{"id":31375,"date":"2026-05-14T09:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=31375"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:15:08","slug":"a-breakthrough-in-molecular-solar-thermal-most-energy-storage-dewar-pyrimidone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=31375","title":{"rendered":"A breakthrough in Molecular Solar Thermal (MOST) energy storage &#8211; Dewar Pyrimidone."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"31375\">\n<p><strong>MOST<\/strong> is a chemical method of converting photonic or light energy into storable thermal energy which can be released on demand. A recent breakthrough in such methods has been reported<span id=\"cite_ITEM-31375-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-31375-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> in which a pyrimidone molecule is efficiently converted by 310nm light into the isomeric Dewar pyrimidone. This molecule is thermally stable, but when protonated, rapidly releases thermal (enthalpic) energy in converting down to protonated pyrimidone &#8211; the energy release is sufficiently rapid that it can boil water and reaching energy storage levels previously inaccessible to MOST systems. The basic chemistry is shown below &#8211; treatment with base makes it fully cyclic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pyrimidone.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pyrimidone.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe chemical reactions are interesting. The light catalysed step is a pericyclic electrocyclic reaction, allowed by the Woodward-Hoffmann rules with stereochemical disrotation <em>via<\/em> suprafacial bond formation. The acid catalysed thermal reaction however, in order to conform to these rules, would nominally need to be an\u00a0electrocycic ring opening with an antarafacial stereochemical component. This would require the bicyclic ring system to contain a <em>trans<\/em> rather than the<em>\u00a0cis <\/em>bridgehead stereochemistry shown above.This reaction was first studied many years ago<span id=\"cite_ITEM-31375-1\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-31375-1\">[2]<\/a><\/span> when it was shown that the thermal ring opening of\u00a0a <em>cis<\/em> Dewar isomer indeed has a high barrier, due<em> to its &#8220;forbidden<\/em>&#8221; character. This imparts one of the desirable characteristics of a <strong>MOST<\/strong> system, namely the ability to store the high energy compound if necessary for long periods of time. The key step in the above is recognising that protonating the bicyclic nitrogen of the Dewar form should significantly reduce the barrier to ring opening. Here to illustrate these two reactions, I show intrinsic reaction coordinates (IRCs) for both steps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pyrimidone-TS-E.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pyrimidone-TS-E.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The calculated free energy of activation \u0394G<sub>298<\/sub><sup>\u2021<\/sup> for ring opening of the neutral form is 32.9 kcal\/mol (\u03c9B97XD\/Def2-TZVPP\/SCRF=DMF).<span id=\"cite_ITEM-31375-2\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-31375-2\">[3]<\/a><\/span> which corresponds to a very slow thermal reaction (= storable). This reaction has no biradical character along the entire IRC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pyrimidone-TS-P-E.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pyrimidone-TS-P-E.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u0394G<sub>298<\/sub><sup>\u2021<\/sup> is reduced to 15.5 kcal\/mol for the protonated form (above), a very substantial reduction and corresponding to a rapid thermal and even more exothermic reaction. The &#8220;forbidden&#8221; nature of the electrocyclic ring opening is greatly reduced &#8211; perhaps it counts as one of lowest energy forbidden pericyclic reactions to ever have been observed? This example also nicely shows<span id=\"cite_ITEM-31375-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-31375-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> how the system can be quickly optimised by varying substituents using quantum DFT modelling for both its exothermic character and its neutral and protonated barriers to ring opening.<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol class=\"kcite-bibliography csl-bib-body\"><li id=\"ITEM-31375-0\">H.P.Q. Nguyen, A.J. Maertens, B.A. Baker, N.M. Wu, Z. Ye, Q. Zhou, Q. Qiu, N. Kaur, D.B. Berkinsky, K.E. Shulenberger, K.N. Houk, and G.G.D. Han, \"Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 megajoules per kilogram\", <i>Science<\/i>, vol. 392, 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aec6413\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aec6413<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-31375-1\">M.J.S. Dewar, G.P. Ford, and H.S. Rzepa, \"Electrocyclic ring opening of 1\u03b1,4\u03b1- and 1\u03b1,4\u03b2-bicyclo[2.2.0]hexa-2,5-dienes (cis and trans Dewar benzenes): MNDO (modified neglect of diatomic overlap) semiempirical molecular orbital calculations\", <i>J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.<\/i>, pp. 728-730, 1977. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/c39770000728\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/c39770000728<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-31375-2\">H. Rzepa, \"A breakthrough in Molecular Solar Thermal (MOST) energy storage - Dewar Pyrimidone.\", 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/hpc\/15935\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/hpc\/15935<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 31375 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOST is a chemical method of converting photonic or light energy into storable thermal energy which can be released on demand. 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