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pubmed:issue
26
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-7-12
pubmed:abstractText
Möbius aromaticity, predicted by Edgar Heilbronner in 1964, is a stabilizing effect exhibited by 4n electron fully conjugated cyclic molecules (or transition states) with an odd number of orbital phase inversions. Although it has previously been suggested that this effect might also apply to planar metallacycles in which a transition metal employs a d orbital in delta-type binding mode, only very few examples of stable twisted molecules composed of main group elements are known. We report herein, the first computationally confirmed 4npi aromatic planar metallacyclic examples and their building principles. Aromatic stabilization energy (ASE) of a 8pi metalla-cycloheptatriene [Fe(CH)(6)H(2)], with four doubly occupied pi orbitals and a HOMA value of +0.80 (cf. benzene=+1.0), an NICS(0) value of -8.5 (benzene=-9.8, NICS=nucleus independent chemical shift), and with one phase inversion, is +27.5 kcal mol(-1) (about two-thirds of the value for benzene). In contrast, an unknown non-Möbius 1,4-dimetallabenzene [Fe(2)(CH)(4)H(4)], also with 8pi electrons, and without phase inversions, has an ASE of -4.1 kcal mol(-1) and a NICS(0)=+15.6, indicative of antiaromaticity. Aromaticity of the proposed Möbius aromatic metallacycles is confirmed by using magnetic (NICS(0), NICS(1)(zz), delta(1)H) and geometric (HOMA) aromaticity criteria, planarity, and near equalized C-C bond lengths, bonding analysis (Wiberg bond indices, NBO, and NLMO analysis). The role of wave function boundary conditions (periodic vs. antiperiodic) in chemistry is further stressed, being equivalent to Zimmerman's concept of nodal parity for Möbius/Hückel systems.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1521-3765
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7843-51
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Demonstration of "Möbius" aromaticity in planar metallacycles.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Chair of Organic Chemistry I, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Henkestrasse 42, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. tsogoeva@chemie.uni-erlangen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article