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Electronic substituent effects in 4-substituted 1-phenylcubane derivatives, Ph–C8H6–X, have been investigated from the structural changes caused by the substituent X. The molecular structures of 34 derivatives with charged or dipolar substituents have been determined from quantum chemical calculations at the HF/6-31G* and B3LYP/6-311++G** levels of theory. Geometrical variations caused by substitution appear both in the cubane framework and in the benzene ring, but the two kinds of changes show no correlation. The rather small changes in the benzene ring geometry are caused by long-range polar effects (field effects), while the larger changes in the cubane cage are controlled primarily by electronegativity effects. A structural parameter measuring the long-range polar effect of the substituent, S CUBF , has been derived from the geometry of the phenyl group acting as a probe. This parameter correlates well with the calculated gas-phase acidities of 4-substituted cubane-1-carboxylic acids, HOOC–C8H6–X, and with other indicators of long-range polar effects obtained from bicyclo[2.2.2]octane derivatives. The correlations can further be improved by introducing a resonance parameter as an additional explanatory variable. This indicates that the electron delocalization resulting from hyperconjugative interactions between substituent and cage modifies the long-range polar effect of the substituent. Strong hyperconjugative interactions between some charged substituents and the cubane cage result in remarkable variations in the cage geometry, superimposed onto those ascribed to electronegativity effects.
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This work was supported by the CASPUR Supercomputing Center, Rome, with Standard HPC Grants 2009 (“Accurate determination of molecular structures and solvation effects using quantum mechanics calculations, molecular dynamics simulations and X-ray related techniques”) and 2010 (“A combined X-ray absorption spectroscopy, molecular dynamics simulations and quantum mechanics calculation procedure for the structural characterization of ill-defined systems”).
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Campanelli, A.R., Domenicano, A. & Ramondo, F. Structural variations and electronic substituent effects in phenylcubane derivatives: a quantum chemical study. Struct Chem 22, 449–457 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-011-9750-y
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