aDepartment of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
bDepartment of Chemistry, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya 793022, India
Abstract:
We have theoretically investigated the hydrogen abstraction reactions of ethynyl radical with simple hydrogen compounds, C2H+HX, using quantum chemical computations. Computations have been performed using the density functional theory with the recently proposed MPW1K functional and the 6-311++G(3df,2p) basis set. An analysis of the resulting energy barriers for hydrogen abstraction reactions has been carried out using the bond dissociation energy of the breaking X–H bond and DFT-based reactivity parameters to rationalize the reaction behavior.