RING STRAIN IN CYCLOPROPANE, CYCLOPROPENE, SILACYCLOPROPANE, AND SILACYCLOPROPENE
RING STRAIN IN CYCLOPROPANE, CYCLOPROPENE, SILACYCLOPROPANE, AND SILACYCLOPROPENE
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00545a002
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
GORDON, MS
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作者:
GORDON, MS
The strain energy in four three-membered rings is calculated by using the appropriate isodesmic reactions. Calculations with and without d functions on the heavy atoms indicatethat while these polarization functions tendto reduce ring strain, the additionof d orbitals has little effect on the predicted trends. While introduciton of unsaturation drastically increases the strain in the carbon system (cyclopropane- cyclopropene), this is not the case for silicon (silacyclopropane-* silacyclopropene). As a result cyclopropane and cyclopropene are predicted to be the least and most strained rings, respectively.Ring strain is a concept which is frequently used to rationalize instability and reactivity of small cycliccompounds. Recently, a novel quantitative measure of ring strain has been proposed. 1 This method makes use of isodesmic reactions in which the number of bonds of each type is formally conserved on going from reactants to products. The use of isodesmic reactions is particularly useful in quantum chemistry since the effect of correlation error