The effect of solvent on the structure of the transition state for the SN2 reaction between cyanide ion and ethyl chloride in DMSO and THF probed with six different kinetic isotope effects

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 71, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 4742-4747

  Fang, Yao Ren ^a   MacMillar, Susanna ^b   Eriksson, Jonas ^b   Kołodziejska Huben, Magdalena ^c   Dybała Defratyka, Agnieszka ^c   Paneth, Piotr ^c   Matsson, Olle ^b   Westaway, Kenneth Charles ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITION; IONS; ISOTOPES; REACTION KINETICS; SOLVENTS;

ETHYL CHLORIDE; GAS-PHASE CALCULATIONS; SN2; TRANSITION STATES;

CYANIDES;

CARBON; CHLORINE; CHLOROETHANE; CYANIDE; DEUTERIUM; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; NITROGEN; SOLVENT; TETRAHYDROFURAN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVALENT BOND; GAS; KINETIC ISOTOPE EFFECT; PREDICTION; SN2 REACTION; SURFACE CHARGE; TRANSITION STATE STRUCTURE;

EID: 33745476854     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo052375e     Document Type: Article

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