Reorganization internal

Important synthetic paths to azirines and aziridines involve bond reorganization, or internal addition, of vinylnitrenes. Indeed, the vinylnitrene-azirine equilibrium has been demonstrated in the case of trans-2-methyl-3-phenyl-l-azirine, which at 110 °C racemizes 2000 times faster than it rearranges to 2-methylindole (80CC1252). Created in the Neber rearrangement or by decomposition of vinyl azides, the nitrene can cyclize to the p -carbon to give azirines (Scheme 4 Section 5.04.4.1). 

In order to simplify the expression for G, one has to employ a sufficiently simple model for the vibrational modes of the system. In the present case, the solvent contribution to the rate constant is expressed by a single parameter E, the solvent reorganization energy. In addition, frequency changes between the initial and final states are neglected and it is assumed that only a single internal mode with frequency co and with the displacement Ar is contributing to G. Thus the expression for G reduces to [124] ... 

In Eq. (77), x = h(o/2kg T is the reduced internal frequency, q = EJhoi the reduced solvent reorganization energy, p = hElha> the reduced electronic energy gap and / (z) the modified Bessel function of order m. The quantity S is a coupling parameter which defines the contribution of the change in the internal normal mode ... 

Report prepared for the study of Interagency Coordination in Drug Research and Regulation by the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, 1963. 

D. J. Kevles. Into Hostile Political Camps. Isis. 62 (1971) 47-60. Source for the reorganization of international science in World War I. 

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It should, however, be emphasized that the relaxation from (X ) -l-i to X (+) does not always require a negligible energy. Counterexamples where the homolytic cleavage of an ion radical appears to be endowed with a sizable internal reorganization energy can be found in the electrochemical reduction of perbenzoates,60 where the observation of a transition between a concerted and a stepwise mechanism fits with an exothermic cleavage of the anion radicals. 

It has been shown so far that internal and external factors can be combined in the control of the electron-transfer rate. Although in most cases a simple theoretical treatment, e.g. by the Marcus approach, is prevented by the coincidence of these factors, it is clear that the observed features for the isoenergetic self-exchange differ by the electronic coupling and the free energy of activation. Then it is also difficult to separate the inner- and outer-sphere reorganization energies. 

We first consider outer sphere transfer (ET) reactions, e.g. D" + A -> D + A, a donor-acceptor electron transfer without significant coupled internal reorganization of the D and A species [27,29,30]. A hallmark of such reactions, which has been long appreciated [27], is that the reactive coordinate is itself a many-body collective solvent variable (and is not the coordinate of the electron itself)- In particular, if R and P stand for the reactant and product, then the reactive coordinate is... 

As was noted above, the structure and behavior of Nation polymers were intensively investigated and structural models were suggested. It is obvious that during the transformation from precursor (nonionic form) to ionic form the internal structure of the polymer is reorganized into the ordered type. But this order has a random nature, and all earlier investigations were peformed with such randomly ordered films. 

The forward and backward activation free energies and the corresponding rate constants thus depend on an extrinsic factor, the standard free energy of the reaction, AG° = E — E°, and an intrinsic factor, the standard activation free energy, that reflects the solvent and internal reorganization energy, Aq and A [equation (1.31)]. 

FIGURE 1.21. Reduction of aliphatic 1,2-diones in acetonitrile59 Correlation between the experimental activation free energies and values of the internal reorganization energies... 

When conformational change and electron transfer are concerted, the structural change may be treated as an internal reorganization factor in the electron transfer dynamics. This is the A, term of the Marcus-Hush model (Section 1.4.2 see also Section 1.4.4 for experimental examples). The model is applicable as long as the conformational changes are not so strong as to invalidate the harmonic approximation. 

The forward and reverse rate constants are thus equal at zero standard free energy. However, this will be difficult to check in practice, for both reactions are very slow, since a bond-breaking/bond-forming process endowed with a quite large internal reorganization is involved. The result is that dissociative electron transfer reactions are usually carried out with electron donors that have a standard potential largely negative to the dissociative standard potential. The reoxidation of the R, X- system is thus possible only with electron acceptors, D +, that are different from the D,+ produced in the reduction process (they are more powerful oxidants). There is no reason then that the oxidation mechanism be the reverse of the... 

Contribution of the Cleaving Bond Stretching to Internal Reorganization of the First Step of the Stepwise Mechanism... 

Assuming that the most important contribution to the internal reorganization is the stretching of the cleaving bond, the free energy surfaces for the reactant (Grx) and product (Grx— ) may be written as... 

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