Aromaticity Effects on the Profiles of the Lowest Triplet-State Potential-Energy Surfaces for Rotation about the CC Bonds of Olefins with Five-Membered Ring Substituents: An Example of the Impact of Baird’s Rule
Autor: | Maria Brink, Heather A. Fogarty, Jun Zhu, Henrik Ottosson, Helene Möllerstedt |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Surface Properties Chemistry Stereochemistry Organic Chemistry Substituent Electrons Aromaticity General Chemistry Alkenes Ring (chemistry) Carbon Catalysis Crystallography chemistry.chemical_compound Isomerism Excited state Quantum Theory Thermodynamics Density functional theory Triplet state Ground state Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions Antiaromaticity |
Zdroj: | Chemistry - A European Journal. 19:10698-10707 |
ISSN: | 0947-6539 |
DOI: | 10.1002/chem.201300008 |
Popis: | A density functional theory study on olefins with five-membered monocyclic 4n and 4n+2 π-electron substituents (C4H3X; X=CH(+), SiH(+), BH, AlH, CH2, SiH2, O, S, NH, and CH(-)) was performed to assess the connection between the degree of substituent (anti)aromaticity and the profile of the lowest triplet-state (T1) potential-energy surface (PES) for twisting about olefinic C=C bonds. It exploited both Hückel's rule on aromaticity in the closed-shell singlet ground state (S0) and Baird's rule on aromaticity in the lowest ππ* excited triplet state. The compounds CH2=CH(C4H3X) were categorized as set A and set B olefins depending on which carbon atom (C2 or C3) of the C4H3X ring is bonded to the olefin. The degree of substituent (anti)aromaticity goes from strongly S0 -antiaromatic/T1 -aromatic (C5H4 (+)) to strongly S0 -aromatic/T1- antiaromatic (C5H4(-)). Our hypothesis is that the shapes of the T1 PESs, as given by the energy differences between planar and perpendicularly twisted olefin structures in T1 [ΔE(T1)], smoothly follow the changes in substituent (anti)aromaticity. Indeed, correlations between ΔE(T1) and the (anti)aromaticity changes of the C4 H3 X groups, as measured by the zz-tensor component of the nucleus-independent chemical shift ΔNICS(T1;1)zz , are found both for sets A and B separately (linear fits; r(2) =0.949 and 0.851, respectively) and for the two sets combined (linear fit; r(2) =0.851). For sets A and B combined, strong correlations are also found between ΔE(T1) and the degree of S0 (anti)aromaticity as determined by NICS(S0,1)zz (sigmoidal fit; r(2) =0.963), as well as between the T1 energies of the planar olefins and NICS(S0,1)zz (linear fit; r(2) =0.939). Thus, careful tuning of substituent (anti)aromaticity allows for design of small olefins with T1 PESs suitable for adiabatic Z/E photoisomerization. |
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