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Competition between weak hydrogen bonds: C-H···Cl is preferred to C-H···F in CH2ClF-H2CO, as revealed by rotational
Gang Feng1, Qian Gou, Luca Evangelisti
1Department of Chemistry, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 2, I-40126, Bologna, Italy. walther.caminati@unibo.it.
Abstract:
We recorded the pulsed jet Fourier transform microwave spectrum of the 1 : 1 adduct of CH2ClF with formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is linked to CH2ClF through a C-H···Cl bond rather than a weak C-H···F hydrogen bond, with a H···Cl "bond length" of 2.918 Å. Two additional equivalent C-H···O contacts, with a H···O distance of 2.821 Å, characterize the complex. Tunnelling splittings due to the internal rotation of the formaldehyde moiety have been observed, which allowed estimating the barrier to the internal rotation of formaldehyde to be 125(10) cm(-1). The (35)Cl quadrupole coupling constants have been determined to be χaa = 31.131(7) MHz and χbb-χcc = -105.82(1) MHz.
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