The catalysed electrophilic aromatic bromination of benzenes: insights from density functional theory and biased molecular dynamics simulations.
The catalysed electrophilic aromatic bromination of benzene, anisole and nitrobenzene was investigated using static ωB97X-D/cc-pVTZ calculations in gas phase as well as enhanced umbrella sampling ab initio molecular dynamics simulations in an explicit apolar (CCl4) environment. Whereas the reaction profiles for the bro...