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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 115, Issue 11, Pages 2396-2401Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp111523u
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- Welch Foundation [W-0031]
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The three smallest symmetrical paracyclophanes, having tethers with two, three, or four methylene groups, have been examined with four density functional methods (B3LYP, M06-2x, B97-D, omega B97X-D). The geometries predicted by functionals accounting for medium-range correlation or long-range exchange and/or dispersion are in close agreement with experiment. In addition, these methods provide similar estimates of the strain energy of the paracylcophanes, which decrease with increasing tether length. [4.4]Paracyclophane is nearly strain-free, reflecting the small out-of-plane distortion of its phenyl rings. Lastly, the barrier for interconversion of the conformers of [3.3]paracylcophane is computed in close agreement with experiment, and an estimate for phenyl rotation in [4.4]paracyclophane of about 19 kcal mol(-1) is predicted by the DFT methods employed.
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