How Does an SN2 Reaction Take Place in Solution? Full Ab Initio MD Simulations for the Hydrolysis of the Methyl Diazonium Ion

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• 作者：Makoto Sato ; Hiroshi Yamataka ; Yuto Komeiji ; Yuji Mochizuki ; Takeshi Ishikawa ; Tatsuya Nakano
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：February 27, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：130
• 期：8
• 页码：2396 - 2397
• 全文大小：457K
• 年卷期：v.130,no.8(February 27, 2008)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

An important goal of mechanistic studies of chemical reactions is to understand how atoms in reacting molecules behave at the molecular level. Toward this goal, full quantum mechanical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, which employed the recently developed fragment molecular orbital (FMO)-MD method, were carried out for the hydrolysis of the methyl diazonium ion in water. The simulations illustrated for the first time how the solvent water molecules participate in the reaction and how the C-N bond cleavage and O-C bond formation take place during the reaction. It was revealed that this typical S_N2 reaction does not always proceed through the energetically favorable synchronous pathway, but that it shows mechanistic diversity.