Classical and Reverse Substituent Effects in Substituted Anthrol Derivatives
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Published on: February 15, 2016
Halina Szatylowicz1, Mateusz A Domanski1, Tadeusz M Krygowski2
1Faculty of Chemistry Warsaw University of Technology Noakowskiego 3 00-664 Warsaw Poland.
Abstract:
The substituent effect in 1-, 2-, and 9-anthrols is studied by means of B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) computation, taking into account substituents (X): NO2, CN, OH and NH2 located in all positions except the adjacent ones. The substituent effect is characterized by approaches based on quantum chemistry: The charge of the substituent active region (cSAR), substituent effect stabilization energy (SESE) and the charge flow index (CFI) describing flow of the charge from X to the fixed group (or vice versa) as well as substituent constants σ. Changes in properties observed in the fixed group (OH) are described by cSAR(OH). Mutual interdependences are found between these descriptors. The HOMA index is used to describe an effect of a substituent on aromaticity of an anthrol hydrocarbon skeleton and of individual rings. In all cases, the classical (influence of X on the properties of OH) and reverse (influence of OH on the properties of X) substituent effects are studied. The latter is clearly documented by the cSAR approach.
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