CHM 643 Reactive intermediate has been important investigated in physical organic chemistry. It classes to carbocations, carbenes, carbanions and free radicals. Recently, observable intermediate classified as reactive, and an unobservable intermediate is kinetically when occurs at a branch point in a mechanism. A reactive intermediate is formed in the rate determining step of a reaction and then goes to give products in low barrier. Also, the hydrocarbon reaction of terminal alkenes gives mixtures of primary and secondary boranes that formed in an exothermic biomolecular step. Carpenter, et al study outlined of reactive intermediate. They mentioned that the assumptions about the behavior reactive intermediate. The first one …show more content…
Therefore, an intermediate formed in an exothermic step that it may carry excess energy in vibrations, rotation and translations. However, this study also reported that intermediate may behaving badly. For many reactions occurring via supposedly achiral intermediates afforded optically active products. These behavior changes described by the ultrafast spectroscopies allowed a reactive intermediates to be detected directly and also allowed an unambiguous tracking of the energy flow during the formation and reaction of theses intermediates. Also, by the hardware and software, which allowed computation of credible, multidimensional PES’s for organic reaction. In addition, the prevailing view in the organic chemistry is that solvents provides a highly efficient energy sink. Therefore, Lindemann suggested that first one is in the low pressure limit of gas phase reaction kinetic, thermalizing collisions with other gas molecules can occur much slower than unimolecular bond breaking and formation. The second suggestion is the behavior of reactive intermediates can influence by the solvents, which change the shape of the PES. Thus, the solvent can respond instantaneously to …show more content…
This study, which is about solvents effects has taken long time to understand, therefore a lot more work need to be done to capture all of the important phenomena in reactive intermediate behavior. Moreover, solvent effect has been treated by different kind of linear free energy relationship. The common models solvents are: implicit models that solvent represented by some dielectric continuum that polarizes in response to the solute polarity. Explicit model that represented individual solvent molecules by constraining in a periodic boundary table and treated by Monte Carlo or MD techniques. This model may be faster handle nonequilibrium solvation effects in reaction dynamics than implicit solvation do, which Cramer and Truhlar study. Therefore, changes in polarity of the solute during a reaction will formed the most attempts to model solvent effects on kinetic. Also, changes in shape of the solute will received less attention, because there are few studies that considered about this subject. Carpenter, et al study mentioned several techniques for studying solution