Base Principle (base + principle)

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Selected Abstracts


Short communication: An alternative and effective catalyst for the silastannation of arylacetylenes with Me3SiSnBu3 at room temperature

APPLIED ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 2 2004
Taichi Nakano
Abstract The palladium-catalyzed silastannation of acetylenes with tributyl(trimethylsilyl)stannane in the presence of triethylphosphite is reported for the first time. The reaction occurs at room temperature to give (Z)-silyl(stannyl)ethenes in high yields. The protodemetallation of the resulting adducts with HCl,tetraethylammonium chloride is described first, which demonstrates that the reaction is governed only by the stability of a carbonium ion arising from the protonation to (Z)-silyl(stannyl)ethenes rather than the hard and soft acid and base principle, i.e. the ,-cation stabilization effect (,,, stabilization one) of a stannyl group in the carbonium ion is rather significant. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


DFT-HSAB Prediction of Regioselectivity in 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions: Behavior of (4-Substituted)benzonitrile Oxides towards Methyl Propiolate,

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 4 2006
Alessandro Ponti Dr.
Abstract The regioselectivity of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions between (4-substituted)benzonitrile oxides and methyl propiolate cannot be rationalized on the basis of the electron demand of the reactants or frontier molecular-orbital theory. To this problem, we have applied a quantitative formulation of the hard,soft acid,base principle developed within the density functional theory. Global and local reactivity indices were computed at B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) level. The details of charge transfer upon the reactive encounter have been elucidated, and the computed regioselectivity has been shown to be in good agreement with experimental data. [source]


Density Functional Study of the Complexation Reaction of Sn(CH3)3X (X = F, Cl, Br and I) with Halide Anions

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 20 2003
Frank De Proft
Abstract The Lewis acid-base reaction between Sn(CH3)3X and Y, (with X, Y = F, Cl, Br and I) has been studied using quantum chemical calculations. Complexation energies were calculated at the Density Functional Theory (DFT) level and rationalized on the basis of a local application of the hard and soft acids and bases principle. It was observed that smaller differences in the local softness of the interacting sites in the Lewis acid and base correspond to stronger interactions. Moreover, the calculated sequences in complexation energies can be reproduced using equations containing chemical concepts introduced within the framework of conceptual density functional theory and rooted in the hard and soft acids and bases principle and referring only to the reactants. A method of treating the electronegativity and softness of the halide anions is presented based on a Taylor expansion of the electronegativity of the neutral halogens and the softness-polarizability proportionality. Experimental evidence for the calculated sequences was gathered from measured 117Sn chemical shifts and 1J (13C- 119/117Sn) coupling constant changes upon complexation. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2003) [source]


Living cationic polymerization of amide-functional vinyl ethers: Specific properties of SnCl4 -based initiating system

JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 18 2008
Motomasa Yonezumi
Abstract Living cationic copolymerization of amide-functional vinyl ethers with isobutyl vinyl ether (IBVE) was achieved using SnCl4 in the presence of ethyl acetate at 0 °C: the number,average molecular weight of the obtained polymers increased in direct proportion to the monomer conversion with relatively low polydispersity, and the amide-functional monomer units were introduced almost quantitatively. To optimize the reaction conditions, cationic polymerization of IBVE in the presence of amide compounds, as a model reaction, was also examined using various Lewis acids in dichloromethane. The combination of SnCl4 and ethyl acetate induced living cationic polymerization of IBVE at 0 °C when an amide compound, whose nitrogen is adjacent to a phenyl group, was used. The versatile performance of SnCl4 especially for achieving living cationic polymerization of various polar functional monomers was demonstrated in this study as well as in our previous studies. Thus, the specific properties of the SnCl4 initiating system are discussed by comparing with the EtxAlCl3,x systems from viewpoints of hard and soft acids and bases principle and computational chemistry. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 6129,6141, 2008 [source]