Rearrangements involving the phenonium ion:: A theoretical investigation

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del Río, E [1 ]
Menéndez, MI [1 ]
López, R [1 ]
Sordo, TL [1 ]
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[1] Univ Oviedo, Fac Quim, Dept Quim Fis & Analit, Oviedo 33006, Asturias, Spain
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10.1021/ja0039132
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O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
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Rearrangements involving the phenonium ion were investigated by means of a B3LYP/6-311G-(d,p) study in which the effect of solvent has been incorporated by using a PCM solvation model. A rationalization of the whole set of experimental facts reported both in the gas phase and in solution was possible thanks to the characterization of protonated benzocyclobutene as a minimum energy structure and, particularly, to the important preferential stabilization in solution of the TS for the isomerization of the phenonium ion to the alpha -methylbenzyl ion, which reduces the Gibbs energy barrier of 26.6 kcal/mol for this process in the gas phase to a more accessible one of 18.7 kcal/mol in solution.
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