title: The Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Reaction of Substituted Hemifullerenes with 1,3-Butadiene: Effect of Electron-Donating and Electron-Withdrawing Substituents.
abstract: The Diels-Alder (DA) reaction provides an attractive route to increase the number of six member rings in substituted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). The density functional theory (DFT) B3LYP method has been used in this work to inquire if the substitution of H over the edge of triindenetriphenylene (pristine hemifullerene 1) and pentacyclopentacorannulene (pristine hemifullerene 2), could improve the DA cycloaddition reaction with 1,3-butadiene. The substituents tested include electron-donating (NH₂, OMe, OH, Me, i-Pr) and electron-withdrawing groups (F, COOH, CF₃, CHO, CN, NO₂). The electronic, kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of the DA reactions of the substituted hemifullerenes with 1,3-butadiene have been analyzed. The most promising results were obtained for the NO₂ substituent; the activation energy barriers for reactions using this substituent were lower than the barriers for the pristine hemifullerenes. This leads us to expect that the cycloadditions to a starting fullerene fragment will be possible.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química, División de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, 09340 México D. F., Mexico. fm@xanum.uam.mx.
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mojica
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química, División de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, 09340 México D. F., Mexico. fm@xanum.uam.mx.
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Méndez
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Universidad de Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain. jaalonso@fta.uva.es.
authors.forename: Julio A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Alonso
mesh_terms: D000475:Alkenes / Q000737:chemistry; D002070:Butadienes / Q000737:chemistry*; D061565:Cycloaddition Reaction; D004583:Electrons; D037741:Fullerenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D000475:Alkenes; D002070:Butadienes; D037741:Fullerenes; C013658:propylene; C031763:1,3-butadiene
keywords: DFT; Diels-Alder; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)