In several posts a year or so ago I considered various suggestions for the most polar neutral molecules, as measured by the dipole moment. A record had been claimed[cite]10.1002/anie.201508249[/cite] for a synthesized molecule of ~14.1±0.7D. I pushed this to a calculated 21.7D for an admittedly hypothetical and unsynthesized molecule. Here I propose a new family of compounds which have the potential to extend the dipole moment for a formally neutral molecule up still further.
Posts Tagged ‘Dipole’
A record polarity for a neutral compound?
Friday, April 13th, 2018The dipole moments of highly polar molecules: glycine zwitterion.
Saturday, December 24th, 2016The previous posts produced discussion about the dipole moments of highly polar molecules. Here to produce some reference points for further discussion I look at the dipole moment of glycine, the classic zwitterion (an internal ion-pair).
Forking “The most polar neutral compound synthesized” into m-benzyne.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2016A project fork is defined (in computing) as creating a distinct and separate strand from an existing (coding) project. Here I apply the principle to the polar azulene 4 explored in an earlier post, taking m-benzyne as a lower homologue of azulene as my starting point.
Natural abundance kinetic isotope effects: mechanism of the Baeyer-Villiger reaction.
Wednesday, June 10th, 2015I have blogged before about the mechanism of this classical oxidation reaction. Here I further explore computed models, and whether they match the observed kinetic isotope effects (KIE) obtained using the natural-abundance method described in the previous post.