Computational Organic Chemistry
Steven M. Bachrach
ISBN: 978-0-471-71342-5
Hardcover
496 pages
July 2007
Wiley List Price: US $110.00
The book provides a survey of examples where computational chemistry served to explicate problems in organic chemistry.
Table of Contents
* Chapter 1. Quantum Mechanics for Organic Chemistry
o 1.1 Approximations to the Schršdinger Equation — the Hartree Fock Method
+ 1.1.1 Non-Relativistic Mechanics
+ 1.1.2 The Born Oppenheimer Approximation
+ 1.1.3 The One-Electron Wavefunction and the Hartree-Fock Method
+ 1.1.4 Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (LCAO) Approximation
+ 1.1.5 Hartree-Fock-Roothaan Procedure
+ 1.1.6 Restricted vs. Unrestricted Wavefunctions
+ 1.1.7 The Variational Principle
+ 1.1.8 Basis Sets
o 1.2 Electron Correlation — Post-Hartree-Fock Methods
+ 1.2.1 Configuration Interaction (CI)
+ 1.2.2 Size Consistency
+ 1.2.3 Perturbation Theory
+ 1.2.4 Coupled-Cluster Theory
+ 1.2.5 Multi-Configuration SCF (MCSCF) Theory and Complete Active Space SCF (CASSCF) Theory
+ 1.2.6 Composite Energy Methods
o 1.3 Density Functional Theory (DFT)
+ 1.3.1. The Exchange-Correlation Functionals
o 1.4 Geometry Optimization
o 1.5 Population Analysis
+ 1.5.1 Orbital-based Population Methods
+ 1.5.2 Topological Electron Density Analysis
o 1.6 Computed Spectral Properties
+ 1.6.1 IR spectroscopy
+ 1.6.2 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
+ 1.6.3 Optical Rotation and Optical Rotatory Dispersion
o 1.7 References
* Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
o 2.1 Bond Dissociation Enthalpy
+ 2.1.1 Case Studies of BDE
o 2.2 Acidity
+ 2.2.1 Case Studies of Acidity
o 2.3 Ring Strain Energy
+ 2.3.1 RSE of Cyclopropane and Cylcobutane
o 2.4 Aromaticity
+ 2.4.1 Aromatic Stabilization Energy (ASE)
+ 2.4.2 Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shift (NICS)
+ 2.4.3 Case Studies of Aromatic Compounds
o 2.5 Interview: Professor Paul von RaguŽ Schleyer
o 2.6 References
* Chapter 3. Pericyclic Reactions
o 3.1 The Diels-Alder Reaction
+ 3.1.1 The Concerted Reaction of 1,3-Butadiene with Ethylene
+ 3.1.2 The Non-Concerted Reaction of 1,3-Butadiene with Ethylene
+ 3.1.3 Kinetic Isotope Effects and the Nature of the Diels-Alder Transition State
o 3.2 The Cope Rearrangement
+ 3.2.1 Theoretical Considerations
+ 3.2.2 Computational Results
+ 3.2.3 Chameleons and Centaurs
o 3.3 The Bergman Cyclization
+ 3.3.1 Theoretical Considerations
+ 3.3.2 Activation and Reaction Energies of the Parent Bergman Cyclization
+ 3.3.3 The cd Criteria and Cyclic Enediynes
+ 3.3.4 Mayers-Saito and Schmittel Cyclization
o 3.4 Pseudopericyclic Reactions
o 3.5 Torquoselectivity
o 3.6 Interview: Professor Weston Thatcher Borden
o 3.7 References
* Chapter 4. Diradicals and Carbenes
o 4.1 Methylene
+ 4.1.1 Theoretical Considerations of Methylene
+ 4.1.2 The H-C-H Angle in Triplet Methylene
+ 4.1.3 The Methylene Singlet-Triplet Energy Gap
o 4.2 Phenylnitrene and Phenylcarbene
+ 4.2.1 The Low-Lying States of Phenylnitrene and Phenylcarbene
+ 4.2.2 Ring Expansion of Phenylnitrene and Phenylcarbene
+ 4.2.3 Substituent Effects on the Rearrangement of Phenylnitrene
o 4.3 Tetramethyleneethane
+ 4.3.1 Theoretical Considerations of Tetramethyleneethane
+ 4.3.2 Is TME a Ground-State Singlet or Triplet?
o 4.4 Benzynes
+ 4.4.1 Theoretical Considerations of Benzyne
+ 4.4.2 Relative Energies of the Benzynes
+ 4.4.3 Structure of m-Benzyne
+ 4.4.4 The Singlet-Triplet Gap and Reactivity of the Benzynes
o 4.5 Intramolecular Addition of Radicals to C-C Double Bonds
+ 4.5.1 Cyclization of Acyl-substituted Hexenyl Radicals
+ 4.5.2 Cyclization of 1,3-Hexadiene-5-yn 1-yl Radical
o 4.6 Interview: Professor Henry "Fritz" Schaefer
o 4.7 References
* Chapter 5. Organic Reactions of Anions
o 5.1 Substitution Reactions
+ 5.1.1 The Gas Phase SN2 Reaction
+ 5.1.2 Nucleophilic Substitution at Heteroatoms
+ 5.1.3 Solvent Effects on SN2 Reactions
o 5.2 Asymmetric Induction via 1,2-Addition to Carbonyl Compounds
o 5.3 Asymmetric Organocatalysis of Aldol Reactions
+ 5.3.1 Mechanism of Amine-Catalyzed Intermolecular Aldol Reactions
+ 5.3.2 Mechanism of Proline-Catalyzed Intramolecular Aldol Reactions
+ 5.3.3 Comparison with the Mannich Reaction
+ 5.3.4 Catalysis of the Aldol Reaction in Water
o 5.4 Interview - Professor Kendall N. Houk
o 5.5 References
* Chapter 6. Solution-Phase Organic Chemistry
o 6.1 Computational Approaches to Solvation
+ 6.1.1 Microsolvation
+ 6.1.2 Implicit Solvent Models
+ 6.1.3 Hybrid Solvation Models
o 6.2 Aqueous Diels-Alder Reactions
o 6.3 Glucose
+ 6.3.1 Models Compounds: Ethylene Glycol and Glycerol
+ 6.3.2 Solvation Studies of Glucose
o 6.4 Nucleic Acids
+ 6.4.1 Nucleic Acid Bases
+ 6.4.2 Base Pairs
o 6.5 Interview: Professor Christopher J. Cramer
o 6.6 References
* Chapter 7. Organic Reaction Dynamics
o 7.1 A Brief Introduction to Molecular Dynamics Trajectory Computations
+ 7.1.1 Integrating the Equations of Motion
+ 7.1.2 Selecting the PES
+ 7.1.3 Initial Conditions
o 7.2 Statistical Kinetic Theories
o 7.3 Examples of Organic Reactions with Non-statistical Dynamics
+ 7.3.1 [1,3]-Sigmatropic rearrangement of bicyclo[3.2.0]hex-2-ene
+ 7.3.2 Life in the Caldera: Concerted vs. Diradical Mechanisms
+ 7.3.3 Entrance into Intermediates from Above
+ 7.3.4 Avoiding Local Minima
+ 7.3.5 Crossing Ridges: One TS, Two Products
+ 7.3.6 Stepwise Reaction on a Concerted Surface
o 7.4 Conclusions
o 7.5 Interview: Professor Daniel Singleton
o 7.6 References