Quantitative Electrophilicity Measures

doi:10.3866/PKU.WHXB201711021

Abstract

Abstract:

Quantitative correlation of several theoretical electrophilicity measures over different families of organic compounds are examined relative to the experimental values of Mayr et al. Notably, the ability to predict these values accurately will help to elucidate the reactivity and selectivity trends observed in charge-transfer reactions. A crucial advantage of this theoretical approach is that it provides this information without the need of experiments, which are often demanding and time-consuming. Here, two different types of electrophilicity measures were analyzed. First, models derived from conceptual density functional theory (c-DFT), including Parr's original proposal and further generalizations of this index, are investigated. For instance, the approaches of Gázquez et al. and Chamorro et al. are considered, whereby it is possible to distinguish between processes in which a molecule gains or loses electrons. Further, we also explored two novel electrophilicity definitions. On one hand, the potential of environmental perturbations to affect electron incorporation into a system is analyzed in terms of recent developments in c-DFT. These studies highlight the importance of considering the molecular surroundings when a consistent description of chemical reactivity is needed. On the other hand, we test a new definition of electrophilicity that is free from inconsistencies (so-called thermodynamic electrophilicity). This approach is based on Parr's pioneering insights, though it corrects issues present in the standard working expression for the calculation of electrophilicity. Additionally, we use machine-learning tools (i.e., symbolic regression) to identify the models that best fit the experimental values. In this way, the best possible description of the electrophilicity values in terms of different electronic structure quantities is obtained. Overall, this straightforward approach enables one to obtain good correlations between the theoretical and experimental quantities by using the simple, yet powerful, interpretative advantage of c-DFT methods. In general, we observed that the correlations found at the HF/6-31G(d) level of theory are of semi-quantitative value. To obtain more accurate results, we showed that working with families of compounds with similar functional groups is indispensable.

Key words: Electrophilicity, Conceptual density functional theory, Symbolic regression, Genetic programming, Grammatical evolution

Martínez GONZÁLEZ Marco,Carlos CÁRDENAS,Juan I. RODRÍGUEZ,Shubin LIU,Farnaz HEIDAR-ZADEH,Ramón Alain MIRANDA-QUINTANA,Paul W. AYERS. Quantitative Electrophilicity Measures[J]. Acta Phys. -Chim. Sin. 2018, 34(6), 662-674. doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB201711021

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