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Orbital-controlled reactions catalysed by zeolites: Electrophilic alkylation of aromatics

1994

The role of orbital control in product selectivity during electrophilic aromatic alkylation catalysed by zeolites was studied both theoretically and experimentally. In order to discuss this, the alkylation of toluene and m-xylene by methanol was carried out on a series of large-pore zeolites (HY). The changes in the para to ortho ratio observed on changing the framework Si/Al ratio of the zeolites were related to ab initio molecular orbital calculations of the LUMO energy of structurally alike model clusters but containing different tetrahedral cations around the active site. The observed correlation is discussed in terms of the HSAB principle by taking into account the influence of the cat…

Full configuration interaction calculation of BeH adiabatic states.

2008

An all-electron full configuration interaction (FCI) calculation of the adiabatic potential energy curves of some of the lower states of BeH molecule is presented. A moderately large ANO basis set of atomic natural orbitals (ANO) augmented with Rydberg functions has been used in order to describe the valence and Rydberg states and their interactions. The Rydberg set of ANOs has been placed on the Be at all bond distances. So, the basis set can be described as 4s3p2d1f3s2p1d(BeH)+4s4p2d(Be). The dipole moments of several states and transition dipole strengths from the ground state are also reported as a function of the R(Be-H) distance. The position and the number of states involved in sever…

On a topological interpretation of electronic and vibrational molecular energies

1998

Abstract A relationship between Randic's connectivity index and various quantum mechanical parameters derived from the Huckel Molecular Orbital (HMO) approach is demonstrated. When applied to conjugated hydrocarbons, this index represents the measure of the global π electron molecular energy and, therefore, of the resonance energy. Moreover, the development of the procedure, allows the introduction of a new definition of the bond order which, in turn, makes possible a better prediction not only for bond lengths of naphtalene but also for the resonance integral and conjugation energy for butadiene. Also, a corrected value for the Randic index is deduced, which allows for the reduction of the…

Orbiting Orbitals: Visualization of Vi-Bronic Motion at a Conical Intersection

2013

The Jahn-Teller (JT) active unpaired electron of single metalloporphyrin radical anions is imaged through scanning tunneling microscopy. It is demonstrated that the electron is delocalized over the porphyrin macrocycle and its topographic image is determined by vibronic motion: the orbital of the electron adiabatically follows the zero-point pseudorotation of skeletal deformations. Transformation of the polar graphs of the observed images allows visualization of the adiabatic vibrational density to which the electron is coupled. The vibronic potential at the conical intersection is visualized and the half-integer angular momentum characteristic of the Berry phase is revealed in the radial f…

Multiconfigurational Perturbation Theory: Applications in Electronic Spectroscopy

2007

Ab initio study of rotational isomerism and electronic structure of isomeric bipyrroles

1985

Abstract Ab initio calculations using STO-3G and 4-31G basis sets have been performed on the internal rotation barriers and conformational stabilities for 2,3′- and 3,3′-bipyrrole. The twofold rotation potential predicted for both isomers at minimal basis level becomes a more involved fourfold potential when the split-valence basis set is employed, because it takes into account more properly the nonbonded interannular interactions. A transoid-gauche minimum is predicted to have the minimal absolute conformational energy in both isomers. The electronic structure of the highest occupied MOs of 2,2′-, 2,3′- and 3,3′-bipyrrole are analyzed in terms of the single pyrrole MO pattern and a similar…

Understanding the local reactivity in polar organic reactions through electrophilic and nucleophilic Parr functions

2013

[EN] Building upon our recent studies devoted to the bonding changes in polar reactions [RSC Advances, 2012, 2, 1334 and Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 3841], we propose herein two new electrophilic, P-k(+), and nucleophilic, P-k(-), Parr functions based on the spin density distribution at the radical anion and at the radical cation of a neutral molecule. These local functions allow for the characterisation of the most electrophilic and nucleophilic centres of molecules, and for the establishment of the regio- and chemoselectivity in polar reactions. The proposed Parr functions are compared with both, the Parr-Yang Fukui functions [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1984, 106, 4049] based on frontier molecul…

Theoretical study of the electronic spectrum of magnesium-porphyrin

1999

Multiconfigurational self-consistent field (SCF) and second order perturbation methods have been used to study the electronic spectrum of magnesium-porphyrin (MgP). An extended ANO-type basis set including polarization functions on all heavy atoms has been used. Four allowed singlet states of E1u symmetry have been computed and in addition a number of forbidden transitions and a few triplet states. The results lead to a consistent interpretation of the electronic spectrum, where the Q band contains one transition, the B band two, and the N band one. The computed transition energies are consistently between 0.1 and 0.5 too low compared to the measured band maxima. The source of the discrepan…

Structure, magnetizability, and nuclear magnetic shielding tensors of bis-heteropentalenes. IV. Dihydrophospholophosphole isomers

2005

The geometry of the heteropentalenes formed by two phosphole units has been determined at the DFT level. The magnetic susceptibility and the nuclear magnetic shielding at the nuclei of these systems have also been calculated using gauge-including atomic orbitals and a large Gaussian basis set to achieve near Hartree-Fock estimates. A comparative study of the various isomers, of their flattened analogs, and of the parent phosphole molecule, shows that the [3,4-c] isomer is the most aromatic system in the set considered, assuming diatropicity and degree of planarity as indicators, even if it is the less stable in terms of total molecular energy. Plots of magnetic field-induced current densiti…

An ab Initio MO Study of Silver Triflate Complexation in [2.2.1]Cyclophane π-Prismands

2002

Ab initio Hartree-Fock and DFT MO calculations have been used to study the conformations of six [2.2.1]cyclophane π-prismands and the formation of their π-complexes with silver triflate (AgSO 3 CF 3 ). The lowest energy cyclophane conformations and their silver triflate π-complexes have been calculated with HF/3-21G* and B3LYP/3-21G* levels of theory. The nature of bonding in silver triflate π-complexes has been studied with natural bond orbital analysis (NBO). Energies of the calculated cyclophanes and complexes, together with the formation energies of those complexes, have also been discussed. The results have been compared to available X-ray crystal structures and also to results of the …