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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 8.
Published in final edited form as: Org Biomol Chem. 2015 Nov 26;14(3):920–939. doi: 10.1039/c5ob01692d

Table 7.

Relative energies of aziridinium ions, transition states (TS), and (R)-β-halo amines involved in ring opening reactions of aziridinium ions with halides in a SN2 pathway (DLPNO-CCSD(T)/cc-pVTZ).

energies (kcal/mol)
X aziridinium ion transition state (R)-β-halo amine
F (S)-3a’ 3a-TS (R)-3a
0.0 24.0 −49.7
Cl (S)-5a’ 5a-TS (R)-5a
0.0 13.3 −33.3
Br (S)-6a’ 6a-TS (R)-6a
0.0 12.1 −29.0
I (S)-7a’ 7a-TS (R)-7a
0.0 11.1 −24.9