Bond breaking and formation

Simulation of molecules can be done at the quantum mechanical level, as is necessaiy to determine the electronic properties of molecules, to analyze covalent bonds or simulate bond formation and breaking. However, quantum mechanical simulation is extremely computationally intensive and is too time-consuming for all but the smallest molecular systems. 

The aqua ion Au(H20)4+ has not been characterized either in solution or in the solid state. Most of the substitution studies have involved the halide complexes AuXj and Au(NH3) (Ref. 319). A number of earUer generalizations have been confirmed. Rates are very sensitive to the nature of both entering and leaving ligands and bond formation and breaking are nearly synchronous. The double-humped energy profiles witnessed with Pd(II) and Pt(II) are not invoked the five-coordinate species resulting from an associative mechanism is the transition state ... 

When bond-formation and -breaking take place simultaneously... 

Bimolecular reactions involve a collision between two molecules, with enough energy to overcome the activation barrier. These processes are usually concerted, with bond formation and breaking taking place simultaneously. The relative orientation is important, so that the new bonds can be formed between atoms that are near enough to each other. Reactions (1.1a) and the first step of (1.7b) are examples of bimolecular reactions. Reaction (1.10) is an example of a bimolecular reaction that does not involve ions. Three covalent bonds are broken and formed synchronously, and Diels Alder reactions of this type are very useful... 

Tdi is relevant to the dynamics of hydrogen bonds (formation and breaking) in aggregates of alcohol molecules ... 

At this point, it might be useful to remember the timescales of the pro- timescales cesses during a catalytic reaction. The electronic processes of the potential energy surface of the reaction have characteristic times of 10s, while the vibrational motions of the atoms are in the order of 10 s. The timescales of the bond formation and breaking of the catalytic processes are reported to be in the order of 10" to 10 s (van Santen and Neurock,... 

The mechanism given by eqn.(22) implicitly involves ihat the rates of hydrogen bond formation and breaking are independent of the position from which the acceptor and donor sites are delivered and consequently are indepent of the degree of polymerization. The two state mechanism thus corresponds to the approximation given by eqn.(3). In terms of that approximation eqns.(24) and (25) rewrite as... 

Urea hydrolyzes about 3 x 10 times faster coordinated to [Rh(NH3)5] than in the uncoordinated state. This is a marked acceleration, but still very much less than the promotion of base hydrolysis of acetonitrile by [Ru(NH3)5] (cf. Section 8.3.2). Formation and aquation reactions of carbonato complexes are often coordinated ligand reactions, involving C-0 rather than Rh-0 bond formation and breaking. "" " Inversion at coordinated sulfur has an activation barrier (AG ) of 87.3 and 85.5 kJ moP in d(,-DMSO (at 383 and 378 K, respectively) in the dithiahexane complexes [Rh(dth)Cl4] and [Rh(dth)Br4) . As one might well expect, these barriers, though high, are less than that for the platinum(IV) analogue [Pt(dth)Cl4] " (cf. Section 8.7.2, and see Sections 8.3.1 and 8.6). 

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