Molecular orbital calculations on carbonium ions. III. Barriers in ethyl cations

1970 ◽  
Vol 92 (7) ◽  
pp. 2141-2143 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Earl. Williams ◽  
Volker. Buss ◽  
Leland Cullen. Allen ◽  
Paul von R. Schleyer ◽  
William A. Lathan ◽  
...  
1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 810-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. K. Ng ◽  
F. C. Adam

The near ultraviolet and visible spectra of the various phenyl-, p-biphenyl methyl carbonium ions have been investigated and the polarization of the absorptions relative to the fluorescence band have been determined. An assignment of the transitions is made, using as a basis simple molecular orbital calculations and the expectations based on the structure representation. These are compared to the assignments made in earlier researches. The calculated intensities are found to agree favorably with the observed values.


1969 ◽  
Vol 91 (19) ◽  
pp. 5350-5357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiner Sustmann ◽  
James E. Williams ◽  
M. J. S. Dewar ◽  
Leland Cullen Allen ◽  
Paul von Rague Schleyer

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Leon Ginsburg ◽  
Katherine Valenta Darvesh ◽  
Patricia Axworthy ◽  
Richard Francis Langler

Moller-Plesset molecular orbital calculations at the 6-31+G(d) level have been completed on substituted dimethyl sulfide-derived carbanions. The results are applied to the prediction of regiochemistry for chlorination of unsymmetrical sulfides. Notwithstanding the need for future improvements, regiochemical predictions based on stabilities of sulfur-substituted carbanions match experimental results better than earlier predictions based on stabilities of sulfur-substituted carbonium ions or sulfur-substituted free radicals. The present results suggest that the mechanism for the elimination step in the Pummerer rearrangement of a chlorosulfonium cation is an E 1cb-like process.


1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (22) ◽  
pp. 3708-3713 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. C. Baird ◽  
R. K. Datta

Ab initio molecular orbital calculations are reported for the series of carbonium ions (CH3)+, (FCH2)+, and (F2CH)+ and for their neutral molecule counterparts CH4, CH3F, and CH2F2. The energies and wavefunctions for the carbonium ions have been calculated both with and without including the carbon 2pπ orbital in the minimal basis set in order to unravel the inductive destabilization and resonance stabilization due to fluorine substitution. The increase in bonding energy with multiple fluorine substitution is less than linear, due primarily to nonadditivity in the dative carbon–fluorine π bonding. The "saturation" effect noted previously for the hydride abstraction reaction enthalpies is shown to be due primarily to stability effects in the neutral molecules themselves rather than to energetic effects of the carbonium ions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 140 (11) ◽  
pp. 529-533
Author(s):  
Pasika Temeepresertkij ◽  
Saranya Yenchit ◽  
Michio Iwaoka ◽  
Satoru Iwamori

Ab initio molecular orbital calculations are used to explore additivity in the conformational energies of poly-substituted ethanes in terms of conformational energies of ethane and appropriate mono- and 1,2-di-substituted derivatives. Such relations would allow complex calculations for poly-substituted ethanes to be replaced by much simpler ones on a small number of parent molecules. General expressions for the linear combinations are derived from the assumption that interactions between vicinal substituents are pairwise additive and depend only on the vicinal dihedral angle. The additivity scheme is tested for 15 ethanes, di-, tri- or tetrasubstituted by cyano and methyl groups and for a smaller number of fluoroethanes. Additivity applies to within 0.1- 0.3 k J mol -1 in the methylethanes and mostly to within about 0.7- 0.8 kJ mol -1 in cyanoethanes. Large deviations are found among the geminally substituted fluoroethanes. It is suggested that the additivity approximation is most successful in the absence of strongly interacting geminal groups. Predictions are made of conformational energies of ten hexa(cyano- and methyl-) substituted ethanes.


1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
JAMES W. GORDON ◽  
GEORGE H. SCHMID ◽  
IMRE G. CSIZMADIA

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