Quantum-chemical study of allylstannanes

It has been shown by the MNDO method that in allyl compounds of tin, the atomic orbitals of the heteroatom interact with the -orbital through the bridge group, but interact with the ^*-orbital mainly through space. The position and intensity of the long-wave electronic transitions for methylvinylstannane should not depend on the conformation, with the ,- and , pseudo--conjugation effects being approximately identical, whereas for allylstannane, the ,-conjugation is considerably stronger. In molecules containing several allyl fragments bonded to heavy atoms, ,-conjugation is far weaker than ,-conjugation in polyenes.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 2071–2076, September, 1991.     

Kinetische Untersuchungen und LCAO—MO-Berechnungen der Dienon—Phenol-Umlagerung

Zusammenfassung Der Einfluß von Substituenten auf die Dienon—Phenol-Umlagerung wird mittels kinetischer Messungen untersucht. Mit Hilfe der einfachen LCAO—MO-Methode werden die -Elektronenstrukturen der Dienone und der modellmäßig festgelegten aktivierten Komplexe berechnet. Die Differenzen der -Elektronenenergien zwischen den Dienonen und aktivierten Komplexen werden als Maß für die Umlagerungsfreudigkeit angenommen und mit den Geschwindigkeitskonstanten verglichen.

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The kinetics of the dienone-phenol rearrangement was used to determine the influence of substituents. -electron structures of dienones and transition state models were calculated by means of the simple LCAO—MO method. -electron energy differences between dienones and transition states, assumed to be a measure for rearrangement tendency, are compared to rate constants.

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Investigations of vinyl esters of the furan series

The vinyl esters of trans--(2-furyl) acrylic acid, furan-2-carboxylic acid, 5-bromofuran2-carboxylic acid, and 5-nitrofuran-2-carboxylic acid were synthesized by the reaction of the corresponding acids with acetylene and vinyl acetate. Mercuric acetate and boron trifluoride etherate were used as catalysts for the transvinylation of acids of the furan series. The structures of the vinyl esters obtained were proved by IR and PMR spectroscopy. The distribution of the -electron density in the molecules of four of the synthesized vinyl and ethyl esters was studied by means of quantum-chemical calculations by the SCF MO LCAO method (Pople variant) using the Raman and UV absorption spectra.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1443–1447, November, 1972.     

A new theoretical approach to the empirical resonance energies of the aromatic hydrocarbons

In the framework of the Hückel MO approximation, the differences in total binding energy between a given molecule and the corresponding distorted Kekulé-type structure are calculated for a variety of benzenoid hydrocarbons. The total binding energy is assumed to be given by the sum of the -electron and -electron binding energies. It is shown that there is a good linear relationship between the calculated differences in total binding energy and the -electron delocalization energies (DE) as obtained by using the simple Hückel MO method. This provides a physical basis for the use of the -electron DE as a theoretical index to the empirical resonance energy (RE). Further, by examining the changes in -electron binding energy between a given molecule and the corresponding distorted Kekulé-type structure, it is concluded that in benzenoid hydrocarbons the main contributor to the RE is not the -electron DE but the compressional energy of bonds.     

Molecular orbital calculations on the optical rotatory properties of chiral allene systems

The chiroptical properties associated with the ^* transitions in dissymmetric allene systems are calculated and relationships between the chiroptical observables and the stereochemical and electronic structural features of these systems are examined. The calculations are based on the INDO and CNDO/S semiempirical molecular orbital models for the electronic structure of the molecular systems and excited states are constructed in the virtual orbital-configuration interaction approximation. The dipole strengths, rotatory strengths, and dissymmetry factors for the three lowest energy ^* transitions are computed and reported for eleven chiral allene structures. Relationships between absolute configuration and the signs of the ^* rotatory strengths are examined and discussed.     

An ab initio study of formamide

Calculated energy and molecular properties of the ground and low-energy excited states of formamide are presented at the ground state geometry. Satisfactory results are obtained except for the ¹* energy which remains too high by 1 eV (which is nevertheless a large improvement over previous calculations). The predicted triplet energies lie at 5.4 eV (³ n*) and 5.8 eV (³*).     

