Synthesis of anticonvulsant sulfamides: theoretical study of the related mechanism

Abstract

A theoretical study of the mechanisms associated with the synthesis of anticonvulsant symmetric N,N’-substituted sulfamides is presented. Two possible synthetic routes are compared, which mainly differ in the use of pyridine as a nucleophilic agent in the reaction mechanism. Geometry optimization techniques and transition-state detection at the B3LYP/6-31G** level, modeling the solvent by means of an isodensity polarizable continuum approach, allow the most suitable method for the experimental process to be discerned.