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Line Shape Analysis of Dynamic NMR Spectra for Characterizing Coordination Sphere Rearrangements at a Chiral Rhenium Polyhydride Complex
Published on: July 27, 2022
Substituent effects and local molecular shape correlations
1Scientific Modeling and Simulation Laboratory (SMSL), Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland A1B3X7, Canada. paul.mezey@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Using a detailed electron density shape analysis methodology, a new method is proposed for studying the main components of substituent effects in a series of disubstituted benzenes, in correlation with their activating and deactivating characteristics as observed by the induced shape changes of a local electron density cloud. The numerical measures obtained for the extent of shape changes can be correlated with known and with some unexpected effects of various substituents. The insight obtained from the shape analysis provides a theoretical, electron density based justification for some well-known trends, but it also provides new explanations for some of the unexpected features of these substituent effects.
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