The Reactions and Energetics of Organic Ions and Radical Ions in Solution

有机动力学计划的这笔赠款支持了 犹他州州立大学的弗农·帕克教授的研究。初级 目标是旨在确定影响两者的因素的实验 溶液中反应的反应性和热力学， 有机自由基离子和有机离子。通过使用电化学 技术取代的自由基阳离子的反应 烷基蒽与亲核试剂将进行研究，以确定 与空间效应有关的基本热力学参数 自由基阳离子实验的设计将获得数据， 碳-和氢-杂原子键在溶液中的离解能。 电化学方法将用于准确测量强度 分子中的化学键，实验数据 不可用.这些新成果将使科学界能够 通过使用更精确地计算分子的行为， 基本热力学方程

This grant from the Organic Dynamics Program supports the continuing research of Professor Vernon Parker at Utah State University. Primary objectives are experiments designed to determine factors that affect both the reactivity and thermodynamics of reactions in solution that involve organic radical ions and organic ions. Through the use of electochemical techniques reactions of radical cations of substituted alkylanthracenes with nucleophiles will be studied to determine fundamental thermodynamic parameters associated with steric effects on radical cations. Experiments are designed that will obtain data for carbon- and hydrogen-heteroatom bond dissociation energies in solution. Electrochemical methods will be used to measure accurately the strengths of chemical bonds in molecules for which experimental data is unavailable. These new results will allow the scientific community to compute with better accuracy the behavior of molecules by the use of fundamental thermodynamic equations.