scholarly journals Facile Formation and Dissociation Behaviour of C–C Bond Resulted from the Nucleophilic Attack of Carbanions on a Carbonyl Carbon in [Pt(hfac)2]

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 1130-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seichi Okeya ◽  
Masato Hashimoto ◽  
Fumiko Nakamura ◽  
Yoshiaki Kusuyama ◽  
Mako Kobayashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Carbonyl Carbon

What happens to formamide during C—N bond rotation? Atomic and molecular energetics and molecular reactivity as a function of internal rotation

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 872-879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith E. Laidig ◽  
Lynn M. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Electric Fields ◽  
Molecular Level ◽  
Enzymatic Catalysis ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Torsional Angle ◽  
Carbonyl Carbon ◽  
Electrophilic Attack ◽  
Bond Rotation ◽  
Planar Conformation ◽  
Molecular Reactivity

We investigate the energetics of rotation about the C—N bond in formamide at the molecular and atomic levels using the HF/6-31G**//HF/6-31G** level of theory. At the molecular level, the barrier to rotation results from a decrease in overall attractive energies upon rotation away from the planar conformation, primarily due to the lengthening of the C—N bond. At the atomic level, the barrier is due to the loss in interatomic attraction between the nitrogen and its bonded neighbors. We investigate the susceptibility of formamide to electrophilic attack at nitrogen and oxygen as well as nucleophilic attack at carbonyl carbon as a function of C—N bond rotation using the Laplacian model of reactivity. The model predicts the susceptibility to nucleophilic attack at carbonyl carbon to reach a maximum with a O—C—N—H torsional angle of 60°. As a mimic of solvent fields, we investigate the effect of solvation upon these predictions with the application of homogeneous electric fields. This geometry–reactivity relationship is related to proposed models of activation in the enzymatic catalysis of peptides.

Correlation of rates of uncatalyzed and hydroxide-ion catalyzed ketene hydration. A mechanistic application and solvent isotope effects on the uncatalyzed reaction

2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-515
Author(s):  
John Andraos ◽  
A Jerry Kresge
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Atom ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Carbonyl Carbon Atom ◽  
Basic Solution ◽  
Carbonyl Carbon ◽  
Hydroxide Ion ◽  
Solvent Isotope ◽  
Solvent Isotope Effects

Rates of hydration of a number of ketenes were measured in neutral and basic solution using flash photolytic techniques, and rate constants for their uncatalyzed, kuc, and hydroxide-ion catalyzed, kHO, reactions were determined. These results, plus additional data from the literature, were found to provide the remarkably good correlation log kuc = -3.21 + 1.14 log kHO, which spans 10 orders of magnitude in reactivity and includes 31 ketenes. This good correlation implies that uncatalyzed and hydroxide-ion catalyzed ketene hydraton occur by similar reaction mechanisms, which for the hydroxide-ion catalyzed process is known to involve nucleophilic attack on the carbonyl carbon atom of the ketene. Rate constants for phenylhydroxyketene, on the other hand, do not fit this correlation, which suggests that the mechanistic assignment upon which these rate constants are based may not be correct. Solvent isotope effects on these uncatalyzed ketene hydrations are weak; most are less than kH/kD = 2. It is argued that these isotope effects are largely, if not entirely, secondary in nature and that they are consistent with both a reaction mechanism in which nucleophlic attack of a single water molecule on the ketene carbonyl carbon atom produces a zwitterionic intermediate and also a mechanism that avoids this intermediate by passing through a cyclic transition state involving several water molecules.Key words: ketene hydration, rate correlation, nucleophilic attack, solvent isotope effects, phenylhydroxyketene.

