![]() ![]() ![]() Tantillo,Ĭreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations demonstrate that the formal minima on these surfaces interchange on short timescales, both with each other and with additional unexpected structures, allowing us a glimpse into a very complex manifold that allows ready access to great structural diversity. shifts, they did lead to reactions with surprisingly flat energy surfaces where more than five chemical events connect reactants and plausible products. While our designs did not lead to clear-cut examples of quadruple, etc. Here we describe efforts to push the limits of concertedness in this type of carbocation reaction by designing, and characterizing with quantum chemical computations, systems that could couple additional 1, n-shift events to a triple shift leading, in principle to quadruple, pentuple, etc. ![]() This type of reaction so far has been proposed to occur during the biosynthesis of diterpenes and the sidechains of sterols. ![]() Such reactions involve the asynchronous combination of three 1, n-shifts into a concerted process, e.g., a 1,2-alkyl shift followed by a 1,3-hydride shift followed by a second 1,2-alkyl shift. Among the array of complex terpene-forming carbocation cyclization/rearrangement reactions, the so-called “triple shift” reactions are among the most unexpected. ![]()
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