Direct determination of hydrogen-bonded structures in resonant and tautomeric reactions using ultrafast electron
Ramesh Srinivasan1, Jonathan S Feenstra, Sang Tae Park
1Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
Abstract:
We elucidate the keto-enol tautomeric equilibrium in acetylacetone, the structure of both keto and enol forms, and the nature of the intramolecular O-H...O HB in enolic acetylacetone using our ultrafast electron diffraction apparatus, thereby shedding new light on the nature of the hydrogen bond in resonant tautomeric structures. The enolic structure exhibits some pi-resonance delocalization; however, this delocalization is not strong enough to give a symmetric skeletal geometry. The long O...O distance in the refined structure renders the homonuclear O-H...O hydrogen bond in acetylacetone localized and asymmetric.
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