Issue 38, 2021
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Comment on “Topography of the free energy landscape of Claisen–Schmidt condensation: solvent and temperature effects on the rate-controlling step” by N. D. Coutinho, H. G. Machado, V. H. Carvalho-Silva and W. A. da Silva, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 6738

Charles L. Perrin ORCID logo a  

a Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Univ. Calif. San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
E-mail: cperrin@ucsd.edu

Abstract

The referenced article in PCCP presents calculations of solvent kinetic isotope effects that indicate that the rate-limiting step in base-catalyzed chalcone formation in aqueous solution becomes the second enolization. This disputes our previous conclusion, based on experimental isotope effects in aqueous acetonitrile, that the rate-limiting step is the final loss of hydroxide and formation of the C–C double bond. That conclusion is here affirmed as general for any protic solvent, and it is further concluded that those calculations are flawed.

Graphical abstract: Comment on “Topography of the free energy landscape of Claisen–Schmidt condensation: solvent and temperature effects on the rate-controlling step” by N. D. Coutinho, H. G. Machado, V. H. Carvalho-Silva and W. A. da Silva, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 6738

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP01496J
Article type
Comment
Submitted
06 Apr 2021
Accepted
13 Aug 2021
First published
27 Aug 2021

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021,23, 22199-22201

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C. L. Perrin, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 22199 DOI: 10.1039/D1CP01496J

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