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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 40, Pages 12147-12157Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201001714
Keywords
aromaticity; catalysis; cycloadditions; density functional calculations; reaction mechanisms
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- Spanish MICINN [CTQ2007-67528, CSD2007-00006, S2009/PPQ-1634]
- Spanish CAM [CTQ2007-67528, CSD2007-00006, S2009/PPQ-1634]
- Gobierno Vasco-Eusko Jaurlaritza [IT-324-07]
- Xunta de Galicia [INCITE09209122PR]
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The thermal [4+3] cycloaddition reaction between allenes and tethered dienes (1,3-butadiene and furan) assisted by transition metals (Au-I, Au-III, Pd-II, and Pt-II) was studied computationally within the density functional theory framework and compared to the analogous non-organometallic process in terms of activation barriers, synchronicity and aromaticity of the corresponding transition states. It was found that the metal-mediated cycloaddition reaction is concerted and takes place via transition structures that can be even more synchronous and more aromatic than their non-organometallic analogues. However, the processes exhibit slightly to moderately higher activation barriers than the parent cycloaddition involving the hydroxyallylic cation. The bond polarization induced by the metal moiety is clearly related to the interaction of the transition metal with the allylic pi* molecular orbital, which constitutes the LUMO of the initial reactant. Finally, replacement of the 1,3-butadiene by furan caused the transformation to occur stepwise in both the non-organometallic and metal-assisted processes.
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