title: Theoretical investigations on the mechanistic pathway of the thermal rearrangement of substituted N-acyl-2,2-dimethylaziridines.
abstract: The mechanism of the thermal rearrangement of substituted N-acyl-2,2-dimethylaziridines 1 has been studied using quantum chemistry methods. Geometries of reactants, transition states and products have been optimized at the B3LYP/6-311++G(2d,2p) level. Relative energies for various stationary points have been determined and reaction identified by IRC calculations. The results show that thermal rearrangements occur in three ways. Firstly, the transition state TS 1 in which a hydrogen atom of methyl groups migrates from primary carbon to oxygen of amid group to give the N-methallylamide 2. The second is via the transition state TS 2 in which the attack of oxygen to the tertiary carbon yields the oxazoline 3. The third is via the transition state TS 3 in which a hydrogen migrate from the secondary carbon to oxygen to give the vinylamide 4. In order to get insights into the factors determining the exact nature of its interactions with electrophiles, the application of reactivity parameters derived from density functional theory in a local sense, in particular the softness and Fukui function, to interpret and predict the mechanisms of the thermal decomposition of the N-acyl-2,2-dimethylaziridines 1, has been discussed.
authors: Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique et Hétérocyclique, Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, 2092, El Manar, Tunisie, arfaoui.youssef@gmail.com.
authors: Youssef
authors: Y
authors: Arfaoui
authors: Mohamed Lotfi
authors: ML
authors: Efrit
authors: Néji
authors: N
authors: Besbes
mesh_terms: D001388:Aziridines / Q000737:chemistry*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D001388:Aziridines
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