SUPPORTING INFORMATION Oxidation of anti-tubercular drug Isoniazid by lipopathic oxidant, Cetyltrimethylammonium dichromate: A mechanistic study Sarita Garnayak and Sabita Patel* Department of Chemistry, NIT, Rourkela, India-769008 E–mail: sabita_patel@yahoo.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Page no Figure SI1. Plot of H‡ versus S‡ in the oxidation reaction of isoniazid with 2 CTADC in presence of acetic acid for a series of solvents. Figure SI2. Plot of 103kobs versus π∗ in the oxidation reaction of isoniazid with 2 CTADC at 298 K. Figure SI3. Plot of 103kobs versus dielectric constant (ε) in the oxidation reaction of 3 isoniazid with CTADC at 298 K. Figure SI4. Plot of 103kobs versus Dipole moment (μ) in the oxidation reaction of 3 isoniazid with CTADC at 298 K. Figure SI5. Plot of 103kobs versus A and B of the solvents in the oxidation reaction 3 of isoniazid with CTADC at 298 K. Table SI1. Observed rate constants for the oxidation of isoniazid by CTADC in various organic solvents in presence of acetic acid at 298K. 1 4 40000 y = 314x + 89,837 R² = 1 H‡ in J mol-1 30000 20000 10000 0 -300 -250 -200 S‡ in J K-1 -150 -100 mol-1 Figure SI1: Plot of H‡ versus S‡ for the oxidation reaction of isoniazid with CTADC in presence of acetic acid for a series of solvents. 10 103 kobs in s-1 8 6 4 2 0 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 * Figure SI2: Plot of 103kobs versus π∗ of the solvents in the oxidation reaction of isoniazid with CTADC at 298 K. 2 10 103 kobs in s-1 8 6 4 2 0 0 20 40 dielectric constant 60 Figure SI3: Plot of 103kobs versus dielectric constant (ε) of the solvents in the oxidation reaction of isoniazid with CTADC at 298 K. 10 103 kobs in s-1 8 6 4 2 0 0 1 2 3 dipole moment 4 5 Figure SI4: Plot of 103kobs versus Dipole moment (μ) of the solvents in the oxidation reaction of isoniazid with CTADC at 298 K. 10 A B 103 kobs in s-1 8 6 4 2 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 A or B Figure SI5: Plot of 103kobs versus A and B of the solvents in the oxidation reaction of isoniazid with CTADC at 298 K. 3 TABLE SI 1. Observed rate constants for the oxidation of isoniazid by CTADC in various organic solvents in presence of acetic acid at 298K.a Sl. No. a 103 kobs s-1 Solvents 1 Toluene 2.63 ± 0.09 2 Benzene 2.37 ± 0.09 3 Chloroform 4.82 ± 0.17 4 Dichloromethane 5.74 ± 0.23 5 Dioxane 4.78 ± 0.20 6 Nitrobenzene 3.86 ± 0.14 7 Tetrahydrofuran 7.23 ± 0.29 8 Acetonitrile 5.08 ± 0.18 9 Ethyl acetate 7.89 ± 0.32 10 Acetone 5.70 ± 0.22 11 Dimethylsulfoxide 1.75 ± 0.05 12 N,N-Dimethylformamide 3.72 ± 0.13 [Isoniazid] = 1.1 x 10-3M, [CTADC]= 2.18 x 10-4 M, [Acetic acid]=0.79M 4