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  • Title: The Origin of Catalysis and Regioselectivity of Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reactions with Tropone.
    Author: Tiekink EH, Vermeeren P, Hamlin TA.
    Journal: Chemistry; 2023 Jul 11; 29(39):e202301223. PubMed ID: 37078400.
    Abstract:
    We have studied the uncatalyzed and Lewis acid (LA)-catalyzed cycloaddition reaction between tropone and 1,1-dimethoxyethene using dispersion-corrected relativistic density functional theory (DFT). The LA catalysts BF3 , B(C6 H5 )3 , and B(C6 F5 )3 efficiently accelerate both the competing [4+2] and [8+2] cycloaddition reactions by lowering the activation barrier up to 12 kcal mol-1 compared to the uncatalyzed reaction. Our study reveals that the LA catalyst promotes both cycloaddition reaction pathways by LUMO-lowering catalysis and demonstrates that Pauli-lowering catalysis is not always the operative catalytic mechanism in cycloaddition reactions. Judicious choice of the LA catalyst can effectively impart regiocontrol of the cycloaddition: B(C6 H5 )3 furnishes the [8+2] adduct while B(C6 F5 )3 yields the [4+2] adduct. We discovered that the regioselectivity shift finds its origin in the ability of the LA to absorb distortion by adopting a trigonal pyramidal geometry around the boron atom.
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