Vabilo na Preglov kolokvij / Invitation to the Pregl Colloquium, 16.2.2012

[Brigita Pirc]

VABILO NA PREGLOV KOLOKVIJ / INVITATION TO THE PREGL COLLOQUIUM

 

Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Justus-Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, Giessen, Germany

 

 

Četrtek / Thursday, 16. 02. 2012, ob / at 13:00


Velika predavalnica Kemijskega inštituta / Lecture Hall at the National Institute of Chemistry


 

Tunneling Control of Chemical Reactions[1]

 

Abstract:

Chemical reactivity is traditionally understood[2, 3] in terms of kinetic versus thermodynamic control,[4, 5] wherein the driving force is the lowest activation barrier among the possible reaction paths or the lowest free energy of the final products, respectively.  Here we expose quantum mechanical tunneling as a third driving force that can overwrite traditional kinetic control and govern reactivity based on nonclassical penetration of the potential energy barriers connecting the reactants and products.  These findings are exemplified with the first experimental isolation and full spectroscopic and theoretical characterization of the elusive hydroxycarbenes (R-C-OH, 1)[6-9] that undergo facile [1,2]hydrogen tunneling to the corresponding aldehydes under barriers of nearly 30.0 kcal mol-1 with half-lives of around 1-2 h even at experimental temperatures as low as 10 K, despite of the presence of paths with substantially lower barriers (e.g., CH-tunneling in 1b to 3 or rearrangement of 1c to 4).  We will demonstrate that this is a general phenomenon,[10, 11] as exemplified by other OH-tunneling examples such as the rotational isomerization of monomeric benzoic acid.[12]  Such tunneling processes do not merely represent corrections to the reaction rate, they are the reaction rate, i.e., the completely control the reaction outome.[1]

 

 

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[1]           P. R. Schreiner, H. P. Reisenauer, D. Ley, D. Gerbig, C.-H. Wu, W. D. Allen, Science 2011, 332, 1300.

[2]           H. Eyring, J. Chem. Phys. 1935, 3, 107.

[3]           M. G. Evans, M. Polanyi, Trans. Faraday Soc. 1935, 31, 875.

[4]           R. B. Woodward, H. Baer, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1944, 66, 645.

[5]           A. G. Catchpole, E. D. Hughes, C. K. Ingold, J. Chem. Soc. 1944, 11, 8.

[6]           D. Gerbig, H. P. Reisenauer, C.-H. Wu, D. Ley, W. D. Allen, P. R. Schreiner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 7273.

[7]           D. Gerbig, D. Ley, H. P. Reisenauer, P. R. Schreiner, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 1061.

[8]           P. R. Schreiner, H. P. Reisenauer, F. C. Pickard IV, A. C. Simmonett, W. D. Allen, E. Mátyus, A. G. Császár, Nature 2008, 453, 906.

[9]           P. R. Schreiner, H. P. Reisenauer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 7071.

[10]         D. Gerbig, D. Ley, P. R. Schreiner, Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 3526.

[11]         D. Ley, D. Gerbig, J. P. Wagner, H. P. Reisenauer, P. R. Schreiner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 13614.

[12]         S. Amiri, H. P. Reisenauer, P. R. Schreiner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 15902.

 

Vljudno vabljeni! / Kindly invited!

 

 

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