A synthetic co-crystal prepared by cooperative single-crystal-to-single-crystal solid-state Diels–Alder reaction

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (36) ◽  
pp. 4969-4972 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Khorasani ◽  
M. A. Fernandes

Solid-state Diels–Alder reaction in a 2 : 1 donor to acceptor charge-transfer complex leads to a synthetic co-crystal composed of product and unreacted donor. Analysis of close contacts and DFT energy calculations indicate that the reaction occurs cooperatively where the arrangement of molecules shown in (ii) is favoured.

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C913-C913
Author(s):  
Sanaz Khorasani ◽  
Manuel Fernandes

Solid-state chemistry involves the manipulation of molecules and materials through photochemical, thermal, or mechanical reaction methods. Single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) reactions are rare, but offer the opportunity to study reaction mechanisms and molecular motions in the solid state at the atomic level using single crystal X-ray diffraction. This allows the effect of the surrounding molecules, and hence the reaction cavity, on the reacting molecules to be examined which may ultimately lead to postcrystallization methods for creating new materials or reaction products that cannot easily be obtained via solution. SCSC reactions involving two different molecules are relatively uncommon. A convenient system that allows the study of such reactions is the [4+2] Diels-Alder reaction of 1,4-dithiintetracarboxylic type compounds with anthracene derivatives. In the work reported here, electron donor to acceptor interactions between 9-Methylanthracene and bis(N-cyclobutylimino)-1,4-dithiin lead to the formation of chiral charge transfer (CT) crystals [1]. These undergo a topochemical thermal SCSC [4 + 2] Diels-Alder reaction in the solid state. CT crystals were reacted at 400C, their structures determined by X-ray diffraction at various degrees of conversion, and examined using Hirshfeld surfaces and lattice energy calculations to find evidence of reaction cooperativity and feedback mechanisms. In this case, a maximum reaction conversion of around 96% was obtained indicating that the reaction is non-random within the charge transfer stacks, with close contacts between product molecules in the reacted crystal also providing some evidence for reaction cooperativity along the b axis perpendicular to the CT stacking axis.


2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
María González-Béjar ◽  
Salah-Eddine Stiriba ◽  
Miguel A. Miranda ◽  
Julia Pérez-Prieto

CrystEngComm ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (46) ◽  
pp. 8933-8945 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Khorasani ◽  
D. S. Botes ◽  
M. A. Fernandes ◽  
D. C. Levendis

During a SCSC solid-state Diels–Alder reaction, voids are created, followed by conformational change and crystal annealing that lead to the formation of new weak interactions.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Henao Aristizàbal ◽  
Yomna Gohar ◽  
René Whilhelm ◽  
Thomas D. Kühne

Accelerated chemistry at the interface with water has received increasing attention. The mechanisms behind the enhanced reactivity On-Water are not yet clear. In this work we use a Langevin scheme in the spirit of second generation Car-Parrinello to accelerate the second-order density functional Tight-Binding (DFTB2) method in order to investigate the free energy of two Diels-Alder reaction On-Water: the cycloaddition between cyclopentadiene and ethyl cinnamate or thionocinnamate. The only difference between the reactants is the substitution of a carbonyl oxygen for a thiocarbonyl sulfur, making possible the distinction between them as strong and weak hydrogen-bond acceptors. We find a different mechanism for the reaction during the transition states and uncover the role of hydrogen bonds along with the reaction path. Our results suggest that acceleration of Diels-Alder reactions do not arise from an increased number of hydrogen bonds at the transition state and charge transfer plays a significant role. However, the presence of water and hydrogen-bonds is determinant for the catalysis of these reactions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-212
Author(s):  
Vladimir D. Kiselev ◽  
Anastasia O. Kolesnikova ◽  
Ildar F. Dinikaev ◽  
Alexey A. Shulyatiev ◽  
Alexander E. Klimovitskii ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 53 (11) ◽  
pp. 2490-2495 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. D. Kiselev ◽  
G. G. Iskhakova ◽  
E. A. Kashaeva ◽  
L. N. Potapova ◽  
A. I. Konovalov

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