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Computational Predictions of the Hydrolysis of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene (TNT) and 2,4-Dinitroanisole (DNAN) br

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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06014

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  1. DoD Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) [ER-1735, ER-2725, ER19-1239]
  2. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science
  3. U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research ECP program (NWChemEx project)
  4. Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division (Sandia-Livermore CCS, PNNL QIS, and PNNL Geosciences projects)
  5. Office of Biological and Environmental Research EMSL [DEAC05-76RL01830]
  6. Office of Science of the U.S. DOE [DE-AC02-05CH11231]

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Hydrolysis of organic compounds can significantly affect their fate in the environment. This study investigated the alkaline hydrolysis mechanisms of TNT and DNAN using various computational methods. The results showed that for TNT, the most favorable hydrolysis steps involved Meisenheimer complex formation and proton abstraction. For DNAN, the most favorable hydrolysis reaction was a two-step process.
Hydrolysis is a common transformation reaction that can affect the environmental fate of many organic compounds. In this study, three proposed mechanisms of alkaline hydrolysis of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and 2,4dinitroaniline (DNAN) were investigated with plane-wave density functional theory (DFT) combined with ab initio and classical molecular dynamics (AIMD/ MM) free energy simulations, Gaussian basis set DFT calculations, and correlated molecular orbital theory calculations. Most of the computations in this study were carried out using the Arrows web-based tools. For each mechanism, Meisenheimer complex formation, nucleophilic aromatic substitution, and proton abstraction reaction energies and activation barriers were calculated for the reaction at each relevant site. For TNT, it was found that the most kinetically favorable first hydrolysis steps involve Meisenheimer complex formation by attachment of OH- at the C1 and C3 arene carbons and proton abstraction from the methyl group. The nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions at the C2 and C4 arene carbons were found to be thermodynamically favorable. However, the calculated activation barriers were slightly lower than in previous studies, but still found to be Delta G double dagger approximate to 18 kcal/mol using PBE0 AIMD/MM free energy simulations, suggesting that the reactions are not kinetically significant. For DNAN, the barriers of nucleophilic aromatic substitution were even greater (Delta G double dagger > 29 kcal/mol PBE0 AIMD/MM). The most favorable hydrolysis reaction for DNAN was found to be a two-step process in which the hydroxyl first attacks the C1 carbon to form a Meisenheimer complex at the C1 arene carbon C1-(OCH3)OH-, and subsequently, the methoxy anion (-OCH3) at the C1 arene carbon dissociates and the proton shuttles from the C1-OH to the dissociated methoxy group, resulting in methanol and an aryloxy anion.

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