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ArticleChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2022

How Ionization Catalyzes Diels-Alder Reactions.

Pascal Vermeeren, Trevor A Hamlin, F Matthias Bickelhaupt

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Article in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. How Ionization Catalyzes Diels-Alder Reactions.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2022
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3 authors.

Pascal VermeerenDepartment of Theoretical Chemistry Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS) Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling (ACMM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2100-6837
Trevor A HamlinDepartment of Theoretical Chemistry Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS) Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling (ACMM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5128-1004
F Matthias BickelhauptDepartment of Theoretical Chemistry Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS) Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling (ACMM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4655-7747

Funding

Dutch Astrochemistry NetworkThe Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The catalytic effect of ionization on the Diels-Alder reaction between 1,3-butadiene and acrylaldehyde has been studied using relativistic density functional theory (DFT). Removal of an electron from the dienophile, acrylaldehyde, significantly accelerates the Diels-Alder reaction and shifts the reaction mechanism from concerted asynchronous for the neutral Diels-Alder reaction to stepwise for the radical-cation Diels-Alder reaction. Our detailed activation strain and Kohn-Sham molecular orbital analyses reveal how ionization of the dienophile enhances the Diels-Alder reactivity via two mechanisms: (i) by amplifying the asymmetry in the dienophile's occupied π-orbitals to such an extent that the reaction goes from concerted asynchronous to stepwise and thus with substantially less steric (Pauli) repulsion per reaction step; (ii) by enhancing the stabilizing orbital interactions that result from the ability of the singly occupied molecular orbital of the radical-cation dienophile to engage in an additional three-electron bonding interaction with the highest occupied molecular orbital of the diene.

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AcroleinElectronsCatalysisChemical PhenomenaCycloaddition ReactionAcroleinactivation strain modeldensity functional calculationsDiels-Alder reactionradical chemistryreactivity

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PMCPMC9400981

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