Kinetic Isotope Effects as Tools To Reveal Solvation Changes Accompanying a Proton Transfer. A Canonical Unified Statistical Theory Calculation

1996 ◽  
Vol 100 (50) ◽  
pp. 19389-19397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Villà ◽  
Angels González-Lafont ◽  
José M. Lluch

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (7) ◽  
pp. 2509-2511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Toney ◽  
Joan Nieto Castro ◽  
Trevor A. Addington


Author(s):  
Willem Siebrand ◽  
Zorka Smedarchina ◽  
Antonio Fernández-Ramos


2003 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-190 ◽  
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Anatoly Chernyshev ◽  
Régis Pomès ◽  
Samuel Cukierman




1999 ◽  
Vol 77 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 830-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian H Williams ◽  
Paul A Austin

Brønsted correlations for proton transfer and methyl transfer between pairs of mimicked 4-substituted pyridines have been simulated by means of AM1 molecular orbital calculations. The enthalpies of activation and of reaction are well correlated by the Marcus relation. The Brønsted correlation is markedly curved for proton transfer for which the Marcus intrinsic barrier is very low (~ 5 kJ mol-1). Conversely, the Brønsted correlation is almost imperceptibly curved for methyl transfer for which the Marcus intrinsic barrier is very high (~ 152 kJ mol-1). The slope of the Brønsted correlation provides an approximate measure of the position of the transition structure along the reaction coordinate between the reactant and product encounter complexes. Primary kinetic isotope effects for proton transfer show a broad maximum, centered on ΔHrxn = 0, when plotted against reaction exo/endothermicity only if computed with respect to isolated acids and bases, but intracomplex kinetic isotope effects show a maximum displaced significantly towards the endothermic proton transfers.Key words: Brønsted correlation, rate-equilibrium relationship, transition state, isotope effect.



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