The C7H6 energy surface: phenylcarbene and 2-Methylene-3,5-cyclohexadienylidene - A duality of mechanism

1973 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
WD Crow ◽  
MN Paddon-Row

The conversion of phenylcarbene (1) into fulvenallene (17) and ethynylcyclo-pentadiene (18) on gas-phase pyrolysis has been examined by 13C-tracer techniques. Complete randomization of all seven carbon atoms has been shown to precede ring contraction. The result is consistent with a pool of intermediates [cycloheptatrienylidene (19) and bicyclo[4,1,0]hepta-2,4,6-triene (21)], interconverting rapidly through tautomerism and concomitant H-shifts. Dimerization, intramolecular trapping, and ring contraction constitute the major exits from this pool. ��� Gas-phase thermolysis of indazole generates the same products (17)/(18) and in this case the mechanism has been investigated by the intramolecular trapping in 1-deutero-3-methylindazole to yield deuterostyrenes. Two pathways are revealed, proceeding respectively through phenylcarbene and 2-methylene-3,5-cyclohexadienyl-idene (36); factors affecting the latter pathway are discussed.

1975 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1755 ◽  
Author(s):  
WD Crow ◽  
MN Paddon-Row

Gas phase pyrolysis of phenyl azide gives rise to aniline, cyclopentadienecarbonitrile and pyridine as isomerization products from phenylnitrene. Isotopic labelling studies (14C, 13C) are used to examine the isomerization processes which occur in phenylnitrene prior to product formation. ��� At the lowest energy level of the intermediate little or no label randomization occurs and aniline evidently arises from hydrogen capture at this stage. Higher levels of the intermediate involve a cycloperambulatory motion of the nitrene nitrogen atom, followed by ring contraction to cyclo- pentadiene-1-carbonitrile. The pyridine formed possibly arises from a ring-expanded intermediate, which may not have undergone the cycloperambulation of the nitrene nitrogen atom. � The aniline and cyanocyclopentadiene derived from 5- pyridyltetrazole pyrolysis appear to exhibit very similar behaviour to those from phenyl azide as far as isotopic migration is concerned.


1975 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
WD Crow ◽  
AN Khan ◽  
MN Paddon-Row

The synthesis is reported of a series of 5-(methyl-2-, -3- and -4- pyridyl)tetrazoles from the corresponding picolinecarbonitriles. These compounds are used as gas phase generators for the corresponding picolylcarbenes at 600�/0.05 mm. The normal isomerization process in arylcarbenes are interrupted in some cases by intramolecular trapping by the methyl groups, resulting in the first reported syntheses of cyclobuta-[b] and -[c]pyridines. The major process competing with this is that of nitrogen-extrusion to give tolylnitrenes, which then undergo ring contraction to form methyl-cyclopentadienecarbonitriles. The relative yields from these and other processes are used to deduce the preferred isomerization pathways in picolylcarbenes. In methyl-2- pyridylcarbenes there is almost exclusive insertion into the 2,3-bond, leading to the tolylnitrenes. The 3- and 4-pyridylcarbenes, however, show a tendency for the carbene centre to oscillate over the 3-, 4- and 5-positions of the ring with slower leakage to the 2-position.


1972 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 2235-2238 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.D. Crow ◽  
A.R. Lea ◽  
M.N. Paddon-Row

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (26) ◽  
pp. 14796-14810 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Rangel ◽  
M. Garcia-Chamorro ◽  
J. C. Corchado ◽  
J. Espinosa-Garcia

To describe the gas-phase hydrogen abstraction reaction between the hydroxyl radical and the ethane molecule, an analytical full-dimensional potential energy surface was developed within the Born–Oppenheimer approximation.


2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 2572 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Isabel Catalina ◽  
Nico J. de Mol ◽  
Marcel J. E. Fischer ◽  
Albert J. R. Heck

1965 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan L. Walker
Keyword(s):  

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 3925-3938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cipriano Rangel ◽  
Joaquin Espinosa-Garcia

Within the Born–Oppenheimer approximation a full-dimensional analytical potential energy surface, PES-2017, was developed for the gas-phase hydrogen abstraction reaction between the chlorine atom and ethane, which is a nine body system.


2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 339-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Moha ◽  
Michael Giese ◽  
Richard Moha ◽  
Markus Albrecht ◽  
Gerhard Raabe

The structural versatility of anion-p interactions was investigated computationally. Employing quantum-chemically optimized structures of a series of C6H6-nFn/Br- complexes and the Coulomb law together with the London formula to calculate the electrostatic and the dispersion energy of the interaction between the anion and the π-system led to the result that up to the number of n = 2 due to a significantly repulsive electrostatic energy of interaction the dispersion energy is not sufficient to stabilize such structures in the gas phase where the anion is located above the plane defined by the aromatic ring. The energy surfaces resulting from the interaction of bromide anions with isolated arenes bearing varying numbers of fluorine atoms in different positions of the aromatic ring also show a pronounced dependency on the subsitution pattern of the aromatic system. Depending on the nature of the electron withdrawing group and its position, the energy surface can have a sharply defined energetically low minimum, in which the anion is ‘fixed’. Other substitution patterns result in very flat energy surfaces, and even a surface with more than two local minima within the scanned area was found. Thus, our study reveals the reason for the experimentally observed structural versatility depending on the substitution pattern in the solid state.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (32) ◽  
pp. 22122-22128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Buendía ◽  
Jorge A. Vargas ◽  
Marcela R. Beltrán ◽  
Jack B. A. Davis ◽  
Roy L. Johnston

The combined use of a genetic algorithm and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations allows us to explore the potential energy surface. Our results show interesting effects on the geometries of the clusters on deposition. Two-dimensional clusters in the gas phase become three-dimensional and vice versa.


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