Secondary Orbital Eftect in the Electrocyclic Ring Closure of 7-Azahepta-1,2,4,6-tetraene—A CASSCF Molecular Orbital Study.

Results of (10,9)CASSCF/6-31G* and B3LYP/6-31G* level calculations on the potential surface for the electrocyclic ring closure of E-7-azahepta-1,2,4,6-tetraene 3 to 1-aza-6-methylidenecyclohexa-2,4-diene (4) are reported, as well as parallel calculations on the electrocyclizations of hepta-1,2,4,6-t...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 130; no. 21; pp. 6740 - 6749
Autores principales: Duncan, James A., Calkins, David E. G., Chavarha, Mariya
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Publicado: American Chemical Society 5/28/2008
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          Duncan, James A.
          Calkins, David E. G.
          Chavarha, Mariya
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        Pericyclic reactions
        Cyclopolymerization
        Molecular orbitals
        Density functionals
        Magnitude estimation
        Nitrogen
        Vector analysis
        Linear free energy relationship
        Rotational motion
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          Pericyclic reactions
          Cyclopolymerization
          Molecular orbitals
          Density functionals
          Magnitude estimation
          Nitrogen
          Vector analysis
          Linear free energy relationship
          Rotational motion
      ab: Results of (10,9)CASSCF/6-31G* and B3LYP/6-31G* level calculations on the potential surface for the electrocyclic ring closure of E-7-azahepta-1,2,4,6-tetraene 3 to 1-aza-6-methylidenecyclohexa-2,4-diene (4) are reported, as well as parallel calculations on the electrocyclizations of hepta-1,2,4,6-tetraene 5, hexa-1,3,5-triene 7, Z and E-1-aza-1,3,5-hexatrienes 9 and 10, and Z-7-azahepta-1,2,4,6-tetraene 12 for purposes of careful comparison. The 3 → 4 rearrangement has been studied computationally with density functional theory (DFT) by others, leading to disagreement over whether it is pseudopericyclic (de Lera, A. R.; Alvarez, R.; Lecea, B.; Torrado, A- CossIo, F. P. Angew. Chem., mt. Ed. 2001, 40, 557-561; de Lera, A. R.; Cosslo, F. P. Angew. Chem., mt. Ed. 2002, 41, 1150-1152) or pericyclic (RodrIguez-Otero, J.; Cabaleiro-Lago, E. Angew. Chem., mt. Ed. 2002, 41, 1147-1150). In accordance with disrotatory motion, the normal mode vectors for TS calculated at the (10,9)CASSCF/6-31G* level show a greater magnitude of rotation of the N1-H group relative to the N1-C2 bond being formed than in TS calculated at the B3LYP/6-31G* level. Furthermore, comparison of orbital correlation diagiams constructed entirely from localized complete active space (CAS) molecular orbitals (MOs) for the electrocyclizations of 3, 5, 7, 9, and 10 suggest that it is the highest occupied delocalized π-MO of 3 that is primarily responsible for a-bond formation in 4, not the terminal allenyl π-bond MO. However, there does appear to be a special secondary orbital effect role for the nitrogen lone-pair and hence the process is likely neither purely pericyclic nor pseudopericyclic.
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