RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 The diels-alder cycloaddition reaction of substituted hemifullerenes with 1,3-butadiene: Effect of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing substituents A1 Mojica, Martha A1 Méndez, Francisco A1 Alonso Martín, Julio Alfonso K1 Diels-Alder K1 DFT K1 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) K1 22 Física AB The Diels-Alder (DA) reaction provides an attractive route to increase the number of six member rings in substituted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). The density functional theory (DFT) B3LYP method has been used in this work to inquire if the substitution of H over the edge of triindenetriphenylene (pristine hemifullerene 1) and pentacyclopentacorannulene (pristine hemifullerene 2), could improve the DA cycloaddition reaction with 1,3-butadiene. The substituents tested include electron-donating (NH2, OMe, OH, Me, i-Pr) and electron-withdrawing groups (F, COOH, CF3, CHO, CN, NO2). The electronic, kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of the DA reactions of the substituted hemifullerenes with 1,3-butadiene have been analyzed. The most promising results were obtained for the NO2 substituent; the activation energy barriers for reactions using this substituent were lower than the barriers for the pristine hemifullerenes. This leads us to expect that the cycloadditions to a starting fullerene fragment will be possible. PB MDPI YR 2016 FD 2016 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57376 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57376 LA eng NO Molecules, 2016, vol. 21, n. 2, p. 200 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 26-nov-2024