Index site selection

A reactivity index which accurately predicts the site selectivity of the photoisomerization of cycloheptatrienes to their bicyclic valence tautomers fails with 1//-azepines.237 For example, for methyl 2-methyl-1//-azepine-l-carboxyIatc (14), the 1-methyl isomer 16 is the predicted major product in practice the reverse is true. 

Recently, a new reactivity index has been proposed (80H(14)1717> which predicts accurately the site selectivity of photocyclization of substituted cycloheptatrienes to their bicyclic valence tautomers. Unfortunately, application of the method to substituted lH-azepines is far less successful. For example, for 2-methyl-l-methoxycarbonyl-lH-azepine (37 R = 2-Me) AGrs values for C-2—C-5 and C-4—C-7 cyclization are calculated as 0.093 and 0.040 kJ mol-1, respectively, i.e. predicting the 1-methyl isomer (39) as the major product. Experimentally, however, the reverse is true, the yields being 93.5% for 3-methyl (38 R = Me) and 6.5% for 1-methyl (39 R = Me). The corresponding photoinduced valence isomerizations of 1-benzazepines to 3,4-benz-2-azabicyclo[3.2.0]hepta-3,6-dienes (38a) have been recorded (80JOC462). These isomerizations have also been achieved thermally in the presence of silver ion (80TL3403). 

These findings are in contrast to thermodynamics favoring in the case of naphthalene the formation of conjugated 1,2-isomers. Therefore, kinetic control has to be assumed. The site selectivity for the first as well as the second protonation step has been predicted by HMO theory. One approach refers to local charge densities [13,165] the other one uses localization energies as a reactivity index [166]. In any event, the inductive effect of the methylene group, formed in the first protonation step, has to be taken into account if two sites provide comparable reactivity indices. 

The calculation of the Reaction Potential Maps (RPM) [215] is a new kind of molecular reactivity index which is very helpful in elucidating the site selectivity observed in some chemical reactions. This was a development of the original calculation of electrostatic potential maps (EPM) by Bonaccorst and co-workers [216]. 

What Zhou and Parr found was that the smaller the activation hardness is, the faster is the reaction." Thus is a reactivity index. Table 3.18 shows the results for the amounts of ortho-, para- and weZ -substitution in the nitration of substituted benzenes. Similar good results were found for the site selectivity in a large number of condensed-ring hydrocarbons and heterocyclic molecules. 

For the twin purposes of defining the applicability of the PEF concept and selecting the best site for a demonstration PEF project, data were gathered on the characteristics of land, the availability of municipal and industrial effluents and residues, and the supply and demand for energy at a wide variety and number of potential sites. A format was developed for handling this data base, and a number of suitability indexes were defined for evaluating the site data. Data were obtained from a number of sources in the literature as well as from state energy offices. As the result of this site-selection procedure, a number of sites were chosen for analysis by means of the technoeconomic model. 

Useful information about polarity of de DA processes may be obtained from the difference in the global electrophilicity power of the reactants. This difference has been proposed as a measure of the polar character of the reaction. On the other hand, local reactivity indexes are associated with site selectivity in a chemical reaction. These descriptors should reflect the sites in a molecule where the reactivity pattern stated by the global quantities should take place. For instance, an important local reactivity parameter was introduced by Parr et al., and it was defined as the Fukui fimction (Domingo, et al, 2002)... 

The nucleophilicity of 32 amine, amide, carbamate, amidine, and pyridine nucleophiles was calculated at the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level of theory using the gas-phase ionization potential based on the nucleophilicity index The correlation coefficient for the calculated pyridine nucleophilicity against Mayr s values was 0.947, and it was 0.987 against the inverse of the electrophilicity scale Mm. The site selectivity predicted for the nucleophiles with more than one nucleophilic centre correlates well with that predicted by the local nucleophilicity index and the philicity index m. ... 

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A multiplicative index is a powerful discriminator where two (or more) elements associated with mineralization are sought as geochemical indicators, since the index will only be strong where all selected elements are well represented. Figure 4 shows the multiplicative Au Ag index for overbank outlet sites after MMI extraction. 

Prior to solving the structure for SSZ-31, the catalytic conversion of hydrocarbons provided information about the pore structure such as the constraint index that was determined to be between 0.9 and 1.0 (45, 46). Additionally, the conversion of m-xylene over SSZ-31 resulted in a para/ortho selectivity of <1 consistent with a ID channel-type zeolite (47). The acidic NCL-1 has also been found to catalyze the Fries rearrangement of phenyl acetate (48). The nature of the acid sites has recently been evaluated using pyridine and ammonia adsorption (49). Both Br0nsted and Lewis acid sites are observed where Fourier transform-infrared (FT IR) spectra show the hydroxyl groups associated with the Brpnsted acid sites are at 3628 and 3598 cm-1. The SSZ-31 structure has also been modified with platinum metal and found to be a good reforming catalyst. 

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