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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: Dalton Trans. 2019 Jul 16;48(28):10581–10595. doi: 10.1039/c9dt02189b

Table 3.

Comparison of Gibbs free energies (ΔGE/Z) and approximate activation Gibbs free energies (ΔGǂE/Z) calculated with BP86+D3 and DLPNO-CCSD(T) methods for the E to Z isomerization process that takes place around three key double bonds of 1a. All data in kcal/mol.


C9-C10 C11-C12 C13-C14

ΔGE/Z ΔGǂE/Z ΔGE/Z ΔGǂE/Z ΔGE/Z ΔGǂE/Z
BP86+D3 0.4 31.0 4.1 30.1 0.6 26.4

DLPNO-CCSD(T) 0.0 33.3 5.0 32.0 0.5 28.0