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Electron Transfer and Chemical Reactions—Stepwise or Concerted? On the Competition between Nucleophilic Substitution and Electron Transfer
Author(s) -
Speiser Bernd
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199624711
Subject(s) - electron transfer , nucleophilic substitution , nucleophile , chemistry , substitution reaction , electrochemistry , transfer (computing) , substitution (logic) , nucleophilic aromatic substitution , computational chemistry , electron , competition (biology) , reaction mechanism , photochemistry , medicinal chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , computer science , electrode , catalysis , quantum mechanics , ecology , programming language , parallel computing , biology
The subject of an exciting debate —does electron transfer play a role in bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (a)? How would this reaction differ from the classical S N 2 reaction (b)? A number of research groups have employed electrochemical and computational methods to determine if alternatives exist for one of the best known mechanisms in organic chemistry.