Bottom-Up Atomistic Descriptions of Top-Down Macroscopic Measurements: Computational Benchmarks for Hammett Electronic Parameters
Bottom-Up Atomistic Descriptions of Top-Down Macroscopic Measurements: Computational Benchmarks for Hammett Electronic Parameters
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自下而上的宏观测量的原子描述:哈米特电子参数的计算基准
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10.1021/acsphyschemau.3c00045
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2024
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Paton, Robert S.
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作者:
Luchini, Guilian;Paton, Robert S.
The ability to relate substituent electronic effects to chemical reactivity is a cornerstone of physical organic chemistry and Linear Free Energy Relationships. The computation of electronic parameters is increasingly attractive since they can be obtained rapidly for structures and substituents without available experimental data and can be applied beyond aromatic substituents, for example, in studies of transition metal complexes and aliphatic and radical systems. Nevertheless, the description of “top-down” macroscopic observables, such as Hammett parameters using a “bottom-up” computational approach, poses several challenges for the practitioner. We have examined and benchmarked the performance of various computational charge schemes encompassing quantum mechanical methods that partition charge density, methods that fit charge to physical observables, and methods enhanced by semiempirical adjustments alongside NMR values. We study the locations of the atoms used to obtain these descriptors and their correlation with empirical Hammett parameters and rate differences resulting from electronic effects. These seemingly small choices have a much more significant impact than previously imagined, which outweighs the level of theory or basis set used. We observe a wide range of performance across the different computational protocols and observe stark and surprising differences in the ability of computational parameters to capture para- vs meta-electronic effects. In general, σmpredictions fare much worse than σp. As a result, the choice of where to compute these descriptors─for the ring carbons or the attached H or other substituent atoms─affects their ability to capture experimental electronic differences. Density-based schemes, such as Hirshfeld charges, are more stable toward unphysical charge perturbations that result from nearby functional groups and outperform all other computational descriptors, including several commonly used basis set based schemes such as Natural Population Analysis. Using attached atoms also improves the statistical correlations. We obtained general linear relationships for the global prediction of experimental Hammett parameters from computed descriptors for use in statistical modeling studies.
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