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Sławomir Janusz Grabowski1, Magdalena Małecka
1Department of Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry, University of Łódź, Pomorska 149/153, 90 236 Łódź, Poland.
Abstract:
Intramolecular N-H...O hydrogen bonds in 3-(aminomethylene)pyran-2,4-dione and its simple derivatives (F, Li, and BeH substituents) were analyzed theoretically. The systems were optimized at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of approximation. For some fluorine derivatives the corresponding tautomers with O-H...N intramolecular H-bonds were investigated, and for such pairs of tautomers, the calculations on transition states of the N-H...O <--> N...H-O proton-transfer reaction were carried out. The geometrical and energetic parameters for these species were characterized. The topological parameters derived from Bader theory were also analyzed; these are characteristics of H-bond critical points and also of ring critical points. Besides N-H...O and O-H...N intramolecular hydrogen bonds, there are the other intramolecular interactions, mostly ionic such as Be(+delta)...(-delta)O, Li(+delta)...(-delta)O, and Li(+delta)...(-delta)F. The F...O interactions also exist for some of species investigated. They may be classified as energetically stabilizing ones since the corresponding bond paths and critical points exist. The numerous correlations and dependencies between geometrical, topological, and energetic parameters were detected and described.
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