of the compounds. As in chloroform solution, the electron-withdrawing effect of the aryl substituent (p-NO(2), m-Br, p-Cl, H, p-Me, p-OMe and p-NMe(2)) shifts the equilibrium towards the ring form. The correlation of ring-chain equilibria (log K = [ring]/[chain]) with the Hammett sigma+ constants of the aryl substituents was in general good or satisfactory although in some cases the p-NMe(2) did not fit these correlations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland.
authors.forename: Márta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Juhász
authors.forename: Ferenc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fülöp
authors.forename: Kalevi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pihlaja
mesh_terms: D005740:Gases / Q000737:chemistry; D010078:Oxazines / Q000737:chemistry*; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / Q000379:methods*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D005740:Gases; D010078:Oxazines