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Reactions are taken to be electron transfer-driven when they provide small variations for the gaps between the contributing occupied and unoccupied orbital energies on the intrinsic reaction coordinates in the initial processes. The orbital energy-based theory is then applied to the calculations of several     S N2 reactions. Using a reaction path search method, the Cl\u2212 + CH3I \u2192 ClCH3 + I\u2212 reaction, for which another reaction path called \u201croundabout path\u201d is proposed, is found to have a precursor process similar to the roundabout path just before this SN2 reaction process. The orbital energy-based theory indicates that this precursor process is obviously driven by structural change, while the successor SN2 reaction proceeds through electron transfer between the contributing orbitals. Comparing the calculated results of the SN2 reactions in gas phase and in aqueous solution shows that the contributing orbitals significantly depend on solvent effects and these orbitals can be correctly determined by this theory.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computation4030023","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,7,8]],"date-time":"2016-07-08T09:46:07Z","timestamp":1467971167000},"page":"23","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Orbital Energy-Based Reaction Analysis of SN2 Reactions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Takao","family":"Tsuneda","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Fuel Cell Nanomaterials Center, University of Yamanashi, Kofu 400-0021, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Satoshi","family":"Maeda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Harabuchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Raman","family":"Singh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Fuel Cell Nanomaterials Center, University of Yamanashi, Kofu 400-0021, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,7,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"867","DOI":"10.1038\/nature03183","article-title":"Tomographic imaging of molecular orbitals","volume":"432","author":"Itatani","year":"2004","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"722","DOI":"10.1063\/1.1700523","article-title":"A molecular orbital theory of reactivity in aromatic hydrocarbons","volume":"20","author":"Fukui","year":"1952","journal-title":"J. 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