Reaction mechanisms INDEX

Index of Review Articles and Specialist Texts Table 11 Reaction Mechanisms... 

RCM. See Ring-closing metathesis (RCM) Reaction by-products, removing, 83 Reaction extrusion, 204 Reaction index, 237 Reaction injection molding (RIM), 205 Reaction-in-mold (RIM) nylon, 149 Reaction kinetics, 76, 77 Reaction mechanisms, polyesterification, 66-69... 

Let us take a simple example, namely a generic Sn2 reaction mechanism and construct the state functions for the active precursor and successor complexes. To accomplish this task, it is useful to introduce a coordinate set where an interconversion coordinate (%-) can again be defined. This is sketched in Figure 2. The reactant and product channels are labelled as Hc(i) and Hc(j), and the chemical interconversion step can usually be related to a stationary Hamiltonian Hc(ij) whose characterization, at the adiabatic level, corresponds to a saddle point of index one [89, 175]. The stationarity required for the interconversion Hamiltonian Hc(ij) defines a point (geometry) on the configurational space. We assume that the quantum states of the active precursor and successor complexes that have non zero transition matrix elements, if they exist, will be found in the neighborhood of this point. 

A theoretical study at a HF/3-21G level of stationary structures in view of modeling the kinetic and thermodynamic controls by solvent effects was carried out by Andres and coworkers [294], The reaction mechanism for the addition of azide anion to methyl 2,3-dideaoxy-2,3-epimino-oeL-eiythrofuranoside, methyl 2,3-anhydro-a-L-ciythrofuranoside and methyl 2,3-anhydro-P-L-eiythrofuranoside were investigated. The reaction mechanism presents alternative pathways (with two saddle points of index 1) which act in a kinetically competitive way. The results indicate that the inclusion of solvent effects changes the order of stability of products and saddle points. From the structural point of view, the solvent affects the energy of the saddles but not their geometric parameters. Other stationary points geometries are also stable. 

Structure effects on the rate of selective or total oxidation of saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons and their correlations have been used successfully in the exploration of the reaction mechanisms. Adams 150) has shown that the oxidation of alkenes to aldehydes or alkadienes on a BijOj-MoOj catalyst exhibits the same influence of alkene structure on rate as the attack by methyl radicals an excellent Type B correlation has been gained between the rate of these two processes for various alkenes (series 135, five reactants, positive slope). It was concluded on this basis that the rate-determining step of the oxidation is the abstraction of the allylic hydrogen. Similarly, Uchi-jima, Ishida, Uemitsu, and Yoneda 151) correlated the rate of the total oxidation of alkenes on NiO with the quantum-chemical index of delo-calizability of allylic hydrogens (series 136, five reactants). 

Equation 9.72 introduces a great deal of nomenclature at once. Chemical species are indexed by k, with K being the total number of species (later, when we generalize the kinetics to multiple phases, the variable Kg is used for the number of gas-phase species) reactions are indexed by the variable i, with / being the total number of reactions in the mechanism the name of species k is represented by X v ki is the stoichiometric coefficient of species k in the forward direction of reaction i is the stoichiometric coefficient of species k in the reverse direction of reaction i. 

We recall that c is the velocity of the molecules. The index on v means that we calculate the number of collisions necessary for reaction in the part of the zone where the reaction rate is highest and conditions are most conducive, so that i/min is the minimum value of v. Finally, tp is a dimensionless quantity of order (but less than) unity, algebraically (but not exponentially) dependent on the reaction mechanism, the activation heat, the temperatures T0 and TB, and the reagent concentrations. From the formula it is obvious first of all that u is always many times smaller than c, and less than the speed of sound. This fact will be important for the theory of detonation (Part II). 

T. W. Solomons and C. B. Fryhle, Organic Chemistry, 8th ed., Wiley, New York, 2004. The index of J. A. March, Advanced Organic Chemistry, Reactions Mechanism, and Structure, 4th ed., Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1992, has a listing of functional groups and references to reactions and page numbers where they are prepared. 

This intuitive parallel can be best demonstrated by the example of electrocye-lic reactions for which the values of the similarity indices for conrotatory and disrotatory reactions systematically differ in such a way that a higher index or, in other words, a lower electron reorganisation is observed for reactions which are allowed by the Woodward-Hoffmann rules. In contrast to electrocyclic reactions for which the parallel between the Woodward-Hoffmann rules and the least motion principle is entirely straightforward, the situation is more complex for cycloadditions and sigmatropic reactions where the values of similarity indices for alternative reaction mechanisms are equal so that the discrimination between allowed and forbidden reactions becomes impossible. The origin of this insufficiency was analysed in subsequent studies [46,47] in which we demonstrated that the primary cause lies in the restricted information content of the index rRP. In order to overcome this certain limitation, a solution was proposed based on the use of the so-called second-order similarity index gRP [46]. This... 

In the case of concerted reaction paths (18a) the ease of the reaction can be characterised, as shown above in Sect. 1.1 by the value of the similarity index rRP, or, better by the difference (1 — rRP) [53]. The question thus only is how to generalise the similarity approach to the evaluation of the ease of the stepwise reaction paths (18b). For this purpose we proposed some time ago [58] a simple model characterising the stepwise reaction paths in terms of the similarity indices rRI and rIP, corresponding to individual reaction steps. In terms of these indices, the ease of the stepwise reaction mechanism can be characterised by the quantity L (Eq. 19). 

