Theoretical study on mechanism of cycloaddition reaction between dimethyl methylene carbene and ethylene

The mechanism of cycloaddition reaction between singlet alkylidene carbene and ethylene has been investigated with second‐order Moller‐Plesset perturbation theory (MP2). By using 6–31G* basis, geometry optimization, vibrational analysis and energetics have been calculated for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. The results show that the title reaction has two major competition channels. An energy‐rich intermediate (INT) is firstly formed between alkylidene carbene and ethylene through a barrier‐free exothermic reaction of 63.62 kJ/mol, and the intermediate then isomerizes to a three‐membered ring product (Pl) and a four‐membered ring product (P2) via transition state TS1 and TS2, in which energy barriers are 47.00 and 51.02 kl/mol. respectively. PI is the main product.

Theoretical study on the mechanism of cycloaddition reaction between silylene carbene and formaldehyde

The mechanism of cycloaddition reaction between singlet dichlorovinylidene (R1) and formaldehyde (R2) has been investigated with MP2 and B3LYP /6-31G* methods, including geometry optimization, vibrational analysis, and energy for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. Energies from both methods are also further corrected by CCSD(T)/6-31G* single-point calculations. Although the relative energies do differ especially for the loose conformations such as transition states and intermediates, generally the geometries predicted by MP2 and B3LYP are in good agreement. CCSD(T) relative energies for the stationary points predicted by MP2 and B3LYP agree quite well, and they are more comparative to those from B3LYP than those from MP2. The results also show that both three-centered and [2+2] cycloadditions can happen in concerted pathways. The former leads to a stable three-membered ring product (P1), while the two intermediates (INT1c and INT1d) from the latter are not so stable and will rearrange into either P1 or a more stable four-membered ring product (P2). The orbital interactions are also discussed for the leading intermediates and products.

The mechanism of the cycloaddition reaction between singlet dichloro‐germylene carbene and aldehyde has been investigated with MP2/6‐31G* method, including geometry optimization and vibrational analysis for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. The energies of the different conformations are calculated by zero‐point energy and CCSD (T)//MP2/6‐31G* method. From the potential energy profile, it can be predicted that the reaction has two competitive dominant reaction pathways. The channel (A) consists of four steps: (1) the two reactants (R1, R2) first form an intermediate INT2 through a barrier‐free exothermic reaction of 142.4 kJ/mol; (2) INT2 then isomerizes to a four‐membered ring compound P2 via a transition state TS2 with energy barrier of 8.4 kJ/mol; (3) P2 further reacts with aldehyde (R2) to form an intermediate INT3, which is also a barrier‐free exothermic reaction of 9.2 kJ/mol; (4) INT3 isomerizes to a germanic bis‐heterocyclic product P3 via a transition state TS3 with energy barrier of 4.5 kJ/mol. The process of channel (B) is as follows: (1) the two reactants (R1, R2) first form an intermediate INT4 through a barrier‐free exothermic reaction of 251.5 kJ/mol; (2) INT4 further reacts with aldehyde (R2) to form an intermediate INT5, which is also a barrier‐free exothermic reaction of 173.5 kJ/mol; (3) INT5 then isomerizes to a germanic bis‐heterocyclic product P5 via a transition state TS5 with an energy barrier of 69.4 kJ/mol. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2011

The mechanism of a cycloaddition reaction between singlet dichloromethylene germylene and ethylene has been investigated with B3LYP/6‐31G* method, including geometry optimization and vibrational analysis for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. Energies for the involved conformations were calculated by CCSD(T)//B3LYP/6‐31G* method. On the basis of the surface energy profile obtained with CCSD(T)// B3LYP/6‐31G* method for the cycloaddition reaction between singlet dichloromethylene germylene and ethylene, it can be predicted that the dominant reaction pathway is that an intermediate INT1 is firstly formed between the two reactants through a barrier‐free exothermic reaction of 61.7 kJ/mol, and the intermediate INT1 then isomerizes to an active four‐membered ring product P2.1 via a transition state TS2, an intermediate INT2 and a transition state TS2.1 , in which energy barriers are 57.7 and 42.2 kJ/mol, respectively.

Mechanism of the cycloadditional reaction between singlet dichloro-germylidene and formaldehyde has been investigated with MP2/6–31G* method, including geometry optimization, vibrational analysis and energies for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. Prom the potential energy profile, we predict that the cycloaddition reaction between singlet dichloro-germylidene and formaldehyde has two competitive dominant reaction pathways, going with the formation of two side products (INT3 and INT4), simultaneously. Both of the two competitive reactions consist of two steps, two reactants firstly form a three-membered ring intermediate INT1 and a twisted four-membered ring intermediate INT2, respectively, both of which are barrier-free exothermic reactions of 41.5 and 72.3 kJ/mol; then INT1 isomerizes to a four-membered ring product P1 via transition state TS1, and INT2 isomerizes to a chlorine-transfer product P2 via transition state TS2, with the barriers of 2.9 and 0.3 kJ/mol, respectively. Simultaneously, P1 and INT2 further react with formaldehyde to form INT3 and INT4, respectively, which are also barrier-free exothermic reaction of 74.9 and 88.1 kJ/mol.

