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Quick reactions: The gas-phase nucleophilic displacement reaction of fluoride ions with nitrobenzene proceeds with a rate constant close to the collision limit. The calculated energy profile indicates that the reaction proceeds by an out-of-plane attack, with the Meisenheimer complex being the local transition state for the reaction (see picture).
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