Kraka E, Freindorf M, Cremer D. Chiral discrimination by vibrational spectroscopy utilizing local modes.
Chirality 2013;
25:185-96. [PMID:
23335376 DOI:
10.1002/chir.22130]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2012] [Accepted: 10/12/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
Chiral discrimination of homochiral and heterochiral H-bonded complexes is a challenge for both experimentalists and computational chemists. It is demonstrated that a two-pronged approach based on far-infrared vibrational spectroscopy and the calculation of local mode frequencies facilitates the chiral discrimination of H-bonded dimers. The local H-bond stretching frequencies identify the strongest H-bonds and by this the dominating chiral diastereomer. This is shown in the case of peroxide, trioxide, hydrazine, glycidol, and butan-2-ol dimers as well as propylene oxide···glycidol complexes investigated with the help of second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation, coupled cluster, and density functional theory calculations where, in the latter case, the ωB97X-D functional was used for an improved description of H-bonding. In some cases, additional intermolecular interactions overrule the important role of H-bonding, which is found by calculating chirodiastaltic energies.
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