Application of activation hardness in perturbed pericyclic reactions: a case study involving electrocyclic ring opening reactions of heterocyclobutenes
Cyclobutene undergoes electrocyclic ring opening through conrotatory mode to give 1,3‐butadiene and similarly its skeletally substituted analogues viz. phosphetene, thietene, oxetene and azetene isomerize to give their respective heterodienes. Quantum mechanical investigations on these perturbed per...
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Published in | Journal of physical organic chemistry Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 460 - 465 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Chichester, UK
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
01.06.2011
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Summary: | Cyclobutene undergoes electrocyclic ring opening through conrotatory mode to give 1,3‐butadiene and similarly its skeletally substituted analogues viz. phosphetene, thietene, oxetene and azetene isomerize to give their respective heterodienes. Quantum mechanical investigations on these perturbed pericyclic isomerizations at B3LYP level with 6‐31G(d) and 6‐311 + G(d,p) basis sets reveal that hetero ‐ atoms significantly lower the barrier and alter the reaction free energies. Interestingly frontier orbital correlation diagram shows that σ and σ* levels are perturbed significantly while π and π* levels undergo little changes during the reaction; the lone pairs on hetero – atoms are slightly stabilized in the TS. This results in σ becoming HOMO in the TSs of phosphetene and thietene isomerizations and σ* becoming LUMO in all the cases. This necessitates defining hardness values based on closely interacting frontier orbitals for reactants and TSs and use them to compute activation hardness values to interpret relative reactivity. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The activation hardness (Δη‡) based on the HOMO, LUMO, HOMO‐1, and LUMO+1 levels are newly defined and the second activation hardness value explains reactivity trend in the isomerization of heterocyclobutenes in a better way. |
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Bibliography: | CSIR, India istex:3CF073DABE67D0AC618477C3337F615A4A10F310 ArticleID:POC1785 ark:/67375/WNG-J13XQ5M5-0 UGC - F.No.33-256/2007 (SR) |
ISSN: | 0894-3230 1099-1395 |
DOI: | 10.1002/poc.1785 |