The present application relates to a kind of methods for calculating the
reaction energy of iron-catalyzed o-alkynyl benzoyl diazoacetate metathesis to generate indeno [1,2-c]
furan, comprising the following steps: selecting target reaction, designing
reaction mechanism cycle diagram;According to the
reaction mechanism cycle diagram, the molecular structure model of the intermediate,
transition state involved in the reaction process is built;The multiple spin state geometry of each intermediate,
transition state under
gas phase condition is optimized, and the
molecular geometry,
electronic energy and
gibbs free energy correction value are obtained;Based on the geometry obtained under
gas phase condition, single-
point energy calculation is carried out in
solvent condition, and single-
point energy is obtained;The
gibbs free energy correction value obtained in step S3 is combined with the single-
point energy obtained in step S4, to calculate the
gibbs free energy of each intermediate and
transition state under
solvent condition, and then the energy barrier of each step of reaction and the rate-determining step of reaction are obtained.The method has theoretical reference value for experiment, and can reduce the manpower and
material resources required by traditional experiment.