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. 2015 Jul 31;37(1):83–92. doi: 10.1002/jcc.24025

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Cope rearrangement of semibullvalene. a) Two‐dimensional free energy map obtained from REMD@DFTB3 simulations indicating the expected CR (minimum energy pathway, 12, given in yellow) as well as an unexpected region corresponding to opening of the SBV structure to give dihydropentalene (13, 23). b) Qualitative plots of the minimum energy pathways between the stable conformations presented in 3a.