Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2001, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (9): 1506.

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AM1 Study on the Mechanism of Catalytic Hydrogenation of 3-Anilinomethy lidene-6-alkyl-5,6-2H-dihydropyran-2,4-diones

FANG Ya-Yin1,2, SHEN Rong-Xin2, SUN Hong-Wei2, YUAN Man-Xue2, LIU Jie-LI Zheng-Ming2,3, LAI Cheng-Ming2,3   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, Xuzhou Normal University, Xuzhou 221009, China;
    2. College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China;
    3. State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianj in 300071, China
  • Received:2000-08-19 Online:2001-09-24 Published:2001-09-24

Abstract: 3-(p-Methyl) anilinomethylidene 6-methyl 5,6-Hdihydropyran-2,4-dione was selected as model reactant to study the mechanism of catalytic hydrogenation of 3-anilinomethylidene 6-alkyl-5,6-2Hdihydropyran-2,4-diones by means of the AM1 and UHF/6-311Gmethods. The molecular informations such as heats of formation, net charges, bond orders, the values of frontier orbital energies, composition, their proportion and bonding contribution were acquired and analyzed. Thus the possible reactive sites were put forward and the reaction mechanism was postulated via two steps. The postulated intermediates and products of the two steps were also computed by AM1 method. Their heats of formation and energies of HOMO/LOMO/LUMOindicate that the mechanism of catalytic hydrogenation of 3-anilinomethylidene 6-alkyl-5,6-2Hdihydropyran-2,4-diones is not only a hydrogenolytic addition on CCbond but also a hydrogenolytic cleavage of the C-Nbond of anilinomethylidene.

Key words: AM1, Catalytic hydrogenation, Reaction mechanism, Dihydropyran-2,4-dione

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