Amidoalkylation of hydrophosphoryl compounds

A new mild procedure of the amidoalkylation of hydrophosphoryl compounds in a mixture of acetic anhydride and acetyl chloride was developed as a convenient method of constructing the α-aminophosphoryl fragment of the pseudo-α,α′-dipeptide molecule. The reaction intermediates N,N′-benzylidene- and N,N′-alkylidenebiscarbamates were detected, isolated, and identified. The report presents the results of studying the direct interaction of hydrophosphoryl compounds previously synthesized with biscarbamates in acetic anhydride and other solvents, the influence of the structure of phosphorus component and biscarbamate, and the effect of acid catalysis on the course of this two-component reaction. A new version of the mechanism of the three-component reaction of amidoalkylation of hydrophosphoryl compounds is suggested: it is regarded as a multistage process involving the stage of biscarbamate formation followed by the stage of Arbuzov-type reaction with the intermediate formation of acyliminium cation and P-OAc derivative with trivalent phosphorus.     

Quantum-chemical investigation of some oligomeric heteroaromatic compounds

Those structures of aromatic imidazoles that can be realized in polybenzimidazoles were investigated within the framework of the computational scheme of the Pariser-Parr-Pople method. The features of the electronic structures of the investigated molecules were exposed. A judgment is expressed relative to the strength characteristics of the bonds in the imidazole rings during thermal or thermal oxidative destruction of aromatic polybenzimidazoles. The stereoisomerism of dibenzimidazoles was examined. The UV absorption spectra of the investigated compounds were interpreted.See [1] for communication III.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No, 10, pp. 1396–1402, October, 1973.     

Quantum-chemical investigation of some oligomeric heteroaromatic compounds

Indigo and its dimer, trimer, dehydro, and leuco forms were investigated within the framework of the Pariser-Parr-Pople method. The electronic structures of the compounds in the ground and excited states and the effect of chain lengthening are discussed, and the UV absorption spectra are interpreted. Several characteristics of the chromaticity of the investigated compounds as representatives of vat dyes are examined. The estimated (from calculations) energetic favorability of the indigoid, dehydro, and leuco forms of indigo is used in discussing the observed and experimental ease of redox transformations of indigo.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 794–798, June, 1972.     

Quantum-chemical investigation of some oligomeric heteroaromatic compounds

The results of calculations by the Pariser-Parr-Pople method and the expanded Hückel method of oligomeric compounds and fragments from which aromatic polyimide macromolecules are constructed are presented and discussed. In connection with the controversial character of the problem of the structures of the intermediates in the destruction of polyimides and the use, in this case, of the concept of imide-isoimide rearrangement, the relative advantageousness of the tautomeric forms of imides is evaluated, the participation of the imide ring in one or another form in conjugation is discussed, the spectral differences in the forms are established, etc. The strength characteristics of the bonds in polyimides were estimated in connection with the possibility of homolytic and hydrolytic cleavage of polyimides at these bonds.See [1] for communication II.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No.8, pp. 1048–1056, August, 1972.     

Quantum-chemical investigation of some oligomeric heteroaromatic compounds

The characteristics of the electronic structures of a number of model aromatic oxazoles realized in aromatic polyoxazoles were obtained within the framework of the Pariser-Parr-Pople method. The UV spectra of most of them were interpreted. The stereoisomerism of dibenzoxazoles is examined.     

Quantum-chemical study of nh tautomerism in porphin

Calculations of the hypersurface of the adiabatic potential which determines the movement of NH protons in the centre of the porphin molecule are carried out by the CNDO/2 method. Simultaneous displacements of two NH protons and the displacement of only one proton are considered. The barrier heights for NH tautomerism in these two cases are evaluated, as well as the frequencies of NH vibrational modes for a porphin molecule of D_2h symmetry. The data obtained indicate that shifts of the central protons from one nitrogen atom to another occur almost independently of each other, and the degenerate rearrangement A → B proceeds in a stepwise way, via the intermediate isomer C with adjacent disposition of NH protons (see Fig. 1). The role of tunnelling through the barrier in this process is emphasized. The electronic absorption spectra of the two porphin isomers of D_2h and C_2v symmetry are calculated using the CNDO/S method.     

