High level ab initio study of thermal 1,3-sigmatropic shift in CH2=CHCH2X with X = BH2, NH2, and CH3
High level ab initio study of thermal 1,3-sigmatropic shift in CH2=CHCH2X with X = BH2, NH2, and CH3
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DOI:
10.1021/jp025721u
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发表时间:
2002-06-13
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Lee, I
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作者:
Choi, JY;Kim, CK;Lee, I
The thermal 1,3-sigmatropic migrations in X-CH2−CHCH2with X = BH2, NH2, and CH3have been investigated at the RHF, MP2, B3LYP, G3, and CBS-APNO levels using basis sets with added diffuse and polarization functions. In all three cases, the suprafacial allowed path proceeds through a TS in which the CC π electron is delocalized into the 2p AO in the migrating X. For X = BH2with a vacant 2p orbital, the activation enthalpy is less than 1.0 kcal mol-1(CBS-APNO) so that the 1,3-shift is almost barrierless. For X = NH2there are two suprafacial pathways, one of which (higher energy path a) proceeds by participation of the lone pair on N. The lower energy pathway has a barrier height (ΔH⧧= 68.9 kcal mol-1) of only 1.0 kcal mol-1below the bond dissociation energy of the C−N bond, so that a diradical pathway can compete with the concerted sigmatropic shift. For X = CH3, the activation barrier (ΔH⧧= 76.1 kcal mol-1) is higher (by ca. 1 kcal mol-1at the CBS-APNO level) than the bond dissociation energy of the C1−X(CH3) bond, so that the diradical reaction path is favored. The antrafacial 1,3-shifts are forbidden in all cases as evidenced by the second-order saddle-points (with two imaginary frequencies) and much higher barrier heights than those for the corresponding suprafacial shifts.