The mechanism of the cycloaddition reaction between singlet dichlorosilylene carbene (Cl2Si=C:) and formaldehyde has been investigated with MP2/6-31G* method, including geometry optimization and vibrational analysis for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. The energies of the different conformations are calculated by Zero-point energy and CCSD (T)//MP2/6-31G* method. From the potential energy profile, it can be predicted that the reaction has two competitive dominant reaction pathways. The first dominant reaction pathway consists of two steps: (1) the two reactants (R1, R2) firstly form a four-membered ring intermediate (INT4) through a barrier-free exothermic reaction of 387.9 kJ/mol; (2) intermediate (INT4) then isomerizes to H-transfer product (P4.2) via a transition state (TS4.2) with energy barrier of 4.7 kJ/mol. The second dominant reaction pathway as follows: on the basis of intermediate (INT4) created between R1 and R2, intermediate (INT4) further reacts with formaldehyde (R2) to form the intermediate (INT5) through a barrier-free exothermic reaction of 158.3 kJ/mol. Then, intermediate (INT5) isomerizes to a silicic bis-heterocyclic product (P5) via a transition state (TS5), for which the barrier is 40.1 kJ/mol.

The mechanism of the cycloaddition reaction between singlet dichloroalkylidenesilylene and ethylene has been investigated with the MP2/6-31G* and B3LYP/6-31G* methods, including geometry optimization and vibrational analysis for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. The energies of the different conformations are calculated by CCSD(T)//MP2/6-31G* and CCSD(T)//B3LYP/6-31G* methods. From the surface energy profile obtained with the CCSD(T)//MP2/6-31G* method for the cycloaddition reaction between singlet dichloroalkylidenesilylene and ethylene, it can be predicted that the dominant reaction pathway for this reaction involves the initial formation of an intermediate through a barrier-free exothermic reaction (42.4 kJ mol−1); this intermediate then isomerizes to an active four-membered ring product via a transition state, a second intermediate and a second transition state, for which the energy barriers are 31.2 and 32.2 kJ mol−1, respectively.

The mechanism of the cycloadditional reaction between singlet dichloro-germylidene(R1) and (acetaldehyde(R2) has been investigated with MP2/6-31G* method, including geometry optimization, vibrational analysis and energies for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. From the potential energy profile, we predict that the cycloaddition reaction between singlet dichloro-germylidene and acetaldehyde has two competitive dominant reaction pathways. Going with the formation of two side products (INT3 and INT4), simultaneously. The two competitive reactions both consist of two steps: (1) two reactants firstly form a three-membered ring intermediate (INT1) and a twisted four-membered ring intermediate (INT2), respectively, both of which are barrier-free exothermic reactions of 44.5 and 63.0 kJ/mol; (2) then INT1 and INT2 further isomerize to a four-membered ring product (P1) and a chlorine-transfer product (P2) via transitions (TS1 and TS2), respectively, with the barriers of 9.3 and 1.0 kJ/mol; simultaneously, P1 and INT2 react further with acetaldehyde(R2) to give two side products (INT3 and INT4), respectively, which are also barrier-free exothermic reaction of 65.4 and 102.7 kJ/mol.

The mechanism of cycloaddition reaction between singlet dimethylmethylenesilylene and formaldehyde has been investigated with MP2/6‐31G* method, including geometry optimization and vibrational analysis for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. The energies of different conformations are calculated by CCSD(T)//MP2/6‐31G* method. From the potential energy surface, it can be considered in thermodynamics and dynamics that reaction (1) and reaction (4) are the two dominant competitive reaction channels of cycloaddition reaction between dimethylmethylenesilylene and formaldehyde. The reaction process of reaction (1) is that: the two reactants (R1, R2) first form intermediates INT1a and INT1b through two reaction paths, a and b, which are barrier‐free exothermic reactions of 31.8 and 43.9 kJ/mol; then, INT1a and INT1b isomerize to a four‐membered ring product P1 via transition states TS1a and TS1b, with energy barriers of 26.3 and 24.4 kJ/mol. Reaction (4) also has two reaction paths, a and b, each of which consists of three steps are as follows: (i) the two reactants (R1, R2) first form intermediates INT3a and INT3b, which are barrier‐free exothermic reactions of 64.5 and 44.2 kJ/mol. (ii) INT3a and INT3b further react with formaldehyde (R2) to form intermediates INT4a and INT4b, through barrier‐free exothermic reactions of 22.9 and 22.2 kJ/mol. (iii) INT4a and INT4b then isomerize to form silapolycyclic product P4 via transition states TS4a and TS4b, with energy barriers of 39.7 and 29.3 kJ/mol. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2008

