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  1. Abstract

    Multidimensional tunneling calculations are carried out for 13 reactions, to test the scope of heavy‐atom tunneling in organic chemistry, and to check the accuracy of one‐dimensional tunneling models. The reactions include pericyclic, cycloaromatization, radical cyclization and ring opening, and SN2. When compared at the temperatures that give the same effective rate constant of 3×10−5 s−1, tunneling accounts for 25–95 % of the rate in 8 of the 13 reactions. Values of transmission coefficients predicted by Bell's formula, κBell , agree well with multidimensional tunneling (canonical variational transition state theory with small curvature tunneling), κSCT. Mean unsigned deviations of κBellvs. κSCTare 0.08, 0.04, 0.02 at 250, 300 and 400 K. This suggests that κBellis a useful first choice for predicting transmission coefficients in heavy‐atom tunnelling.

     
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