Unprecedented copper() coordination induced nucleophilic cleavage of a quinoxaline heterocycle: structural and computational studies

A straightforward catalyst-free synthetic approach has been developed for the synthesis of a quinoxaline derivative, 4-phenyl-4-(pyridin-2-yl)-4,5-dihydropyrrolo[1,2- a ]quinoxaline ( L ), by the reaction of 2-benzoyl pyridine and pyrrole-1-anillin in ethanol. L in the presence of a stoichiometric a...

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Published in:CrystEngComm 2021-08, Vol.23 (29), p.578-586
Main Authors: Bandopadhyay, Nilaj, Joshi, Mayank, Armakovi, Stevan, Armakovi, Sanja J, Das, Hari Sankar, Roy Choudhury, Angshuman, Biswas, Bhaskar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chelation
Coordination compounds
Copper
Copper compounds
Crystal structure
Crystallography
Density functional theory
Elongated structure
Ethanol
Ligands
Mathematical analysis
Molecular dynamics
Quinoxalines
Surface stability
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Summary:A straightforward catalyst-free synthetic approach has been developed for the synthesis of a quinoxaline derivative, 4-phenyl-4-(pyridin-2-yl)-4,5-dihydropyrrolo[1,2- a ]quinoxaline ( L ), by the reaction of 2-benzoyl pyridine and pyrrole-1-anillin in ethanol. L in the presence of a stoichiometric amount of copper( ii ) perchlorate becomes decomposed unprecedentedly to produce a copper( ii ) complex, [Cu L′ 2 (H 2 O) 2 ](ClO 4 ) 2 ( 1 ) ( L′ = 2-benzoylpyridine), in aqueous methanolic medium. X-ray structures show that both L and 1 crystallize in the monoclinic crystal system with the P 2 1 / n space group. The structure of 1 is a copper centred centrosymmetric axially elongated octahedron with two (N,O) chelating ligands L′ occupying the equatorial positions (Cu-O of 2.013(2) Å and Cu-N of 1.963(2) Å) and two aqua ligands occupying the axial positions (Cu-O(aqua) bonds of 2.377(3) Å). Detailed computational analysis encompassed a combination of density functional theory (DFT) calculations and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The structural features of the compounds, local reactivity properties, stability, and spin density surfaces including frontier orbital energies were studied with DFT calculations in detail. This research work deals with the unprecedented copper( ii ) induced nucleophilic cleavage of a quinoxaline heterocycle with spectroscopic, structural and computational studies.
ISSN:1466-8033
1466-8033
DOI:10.1039/d1ce00569c