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Tao Lu1, Juncheng Lei1, Qian Gou1
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Daxuecheng South Rd. 55, 401331 Chongqing, China.
Abstract:
The pure rotational spectrum of the complex of difluoromethane with formamide was investigated by means of microwave spectroscopy supplemented with theoretical calculations. The hyperfine structure arising from the 14N nuclear quadrupole coupling effect was completely resolved. The most stable isomer that displays the Cs symmetry with the ∠HCH angle of difluoromethane being bisected by the ab-plane of formamide was detected. The two moieties in the detected isomer are connected via one N-H⋯F and one bifurcated CH2⋯O weak hydrogen bonds confirmed by the non-covalent interaction plot and natural bond orbital analyses. The distances of the NH⋯F and CH2⋯O interactions were determined to be 2.140(14) Å and 2.749(14) Å, respectively. The NH⋯F bond angle was determined to be 150.7°. Symmetry-adapted perturbation theory analysis indicates that the electrostatic component is the largest contributor to the total attractive interaction energy of the difluoromethane⋯formamide complex.
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