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- Title
Solvent and Substituent Size Influence on the Cyclochiral Rigidity of Aminomethylene Derivatives of Resorcin[4]arene.
- Authors
Iwanek, Waldemar
- Abstract
Resorcin[4]arenes (R[4]A) are a group of macrocyclic compounds whose peculiar feature is the presence of eight hydroxyl groups in their structure. The directional formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds with their participation leads to the formation of a cyclochiral racemic mixture of these compounds. Their stability strongly depends on the substituent and especially the environment in which they are located. The paper discusses the cyclochiral nature of aminomethylene derivatives of R[4]A (AMD-R[4]A). Their cyclochiral rigidity in non-polar solvents has been shown. The influence of the size of the alkyl groups in the amino substituents of AMD-R[4]A on their cyclochiral nature was noted. To calculate the reaction paths for their racemization, the nudged elastic band (NEB) method was employed using the semi-empirical DFT (GFN1-xTB) approach. The calculated activation barrier energies for their racemization in chloroform, obtained through various semi-empirical quantum chemical methods (SE), Hartree–Fock (HF), and density functionals theory (DFT), show good correlation with experimental observations. Among the tested methods, the B38LYP-D4 method is highly recommended due to its fast computational speed and accuracy, which is comparable to the time-consuming double-hybrid DH-revDSD-PBEP86 approach.
- Subjects
RESORCINOL; RACEMIC mixtures; DENSITY functionals; ALKYL group; RACEMIZATION; MACROCYCLIC compounds
- Publication
Molecules, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 21, p7426
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules28217426