A mechanochemical study of the effects of compression on a Diels-Alder reaction

We examine the effects of compressive external forces on the mechanisms of the parent Diels-Alder (DA) reaction between butadiene and ethylene. Reaction pathways and transition states were calculated using the nudged elastic band method within a mechanochemical framework at the CASSCF(6,6)/6-31G**, as well as the B3LYP/6-311++G** levels of theory. Our results suggest that compressive hydrostatic pressure lowers the energy barrier for the parent DA reaction while suppressing the undesirable side reaction, thereby leading to a direct increase in the yield of cyclohexene. Compressive pressure also increases the exothermicity of the parent DA reaction, which would lead to increased temperatures in a reaction vessel and thereby indirectly increase the yield of cyclohexene. Our estimates indicate that the compression used in our study corresponds to a range of 68 MPa–1410 MPa..

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Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:145

Enthalten in:

The journal of chemical physics - 145(2016), 7

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jha, Sanjiv K [VerfasserIn]
Brown, Katie [Sonstige Person]
Todde, Guido [Sonstige Person]
Subramanian, Gopinath [Sonstige Person]

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doi:

10.1063/1.4960955

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1981752692