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Gopi R, Ramanathan N, Sundararajan K. The structure of benzonitrile-water complex as unveiled by matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy: Is it linear or cyclic at low temperatures? J Mol Struct 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.128636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Chandra S, Suryaprasad B, Ramanathan N, Sundararajan K. Dominance of unique Pπ phosphorus bonding with π donors: evidence using matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy and computational methodology. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:20771-20791. [PMID: 32909555 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02880k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Albeit the first account of hypervalentπ interactions has been reported with halogenπ interactions, the feasibility of their extension to other hypervalent atoms as possible Lewis acids is still open. In this work, the role of phosphorus as an acceptor from the π electron cloud (Pπ pnicogen or phosphorus bonding) in PCl3-C2H2 and PCl3-C2H4 heterodimers is explored, by combining matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy with ab initio and DFT computational methodologies. The respective potential energy surfaces of the PCl3-C2H2 and PCl3-C2H4 heterodimers reveal unique minima stabilized by a concert of reasonably strong to weak interactions, of which Pπ phosphorus bonding was energetically dominant. Heterodimers, trimers and tetramers bound primarily by this unique phosphorus bond were generated at low temperatures. The dominance of phosphorus bonding in the PCl3-C2H2 and PCl3-C2H4 heterodimers over other interactions (such as Hπ, HCl, HP, Clπ and lone pair-π interactions) was confirmed and substantiated using extended quantum theory of atoms in molecules, natural bond orbital, electrostatic potential mapping and energy decomposition analyses. The following inferences in correlation with results from non-covalent-interaction analysis offer a complete understanding of the nature of the Pπ phosphorus bonding interactions. The significance of electrostatic forces kinetically favoring the formation of phosphorus bonded heterodimers, in addition to thermodynamic stabilization, is demonstrated experimentally.
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- Swaroop Chandra
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam - 603102, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam - 603102, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam - 603102, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam - 603102, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Sarkar S, Ramanathan N, Sruthi P, Sundararajan K. Computational and experimental evidence of N–H…π and cooperative πN…π∗ interactions in pyrrole…benzene and pyrrole…ethylene heterodimers at low temperatures. J Mol Struct 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.127983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Sarkar S, Sruthi P, Ramanathan N, Sundararajan K. Experimental evidence of N–H⋯N hydrogen bonding in the heterodimers of pyrrole with nitrogen bases. J Mol Struct 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Sarkar S, Ramanathan N, Sruthi PK, Sundararajan K. Conformations of diethyl ether and its interaction with pyrrole at low temperatures. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2019; 213:361-369. [PMID: 30721851 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.01.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Revised: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 01/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Conformations of diethyl ether (DEE) were studied at low temperatures in N2 and Ar matrixes. Computations performed at B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory yielded three minima corresponding to tt, tg± and g±g± conformers of DEE. Of the three, the tt and tg± conformers of DEE were experimentally identified in N2 and Ar matrixes. Furthermore, hydrogen bonded complexes of pyrrole (py) with DEE have been investigated using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy. Computations performed at B3LYP level of theory using aug-cc-pVDZ basis set on pyrrole with tt and tg± conformers of DEE gave py-DEE-tt and py-DEE-tg± complexes, both characterized by NH⋯O interaction. Experimental evidence for the formation of py-DEE-tt and py-DEE-tg± complexes was affirmed from the shifts in the NH stretching, NH bending regions of pyrrole and COC and CH stretching regions of DEE. NBO analysis was carried out to understand the charge-transfer delocalization interactions in the conformers of DEE and its hydrogen bonded complexes.
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- Shubhra Sarkar
- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
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- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
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- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
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- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kalpakkam 603 102, India.
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Sruthi PK, Sarkar S, Ramanathan N, Sundararajan K. Elusive hypervalent phosphorus⋯π interactions: evidence for paradigm transformation from hydrogen to phosphorus bonding at low temperatures. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:12250-12264. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp01925a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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A paradigm transformation from hydrogen to phosphorus bonding is found to depend on the proton affinity of the interacting π-systems.
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- P. K. Sruthi
- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group
- Homi Bhabha National Institute
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603 102
- India
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- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group
- Homi Bhabha National Institute
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603 102
- India
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- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group
- Homi Bhabha National Institute
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603 102
- India
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- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group
- Homi Bhabha National Institute
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam-603 102
- India
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Oswald S, Suhm MA, Coussan S. Incremental NH stretching downshift through stepwise nitrogen complexation of pyrrole: a combined jet expansion and matrix isolation study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:1277-1284. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp07053a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The NH stretch of pyrrole experiences downshifts when expanded with N2 or embedded in pure/mixed N2 matrices, no blueshift.
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- Sönke Oswald
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Göttingen
- 37077 Göttingen
- Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Göttingen
- 37077 Göttingen
- Germany
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- CNRS, PIIM, Laboratoire des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires, Aix Marseille Universite
- 13397 Marseille Cedex 20
- France
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Sarkar S, Ramanathan N, Sundararajan K. Experimental Evidence of Synergistic Interactions in Pyrrole–Phenol Complexes at Low Temperatures under Isolated Conditions. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:9073-9083. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b09076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Shubhra Sarkar
- Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu 603 102, India
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- Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu 603 102, India
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- Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu 603 102, India
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Sarkar S, Ramanathan N, Sundararajan K. Effect of Methyl Substitution on the N–H···O Interaction in Complexes of Pyrrole with Water, Methanol, and Dimethyl Ether: Matrix Isolation Infrared Spectroscopy and ab Initio Computational Studies. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:2445-2460. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Shubhra Sarkar
- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
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- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
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- Materials Chemistry and Metal Fuel Cycle Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kalpakkam 603 102, India
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Ramanathan N, Sankaran K, Sundararajan K. Nitrogen: A New Class of π-Bonding Partner in Hetero π-Stacking Interaction. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:9081-9091. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b08164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- N. Ramanathan
- Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, ‡Homi Bhabha National Institute, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603102, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, ‡Homi Bhabha National Institute, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603102, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Materials Chemistry & Metal Fuel Cycle Group, ‡Homi Bhabha National Institute, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603102, Tamil Nadu, India
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