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The quest for a better system for evaluating pi‐electron substituent constant: a comparison of benzoic, acrylic and tria‐, penta‐, heptafulvene‐based carboxylic acids . A computational study
Author(s) -
Oziminski Wojciech P.
Publication year - 2013
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.3187
Subject(s) - substituent , chemistry , benzoic acid , acrylic acid , carboxylic acid , medicinal chemistry , organic chemistry , monomer , polymer
Carboxylic acids based on exo ‐substituted tria‐, penta‐, heptafulvenes and ethylene (acrylic acids) were examined in order to determine if they are more sensitive to the substituent effect than benzoic acid – the system originally employed by Hammett. In order to accomplish this task, all possible structural isomers of benzoic acid, tria‐, penta‐ and heptafulvene‐based carboxylic acids , acrylic and methacrylic acids substituted by 13 substiuents (BH 2 , CHO, CN, COCN, NO 2 , CF 3 , Me, Cl, F, OH, OMe, NH 2 and NMe 2 ) were optimized at the B3LYP/6‐311++G(d,p) level of theory, and Gibbs free energies of carboxylic group dissociation (ΔG dis ) were calculated. These energies were subsequently intercorrelated, and from the slopes of linear regressions, it was estimated which system is associated with greatest changes of ΔG dis due to substitution and thus is most sensitive to the substituent effect. It was found that all fulvene‐based carboxylic acids have greater range of ΔG dis change than benzoic acid, but the largest range of change was observed in the case of acrylic and methacrylic acids. The acrylic acid as the most sensitive system to substitution could replace benzoic acid for an improved version of substituent constant used to measure pi‐electron substituent effect. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.