A Quantitative Model for Alkane Nucleophilicity Based on C−H Bond Structural/Topological Descriptors
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Publication Date
2020 -
Publisher
Wiley -
Citation
Besora, M., Olmos, A., Gava, R., Noverges, B., Asensio, G., Caballero, A., Maseras, F., & Pérez, P. J. (2020). A Quantitative Model for Alkane Nucleophilicity Based on C−H Bond Structural/Topological Descriptors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59(8), 3112–3116. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201914386 -
Abstract
A first quantitative model for calculating the nucleophilicity of alkanes is described. A statistical treatment was applied to the analysis of the reactivity of 29 different alkane C−H bonds towards in situ generated metal carbene electrophiles. The correlation of the recently reported experimental reactivity with two different sets of descriptors comprising a total of 86 parameters was studied, resulting in the quantitative descriptor‐based alkane nucleophilicity (QDEAN) model. This model consists of an equation with only six structural/topological descriptors, and reproduces the relative reactivity of the alkane C−H bonds. This reactivity can be calculated from parameters emerging from the schematic drawing of the alkane and a simple set of sums. -
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO [ CTQ2017-82893-C2-1-R, CTQ2015-73693-JIN, CTQ2017-87792-R]