Potential energy with hydrogen chloride

With the potential energies shown on a common scale we see that the transition state for formation of (CH3)3C is the highest energy point on the diagram A reaction can proceed no faster than its slowest step which is referred to as the rate determining step In the reaction of tert butyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride formation of the... 

B-9. To which point on the potential energy diagram for the reaction of 2-methylpropene with hydrogen chloride does the figure shown at the right correspond ... 

The mechanism for the reaction of ferf-butyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride presented in Figure 4.7 involves a sequence of three elementary steps. Each step has its own transition state, and the potential energy diagram in Figure 4.13 for the overall process is a composite of the energy diagrams for the three steps. 

The reaction between ammonia and methyl halides has been studied by using ab initio quantum-chemical methods.90 An examination of the stationary points in the reaction potential surface leads to a possible new interpretation of the detailed mechanism of this reaction in different media, hr the gas phase, the product is predicted to be a strongly hydrogen-bonded complex of alkylammonium and halide ions, in contrast to the observed formation of the free ions from reaction hr a polar solvent. Another research group has also studied the reaction between ammonia and methyl chloride.91 A quantitative analysis was made of the changes induced on the potential-energy surface by solvation and static uniform electric fields, with the help of different indexes. The indexes reveal that external perturbations yield transition states which are both electronically and structurally advanced as compared to the transition state in the gas phase. 

Quantum chemical computations of potential energies surface sections along the reaction pathway (PEES) for interaction of typical electrophiles (halogensilanes HaSiX (X = F, Cl, Br, I), trimethylchlorosilane [48,49], acetyl chloride [51]) and nucleophiles (hydrogen halides HX (X = F, Cl, Br, I), water, aliphatic amines, aliphatic alcohols [52], amino acids [53] and substituted phenols [54]) with the silica OH group in a cluster approach using semiempirical AMI, NDDO, MNDO and MNDO/H methods were performed. Representative PEES is shown in Fig.l. 

Single determinant ab initio LCAO-SCF molecular orbital theory is used throughout this study (6,7), Molecular geometries were optimized with the minimal STO-3G basis set (8,9), and where possible the energy of the final structure was recalculated with the extended 4-31G basis set (9,10), Such a procedure has been shown to provide a reasonable description of the structures and energies of neutral organic molecules (11) and carbocations (12), The potential surface for the concerted elimination of hydrogen chloride from ethyl chloride also has been studied successfully (13) with this technique. 

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The molecule is a van der Waals molecule with a planar cyclic stracture. The stracture of the monomer was supposed to be unchanged on complex formation. R<,m is the distance between the centers of mass of the hydrogen chloride molecules. The angle value was obtained as the minimum of the potential energy surface when the two distances are kept fixed. 

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