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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2009 Jun 30;48(25):5963–5971. doi: 10.1021/bi900140c

Table 6.

A comparison of the solvation contribution (ΔΔGsolv) to the total activation barrier (ΔGcalc) as obtained from the COSMO, PCM and LD solvation models.

X pKa ΔΔGsolv,COSMO ΔΔGsolv,PCM ΔΔGsolv,LD
O 8.9 30.1 29.8 30.9
CHF 9.0 30.0 29.7 39.2
CHCl 9.5 14.0 13.9 17.6
CHBr 9.9 7.0 19.7 11.1
CH2 10.5 11.6 11.4 15.5
CF2 7.8 16.0 15.5 13.9
CFCl 8.4 21.0 20.8 28.8
CCl2 8.9 23.7 23.4 24.2
CBr2 9.3 21.6 21.4 17.1