Campus Units
Chemistry, Ames Laboratory
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
9-2008
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Volume
112
Issue
42
First Page
10635
Last Page
10649
DOI
10.1021/jp805135p
Abstract
In the nitroaldol reaction, condensation between a nitroalkane and an aldehyde yields a nitroalcohol that can undergo dehydration to yield a nitroalkene. Amine-functionalized, MCM-41-type mesoporous silica nanosphere (MSN) materials have been shown to selectively catalyze this reaction. Gas-phase reaction paths for the several competing mechanisms for the nitroaldol reaction have been mapped out using second-order perturbation theory (MP2). Improved relative energies were determined using singles and doubles coupled cluster theory with perturbative triples, CCSD(T). The mechanism in the absence of a catalyst was used to provide a baseline against which to assess the impact of the catalyst on both the mechanism and the related energetics. Catalyzed mechanisms can either pass through a nitroalcohol intermediate as in the classical mechanism or an imine intermediate.
Copyright Owner
American Chemical Society
Copyright Date
2008
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Zorn, Deborah; Lin, Victor S.-Y.; Pruski, Marek; and Gordon, Mark S., "Comparison of Nitroaldol Reaction Mechanisms Using Accurate Ab Initio Calculations" (2008). Ames Laboratory Publications. 339.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ameslab_pubs/339
Comments
Reprinted (adapted) with permission from Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (2014): 16951, doi:10.1021/ja508477e. Copyright 2014 American Chemical Society.