Rate coefficients for intramolecular homolytic substitution of oxyacyl radicals at selenium

✍ Scribed by Heather M. Aitken; Sonia M. Horvat; Carl H. Schiesser; Ching Yeh Lin; Michelle L. Coote

• Book ID: 102450076
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 365 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0538-8066
• DOI: 10.1002/kin.20604

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Ab initio and density functional calculations predict that intramolecular homolytic substitution reactions of oxyacyl radicals at the selenium atom in ω‐alkylseleno‐substituted radicals proceed via mechanisms that do not involve hypervalent intermediates. When the leaving radical is tert‐butyl, energy barriers (Δ__G__‡) for these reactions range from 27.1 (G3(MP2)‐RAD) kJ mol^−1^ for the formation of the five‐membered cyclic selenocarbonate (6) to 41.5 kJ mol^−1^ for the six‐membered selenocarbonate (8). G3(MP2)‐RAD calculations predict rate coefficients in the order of 10^5^–10^8^ s^−1^ and 10^2^–10^5^ s^−1^ for the formation of 6 and 8, respectively, at 298.15 K in the gas phase. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 44: 51–58, 2012