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The driving force role of ruthenacyclobutanes

DFT calculations have been used to determine the thermodynamic and kinetic preference for ruthenacyclobutanes resulting from the experimentally proposed interconversion pathways (olefin and alkylidene rotations) through the investigation of cross-metathesis reaction mechanism for neutral Grubbs catalyst, RuCl2(=CHEt)NHC (A), with ethylene and 1-butene as the substrates. Our results show that although the proposed interconversions are feasible due to the predicted low energy barriers (2-6 kcal/mol), the formation of ruthenacyclobutane is kinetically favored over the competitive reactions involving alkylidene rotations. In comparison with catalyst A, the reaction energy profile for cationic Piers catalyst [RuCl2(=CHPCy3)NHC+] (B) is more endothermic in nature with both ethylene and 1-butene substrates

A.P. thanks the Spanish MINECO for a Ramón y Cajal contract (RYC-2009-05226) and a José Castillejo fellowship (CAS14/00165), and European Commission for a Career Integration Grant (CIG09-GA-2011-293900)

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Director: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Espanya)
Autor: Vummaleti, Sai Vikrama Chaitanya
Cavallo, Luigi
Poater Teixidor, Albert
Data: març 2015
Resum: DFT calculations have been used to determine the thermodynamic and kinetic preference for ruthenacyclobutanes resulting from the experimentally proposed interconversion pathways (olefin and alkylidene rotations) through the investigation of cross-metathesis reaction mechanism for neutral Grubbs catalyst, RuCl2(=CHEt)NHC (A), with ethylene and 1-butene as the substrates. Our results show that although the proposed interconversions are feasible due to the predicted low energy barriers (2-6 kcal/mol), the formation of ruthenacyclobutane is kinetically favored over the competitive reactions involving alkylidene rotations. In comparison with catalyst A, the reaction energy profile for cationic Piers catalyst [RuCl2(=CHPCy3)NHC+] (B) is more endothermic in nature with both ethylene and 1-butene substrates
A.P. thanks the Spanish MINECO for a Ramón y Cajal contract (RYC-2009-05226) and a José Castillejo fellowship (CAS14/00165), and European Commission for a Career Integration Grant (CIG09-GA-2011-293900)
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Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/13283
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Springer Verlag
Col·lecció: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00214-015-1622-x
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1432-881X
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Matèria: Funcional de densitat, Teoria del
Density functionals
Metàtesi (Química)
Metathesis (Chemistry)
Ruteni
Ruthenium
Títol: The driving force role of ruthenacyclobutanes
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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