Epoxide of a ketene acetal. The first 2,2-dialkoxyoxirane to be isolated

2001 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Dawid ◽  
Paul C Venneri ◽  
John Warkentin
Keyword(s):  
Ir Spectroscopy ◽  
Carbonyl Group ◽  
Ring Closure ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Carbonyl Carbon ◽  
Subsequent Formation ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Carbonyl Ylide ◽  
Ketene Acetal ◽  
C Nmr

Dimethoxycarbene, generated at 110°C in benzene by thermolysis of 2,2-dimethoxy-5,5-dimethyl-Δ3-1,3,4-oxadiazoline, reacted with cyclohexanone to afford 2,2-dimethoxyspiro[2.5]-1-oxaoctane. It is the first oxirane of a ketene acetal that could be isolated and characterized by 1H NMR-, 13C NMR-, and IR spectroscopy. The identical oxirane might be expected from conrotatory cyclization of the appropriate carbonyl ylide. That ylide was generated under identical conditions by thermolysis of an oxadiazoline precursor (3,4-diaza-2,2-dimethoxy-1-oxaspiro[4.5]dec-3-ene) (14). The ylide could either cyclize or fragment to dimethoxycarbene and cyclohexanone. Addition of 4-tert-butylcyclohexanone, to trap dimethoxycarbene in competition with the cyclohexanone generated from 14 and, to leave the ylide closure pathway as the only route to the oxirane, showed that the carbonyl ylide does cyclize. However, fragmentation of the carbonyl ylide is relatively fast compared to its cyclization and most of it fragments to dimethoxycarbene and cyclohexanone. Oxirane formation from the carbene and ketone is probably either a concerted cycloaddition or it occurs in two steps, by nucleophilic attack at the carbonyl carbon to form the C—C bond first, prior to ring closure. If the carbene is bonded first to O of the carbonyl group, as it is in the carbonyl ylide, subsequent formation of the C—C bond is too slow, relative to fragmentation of the ylide, to afford the oxirane ring efficiently.Key words: carbonyl ylide, dialkoxyoxirane, dimethoxycarbene, oxadiazoline, oxirane.

Study of reaction of substituted nitrophenyl acetates and benzoates with nucleophiles

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1779-1789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Macháček ◽  
Sylvie Marečková ◽  
Vojeslav Štěrba
Keyword(s):  
Aromatic Ring ◽  
Rate Constant ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Steric Effect ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Carbonyl Carbon ◽  
Respective Rate ◽  
Methoxide Anion

Reaction of 2-substituted 4,6-dinitrophenyl acetates and benzoates with methoxide, 4-bromophenoxide and acetate anions and with anion of methyl cyanoacetate has been studied in methanol at 25 °C, and the respective rate constants have been determined along with the rate constant ratios of nucleophilic attacks at carbonyl carbon (CCO) and C1 carbon of the aromatic ring (CAr). Content of the 2-substituted 4,6-dinitrophenols formed by nucleophilic attack at CCO increases in the product with increasing hardness of the nucleophiles in the series methyl cyanoacetate anion < 4-bromophenoxide anion < methoxide anion. The substituents polar effects are decisive for the attack at CAr, whereas both polar and steric effect operate in the attack at CCO. Methoxide anion attacks the CCO of 2,4-dinitrophenyl ester even faster than the CCO of 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl ester.

scholarly journals Synthesis of polycyclic phosphonates via an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of 2-benzoylbenzalaldehyde and alkenyl phosphites

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
Kenji Yamana ◽  
Hirofumi Nakano
Keyword(s):  
Lewis Acid ◽  
Alder Reaction ◽  
Diels Alder ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Carbonyl Carbon ◽  
Diels Alder Reaction

AbstractIn this paper, we present a Lewis-acid-promoted reaction of 2-benzoylbenzaldehyde and trialkenyl phosphites, which resulted in the formation of polycyclic phosphonates. The reaction proceeded via nucleophilic attack of trialkenyl phosphite on the carbonyl carbon of 2-benzoylbenzaldehyde. The subsequent intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction led to the formation of the cyclic phosphonate.

