Mohamad Reza TALEI BAVIL OLYAI, Mansooreh MOVAHEDI, Nader ZABARJAD SHIRAZ, Ali EZABADI, Marjaneh SAMADIZADEH

DFT (density functional theory) studies on cycloisomerization of 15–membered triazatriacetylenic macrocycle

The mechanism as well the stereochemistry of cascade cycloisomerization of 15–membered triazatriacetylenic macrocycle was investigated theoretically by using M062X/6–31+G(d,p) and M062X/LANL2DZ calculations. The results showed that the mechanism and outcome of the reaction depended on the absence and presence of a transition metal catalyst. So that, in thermal-induced condition, the reaction had to experience several suprafacial concerted reactions including Ene-reaction (DG^# =35.38 kcal/mol), Diels–Alder cycloaddition (DG^# = 17.16 kcal/mol), and sigmatropic H-shift rearrangement (DG^# = 56.21 kcal/mol) to produce diastereoselective fused cis–tetracyclic aromatic bearing a pyrrole moiety by following kinetic considerations. Also, the [2+2+2] cycloaddition mechanism was neglected in thermal–induced conditions because of high activation free Gibbs energy (DG^# = 63.90 kcal/mol). In the presence of palladium catalyst, Pd(0) formed an adduct by coordinating to C = C bonds and decreased the DG# of the process to 29.58 kcal/mol, and consequently provided a facilitated media for the reaction to follow the [2+2+2] to produce more stable fused tetracyclic benzenoid aromatic by passing through the lower energy barrier.

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