C-C Bonding in Molecular Systems via Cross-Coupling-like Reactions Involving Noncovalently Bound Constituent Ions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Carbon-based molecules are of universal importance for a huge variety of chemical and biological processes. The complication of the structure of such molecules proceeds via the bonding of carbon atoms. An efficient mechanism for such reactions proceeds via cross-coupling, related to the association of bond-terminating counter-ions. Here, an uncommon version of such a process is investigated, with at least some ions bound in the system noncovalently and/or switching the bonding mode in due course. The analyzed sample reactions involve a single C-C bond formation in environmentally relevant halocarbon species and involve alkali-halide ion-pair components. A consistent ab initio computational study predicts the related energy barriers to alter significantly in the presence of the ion pair. Different channels are checked, with the carbon-halogen bond cleavage preceding or following the actual C-C bonding and with the counter-ions located closely or farther apart. The relative heights of the corresponding energy barriers are found to be switched by the ion pair. The above results suggest a possibility of facilitating such reactions without expensive catalysts.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".