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SUBMITTER: Svatunek D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7063576 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20200220 5
Tetrafluoroethylene and butadiene form the 2 + 2 cycloadduct under kinetic control, but the Diels-Alder cycloadduct is formed under thermodynamic control. Borden and Getty showed that the preference for 2 + 2 cycloaddition is due to the necessity for <i>syn</i>-pyramidalization of the two CF<sub>2</sub> groups in the 4 + 2 transition state. We have explored the full potential energy surface for the concerted and stepwise reactions of tetrafluoroethylene and butadiene with density functional theo ...[more]