Issue 28, 2012

Weak interactions between hypohalous acids and dimethylchalcogens

Abstract

The complexes formed between dimethylchalcogens X(CH3)2 (X = S, Se, and Te) and hypohalous acids YOH (Y = F, Cl, Br, and I) have been studied at the MP2/aug'-cc-pVTZ computational level, five minima structures being located. Two of them correspond to hydrogen bonds (HB), another two to halogen bonds (XB) with the chalcogen acting as an electron donor, the last one showing a C–H⋯O contact. The most stable complexes of IOH and BrOH acids present halogen⋯chalcogen interactions with interaction energies, Ei, up to −49 kJ mol−1. In the case of the ClOH and FOH molecules, the hydrogen bonded complexes are more stable with interaction energies between −27 and −34 kJ mol−1. Linear correlations between the molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) stationary points at the van der Waals surface and the interaction energy have been found. The contribution of the different energy terms to the total interaction energy was analyzed by means of the DFT–SAPT theory finding that the electrostatic attractive term is dominant in the complexes with HB and XB, excepting a few cases in which the dispersion and induction terms become more important than the electrostatic one.

Graphical abstract: Weak interactions between hypohalous acids and dimethylchalcogens

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Mar 2012
Accepted
08 May 2012
First published
08 May 2012

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012,14, 9880-9889

Weak interactions between hypohalous acids and dimethylchalcogens

G. Sánchez-Sanz, C. Trujillo, I. Alkorta and J. Elguero, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 9880 DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40949F

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