Resonance structures generation

Benzene has already been mentioned as a prime example of the inadequacy of a connection table description, as it cannot adequately be represented by a single valence bond structure. Consequently, whenever some property of an arbitrary molecule is accessed which is influenced by conjugation, the other possible resonance structures have to be at least generated and weighted. Attempts have already been made to derive adequate representations of r-electron systems [84, 85]. 

Our first approach took resort in simple resonance theory [36, 37]. For each conjugated nr-system aU resonance structures were generated, such as those shown in Figure 7-5. 

Electron delocalization can be important in ions as well as in neutral molecules Using curved arrows show how an equally stable resonance structure can be generated for each of the following anions... 

In Section 1 9 we introduced curved arrows as a tool to systematically generate resonance structures by moving electrons The mam use of curved arrows however is to show the bonding changes that take place in chemical reactions The acid-base reactions to be discussed in Sections 1 12-1 17 furnish numer ous examples of this and deserve some preliminary comment... 

By including electron correlation in the wave function the UHF method introduces more biradical character into the wave function than RHF. The spin contamination part is also purely biradical in nature, i.e. a UHF treatment in general will overestimate the biradical character. Most singlet states are well described by a closed-shell wave function near the equilibrium geometry, and in those cases it is not possible to generate a UHF solution which has a lower energy than the RHF. There are systems, however, for which this does not hold. An example is the ozone molecule, where two types of resonance structure can be drawn. Figure 4.8. 

Generation of reaction networks with RAIN resonance structures and tautomerism Solid-state NMR studies of reversible 1,5-H shifts Tautomeric equilibria (AMI, MNDO, PM3)... 

By learning to recognize such three-atom groupings within larger structures, resonance forms can be systematically generated. Look, for instance, at the anion produced when H+ is removed from 2,4-pentanedione by reaction with a base. How many resonance structures does the resultant anion have ... 

Exchanging the position of the double bond and an electron lone pair in each grouping generates three resonance structures. 

An extension of the above method was developed for conjugated it-systems Partial Equalization of Pi-Electronegativity (PEPE)47,48). After calculation of the charge distribution in the a-skeleton, the various resonance structures of a it-system are generated. The 7t-charge distribution is obtained by assigning weights to these... 

As with the inductive effect, resonance effects on ground state properties have already been included in the procedure, PEPE, for calculating partial atomic charges. This has been achieved by generating and weighting the various resonance structures of a molecule. The significance and quality of the results has been shown by correlations and calculations of physical data 47>48-52>. 

A variety of acyclic and cyclic S-N compounds decompose at moderate temperatures (100-150 °C) with the formal loss of a symmetrical NSN fragment, but this molecule has never been detected. The lowest energy isomer, linear NNS, is generated by flash vacuum pyrolysis of 5-phenyl-l,2,3,4-thia-triazole.40 Ab initio molecular orbital calculations indicate that the resonance structure N = N+-S is dominant.41... 

C-NMR spectroscopic studies on a-substituted tris(ethynyl)methyl cations 49 prepared from alcohols 50 (equation 18) provided evidence for the participation of resonance structures with allenyl cationic character38. The parent tris(ethenyl)methyl cation (49, R = H) cannot be generated under stable carbocation conditions (SbFs/FSOsH) presumably due to the highly reactive unsubstituted termini of the three ethynyl groups and the resulting low kinetic stability. The chemical shift data (Table 1) give evidence that in all cases Ca and CY are deshielded more than Cg (relative to their precursor alcohols). 

The mechanism involves the dissociation of the coordinated borane 15 to generate a monoborane intermediate 16. Coordination of the alkene would generate the alkene borane complex. A /3-borylalkylhydride with B-H stabilization is certainly an important resonance structure of 17. An intramolecular reaction would extrude the alkyl boronate ester product and coordination of HBcat would regenerate the monoborane intermediate. 

When considering the stability of spin-delocalized radicals the use of isodesmic reaction Eq. 1 presents one further problem, which can be illustrated using the 1-methyl allyl radical 24. The description of this radical through resonance structures 24a and 24b indicates that 24 may formally be considered to either be a methyl-substituted allyl radical or a methylvinyl-substituted methyl radical. While this discussion is rather pointless for a delocalized, resonance-stabilized radical such as 24, there are indeed two options for the localized closed shell reference compound. When selecting 1-butene (25) as the closed shell parent, C - H abstraction at the C3 position leads to 24 with a radical stabilization energy of - 91.3 kj/mol, while C - H abstraction from the Cl position of trans-2-butene (26) generates the same radical with a RSE value of - 79.5 kj/mol (Scheme 6). The difference between these two values (12 kj/mol) reflects nothing else but the stability difference of the two parents 25 and 26. 

And what about an alternative product There are two lines of thought, and the most obvious is that the reaction is repeated, since we are using a dibromide as substrate. Alternatively, we could consider one of the other resonance forms of the phenolate anion as nucleophile. This would generate a C-alkylated phenol. In the majority of cases, C-alkylation is not observed, in that the preferred resonance structure has charge on the electronegative oxygen. 

Molecular orbital descriptions offer a number of significant advantages over conventional resonance structures. For one, they often provide more compact descriptions, e.g., the LUMO in planar benzyl cation conveys the same information as four resonance structures. Second, orbital descriptions are quantitative, compared to resonance structures which are strictly qualitative. Finally, molecular orbital descriptions may be applied much more widely than resonance descriptions. Of course, molecular orbital descriptions cannot be generated using a pencil as can resonance structures, but rather require a computer. It can be argued that this does not constitute a disadvantage, but rather merely reflects a natural evolution of the tools available to chemists. 

The first nitrenium ion to be examined using any flash photolysis method was the 4-dimethylaminophenylnitrenium ion (131). However, the workers who carried out these experiments apparently did not consider this species to be a nitrenium ion. It was generated by pulsed Xe lamp photolysis from the corresponding azide (132, Fig. 13.64), and was detected through its absorption at 325 nm. As the resonance structure 131 implies, this nitrenium ion (or quinonediimine) is especially stable. In fact, its lifetime exceeds 100 ms at neutral pH, and it decays through hydrolysis of the C=N bond to give iminoquinone (133). 

Dissociation of the 7-OH generates an anion with an extended conjugated n electron system, which will favor absorption of long-wavelength light (Chapter 23) and a blue color. Notice that a large number of resonance structures can be drawn for both the anthocyanin and the dissociated forms. Formation of complexes of Mg2+ or other metal ions with the 4 -0 and adjacent OH groups may also stabilize blue colored forms.d... 

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