{"title":"Modulating hydrogen bonding through Lewis acid complexation","authors":"Lakhya J. Mazumder, Kangkan Sarmah, Ankur K. Guha","doi":"10.1002/qua.27433","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Present calculations reveal that complexation with a Lewis acid such as BH<sub>3</sub> dramatically increases the strength of hydrogen bonding between H<sub>2</sub>O, H<sub>2</sub>S, HF, HCl, and NH<sub>3</sub> dimers. The increase in strength is attributed to the increase in electrostatic component. The interaction energies were found to increase by two to three folds (more than 50% increase in interaction energies). Detailed electronic structure analyses within the realm of quantum theory of atoms in molecules and non-covalent interaction index confirms the strengthening of hydrogen bonding due to Lewis acid complexation. Decomposition of interaction energies using symmetry adapted perturbation theory reveals that the increase in interaction energy (more than 60%) is due to the dramatic increase in electrostatic component.</p>","PeriodicalId":182,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","volume":"124 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qua.27433","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Present calculations reveal that complexation with a Lewis acid such as BH3 dramatically increases the strength of hydrogen bonding between H2O, H2S, HF, HCl, and NH3 dimers. The increase in strength is attributed to the increase in electrostatic component. The interaction energies were found to increase by two to three folds (more than 50% increase in interaction energies). Detailed electronic structure analyses within the realm of quantum theory of atoms in molecules and non-covalent interaction index confirms the strengthening of hydrogen bonding due to Lewis acid complexation. Decomposition of interaction energies using symmetry adapted perturbation theory reveals that the increase in interaction energy (more than 60%) is due to the dramatic increase in electrostatic component.
期刊介绍:
Since its first formulation quantum chemistry has provided the conceptual and terminological framework necessary to understand atoms, molecules and the condensed matter. Over the past decades synergistic advances in the methodological developments, software and hardware have transformed quantum chemistry in a truly interdisciplinary science that has expanded beyond its traditional core of molecular sciences to fields as diverse as chemistry and catalysis, biophysics, nanotechnology and material science.