Unusual solvation through both p-orbital lobes of a carbene carbon.
As a result of a configurational space search done to explain the experimental evidence of transient specific solvation of singlet fluorocarbene amide with tetrahydrofuran, we found that the most stable structures consist in a group in which each oxygen of two tetrahydrofuran molecules act as electron donor to its respective empty p-orbital lobe of the carbene carbon atom, located at each side of the carbene molecular plane. This kind of species, which to our knowledge has not been reported before, explains very well the particular experimental characteristics observed for the transient solvation of this system. We postulate that the simultaneous interaction to both p-orbital lobes seems to confer a special stability to the solvation complexes, because this situation moves away the systems from the proximity of the corresponding transition states for the ylide products. Additionally, we present an analysis of other solvation complexes and a study of the nature of the involved interactions.
Grupo de Química-Física Teórica, Instituto de Química, Universidad de Antioquia, A. A. 1226 Medellín, Colombia.
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Hadad
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China.
Samantha
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Jenkins
Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad de Medellín, Carrera 87 N° 30-65, Medellín, Colombia.
Elizabeth
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Flórez