Issue 28, 2015

Ab initio modelling of the anomeric and exo anomeric effects in 2-methoxytetrahydropyran and 2-methoxythiane corrected for intramolecular BSSE

Abstract

Accurate ab initio calculations including basis set limit (BSL) extrapolations, removal of intramolecular basis set superposition error (BSSE), solvent effect corrections, and thermal effects have been carried out to compare the structure and the anomeric and exo-anomeric effect in 2-methoxytetrahydropyran and 2-methoxythiane. The effect of intramolecular BSSE on the energetics was outlined for the first time in these types of compounds. It was found that both title compounds show comparable behaviour with respect to BSSE. The energy gap between the axial and equatorial form of 2-methoxythiane is reduced by 0.23 kcal mol−1 due to the BSSE correction at the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory, and in 2-methoxytetrahydropyran it is reduced by 0.21 kcal mol−1. The intramolecular BSSE influenced also the energy differences between the gauche and trans conformers in both compounds. Energy decomposition analysis (EDA) reveals that the dominant destabilising interaction is repulsion and its primary stabilizing counterpart is the polarization interaction.

Graphical abstract: Ab initio modelling of the anomeric and exo anomeric effects in 2-methoxytetrahydropyran and 2-methoxythiane corrected for intramolecular BSSE

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Apr 2015
Accepted
17 Jun 2015
First published
25 Jun 2015

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 18501-18513

Ab initio modelling of the anomeric and exo anomeric effects in 2-methoxytetrahydropyran and 2-methoxythiane corrected for intramolecular BSSE

V. Sladek, F. Holka and I. Tvaroška, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 18501 DOI: 10.1039/C5CP02191J

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