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    Determination of the pK a Value of a Brønsted Acid by 19 F NMR Spectroscopy

    Griffiths, Emily F, Dixon, Jay A, Caffyn, Andrew J M, Langley, Stuart K, Maciá, Beatriz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5148-0516, Caprio, Vittorio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9752-6513 and Mewis, Ryan E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3756-6505 (2024) Determination of the pK a Value of a Brønsted Acid by 19 F NMR Spectroscopy. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. ISSN 0749-1581

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    Abstract

    Brønsted acids, such as phosphoric acids derived from chiral 1,1′‐bi‐2‐naphthol (BINOL), are important catalysts in the formation of carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bonds, for example. The catalytic activity of these Brønsted acids is strongly linked to their acidity, and as such, the evaluation of compounds to determine pK a values provides insight into their catalytic activity. Herein, a 19F{1H} NMR methodology is detailed to determine the pK a of a fluorinated binaphthyl‐derived phosphinic acid, rac‐1, in acetonitrile and in the presence of a fluorinated sulfonamide reference compound (2–4). The approach was tested initially using 2 and 3, with the ΔpK a (0.08) in strong agreement with previously reported values (6.6 for 2 and 6.68/6.73 for 3). Sigmoidal curves of normalised chemical shift change (Δδ) against equivalents of the base phosphazene P1‐tBu added overlapped for 2 and 3, but in the case of rac‐1 and either 2, 3 or 4, there was significant separation. A variety of different approaches for determining the ΔpK a were compared. Values of pK a determined when the normalised Δδ was 90% were optimal for 2 and 3, whereas a normalised Δδ of 75% was optimal for 4, resulting in the pK a of rac‐1 being determined to be 8.47–8.71.

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