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https://doi.org/10.1590/s0103-50532001000100007
Copy DOIPublication Date: Jan 1, 2001 | |
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The regioselectivity found in the mild basic hydrolysis of the 2,5-dimethyl-1,4-naphthohydroquinone diacetate (Nunes, R.L.; Bieber, L.W.; Longo, R.L. J. Nat. Prod. 1999, 62, 1600) has been studied with ab initio and semiempirical molecular orbital methods. In the gas phase (isolated systems), these methods were not able to provide results that could explain the observed selectivity. However, when the solvent effects were included in the AM1 method using the discrete solvation model it was possible to establish that this selectivity is due to the relative stability of the tetrahedral intermediates and their transitions states. The origin of this relative stability and thus of the observed selectivity is due to the repulsive interactions between the 2-methyl substituent in the naphthalene ring and the methyl group in the 4-acetate substituent, as well as their hindrance towards the hydration of the ionic group in the tetrahedral intermediates.
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