Mechanism and rate constant of proline-catalysed asymmetric aldol reaction of acetone and p-nitrobenzaldehyde in solution medium: Density-functional theory computation.
Mechanism and rate constant of proline-catalysed asymmetric aldol reaction of acetone and p-nitrobenzaldehyde in solution medium: Density-functional theory computation.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jare.2018.03.002
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2018-07
影响因子:
10.7
通讯作者:
Abechi SE
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作者:
Tafida UI;Uzairu A;Abechi SE
In search of new ways to improve catalyst design, the current research focused on using quantum mechanical descriptors to investigate the effect of proline as a catalyst for mechanism and rate of asymmetric aldol reaction. A plausible mechanism of reaction between acetone and 4-nitrobenzaldehyde in acetone medium was developed using highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies calculated via density functional theory (DFT) at the 6-31G∗/B3LYP level of theory. New mechanistic steps were proposed and found to follow, with expansion, the previously reported iminium-enamine route of typical class 1 aldolase enzymes. From the elementary steps, the first step which involves a bimolecular collision of acetone and proline was considered as the rate-determining step, having the highest activation energy of 59.07 kJ mol−1. The mechanism was used to develop the rate law from which the overall rate constant was calculated and found to be . The new mechanistic insights and the explicit computation of the rate constant further improve the kinetic knowledge of the reaction.
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