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Orbital topology. II. Orbital mapping of unsymmetrical molecules. A survey of the thermal isomerizations of dewar isomers of isoelectronically substituted benzenes, cyclopentadienes, and cyclopentadienyl ions
Author(s) -
Kelsey Donald R.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of computational chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.907
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1096-987X
pISSN - 0192-8651
DOI - 10.1002/jcc.540010103
Subject(s) - chemistry , molecular orbital , conrotatory and disrotatory , cyclopentadienyl complex , ion , molecule , cndo/2 , bicyclic molecule , computational chemistry , ring (chemistry) , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis
Orbital mapping analysis, based on EHT and CNDO/2 semiempirical molecular orbitals, has been used to survey the thermal, disrotatory, ring‐opening isomerizations of bicyclo[2.2.0]hexa‐2,5‐dienes (Dewar benzenes), bicyclo[2.1.0]pent‐2‐enes, and bicyclo[2.1.0]pent‐2‐en‐5‐yl ions to their planar isomers. Results indicate that isoelectronic substitution (CH replaced by C − , O + , N, NH + , etc.) in the molecular framework may favor allowed thermal reactions in some cases, in contrast to the disallowed reaction predicted for the parent hydrocarbons.

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