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Weight BM, Weix DJ, Tonzetich ZJ, Krauss TD, Huo P. Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Enables para- and ortho-Selective Electrophilic Bromination of Nitrobenzene. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:16184-16193. [PMID: 38814893 PMCID: PMC11177318 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c04045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2024] [Revised: 05/15/2024] [Accepted: 05/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
Abstract
Coupling molecules to a quantized radiation field inside an optical cavity has shown great promise to modify chemical reactivity. In this work, we show that the ground-state selectivity of the electrophilic bromination of nitrobenzene can be fundamentally changed by strongly coupling the reaction to the cavity, generating ortho- or para-substituted products instead of the meta product. Importantly, these are products that are not obtained from the same reaction outside the cavity. A recently developed ab initio approach was used to theoretically compute the relative energies of the cationic Wheland intermediates, which indicate the kinetically preferred bromination site for all products. Performing an analysis of the ground-state electron density for the Wheland intermediates inside and outside the cavity, we demonstrate how strong coupling induces reorganization of the molecular charge distribution, which in turn leads to different bromination sites directly dependent on the cavity conditions. Overall, the results presented here can be used to understand cavity induced changes to ground-state chemical reactivity from a mechanistic perspective as well as to directly connect frontier theoretical simulations to state-of-the-art, but realistic, experimental cavity conditions.
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- Braden M. Weight
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Texas at San
Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
- The
Institute of Optics, Hajim School of Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
- The
Institute of Optics, Hajim School of Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Pal R, Chattaraj PK. Electrophilicity index revisited. J Comput Chem 2023; 44:278-297. [PMID: 35546516 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2022] [Revised: 03/30/2022] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
This review aims to be a comprehensive, authoritative, critical, and accessible review of general interest to the chemistry community; because the electrophilicity index is a very useful global reactivity descriptor defined within a conceptual density functional theory framework. Our group has also introduced electrophilicity based new global and local reactivity descriptors and also new associated electronic structure principles, which are important indicators of structure, stability, bonding, reactivity, interactions, and dynamics in a wide variety of physico-chemical systems and processes. This index along with its local counterpart augmented by the associated electronic structure principles could properly explain molecular vibrations, internal rotations and various types of chemical reactions. The concept of the electrophilicity index has been extended to dynamical processes, excited states, confined environment, spin-dependent and temperature-dependent situations, biological activity, site selectivity, aromaticity, charge removal and acceptance, presence of external perturbation through solvents, external electric and magnetic fields, and so forth. Although electrophilicity and its local variant can adequately interpret the behavior of a wide variety of systems and different physico-chemical processes involving them, their predictive potential remains to be explored. An exhaustive review on all these aspects will set the tone of the future research in that direction.
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- Ranita Pal
- Advanced Technology Development Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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Kang Q, Lin Y, Li Y, Xu L, Li K, Shi H. Catalytic S
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Ar Hydroxylation and Alkoxylation of Aryl Fluorides. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202106440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Qi‐Kai Kang
- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province School of Science Westlake University 18 Shilongshan Road Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang Province China
- Institute of Natural Sciences Westlake Institute for Advanced Study 18 Shilongshan Road Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang Province China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province School of Science Westlake University 18 Shilongshan Road Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang Province China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province School of Science Westlake University 18 Shilongshan Road Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang Province China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province School of Science Westlake University 18 Shilongshan Road Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang Province China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province School of Science Westlake University 18 Shilongshan Road Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang Province China
- Institute of Natural Sciences Westlake Institute for Advanced Study 18 Shilongshan Road Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang Province China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province School of Science Westlake University 18 Shilongshan Road Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang Province China
- Institute of Natural Sciences Westlake Institute for Advanced Study 18 Shilongshan Road Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang Province China
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Kang QK, Lin Y, Li Y, Xu L, Li K, Shi H. Catalytic S N Ar Hydroxylation and Alkoxylation of Aryl Fluorides. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:20391-20399. [PMID: 34263536 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202106440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SN Ar) is a powerful strategy for incorporating a heteroatom into an aromatic ring by displacement of a leaving group with a nucleophile, but this method is limited to electron-deficient arenes. We have now established a reliable method for accessing phenols and phenyl alkyl ethers via catalytic SN Ar reactions. The method is applicable to a broad array of electron-rich and neutral aryl fluorides, which are inert under classical SN Ar conditions. Although the mechanism of SN Ar reactions involving metal arene complexes is hypothesized to involve a stepwise pathway (addition followed by elimination), experimental data that support this hypothesis is still under exploration. Mechanistic studies and DFT calculations suggest either a stepwise or stepwise-like energy profile. Notably, we isolated a rhodium η5 -cyclohexadienyl complex intermediate with an sp3 -hybridized carbon bearing both a nucleophile and a leaving group.
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- Qi-Kai Kang
- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China.,Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China.,Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China.,Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
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Majumdar D, Das D, Nag S, Bhattacharyya M, Singh DK, Parai D, Bankura K, Mishra D. A rare hetero-bimetallic Zn(II)/Ca(II) Schiff base complex: Synthesis, crystal structure, DFT, molecular docking and unveiling antimicrobial activity. J Mol Struct 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.128951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Belkhiria M, Hajji M, Mechria A, Cruz TF, Gomes CS, Gomes PT, Guerfel T, Msaddek M. Synthesis and structural studies of hexafluorophosphate-based organic salts: A combined experimental and computational analysis. J Mol Struct 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Abad N, Hajji M, Ramli Y, Belkhiria M, Moftah H. Elmgirhi S, A. Habib M, Guerfel T, T. Mague J, Essassi EM. A newly synthesized nitrogen‐rich derivative of bicyclic quinoxaline—Structural and conceptual DFT reactivity study. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/poc.4055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Nadeem Abad
- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Hétérocyclique, Centre de Recherche des Sciences des médicaments, URAC 21, Pôle de Compétence Pharmacochimie, Av Ibn Battouta, bp 1014, Faculté des SciencesUniversité´ Mohammed V Rabat Morocco
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- Research Unit: Electrochemistry, Materials and EnvironmentUniversity of Kairouan Kairouan Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and PharmacyMohammed V University Rabat Morocco
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Hétérocyclique, Produits Naturels et Réactivité: L.C.H.P.N.RFaculté des Sciences de Monastir Monastir Tunisia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of EducationSirte University Sirte Libya
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- Research Unit: Electrochemistry, Materials and EnvironmentUniversity of Kairouan Kairouan Tunisia
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- Department of ChemistryTulane University New Orleans LA USA
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Hétérocyclique, Centre de Recherche des Sciences des médicaments, URAC 21, Pôle de Compétence Pharmacochimie, Av Ibn Battouta, bp 1014, Faculté des SciencesUniversité´ Mohammed V Rabat Morocco
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