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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
Exploring the conformational landscape, hydrogen bonding, and internal dynamics in the diallyl ether and diallyl
Weslley G D P Silva1,2, Tamanna Poonia1, Jennifer van Wijngaarden1,3
1Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada.
Abstract:
The conformational spaces of the diallyl ether (DAE) and diallyl sulfide (DAS) monohydrates were explored using rotational spectroscopy from 6 to 19 GHz. Calculations at the B3LYP-D3(BJ)/aug-cc-pVTZ level suggested significant differences in their conformational behavior, with DAE-w exhibiting 22 unique conformers and DAS-w featuring three stable structures within 6 kJ mol-1. However, only transitions from the lowest energy conformer of each were experimentally observed. Spectral analysis confirmed that binding with water does not alter the conformational preference for the lowest energy structure of the monomers, but it does influence the relative stabilities of all other conformers, particularly in the case of DAE. Non-covalent interaction and quantum theory of atoms in molecules analyses showed that the observed conformer for each complex is stabilized by two intermolecular hydrogen bonds (HBs), where water primarily interacts with the central oxygen or sulfur atom of the diallyl compounds, along with secondary interactions involving the allyl groups. The nature of these interactions was further elucidated using symmetry-adapted perturbation theory, which suggests that the primary HB interaction with S in DAS is weaker and more dispersive in nature compared to the primary HB in DAE. This supports the experimental observation of a tunneling splitting exclusively in the rotational spectrum of DAS-w, as the weaker contact allows water to undergo internal motions within the complex, as shown based on calculated transition state structures for possible tunneling pathways.
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