If we now look at the values of the above indices, it is possible to see that the prediction of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules is indeed confirmed since the greater values of the similarity index for the conrotatory reaction clearly imply, in keeping with the expectations of the least-motion principle, the lower electron reorganisation. If now the same formalism is applied to a stepwise reaction mechanism, the following values of the similarity indices result (Eq. 21). 

Quantitative relationships have been reported between the global electrophilicity index and the experimental rate coefficients for the reactions of thiolcarbonates and dithio-carbonates with piperidine. The validated scale of electrophilicity was then used to rationalize the reaction mechanisms of these systems. This scale also makes it possible to predict both rate coefficients and Hammett substituent constants for a series of systems that have not been experimentally evaluated to date.48... 

The second complexity level of chemical reaction mechanisms is the complexity level of the kinetic model corresponding to a given mechanism (or KG). Starting from the fact that ultimately the mechanism complexity will manifest itself in kinetics, it seems natural to look for a complexity index that reflects the graph complexity demonstrated in the kinetic model. Two kinds of kinetic models may be used for this purpose (a) fractional-rational equations of the rate of routes in stationary or quasistationary processes having linear mechanisms (b) systems of differential... 

In this way the calculation of K is reduced to the calculation of the spanning trees of the kinetic graph (KG) as well as of some specific subgraphs. Formulas have been proposed for calculating the number of spanning trees in KGs with Af = 2,3 and 4. Detailed calculations have also been made for the K index of 500 nondirected kinetic graphs referring to different classes of catalytic reaction mechanism. Examples are presented in Table 5. 

The influence of the different kinetic code constituents on the complexity index C for the reaction mechanism was proven to be the following ... 

For a constant number of routes and intermediates and a constant type of reaction mechanism, the complexity index increases when going from a certain class to another one with larger contributions of the B and, particularly, the C-type of routeconnecting pairs. For example for Af = 3 ... 

Electrophilicity index and reaction mechanisms of DA Reactions. Polar cycloaddition reactions... 

In this chapter, we have reviewed the usefulness of the global and local electrophilicity indexes to quantitatively account for the reactivity and selectivity patterns observed in a large series of classical organic reactions. The global electrophilicity index, w, categorizes within an unique absolute scale the propensity of the electron acceptors to acquire additional electronic charge from the environment. This classification allowed an impressive number of systems in DA reactions to be rationalized in terms of their reaction mechanisms in polar and nonpolar processes. The global electrophilicity scale provides a simple way to assess the more or less polar character of a process on the... 

Finally, the global and local electrophilicity indexes may be also used to describe the nucleofugality of classical leaving groups in organic chemistry. This potential application incorporates the important families of nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions. This study is however a bit more complex than the cases presented in this review, because the systematization of nucleofugality within an absolute scale requires an important number of requisites that must be fulfilled, most of them regarding the different reaction mechanisms involved in these complexe reactions. 

The coupled-channels method may be developed within the language of wave-mechanics, or more formally (and more compactly) by means of operator equations. The common feature of both approaches is that the total scattering state is expanded in internal states of reactants and products. The nature of the colliding particles and the quantum numbers of the interna] states define the reaction channel index c = a, b,. We begin with the wave-mechanical approach, some of whose features have been presented in the section on statistical theories. For the total wavefunction [pa of reactants in channel a, with relative wave vector ka, we can write... 

It is also very important to monitor the effects of the upper potential limit since the potential at which oxygen reduction begins implies hydroxide or oxide co-formation on platinum. There are many studies of the reaction on the three low-index platinum surfaces [95,98]. The catalytic activity of these surfaces decreases in the order of Pt(l 10) > Pt(l 11) > Pt(100) in perchloric acid solution [96], while the order is Pt(110) > Pt(100) > Pt(l 11) in sulfuric acid solution [93]. In the case of Pt(lll), the formation of a two-dimensional ordered ad-layer of specifically adsorbed (bi) sulfate anions is the main reason for the inhibition of oxygen reduction. Moreover, the direct four-electron mechanism was found for the three surfaces in acidic media, while the reaction mechanism varied to a two-electron reduction on the Pt(lll) and Pt(100) due to the shielding of the hydrogen adatoms. 

The QTS is a part of a reaction mechanism. These species may be found related to stationary arrangements of the external Coulomb sources. Solutions to eq.(8) coming as saddle points of at least index one (one imaginary frequency) are natural candidates to play the role of QTS. If the saddle point wave function has closed electronic shell structure, its electronic parity is positive. In this case one would expect a situation similar to the symmetry-forbidden electronic absorption bands. The intensity is borrowed from the excited states having the correct parity via couplings at second-order perturbation theory [21]. 

Since the catalytic activity takes place not only on the three-component system Cu/ZnO/AljOj, but already on pure ZnO, the first step in a thorough analysis of the reaction mechanism is to investigate how the reactants, intermediates and products adsorb on ZnO. However, since ZnO catalysts are mostly prepared in wet chemical processes, it is difficult to find out whether the active sites are Zn or 0 atoms on regular low-index surface planes, edges or corners of ZnO micro crystals, defects such as O vacancies, or even more complicated species. Of course, the simplest possibility is to study processes at regular ZnO surface planes, as is always done in the surface science approach to heterogeneous catalysis. 

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