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Andrei V Afonin1, Alexander V Vashchenko1
1Institute of Chemistry, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia.
Abstract:
Using the molecular tailoring and function-based approaches allows one to divide the energy of the O─H⋯O═C resonance-assisted hydrogen bond in a series of the β-diketones into resonance and hydrogen bonding components. The magnitude of the resonance component is assessed as about 6 kcal mol-1 . This value increases by ca. 1 kcal mol-1 on going from the weak to strong resonance-assisted hydrogen bonding. The magnitude of the hydrogen bonding component varies in the wide range from 2 to 20 kcal mol-1 depending on the structure of the β-diketone in question.
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