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Bond Indices in Dihydrogen Bonds

Myriam S. Giambiagi 1Patrick Bultinck 2

1. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), R. Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150 Urca, Rio de Janeiro 2229-180, Brazil
2. Ghent University (UGENT), Krijgslaan 281, Gent 9000, Belgium

Abstract

A molecular orbital multicenter bond index IABC…K has proven to be useful in discriminating between strong and usual hydrogen bonds [1]. It has been the subject of more general treatments through the formalism of General Population Analysis [2] and applied successfully to electron delocalization and aromaticity [3]. It is here used, for the first time, in the description of dihydrogen bonds.

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where P is the charge-bond order matrix, S the overlap matrix, η a normalization constant and the permutation operator Γi interchanges basis functions labels.

The indices are calculated for: i) dimers of FH and XHn (X = Li, Na, Be, Mg); ii) the complexes appearing in Ref. [5]; iii) the BH3NH3 dimer [6]. While they correlate satisfactorily with the binding energy, their relation to the blue-shift is not equally clear.

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[3] P. Bultinck, R. Ponec, S. Van Damme, J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2005, 18, 706.

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[5] I. Alkorta, J. Elguero, O. Mó, M. Yánez, J. E. Del Bene, J. Phys. Chem. A 2002, 106 1325.

[6] Y. Meng, Z. Zhou, C. Duan, B. Huang, Q. Zhong, J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem) 2005, 713, 135.

 

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Submitted: 2006-06-01 19:32
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