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SUBMITTER: Sultana N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3628910 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 20130321
The reaction of cyclobutane-1,2-dione with hydroxide was studied by a variety of ab initio (MP2, SCS-MP2, CCSD(T), CEPA/1) and density functional (M06-2X) methods. Three possible reaction paths of the initially formed tetrahedral adduct leading to either 1-hydroxycyclopropane-1-carboxylate (benzilic acid type rearrangement, path A), α-oxobutanoate (path B) or γ-oxobutanoate (path C) were considered. Although the latter two products show similar or even more negative Gibbs free energies of reacti ...[more]