On the Mechanism of the ?-Alkynone Cyclization: A Theoretical Study

Autor: André S. Dreiding, Martin Karpf, José Kaneti
Rok vydání: 1982
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Zdroj: Helvetica Chimica Acta. 65:2517-2525
ISSN: 1522-2675
0018-019X
DOI: 10.1002/hlca.19820650821
Popis: The acetylene carbene rearrangement of three model a-alkynones, namely propynal (1a), 2-butynal (1b) and butynone (1c) is studied by ab initio double-zeta, double-zeta plus polarization and double-zeta plus self-consistent electron pairs calculations. Transition states are located by force-gradient geometry optimization. Calculated minimum energy reaction paths reveal substituent effects on the activation parameters, which indicate that a H-atom or an alkyl group competes favorably with an acyl group in the [1,2]-shift from a-alkynones 1 to the corresponding acylvinylidenes 5.
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