Topological studies on heteroconjugated molecules

A graph-theoretical analysis of certain -electron properties of alternant molecules with one heteroatom is given. Topological formulas for total -electron energy, -electron charge density, bond order and various polarizabilities are derived. The main results of the paper are summarized in Rules 1-7.     

Nature of electronic transitions in absorption spectra of phenyl derivatives of 1,3,4-sym-triazole

The electronic absorption spectra of 1,3,4-sym-triazole and its monophenyl, diphenyl, and triphenyl derivatives have been calculated in the -electron approximation by the PPP CI method. On the basis of special quantumchemical excitation indexes, transitions can be classified as either local or overall-molecular. For the latter, the dependence of properties on the structure of the -system was investigated.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 169–173, March–April, 1993.     

Calculation of the 1,5-dicyclopropenyl-cyclooctatetraene molecule

Conclusions The -electron system of the hypothetical 1,5-dicyclopropenylcyclooctatetraene molecule was calculated by the simple MO method using the -electron approximation on the assumption that it is coplanar. On the basis of the obtained values of the -electron energy and the resonance energy the hypothesis was expressed that a relative stabilization of a planar molecule is possible, and also that it is possible to stabilize by this method a planar eight-membered ring inside this type of system.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 756–757, April, 1966     

The Exciton Model and the Circular Dichroism of Polypeptides

Summary. Exciton coupling of the 190nm ^* transition is an important factor in the CD spectrum of peptides and proteins. The CD spectrum of the -helix is dominated by the exciton effect. The spectrum is sensitive to the direction of the ^* transition dipole moment, especially for short helices. Exciton theory is much less successful in accounting for the CD spectrum of the poly(proline)II (PPII) conformation, an important conformer in collagen and in unordered peptides. Mixing of the ^* transition with high-energy transitions in the peptide backbone and in side chains must be considered to explain the strong negative CD band near 200nm of PPII.     

Electronic structure of long molecules with conjugated bonds

The -electron system in a long molecule of the polyene type was calculated according to the Hartree-Fock self-consistent field method in which electrons with different spins are located on different molecular orbitals. The ground state of the -electron system in a long molecule is found to be antiferromagnetic and possesses a gap in the one-particle excitation spectrum. The calculated value of the first -electron transition as a function of the number of atoms in the polyene chain is in good agreement with experiment.     

Electronic structure and properties of pyridyl- and quinolylamines

The -electron structures and spectra corresponding to singlet -singlet - transitions of neutral and protonated pyridyl- and quinolylamine molecules were calculated by the MO LCAO method within the semiempirical Pariser-Parr-Pople approximation with allowance for configuration interaction. It is shown that the -electron density distribution explains the different directions of nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution reactions in the neutral and protonated heterocycle molecules. It is concluded that the character of protonation of amino-substituted quinolines is distinct.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 520–524, April, 1972.     

Non-superaromatic reference for carbon nanotube as a quasi-one-dimensional π-bonding model for graphite

A non-superaromatic reference defined for an armchair tubule is proposed as a simple model for the graphite -electron system. This kind of reference structure is easy to deal with because of its quasi-one-dimensional character. We found that even the non-superaromatic reference for a relatively thin armchair tubule has essentially the same -binding energy per carbon atom as graphite. The accurate -binding energy per carbon atom of graphite turned out to be 1.57459724.     

Ring currents and nuclear magnetic resonance in porphyrins

The McWeeny method [1] for calculating the -electron currents in aromatic molecules is modified for porphyrins. The distribution of the ring currents of the -electrons and their contributions to the chemical shifts of NH, -H, the meso protons, and the protons of the methyl groups of porphyrins with carbethoxy and methyl substituents in the form of dications and free bases are calculated. We show that the -electron current in the internal conjugation chain passing through the nitrogen atom decreases during the formation of the dication, while the total ring current increases by almost 10%. Introduction of an electron-accepting substituent in the -position intensifies the -electron current through the C—N bond of the corresponding pyrrole ring, and there is a simultaneous decrease in the total -electron current.     

Partitioning of <Emphasis Type="Italic">π</Emphasis> -electrons in rings of polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons: Part 6. Comparison with other methods for estimating the local aromaticity of rings in polycyclic benzenoids

By adopting the convention that shared double bonds in polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons contribute with one -electron and unshared ones with two -electrons, a partition of -electrons in each ring (-electron content, EC) can be obtained by averaging over all Kekulé structures, which are assumed to have equal weights. This affords a simple measure of local aromaticity that is comparable with other such local aromaticity indices in polycyclic benzenoids.     

