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Inside Cover, Volume 113, Issue 22
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.24555
Subject(s) - reactivity (psychology) , nucleophile , cover (algebra) , electrophile , carbon fibers , chemistry , computer science , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , algorithm , mechanical engineering , engineering , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , composite number , catalysis
Quantum chemical calculations on the reactivity of different carbon bases reveal that although both carbon(II) and carbon(0) bases show similar reactivity towards electrophiles, they show distinctive reactivity towards nucleophiles. Carbon(II) bases, being ambiphilic in nature, react easily with nucleophiles while it is not so facile for carbon(0) bases. The presence of a suitable low‐lying p‐accepting orbital in carbon(II) bases, a key electronic feature, is responsible for such a reactivity difference, as presented by Ankur Kanti Guha, Ujjal Gogoi, and Ashwini K. Phukan on page 2471 .