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Homoaromaticity in aza‐ and phosphasemibullvalenes. A computational study
Author(s) -
Greve Daniel R.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of physical organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1395
pISSN - 0894-3230
DOI - 10.1002/poc.1731
Subject(s) - chemistry , delocalized electron , maxima and minima , computational chemistry , molecule , organic chemistry , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The enthalpies of activation Δ H ‡ for the Cope rearrangement in several aza‐ and phosphasemibullvalenes have been investigated by MP4/cc‐pVDZ//MP2/cc‐pVDZ and CCSD(T)/cc‐pVDZ//MP2/cc‐pVDZ calculations. One tetraazasemibullvalene and several phosphasemibullvalenes were found to have vanishing Δ H ‡ values, which together with calculated large negative Nucleus Independent Chemical Shift (NICS) values and geometrical data show that these molecules have delocalized and bishomoaromatic minima. Furthermore, three azasemibullvalenes were found to have small Δ H ‡ values (≤2 kcal/mol) combined with large negative NICS, suggesting that they could also have bishomoaromatic minima. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.