Enantiomerization of environmentally significant overcrowded polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

P. Ulrich Biedermann, Volker Schurig, Israel Agranat*

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Abstract

The rotational barriers of overcrowded PCBs are predicted by ab initio methods including electron correlation, thus settling the controversy between theory and experiment. For 2,2',3,3',4,6'-hexachlorobiphenyl (PCB 132), an enantiomerization barrier of 185 kJ/mol is calculated by B3LYP/6-31G*, in excellent agreement with the experimental data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)350-353
Number of pages4
JournalChirality
Volume9
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997

Keywords

  • Ab initio calculations
  • Atropisomerism
  • Chirality
  • Density functional theory
  • Electron correlation
  • Non-planar aromatics
  • Pollutants
  • Xenobiotics

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