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Vishva Jeet Anand1, Pradeep Kumar1
1Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, 302017, India.
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The present work investigates the impact of the external electric field (EEF) on the oxidizing power of N2O, by employing kinetics and quantum chemical calculations. This study has taken the oxidation of olefin (ethene and cyclohexene) by N2O as a prototype to demonstrate the effectiveness of EEF. The investigation suggests that the reaction barrier is significantly reduced by choosing an electric field in an appropriate direction. Quantitatively, this study finds that the rate of EEF-catalyzed reaction can be as high as ≈13 orders of magnitude compared to the bare reaction.
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