title: Density Functional Theory Study of BF3-Mediated Additions of Enols and [(Trimethylsilyl)oxy]alkenes to an Oxyallyl Cation: Homologous Mukaiyama Reactions.
abstract: The addition of enols and [(trimethylsilyl)oxy]alkenes, bearing methyl substituents at various positions, to a cyclic, BF3-complexed oxyallyl cation has been studied at the M06/6-311G(d)//B3LYP/6-31G(d) level of theory. The reactions with the [(trimethylsilyl)oxy]alkenes are homologous Mukaiyama reactions, which have not been examined computationally previously. In most instances a number of transition states were located, and the difference in energy between these transition states was not large, which pointed to low levels of diastereoselectivity in the reactions of the oxyallyl cation model compound. The lowest energy transition states were those with a synclinal geometry in which the alkene was positioned over the cyclic oxyallyl cation, and the relative orientation of the alkene and the oxyallyl cation was rationalized in terms of stabilizing intermolecular interactions, revealed by NBO analysis, between one or more fluorines of the complexed BF3 and hydrogens on the alkene moiety, and between the oxygen on the alkene and the π-system of the oxyallyl cation. Because, in most instances with these simple models, two or more transition states of relatively low energy were located, predictions of diastereoselectivity in more complex examples that are based on simple models cannot be recommended.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Luc M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: LeBlanc
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Russell J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: D Jean
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Burnell