A comparative quantum chemical investigation of the bonding in first and second row ylides
A comparative quantum chemical investigation of the bonding in first and second row ylides
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第一行叶立德和第二行叶立德成键的比较量子化学研究
DOI:
10.1021/ja00459a017
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
S. Wolfe
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文献类型:
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作者:
F. Bernardi;H. Schlegel;M. Whangbo;S. Wolfe
Ab initio SCF-MO computations (4-31G) havebeen performed on the model ylides" THsCH^,+ NH3CH2~,+ SH2CH2~, and+ OH2CH2~. In the first row ammonium and oxonium ylides, the+ X-C_ bonds are longer than the XC bonds of the stable tautomers of these ylides, methylamine and methanol. In the second row ylides, the+ XC~ bonds are short-er than the XC bonds of the tautomers methylphosphine and methanethiol. The carbanionic centers of the second row ylides are more planar and more flexible than those of the corresponding first row ylides. Examinationof charge distributions and overlap populations reveals that, in terms of both their covalentand ionic character, the+ XC~ bonds of the second row ylides are stronger than those of the corresponding first row ylides. These various findings are in agreement with experimental data, where these are available. The different structural characteristics of first and second row ylides can be rationalized interms of group orbital interaction diagrams, whichfocus upon the stabilizing and destabilizing interactions between a carbon lone pair and and* XH „group orbitals. The destabilizing interaction dominates when X is a first row atom, and the stabilizing interaction dominates when X is a second row atom.In 1955, Doering and Hoffmann2 presented the results of a kinetic study of deuterioxide-catalyzed hydrogen-deuterium exchange of the methyl protons of tetramethylammonium, tetramethylphosphonium, and trimethylsulfonium cations. Since these reactions proceed via “onium” ylide inter-mediates, the objective of the work was to obtaininformation, in the form of rate constants and activation parameters, con-cerning the differing abilities of ammonium (N+), phospho-nium (P+), and sulfonium (S+) groups to stabilize (or desta-bilize) a developing adjacent carbanionic center. It was found that the enthalpies of activation were 32.2, 25.6, and 22.4 kcal/mol for the exchange of N+, P+, and S+, respectively. This work has since become a classic of its kind, and it is