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P.m. Viruela-martín
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Theoretical and structural studies of lithium cyclic amide conformations. Monomers and aggregates
2000
High level ab initio calculations on the conformations of unsolvated and solvated lithium piperidide, 1, and lithium morpholide, 2, were carried out. It was found that both monomers exhibit a global minimum for a chair structure with a planar nitrogen, and 2 shows an additional stable pseudo boat conformation. Dimers and amine–lithium amide mixed aggregates were also calculated including discrete solvation; the role of aggregation is clearly shown both by the changes in geometries and in the stabilization energies. Semiempirical calculations carried out on a recently synthesized tetrameric mixed aggregate give a geometry very similar to the structure determined by X-ray diffraction. The pre…
Theoretical EHT study of oxidative coupling of methane on pure MgO and MgO doped with Li and Na
1991
Abstract On the basis of Extended Huckel Theory, empirical studies on the oxidative coupling of methane with MgO pure and MgO doped with Li and Na are presented. The results obtained from the two-dimensional energy surfaces calculated for the interaction between linear clusters of these oxides and the methane molecule show a qualitative agreement with the experimental behaviour reported for these catalysts. The calculated activation energy barriers are in accord with the relative activities of these oxides (Li/MgO > Na/ MgO > MgO) and are of the same order of magnitude as the experimentally determined activation energies.
MINDO/3 Study of the Rearrangement of 1-Methylcyclohexyl Cation to 1,2-Dimethylcyclopentyl Cation
1986
The rearrangement of the 1-methylcyclohexyl cation to the 1,2-dimethylcyclopentyl cation has been studied by MINDO/3 calculations, as an application of the branching mechanism model for cycloalkanes. Possible intermediates and transition states have been characterized by diagonalization of their Hessian matrixes. Two nonequivalent pathways, α and β scissions, are relatively close in energy. The calculated transition states are almost equivalent in energy to those found for cyclohexyl cation. Hence, the energy barriers are higher for the rearrangement of the 1-methyl than for cyclohexyl cation, because the former is less stable than the latter.