Computer simulation of the mechanisms and energetics of circumambulatory rearrangements of Dewar furan, thiophene and selenophene
Abstract
By ab initio [MP2(fc)/6-311+G**] and DFT (B3LYP/6-311+G**) calculations, energy barriers to thermal walk rearrangements of the Dewar type isomers of the aromatic five-membered heterocycles were found in the range of 16–22 kcal mol–1.