In an effort to quantitatively estimate steric contributions to the aquation rates of a series of structurally related cobalt(III) tetraamine complexes, strain energy minimization calculations have been performed on the reactant and some plausible transition state structures. Free energies of activation ΔG*obs, are factored as: ΔG*obs, = ΔG*bb + ΔG*strain + ΔG*CF + ΔG*solvation + … where ΔG*bb is the free energy change associated with bond breaking, ΔG*solvation is the solvation free energy difference between the reactant and a proposed transition stare, ΔG*CF is the difference in crystal field stabilization between the reactant and a proposed transition state, and ΔG*strain is the strain energy difference between the reactant complex and a proposed transition state. The activation energy for the aquation of a hypothetical ‘strain free’ complex is defined as ΔG*int and reflects the energy required for the bond breaking step with all other terms. For the cations trans-(RR,SS)-dichloro-1,8- diamino-3,6-diazaoctanecobalt(III)(trans [Co(2,2,2- tet)Cl2]+), trans-(RR,SS)- or trans-(RS)-dichloro-1.9- diamino-3,7-diazanonanecobalt(III)(trans [Co(2,3,2- tet)Cl2]+ and trans-(RS)-dichloro-1,10-diamino-4,7- diazadecanecobalt(III)(trans[Co(3,2,3-tet)Cl2]+) ΔG*intis found to be a constant 123 kJ/mol. For the trans-dichlorocobalt(III) complexes with the ligands 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclotridecane([13]-ane-N4), 1,4,8, 11-tetraazacyclotetradecane([14]-ane-N4), 1,4,8,12- tetraazacyclopentadecane([15]-ane-N4) and 1,5,9,13- tetraazacyclohexadecane([16]-ane-N4), ΔG*int lies in the range 133–139 kJ/mol.
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The authors acknowledge partial support of the computations from the Office of Computing Activities at the University of Dayton and the Academic Computing Center at Illinois Institute of Technology. Financial support from the University of Dayton Research Council is gratefully acknowledged.