Carbonyl group lone pairs

C ionization from the carbonyl group, and the HOMO ionization of the carbonyl oxygen lone pair were included, with similar conclusions. In Fig. 10 the results for the C=0 core ionization are summarized, with the stmcture of each derivative being indicated at the top of the figure. 

CO acting as a ligand is known as carbonyl, and its complexes are called carbonyls. The lone pair on the C atom can form a dative bond, but CO in Main Group chemistry is a weak Lewis base and it is apparent that a simple representation ... 

The carbonyl oxygen lone pairs, NBOs 11 and 12, are again seen to be of distinctly inequivalent form. The on-axis no NBO 11, is relatively inert, usually only weakly involved in carbonyl intra- and intermolecular interactions. In contrast, the off-axis NBO 12 (in-plane p-Tt-type, labeled Py in Zimmerman s terminology), is the primary active site of co-ordinative H-bonding (Chapter 9) and photochemical n—>n excitation (Chapter 11). Thus, a rabbit ears depiction of carbonyl lone pairs is seriously erroneous and misleading with respect to important chemical properties of amide groups. 

Lone pair donation from the hydroxyl oxygen makes the carbonyl group less elec trophilic than that of an aldehyde or ketone The graphic that opened this chapter is an electrostatic potential map of formic acid that shows the most electron rich site to be the oxygen of the carbonyl group and the most electron poor one to be as expected the OH hydrogen... 

Stereoelectronic factors are also important in determining the stmcture and reactivity of complexes. Complexes of catbonyl groups with trivalent boron and aluminum compounds tend to adopt a geometry consistent with directional interaction with one of the oxygen lone pairs. Thus the C—O—M bond angle tends to be in the trigonal (120-140°) range, and the boron or aluminum is usually close to die carbonyl plane. ... 

Acylimidazoles and related amides in which the nitrogen atom is part of an aromatic ring hydrolyze much more rapidly than other amides. A major factor is the decreased resonance stabilization of the carbonyl group, which is opposed by the delocalization of the nitrogen lone pair as part of the aromatic sextet. 

The effect of the bond dipole associated with electron-withdrawing groups can also be expressed in terms of its interaction with the cationic u-complex. The atoms with the highest coefficients in the LUMO 3 are the most positive. The unfavorable interaction of the bond dipole will therefore be greatest at these positions. This effect operates with substituents such as carbonyl, cyano, and nitro groups. With ether and amino substituents, the unfavorable dipole interaction is overwhelmed by the stabilizing effect of the lone-pair electrons stabilizing 3. 

As the lone pair and the carbonyl group become more orthogonal, reducing the level of resonance, the rate of amide hydrolysis increases. ... 

Reversible interaction of the carbonyl group with an azine lone-pair (cf. 245) should facilitate substitution adjacent to the heteroatom by the anion of a )3-hydroxyethyl ketone. A similar cyclic intermediate (246) is presumably responsible for the cyclization of acetylene dicarboxylic esters with azines. Similar cyclic intermediates... 

Thus, reduction of the bicyclic derivatives 25 (RR = CH2 RR = CH=C(Ph)) affords the corresponding 26a-type products, while hydrogenation of 2-ethoxy-3-acetylpyridine gives, along with the carbonyl group reduction product, the imine isomer 26b (R = Me, R = Et). These results were explained by the so-called internal strain effect, e.g., by steric repulsion between the nitrogen and oxygen lone pair in rotationally restricted bicyclic derivatives or between the 2 and 3 substituents. 

G. activates the carbonyl group for nucleophilic attack by oxygen lone-pair electrons from the alcohol. 

In contrast with amines, amides (RCONH ) are nonbasic. Amides don t undergo substantial protonation by aqueous acids, and they are poor nucleophiles. The main reason for this difference in basicity between amines and amides is that an amide is stabilized by delocalization of the nitrogen lone-pair electrons through orbital overlap with the carbonyl group. In resonance terms, amides are more stable and less reactive than amines because they are hybrids of two resonance forms. This amide resonance stabilization is lost when the nitrogen atom is protonated, so protonation is disfavored. Electrostatic potential maps show clearly the decreased electron density on the amide nitrogen. 

Another important chromophore is the carbonyl group, >C=0, which absorbs at about 280 nm. The transition responsible for the absorption is the excitation of a lone-pair... 

The lobes of electron density outside the C-O vector thus offer cr-donor lone-pair character. Surprisingly, carbon monoxide does not form particularly stable complexes with BF3 or with main group metals such as potassium or magnesium. Yet transition-metal complexes with carbon monoxide are known by the thousand. In all cases, the CO ligands are bound to the metal through the carbon atom and the complexes are called carbonyls. Furthermore, the metals occur most usually in low formal oxidation states. Dewar, Chatt and Duncanson have described a bonding scheme for the metal - CO interaction that successfully accounts for the formation and properties of these transition-metal carbonyls. 

The dimerization of the parent ketene gives the P-lactone. One molecule of ketene reacts across the C=C bond as a donor and the other molecule reacts across the C=0 bond as an acceptor. This is similar to the concerted [2+2] cycloaddition reaction between bis(trifluoromethyl)ketene and ethyl vinyl ether to afford the oxetane (Scheme 26) [127], A lone pair on the carbonyl oxygen in the ketene molecule as a donor activates the C=C bond as the alkoxy group in vinyl ether. 

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