A Conserved Asparagine in a Ubiquitin Conjugating Enzyme Positions the Substrate for Nucleophilic Attack

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walker M. Jones ◽  
Aaron G. Davis ◽  
R. Hunter Wilson ◽  
Katherine L. Elliott ◽  
Isaiah Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Molecular Mechanics ◽  
Reaction Rates ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Classical Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Ubiquitin Conjugating Enzyme ◽  
Conjugating Enzyme

We present classical molecular dynamics (MD), Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD), and hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) data. MD was performed using the GPU accelerated pmemd module of the AMBER14MD package. BOMD was performed using CP2K version 2.6. The reaction rates in BOMD were accelerated using the Metadynamics method. QM/MM was performed using ONIOM in the Gaussian09 suite of programs. Relevant input files for BOMD and QM/MM are available.

Microwave-Assisted Decarbonylation of Biomass-Derived Aldehydes Using Pd-Doped Hydrotalcites

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan An ◽  
Diana Ainembabazi ◽  
Kavya Samudrala ◽  
Christopher Reid ◽  
Kare Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heterogeneous Catalysts ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Inverse Correlation ◽  
Mulliken Charge ◽  
Metal Leaching ◽  
Carbonyl Carbon ◽  
Mild Conditions ◽  
Microwave Assisted ◽  
Biomass Processing ◽  
Alcohol Dehydrogenation

<p>Here we report the synthesis, characterization and activity of tunable Pd-doped hydrotalcites (Pd-HTs) for the decarbonylation of furfural, hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes under microwave conditions. The decarbonylation activity reported is a notable improvement over prior heterogeneous catalysts for this process. Furfural decarbonylation is optimized in a benign solvent compatible with biomass processing - ethanol, under relatively mild conditions and short reaction times. HMF selectively affords excellent yields of furfuryl alcohol with no humin formation, but longer reaction can also afford furan via tandem alcohol dehydrogenation and decarbonylation. Yields of substituted benzaldehydes are related to calculated Mulliken charge of the carbonyl carbon. The activity and selectivity differences can be traced to loading-dependent differences in Pd speciation on the catalysts. Poisoning studies show inverse correlation between Pd loading and metal leaching: Pd-HTs with lowest Pd loading, which consist of highly dispersed and oxidized Pd species, operate heterogeneously with negligible metal leaching. Recycling experiments are consistent with this trend, offering potential for further optimization to improve robustness.</p>

Atom Condensed Fukui Function for Condensed Phases and Biological Systems and Its Application to Enzymatic Fixation of Carbon Dioxide

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Oller ◽  
David A. Sáez ◽  
Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Aqueous Solution ◽  
Molecular System ◽  
Chemical Reactivity ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Stable Conformation ◽  
Fukui Functions ◽  
Reactivity Descriptors ◽  
Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Fixation Of Carbon Dioxide

<div><div><div><p>Local reactivity descriptors such as atom condensed Fukui functions are promising computational tools to study chemical reactivity at specific sites within a molecule. Their applications have been mainly focused on isolated molecules in their most stable conformation without considering the effects of the surroundings. Here, we propose to combine QM/MM Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics simulations to obtain the microstates (configurations) of a molecular system using different representations of the molecular environment and calculate Boltzmann weighted atom condensed local reac- tivity descriptors based on conceptual DFT. Our approach takes the conformational fluctuations of the molecular system and the polarization of its electron density by the environment into account allowing us to analyze the effect of changes in the molecular environment on reactivity. In this contribution, we apply the method mentioned above to the catalytic fixation of carbon dioxide by crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase and study if the enzyme alters the reactivity of its substrate compared to an aqueous solution. Our main result is that the protein en- vironment activates the substrate by the elimination of solute-solvent hydrogen bonds from aqueous solution in the two elementary steps of the reaction mechanism: the nucleophilic attack of a hydride anion from NADPH on the α, β unsaturated thioester and the electrophilic attack of carbon dioxide on the formed enolate species.</p></div></div></div>

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