Ru(II) Chloro-Bis(bipyridyl) Complexes with Substituted Pyridine Ligands: Interpretation of Their Electronic Absorption Spectra

A number of complexes were synthesized with the general formula cis-[Ru(Bipy)₂(L)(Cl)](BF₄), where Bipy is 2,2"-bipyridine, L is pyridyne (Py), 4-aminopyridine (4-NH₂py), 4-picoline (4-Mepy), nicotin-amide (3-CONH₂py), isonicotinamide (4-CONH₂py), 3- and 4-cyanopyridine (3-CNpy, 4-CNpy), 4,4"-bipyridine (4,4"-Bipy), trans-1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene (Bpe), 4,4"-azopyridine (Azpy), pyrazine (Pyz), imidazole (Imid), and NH₃. The semiempirical CINDO-CI method was used to calculate the energies and intensities of transitions in the electronic absorption spectra. The differences observed in the spectra of these compounds are mainly due to the positions of the charge-transfer transitions d (Ru) *(L). Depending on the positions of these transitions, ligands L can be divided into three groups: 1) transitions Ru L lie in the region of the first long-wavelength band d (Ru) *(Bipy) (L = Azpy, Pyz); 2) transitions Ru L lie between the first and second bands due to the charge transfer to Bipy (L = 3-CONH₂py, 4-CONH₂py, 4,4"-Bipy, Bpe, 4-CNpy), and 3) transitions Ru L lie in the region of the second band d (Ru) *(Bipy) (L = Py, 4-Mepy, 3-CNPy, 4-NH₂py, Imid).     

New synthesis of iridicinium salts

Conclusion -Cyclopentadienyl--(1,2-diphenylcyclopentadienyl)iridium fluoborate was obtained by reacting tolan with -allyl--cyclopentadienyliridium chloride in the presence of silver fluoborate.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1412–1414, June, 1982.The authors wish to thank A. I. Lutsenko and A. S. Shashkova for taking the PMR spectra.     

Infrared spectra of vinyl compounds and the effects of conjugation involving the π-electrons of the vinyl group

Conclusions The frequencies of the =CH₂ group wagging vibration in CH₂=CH-X compounds reflects both the inductive effect of the substituents X, and the effects of, -, ,p- and (d-p)-conjugation in which these substituents take part.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No.l, pp. 152–154, January 1970.     

Excited Π states of divinyl chalcogenides and chalcophenes

Electron transitions in divinyl chalcogenides (CH₂=CHXCH=CH₂, where X is S, Se, or Te) have been analyzed using UV absorption spectra of dialkyl and alkyl vinyl chalcogenides. The following relations for the orbital energies are found: ^* < ^* < ^* < ^* for Te and ^* < ^* < ^* < ^* for S and Se. For chalcophenes, a correlation between the energy of the excited state (E ^*) of specific symmetry, the ionization potential (I) and the electron affinity (EA) is obtained:E ^*=const+(I+EA)/2. The electron affinity of divinyl chalcogenides is estimated. The correlation between the excited ^* states of divinyl chalcogenides and chalcophenes is discussed.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 831–835, May, 1994.     

Crystal,molecular, and π-electronic structure of 1,3,2-benzodithiazolium chloride

X-Ray diffraction examination and MNDO calculations have shown that 1,3,2-benzodithiazolium chloride (I) is ionic, with a planar heteroaromatic 10-electron cation. The -MO of the cation (I) is isolobal with the p-MO of benzo-2,1,3-thiadiazole. In the cation of (I), as in the latter compound, the p-AO of nitrogen and sulfur contribute for the most part to -MO of differing symmetry (b₁ and a₂, respectively). This has the consequence that although both nitrogen and sulfur participate in the formation of a single -system in the thiazolium cation of (I), there is virtually no -bonding between them. Generally speaking, the -MO of the (I) cation shows a tendency to localization on separate molecular fragments. The charge on the cation is localized at the SNS group, and the five-membered ring is strongly polarized. These features all reduce the heteroaromaticity of the system.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 12, pp. 1683–1688, December, 1990.