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SUBMITTER: Levandowski BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6314815 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20180215 5
We report a DFT computational study (M06-2X) of π-facial selectivity in the Diels-Alder reactions of thiophene 1-oxide. The preference for the syn cycloaddition arises because the ground state geometry of thiophene 1-oxide is predistorted into an envelope conformation that resembles the syn transition state geometry. The syn distortion occurs to minimize the effect of hyperconjugative antiaromaticity in the thiophene 1-oxide, arising from overlap of the σ*<sub>SO</sub> with the π-system. The syn ...[more]