Quantum treatment of hydrogen nuclei in primary kinetic isotope effects in a thermal [1,5]-sigmatropic hydrogen (or deuterium) shift from (Z)-1,3-pentadiene

摘要

The geometric and kinetic isotope effects (GIE and KIE) for thermal [1,5]-sigmatropic H and D shifts of (Z)-1,3-pentadiene were studied by including the direct quantum effect of the migrating H or D nucleus in the multi-component molecular orbital-Hartree-Fock (MC_MO-HF) method. Based on the results, the C-1-D bond lengths are 0.007 A shorter than the C-1-H bond lengths in both the reactant (A) and the transition states (TS), whereas other bond lengths resemble those between H and D. The ratio of the rate constant (k(H)/k(D)) of the reaction for the thermal [1,5]-H and D shifts determined using the MC_MO-HF method (8.28) is closer to the experimental value (12.2) than that determined using either the conventional restricted Hartree-Fock (4.10) or restricted Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation (3.79) methods.