The mechanism of the sulfur extraction reaction between singlet silylene carbine and its derivatives and thiirane has been investigated with density functional theory (DFT), including geometry optimization and vibrational analysis for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. The energies of the different conformations are calculated by B3LYP/6-311G(d, p) method. From the potential energy profile, it can be predicted that the reaction pathway of this kind consists in two steps: (1) the two reactants firstly form an intermediate through a barrier-free exothermic reaction; (2) the intermediate then isomerizes to a product via a transition state. This kind of reactions has similar mechanism: when the silylene carbene and its derivatives [X2Si=C: (X = H, F, Cl, CH3)] and thiirane approach each other, the shift of 3p lone electron pair of S in thiirane to the 2p unoccupied orbital of C in X2Si=C: gives a p → p donor-acceptor bond, thereby leading to the formation of intermediate (INT). As the p → p donor-acceptor bond continues to strengthen (that is the C-S bond continues to shorten), the intermediate (INT) generates product (P + C2H4) via transition state (TS). It is the substituent electronegativity that mainly affect the extraction reactions. When the substituent electronegativity is greater, the energy barrier is lower, and the reaction rate is greater.

A catalytic, enantioselective spirocyclization of formanilides or formylindolines and enamides has been developed herein. The reaction proceeds through a sequential iridium-catalyzed hydrosilylatio...

The mechanism of the cycloaddition reaction between singlet dimethyl-silylene carbene and formaldehyde has been investigated with MP2/6-31G* method, including geometry optimization and vibrational analysis for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface. The energies of the different conformations are calculated by zero-point energy and CCSD (T)//MP2/6-31G* method. From the potential energy profile, it can be predicted that the reaction has two competitive dominant reaction pathways. The main products of first dominant reaction pathway are a planar four-membered ring product (P4) and its H-transfer product (P4.2). The main product of second dominant reaction pathway is a silicic bis-heterocyclic compound (P5). © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2011

The mechanism of addition reaction between carbene and epoxyethane has been investigated employing the MP2 and B3LYP/6-311+G* levels of theory. Geometry optimization, vibrational analysis, and energy property for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface have been calculated. Based on the calculated results at the MP2/6-311+G* level of theory, it can be predicted that there are two reaction mechanisms (1) and (2). In the first reaction carbene attacks the atom O of epoxyethane to form an intermediate 1a (IM1a), which is a barrier-free exothermic reaction. Then, IM1a can isomerize to IM1b via a transition state 1a (TS1a), where the potential barrier is 48.6 kJ/mol. Subsequently, IM1b isomerizes to a product epoxypropane (Pro1) via TS1b with a potential barrier of 14.2 kJ/mol. In the second carbene attacks the atom C of epoxyethane firstly to form IM2 via TS2a. Then IM2 isomerizes to a product allyl alcohol (Pro2) via TS2b with a potential barrier of 101.6 kJ/mol. Correspondingly, the reaction energies for the reactions (1) and (2) are −448.4 and −501.6 kJ/mol, respectively. Additionally, the orbital interactions are also discussed for the leading intermediate. The results based on the B3LYP/6-311+G* level of theory are paralleled to those on the MP2/6-311+G* level of theory. Furthermore, the halogen and methyl substituent effects of H2C: on the two reaction mechanisms have been investigated. The calculated results indicate that the introductions of halogen or methyl make the addition reaction difficult to proceed.

The mechanism of addition reaction between germylene and epoxyethane has been investigated with B3LYP/6-311+G* method, geometry optimization, vibrational analysis and energy property for the involved stationary points on the potential energy surface have been calculated. From the surface energy profile, it can be predicted that there are two reaction mechanisms (1) and (2). The first one (1) is germylene attacks the O atom of epoxyethane to form a complex 1 (Com1), which is a barrier-free exothermic reaction. Then, Com1 can isomerize to IM1 via a transition state 1a (TS1a), where the potential barrier is 123.7 kJ/mol. Subsequently, IM1 isomerizes to a product Pro1 via TS1b with a potential barrier of 58.5 kJ/mol. The other one (2) is germylene attacks the C atom of epoxyethane firstly to form IM2 via a transition state 2a (TS2a), the potential barrier is 171.0 kJ/mol. Then IM2 isomerizes to a product Pro2 via TS2b with a potential barrier of 78.8 kJ/mol. Correspondingly, the reaction energy for the reaction (1) and (2) is -209.0 and -82.9 kJ/mol, respectively. Additionally, the orbital interactions are also discussed for the leading complex.