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- Title
Large Stabilization Effects by Intramolecular Beryllium Bonds in Ortho -Benzene Derivatives.
- Authors
I-Ting, Tsai; Montero-Campillo, M. Merced; Alkorta, Ibon; Elguero, José; Yáñez, Manuel
- Abstract
Intramolecular interactions are shown to be key for favoring a given structure in systems with a variety of conformers. In ortho-substituted benzene derivatives including a beryllium moiety, beryllium bonds provide very large stabilizations with respect to non-bound conformers and enthalpy differences above one hundred kJ·mol−1 are found in the most favorable cases, especially if the newly formed rings are five or six-membered heterocycles. These values are in general significantly larger than hydrogen bonds in 1,2-dihidroxybenzene. Conformers stabilized by a beryllium bond exhibit the typical features of this non-covalent interaction, such as the presence of a bond critical point according to the topology of the electron density, positive Laplacian values, significant geometrical distortions and strong interaction energies between the donor and acceptor quantified by using the Natural Bond Orbital approach. An isodesmic reaction scheme is used as a tool to measure the strength of the beryllium bond in these systems in terms of isodesmic energies (analogous to binding energies), interaction energies and deformation energies. This approach shows that a huge amount of energy is spent on deforming the donor–acceptor pairs to form the new rings.
- Subjects
BENZENE derivatives; BERYLLIUM; NATURAL orbitals; ISODESMIC reactions; ELECTRON density; CRITICAL point (Thermodynamics); BINDING energy
- Publication
Molecules, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 11, p3401
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules26113401