Hydrogen bonds and proton transfer in imidazole oligomers and (imidazole)2H(+) system: quantum-chemical calculations

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 3482-3487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Remko

The semi-empirical PCILO method has been applied to study of hydrogen bonds and proton transfer in linear n-mers of imidazole (n = 3). The calculated hydrogen bond energy in the dimer is 30.64 kJ mol-1. In imidazole trimer interaction energy of the "second" hydrogen bond increased to 32.02 kJ mol-1. One-minimum functions only have been found by calculations of the proton potential functions in imidazole dimer and trimer for the equilibrium distances RN...N. For somewhat longer distances RN...N = 0.30 nm a second minimum was observed as shoulder. On the contrary, for the (imidazole)2H(+) system the proton potential curve has two minima for the equilibrium distance RN...N = 0.252 nm, the second minimum is more stable by 3.97 kJ mol-1.

1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 957-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Remko

Complexes containing two hydrogen bonds of the systems 1-methylthymine-acetamide and 1-methylthymine-acetic acid have been studied by the quantum-chemical PCILO method. In accordance with experiment our PCILO calculations have shown that acetic acid forms stronger hydrogen bonds than acetamide with 1-methylthymine. Further the PCILO method has been used to study of double proton transfer in O-H...O and N-H...O bonds of the complexes 1-methylthymine-acetamide and 1-methylthymine-acetic acid. Using equilibrium O...O and N...O distances, the PCILO calculations have given one-minimum proton potential functions. The proton transfer has not been observed. At somewhat longer N...O and O...O distances (0.30 nm) the PCILO calculations indicate a second minimum as a shoulder.


1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 3214-3222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Remko ◽  
Ivan Sekerka ◽  
Vladimír Frecer

The PCILO quantum-chemical method with geometry optimization has been used to study rotation barriers of methyl groups in N-methylacetamide and N,N-dimethylacetamide. In all the cases studied, the eclipsed conformation have been found to be the most stable. Cis form of N-methylacetamide is less stable than the corresponding trans form by 2.0 kJ mol-1. Moreover, the PCILO method has been used to study linear n-mers (n = 4) of N-methylacetamide. On going from the dimer to tri- and tetramers, the hydrogen-bond energies have been found non-additive, and positive cooperativity has been observed. Finally, hydrogen-bond complexes have been studied which were formed by C=O groups of N-methylacetamide and N,N-dimethylacetamide with water, methanol or phenol as proton-donors. The said proton-donors have been found to act as breakers of inter-peptide hydrogen bonds N-H...O=C. The hydrogen bonds formed by methanol are somewhat stronger than those formed by water. In accordance with experiment, the strongest hydrogen bonds with the studied proton-acceptors are formed by phenol.


1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 1195-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. McAllister

High-level ab initio molecular orbital and density functional theory calculations predict the existence of a very short-strong hydrogen bond in the monoanion of maleic acid (hydrogen maleate). At all levels of theory (HF, MP2, BLYP, and B3LYP) except B3PW91 the potential energy surface is predicted to contain two minima, and hence resembles a double well. The barrier to proton transfer via a symmetrical transition state is calculated to be very small at all levels of theory. In all cases the calculated zero point vibrational energy available to the system is larger than the calculated barrier for proton transfer, thus the resulting hydrogen bond formed in hydrogen maleate is predicted to be symmetrical. Using the B3PW91 functional and the 6-31 + G(d,p) basis set results in a single-well potential and a symmetrically positioned hydrogen. All correlated methods predict the gas phase hydrogen bond energy to be approximately 27 kcal/mol. Effects due to solvents were estimated using solvent cavity methods. Approximating the solvent as a dielectric continuum reduces the calculated hydrogen bond energy by roughly 6 kcal/mol at all levels of theory. Keywords: low-barrier hydrogen bonds, short-strong hydrogen bonds, hydrogen maleate, ab initio, density functional theory.


Author(s):  
Graham Smith ◽  
Urs D. Wermuth

In the structure of the brucinium salt of 4-aminophenylarsonic acid (p-arsanilic acid), systematically 2,3-dimethoxy-10-oxostrychnidinium 4-aminophenylarsonate tetrahydrate, (C23H27N2O4)[As(C6H7N)O2(OH)]·4H2O, the brucinium cations form the characteristic undulating and overlapping head-to-tail layered brucine substructures packed along [010]. The arsanilate anions and the water molecules of solvation are accommodated between the layers and are linked to them through a primary cation N—H...O(anion) hydrogen bond, as well as through water O—H...O hydrogen bonds to brucinium and arsanilate ions as well as bridging water O-atom acceptors, giving an overall three-dimensional network structure.


2010 ◽  
Vol 65 (11) ◽  
pp. 1363-1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Wölper ◽  
Alejandra Rodríguez-Gimeno ◽  
Katherine Chulvi Iborra ◽  
Peter G. Jones ◽  
Armand Blaschette

Co-crystallization of N-methyl-substituted ureas with di(organosulfonyl)amines, (RSO2)2NH, leads unpredictably to either molecular co-crystals or, via proton transfer, to uronium salts. As a sequel to former reports, this communication describes the formation and the crystal structures of the new ionic compounds 1,1-dimethyluronium di(4-fluorobenzenesulfonyl)amide (1, monoclinic, space group P21/c, Z´ = 1) and di(1-methylurea)hydrogen(I) di(4-fluorobenzenesulfonyl)amide (2, triclinic, P1̄, Z´ = 1); both salts were obtained from dichloromethane/petroleum ether. In the structure of 2, the urea moieties of the cationic homoconjugate are connected by a very short [O-H· · ·O]+ hydrogen bond [d(O· · ·O) = 244.6(2) pm, θ (O-H· · ·O)≈170°, bridging H atom asymmetrically disordered over two positions]. The O-protonation induces a specific elongation of the C-O bond lengths to 131.2(2) pm in 1 or 129.5(2) and 127.4(2) pm in 2, as compared to literature data of ca. 126 pm for the unprotonated ureas. Both crystal structures are dominated by conventional two- and threecentre hydrogen bonds, which involve the OH and all NH donors and give rise to one-dimensional cation-anion arrays. In particular, the ionic entities of 1 are alternatingly associated into simple chains propagated by glide-plane operations parallel to the c axis, whereas the donor-richer structure of 2 displays inversion symmetric dimers of formula units, which are further hydrogen-bonded into strands propagated by translation parallel to the a axis.


2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (47) ◽  
pp. 11199-11211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei V. Afonin ◽  
Alexander V. Vashchenko ◽  
Mark V. Sigalov

Novel equations have been derived for the assessment of the E intramolecular hydrogen bond energy based on the experimental1H NMR data and the calculated QTAIM topologicalVandρparameters of the hydrogen bond critical point.


1982 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 1893-1896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Remko

The semi-empirical quantum-chemical PCILO method has been used for calculation of the energy surface of the proton transfer along the O-H...N hydrogen bond in acetic acid-imidazole . 2 H2O system. The PCILO calculations gave the energy surface with two minima. The most stable minimum corresponds to the O-H...N hydrogen bond and has been found at the distances RH...N = 0.149 nm and RO...N = 0.107 nm. According to the PCILO calculations the proton transfer is accompanied by significant changes in the O...N distance. The second energy minimum corresponding to the proton transfer O-...NH+ complex has been found at RH...N = 0.10 nm and RO...N = 0.30 nm. The approximative minimum energy reaction path for the proton transfer has been calculated by the procedure developed by Muller and Brown. The calculated energy barrier represents a value 376.15 kJ/mol. The second energy minimum lies higher by 246 kJ/mol.


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