THEORETICAL-STUDY OF THE CYCLOPROPANE RING-OPENING BY PALLADIUM(II) COMPLEXES
THEORETICAL-STUDY OF THE CYCLOPROPANE RING-OPENING BY PALLADIUM(II) COMPLEXES
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00249a004
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发表时间:
1987-07-22
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
BACKVALL, JE
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作者:
BLOMBERG, MRA;SIEGBAHN, PEM;BACKVALL, JE
CASSCF and contracted Cl calculations have been performed on the ring opening of cyclopropane by different palladium (II) compounds (PdCl2, PdCl42-, and PdCl+). Two reaction mechanisms were studied, corner activation and edge activation. The results are compared to a previous study of the reaction of the ligand-free palladium (0) atom with cyclopropane, and, as expected, it was found that the addition of the chloride ligands changes the reaction barriersdrastically. For palladium (O) only the edge activation has a low activation energy. For the palladium (II) complexes only the corner activation by PdCl+ has a low activation energy, estimated to be about 5 kcal/mol. For PdCl2 and PdCl42" very high barriers (25-45 kcal/mol) are found for both corner and edge activation. The energy differences between the complexes investigated are found to be directly relatedto the excitation energies of the atomic states of palladium involved. The atomic state of palladium involved in a complex is determined by the actual number of covalent bonds, and the actual charge of palladium. The atomic state is reflected in the calculated 4d populationof palladium. The results obtained in this paper lead to a new view on the ring opening of cyclopropane by palladium (II): corner activation, rather than the usually accepted edge activation, is predicted to be the most favorable reaction pathway.