Isoxazole Derivatives of Alpha-Pinene Isomers: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Spectroscopic Characterization (FT-IR/NMR and DFT Studies

Abstract

In this paper, the alpha-pinene isoxazole derivatives (3a-b-c, 4a-b) were synthesized via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and characterized with FT-IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR and GC-MS. Isoxazole (C<inf>21</inf>H<inf>23</inf>NO) compound (4a) 6,6,7a,-trimethyl-3-(naphthalen-2-yl)-3a,4,5,6,7,7a-hexahydro-5,7-methanobenzo[d] was characterized by X-ray single crystal diffraction technique. The compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P 2<inf>1</inf>2<inf>1</inf>2<inf>1</inf>, with Z = 4. The molecular geometry of the compound was optimized by applying Density Functional Theory (DFT/B3LYP) method with 6-31G(d,p) and 6-311 + G(d,p) basis sets in the ground state and geometric parameters were compared with the X-ray analysis results of the structure. Results of the experimental FT-IR and NMR spectral analysis were examined in order to determine the compliance with vibrational frequencies, 1H NMR and 13C NMR chemical shifts values by using the Gauge-Independent Atomic Orbital (GIAO) method calculated over the optimized structure. Besides molecular electrostatic potential (MEP), frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs), some global reactivity descriptors, thermodynamic properties, non-linear optical (NLO) behaviour and Mulliken charge analysis of the (4a) compound were computed with the same method in gas phase, theoretically. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.