Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer-Sheva 841051 , Israel
Abstract
Abstract
Anthracene can be used as a scaffold for intramolecular SN2 degenerate reactions of the “bell clapper” type, where a central boron atom or its isoelectronic carbocation bonds alternatively towards one or the other lateral Lewis bases at the first and eight anthracene positions. This ping-pong bond-switching reaction possesses a symmetrical double-well potential with low activation barrier and relatively narrow barrier width. Herein we show by computational means the active role played by heavy atom quantum tunneling in this degenerate rearrangement reaction at cryogenic temperatures. At these conditions the thermal “over the barrier” reaction is forbidden, whereas the tunneling effect enhances the rate of reaction up to an experimentally measurable half-life. Kinetic isotope effects and cryogenic NMR spectroscopy can, in principle, experimentally demonstrate the tunneling mechanism.
Funder
Israeli Science Foundation
Subject
General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry
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