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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
Published on: August 22, 2018
Sigma- and pi- electron structure of aza-azoles
Tadeusz M Krygowski1, Wojciech P Oziminski, Christopher A Ramsden
1Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Abstract:
The reasons behind changes of aromaticity in 10 unsubstituted aza-azoles were analysed by employing the natural bond orbital (NBO) approach at the MP2/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory. Sum of occupations of p(z) orbitals at atoms in the ring correlates well with the magnetism based aromaticity index NICS as well as with the number of nitrogen atoms in the ring. Changes of NICS depend strongly in a linear way on the number of NN bonds. Classification of azoles based on the number of pyridine-type nitrogen atoms vicinal to NH is supported by plotting the relative occupation of π orbitals (π(occ)) against the relative occupation of σ orbitals (σ(occ)) for all individual atoms in rings.
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