Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2002, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (5): 828.

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Theoretical Study of Photochemical Chlorination of Pyridine in Gas Phase──Transition States of Addition Mechanism and IRC Analysis

HAD Jin-Ku, YANG En-Cui, WANG Wan-De, ZHAO Xiao-Jun, CAO Ying-Yu, HAN Xiao-Yan   

  1. School of Chemistry and Life Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300074, China
  • Received:2001-02-23 Online:2002-05-24 Published:2002-05-24

Abstract: The addition mechanism of pyridine reacting with chlorine radical was studied theoretically bysemi-empirical method PM3.The results show that there exist two transition states on each reaction pathof obtaining 2-chloropyridine, 3-chloropyridineopyr and 4-chloropyridine.The energies of chief transitionstate and activation barrier for leading to 2-chloridine are the lowest among the three reaction paths, whichare -110293.6 and 139.2 kJ/mol respectively, so 2-chloropyridine is obtained priorly.On getting 2-chloropyridine, from the variation of bond length, bond order and net charge, we can concludde that theformation of C-Cl is concerted with the breaking of conjugated double bond, and the break of C-Hisconcerted with the reconformation of conjugated double bond Both inductive and resonance effects can in-fluence the net charge of chlorine atom.

Key words: Pyridine, Photochemical chlorination, Reaction mechanism, Transition state, IRC, PM3

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