Free-Energy Landscape of the SN2 Reaction CH3Br + Cl-→ CH3Cl + Br-in Different Liquid Environments

Danillo Valverde, Herbert C. Georg, Sylvio Canuto

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This work describes in detail the reaction path of the well-known SN2 reaction CH3Br + Cl-→ CH3Cl + Br-, whose reaction rate has a huge variation with the solvent in the gas phase and in protic and aprotic liquid environments. We employed the ASEC-FEG method to optimize for minima (reactants and products) and saddle points (transition states) in the in-solution free-energy hypersurface. The method takes atomistic details of the solvent into account. A polarizable continuum model (PCM) has also been employed for comparison. The most perceptive structural changes are noted in aqueous solution by using the ASEC-FEG approach. The activation energies in all solvents, estimated by means of free-energy perturbation calculations, are in good agreement with the experimental data. The total solute-solvent hydrogen bonds play an important role in the increased barrier height observed in water and are therefore crucial to explain the huge decrease in the kinetic constant. It is also found that the hydration shell around the ions breaks itself spontaneously to accommodate the molecule, thus forming minimum energy complexes.

langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)3685-3692
Nombre de pages8
journalJournal of physical chemistry B
Volume126
Numéro de publication20
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 26 mai 2022
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