Direct Experimental Evidence for a Multiple Well Potential Energy Surface in a Gas-Phase Exothermic Carbonyl Addition-Elimination Reaction
作者:James L. Wilbur、John I. Brauman
DOI:10.1021/ja00099a043
日期:1994.10
We define experimentally the potential energy surface for a gas-phase carbonyl addition-elimination reaction through the synthesis, isolation, and characterization of intermediates in an exothermic carbonyl displacement reaction. Chemical and photochemical experiments determine the structure and reactivity of these putative intermediates. For the reaction of CN- with 3,5-difluorobenzoyl chloride, the intermediates are unsymmetrical ion-molecule complexes; we find no evidence for a stable, covalent, tetrahedral adduct. Photoactivation of the intermediates results in unimolecular decomposition across the reaction barrier producing the products of the bimolecular reaction. The observation of two distinct ion-dipole complexes as intermediates and the non-observation of a stable tetrahedral adduct provide direct evidence for a double minimum potential energy surface for the corresponding bimolecular reaction.