122nd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Physical Chemistry
Room No. Grand Ballroom
Time 10월 19일 (금요일) 11:00~12:30
Code PHYS.P-202
Subject A Comparative Nucleophilic Substitution at Carbon, Sulfur and Phosphorus Centers: (SN2@C), (SN2@S) and (SN2@P)
Authors Adhikary Keshab Kumar, Nasir Shahzad, Chan Kyung Kim*
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Inha University, Korea
Abstract Three prototypical model systems for bimolecular nucleophilic substitution at carbon (SN2@C), sulfur (SN2@S) and phosphorus SN2@P were studied for finding the general phenomena using the B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory. The models are chosen as:

At carbon, X + CH3C(=O)Y (SN2@C)

At sulfur, X + (CH3)S(=O)2Y (SN2@S)

At phosphorus, X + (CH3)2P(=O)Y (SN2@P

The SN2@C involves the characteristic transition state [X—C(O)—Y] reflected in the double-well potential energy surface (PES). Similarly, it was found to be the same in the SN2@S system except for the asymmetric nucleophilic attack. We considered symmetric and asymmetric nucleophilic reactions in our model systems. In the case of symmetric nucleophilic attack at the phosphorus (SN2@P), the reaction mechanism shows the double-well PES involving a transition state. In the case of asymmetric nucleophilic attack, two competing mechanisms were found: frontal or rear-side attack and the reaction mechanism depended on the conformation of the reactants.
E-mail keshabadhikary@yahoo.com