Can Quantum-Mechanical Calculations Yield Reasonable Estimates of Hydrogen-Bonding Acceptor Strength? The Case of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes of Methanol - Université de La Réunion
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Can Quantum-Mechanical Calculations Yield Reasonable Estimates of Hydrogen-Bonding Acceptor Strength? The Case of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes of Methanol

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The thermodynamics and some vibrational properties of hydrogen-bonded complexes of methanol with 23 hydrogen-bond acceptors (HBAs) have been determined in CCl4 by FTIR spectrometry. The experimental sample contains carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, fluorine, and chlorine organic bases and covers an energetic range of 13 kJ mol?1 in the basicity scale (??G), 22 kJ mol?1 in the affinity scale (??H), and 400 cm?1 in the spectroscopic scale (??(OH)) (from benzene to trimethylphosphane oxide and amines). The experimental results in CCl4 are compared to those computed in the gas phase at various levels of theory. Ninety five percent of the variance of the red shift and 89% of the variance of the intensification of the OH stretching upon hydrogen bonding are explained by gas-phase B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) calculations. However, this level does not satisfactorily explain the thermodynamic properties. Only 68% of the variance of the methanol affinity (??H) is taken into account. MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ//B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) affinity calculations raise the explanation to 77% for all HBAs and to 93% when three outliers (Me2SO, Me3PO, and tetrahydrothiophene) are excluded. Discrepancies are analyzed in terms of experimental errors, calculation approximations, and solvation.
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hal-01188122 , version 1 (28-08-2015)

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Mawa Koné, Bertrand Illien, Christian Laurence, Jérôme Graton. Can Quantum-Mechanical Calculations Yield Reasonable Estimates of Hydrogen-Bonding Acceptor Strength? The Case of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes of Methanol. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2011, 115 (47), pp.13975--85. ⟨10.1021/jp209200w⟩. ⟨hal-01188122⟩
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