The kinetics of the electrophilic bromination of 17 oligonuclear phenolic compounds with molecular bromine in acetic acid were studied at 22°C. Some of these compounds, consisting of up to 6 phenolic units, which are linked in ortho-position by methylene bridges, and having only one (or two) reactive ortho-position(s) at the end of the molecule, were synthesized for the first time. It could be shown, even for hexanuclear compounds, that the variation of substituents at one end of the molecule leads to a change in the reactivity at the other end, that means over a distance of 22 nonconjugated covalent links. So far, this can be explained only by a chain of intramolecular hydrogen bonds betwe…

Kinetik der Bromierung von Phenolen und phenolischen Mehrkernverbindungen, 5. Mitt.

The kinetics of the bromination of six differently substituted 2,6-bis(hydroxybenzyl)phenols having only one reactivepara position at the phenolic unit in the middle of the molecule were studied in acetic acid at 22°C. The reaction rate decreases if intramolecular hydrogen bonds between one or two hydroxy groups of the adjacent phenolic units and the hydroxy group of the reacting unit become possible, and it is especially low, if these hydrogen bonds are directed to the middle by bulky substituents inortho position. This must be explained by a smaller +M-effect of the hydroxy group of the reacting unit. A kinetic isotope effect is observed in deutero acetic acid, where the reaction rate is …