Computational studies on the reactivity of substituted 1,2-dihydro-1,2-azaborines

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Pedro J.
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Ramos, Maria João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10284/3293
• topic: 1,2-azaborines; Electrophilic aromatic substitution; Density-functional theory; Reactivity; FeClз

We have investigated important intermediates of electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions and one-electron oxidation of substituted 1,2-dihydro-1,2-azaborines with density-functional theory. The results show that electrophilic substitution reactions and one-electron oxidation of substituted 1,2-azaborines are generally much more favorable than those of the corresponding benzene derivatives. Both chlorination and nitration of several boron-unsubstituted 1,2-azaborines are expected to break the boron−hydrogen bond, yielding boron-chlorinated 1,2-azaborines and a novel class of boron-bound 1,2-azaborinyl nitrites, respectively. Comparison between the relative stabilities of C3-bound and C5-bound Wheland intermediates of different electrophilic substitution reactions of 1,2-azaborines further suggests that the preference of the C3- over C5-substitution decreases with decreasing electrophilicity of the attacking group.