G3XMP2 INVESTIGATION OF AMINE INVERSION IN ANILINE AND ITS PARA ANILINES

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  • CHANDRASEKARAN K
  • MUNIRAJASEKHAR D

Abstract

 

 Objective: This article addresses the inversion dynamics of aniline and para-anilines by G3XMP2 theory and the effect of substituents on the inversion barrier.

Methods: The composite G3XMP2 method is used to evaluate the structural parameter, inversion barrier of aniline and para anilines.

Results: The investigation shows that the electron donating substituents increase the inversion barrier by mesomeric and hyper conjugative effects. Thus it favours a non-planar structure. Electron withdrawing substituents, however, promote the planar structure by strong inductive effects. Of all the ten substituents studied, amino group yields high inversion barrier and results in a non-planar configuration, while the nitroso group attains low inversion barrier and accounts for the planar structure of amine group.

Conclusion: The study concludes that the structure of amine group in aniline molecule is non-planar and its degree of non-planarity is heavily altered by the substituents.

Keywords: Inversion barrier, G3XMP2, Aniline, Amino group, Planarity

 

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01-11-2014

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K, C., and M. D. “G3XMP2 INVESTIGATION OF AMINE INVERSION IN ANILINE AND ITS PARA ANILINES”. Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, vol. 7, no. 5, Nov. 2014, pp. 78-81, https://mail.innovareacademics.in/journals/index.php/ajpcr/article/view/2304.

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