Stabilities Comparison of Theory and Experiment

GB = gas-phase basicity ICR = ion cyclotron resonance PA = proton affinity PCI = parameterized configuration interaction. 

Experimental studies on the structures, physical and chemical properties, and thermodynamic stabilities of carbocations are especially difficult because of the inherent instability of these reactive intermediates. Of particular fundamental interest are experimental methods for the determination of the structures and stabilities of carbocations in the gas pha.se. These methods can be used to gather data for direct comparison with the results of ah initio theory, without the need for consideration of solvation effects. In this article, we will show comparisons between theory and experiment for hydrocarbon and carbocation stabilities in order to test the performance of 

A number of techniques have evolved for the accurate measurement of heats of formation of ions in the gas phase. Measurement of ionization potentials or appearance potentials from electron impact or photonionization leads directly to absolute heats of formation of cations with varying degrees of accuracy, 

While some relative PA values have been measured experimentally from variable temperature equilibrium experiments, most experimental data have been measured at a single temperature. In this article, all experimental GB data have been adjusted to be consistent with the most recent GB and PA scales, and the entropies used to calculate PAs have been derived from scaled ab initio frequencies when experimental values are not available, Several compilations serve as a source for heats of formation of hydrocarbons and carbocations. Revised, heats of formation are available from the NIST web site and a detailed review of vinyl cations and many other carbocation heats of formation is found in Ref. 14. 

T ble 1 Correlation Effects from Differences in Electronic Energies of Formation from Methane and H (all values in kcal mol ) 

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Carbocation Stabilities Comparison of Theory and Experiment Force Fields A General Discussion Mixed Quantum-Classical Methods Molecular Mechanics Conjugated Systems. 

Perhaps the most classic example of hyperconjugation, certainly invoked in all introductory organic textbooks, is the trend in stabilities observed for substituted carbocations (see Carbocation Stabilities Comparison of Theory and Experiment). Thus, as illustrated in Figure 1, the ethyl cation (a primary carbocation) is more stable than the methyl cation because a electrons associated with C-H bonds in the attached methyl group may delocalize into the empty p orbital on the cationic center. In the limit of complete delocalization, the C-H bond is broken and the pair of electrons that formerly gave rise to it is instead employed in the formation of a rr bond between the formerly cationic carbon and the former methyl carbon. Such a resonance structure (mesomer) is called a bond/no-bond structure in recognition of the detached status of the proton whose bonding electrons have been redistributed within the carbon framework. 

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Carbocation Stabilities Comparison of Theory and Experiment Isoelectronic Isogyric Reactions. 

Comparison of Theory and Experiment. The expression for the free energy of interpenetration of sterically stabilized particles may be obtained by combining Equations 2, 3 and 6. Using these expressions can be calculated as a function of both... 

Comparison of theory with experiment. It will be shown in Section 13.3.2.1 that the flat plate potentials can be used to calculate the osmotic disjoining pressures in concentrated monodisperse sterically stabilized dispersions. Evans and Napper (1977) have compared the theoretical predictions using the above equations with those measured by Homola and Robertson (1976) for polystyrene latex particles stabilized by poly(oxyethylene) of molecular weight ca 2 000 in aqueous dispersion media. The elastic repulsion in the interpenetrational-plus-compressional domain was estimated from the following expression for the constant segment density model... 

One might have hoped that, following the modifications to the stability analyses for liquids with free surfaces, quantitative comparisons between experiment and theory could have been made, but such is not the case. Further refinement in both theory and experiment is still required. Nevertheless it is indeed encouraging that all of the experimentally observed qualitative effects regarding convective stability appear to be in agreement with the predictions of hydrodynamic stability theory. 

Given the appropriate potential energy diagrams from the DLVO theory, the stability ratio may be calculated by graphical or numerical integration and then compared with experimental values of W=kyk, the ratio of the experimental rate constants for rapid and slow flocculation. Such a comparison is a severe test of the applicability of theory to experiment, and the observed deviations, although often not appreciable, reflect the assumptions and approximations which are necessary in the calculation of the potential energy terms. An advanced treatment of these issues will be found in Russel et al.- . 

Geometries, hyperfme structure, and relative stabilities of the different positional isomers of monodeuterated benzene cations have been studied theoretically by density functional theory, using the B3-LYP functional, and experimentally by ESR and ENDOR spectroscopy. A comparison between theoretical and experimental results at 30 K gives acceptable agreement, but further experiments on multiply deuterated species should improve the analysis by making the effects of deuteration larger. 

An important parameter for comparison with theory as well as for understanding many properties would be relative binding energies or stabilities. Unfortunately those are hard to assess in the gas phase. One of the few experiments to report thermodynamic binding energies between base pairs is the work by Yanson et al. in 1979, based on field ionization [25], Relative abundances of nucleobase clusters in supersonic beams are an unreliable measure of relative stability for a two reasons First, supersonic cooling is a non-equilibrium process and thus comparison with thermal populations is tenuous at best. Secondly, ionization probabilities may be a function of cluster composition. The latter is certainly the case for multi photon ionization, as will be discussed in detail below. 

Comparison of the conformational stability for several vinylhalomethanes and silanes with experiment using MP2 perturbation theory and DFT ... 

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