Tautomerism of hydrophosphoryl compounds and their features as ligands in metal complex catalysis. Quantum-chemical simulations by the density functional method

The density functional method (gradient-corrected nonempirical functional PBE, basis TZ2p) was used to perform a large-scale study of the mechanism of tautomerization of hydrophosphoryl compounds RR′P (H)O ? RR′POH (R,R′ = Alk, Ar, OR, NR₂). It was shown that intramolecular proton transfer in this rearrangement is forbidden (activation barriers 43.3–60 kcal mol^?1), and, in the absence of carrier molecules, it occurs as synchronous transfer of two protons in fairly strong dimeric associates (2.50–10.5 kcal mol^?1) formed due to O-H···O, O-H···P, and C-H···O hydrogen bonding. The process involves six-membered transition states with activation barriers of 5–15 kcal mol^?1. The contribution of tunneling into the rate constants at 300–400 K, according to estimates in terms of the reaction-path Hamiltonian formalism, reaches 20–40% and increases as the temperature decreases. The mechanism of ethylene hydroformylation in a model complex of a hydrophosphoryl compound with Pt(II) [(H₂PO)₂H]Pt(PH₃)(H)] was considered to reveal factors responsible for the high efficiency of such complexes in the reaction studied. It was found that the key stages of the catalytic cycle involve reversible proton migration in the ?PH₂OH··· O=P chain of the quasi-chelate ring, which provides fine tuning of the electron distribution in the catalytic node and thus functions as a molecular switcher.     

Quantum-chemical and correlation study on tautomerism and ionization of Quinalizarin

Quinalizarin and anions derived therefrom exist as equilibrium mixtures of different tautomers and conformers, whose structure depends on the conditions. Quinalizarin was shown to have 9,10-, 1,10-, 1,4-, 1,5-, 1,7-, and 2,9-quinoid structures, but not 1,2-quinoid structure; and its anions in ethanol media were identified as 9,10-, 1,10-, 2,9-, and 1,5-quinoid tautomers. Interactions with solvents and ionization could give rise to displacement of tautomeric and conformational equilibria, leading to considerable change in the number and position of π _l ,π* bands in the electronic absorption spectra, which are responsible for the color.     

The fluorination of hydrophosphoryl compounds using 2-hydroperfluoropropyl azide

2-Hydroperfluoropropyl azide efficiently fluorinates hydrophosphoryl compounds to give the corresponding P(V) acid fluorides.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 933–935, April, 1990.     

Acyloxy derivatives of trivalent phosphorus in amidoalkylation of hydrophosphoryl compounds

In order to model the previously suggested mechanism of the P-C bond formation via the Arbuzov reaction, we have studied the interaction of diethylacylphosphite (prepared beforehand as well as generated in situ from tetraethylpyrophosphite) with the in situ generated acyliminium cation. Various conditions of in situ generation of acylphosphite derivatives of P(III) from hydrophosphoryl compounds and acyliminium ions from N,N′-alkylidenebiscarbamates have been investigated: solvent nature, acid catalyst, and the reagents mixing order). The results obtained have confirmed the suggested mechanism of three-component reaction of amidoalkylation of hydrophosphoryl compounds with the formation of P-C bond via the Arbuzov reaction of in situ formed intermediates.     

Quantum-chemical investigation of the silicon and carbon coordination bond in their isostructural compounds

Ab initio calculations within the minimal basis set of STO -4LGTO have been carried out on molecules of type H₃MX (M = Si, C; X = H, NH₂, OH, F). The influence of the MH₃-group inversion on the electronic structure of these compounds has been investigated and illustrated by MO electron density maps. The ability of the central atom to form an additional bond has been estimated with the help of calculations on the complexes of these molecules with the hydrogen negative ion. The complexes of type [H₄SiX]^? have been found to be more stable than their unbonded components. The [H₄CX]^? complex formation has not proved to be advantageous.     

Quantum-chemical investigation of monosubstituted cyclopropanes

The applicability of the semiempirical MINDO/3 and MNDO methods is demonstrated for the determination of the relative changes in the strain of the three-carbon ring and examination of the contributions from the effects of substituents X to the stabilization energy of monosubstituted cyclopropanes (substituents H, OCH₃, NH₂, F, Cl, CH₃, CF₃, COCH₃, CN, NO₂). The best results, comparable with the data from nonempirical calculations, were obtained by the MINDO/3 method. The method correctly confers the changes in the geometry of substituted cyclopropane rings but systematically underestimates the strain energy by 20–40 kJ/mole. To judge from the AE_strain values, the -accepting effect of the substituents NO₂, COCH₃, and CN plays a major role in determining the electronic structure, suppressing the destabilizing -acceptor effect. In the case of the substituents F, Cl, OCH₃, and NH₂ the stabilizing -donor effect is either completely suppressed or is partly balanced by the -acceptor effect.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éxperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 399–407, July–August, 1985.