DFT study of the mechanism and stereoselectivity of the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between pyrroline-1-oxide and methyl crotonate

Computational study of the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between methyl 2-trifluorobutynoate and substituted azides in terms of reactivity indices and activation parameters

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of methyl 2-trifluorobutynoate with various azides has been studied in terms of several theoretical approaches at DFT/B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory. The mechanism of regioselectivity of these reactions was investigated through the evaluation of the potential energy surface of the cycloaddition process calculations and density DFT-based reactivity indices. These approaches were successfully applied to prediction of preferable regio-isomers for various reactions of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions. The reactions were followed by performing transition state optimization, calculation of Intrinsic Reaction Coordinate and activation energies. Analysis of the geometries of the corresponding transition structures shows that the cycloaddition takes place along a single elementary step (one-step mechanism) but asynchronous mechanism. The calculation of the activation energies and reaction energies show that the 1,5-regioisomer for substituted phenyl azides as dipoles and the 1,4-regioisomer for substituted benzyl azides as dipoles are thermodynamically in all the cycloadditions reactions. The solvent effect was also studied in the solvent tert-butyl alcohol using self-consistent reaction field model. The observed regioselectivity was explained by using developed DFT-based reactivity descriptors, such as Fukui and Parr functions. The results were compared with experimental data to find a good agreement.

On the outside looking in: rethinking the molecular mechanism of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions from the perspective of bonding evolution theory. The reaction between cyclic nitrones and ethyl acrylate

Understanding the molecular mechanism of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions using the bonding evolution theory.

Acyclic and cyclic nitrone cycloadditions to 1-cinnamoyl-1-piperidine: A DFT study

DFT studies have been carried out for the cycloaddition reactions of a cyclic nitrone, 1-pyrroline-1-oxide and an acyclic nitrone, C,N-diphenyl nitrone to an unsymmetrically disubstituted dipolarophile, 1-cinnamoyl-1-piperidine. These reactions proved to be opposite to each other with respect to the electron demand character predicted by the electronic chemical potentials, electrophilicities and charge transfer at the transition states. The regio- and stereoselectivities have been predicted from DFT based reactivity indices, interaction energy calculations using a perturbative orbital independent theoretical model and the activation parameters of the located transition states. Two different concepts have been used for the evaluation of interaction energies. The selectivities were found to be in conformity with the experimental findings. The time gaps between the formations of C – C and C – O bonds were evaluated from single trajectory simulations. The asynchronicity of bond formation process was analyzed from the wiberg bond indices, atom–atom overlap weighted NAO bond orders and the calculated asymmetry indices of the transition states.