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Vainauskas J, Wahrhaftig-Lewis A, Friščić T. Utilizing "Latent" Carbon: Repositioning Hydrogen-Bonded Synthons and Assemblies via Halogen Bonding to π-Systems. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202408053. [PMID: 38779788 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202408053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2024] [Revised: 05/19/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
Abstract
Molecules bearing carboxylic acid, amide, and hydroxyl groups are ubiquitous in crystal engineering, where robust hydrogen-bonded synthons centred on these functionalities enable reliable crystal structure design. We now show that halogen bonding to the carbon π-system of such molecules, traditionally ignored in crystal engineering, permits the recognition and directional assembly of the resulting hydrogen-bonded structural subunits, leaving the archetypal hydrogen-bonded ring, ladder, and chain homosynthons intact, but repositioned in space. When applied to heteromolecular synthons, this enables rearranging more complex hydrogen-bonded motifs and the evolution of binary cocrystals into ternary ones through "latent" carbon-based recognition sites, demonstrating a rational approach to build higher-order solid-state supramolecular assemblies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jogirdas Vainauskas
- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, B15 2TT, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., H3 A 0B8, Montreal, Canada
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, B15 2TT, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., H3 A 0B8, Montreal, Canada
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Schmidt A, Krupp A, Kleinheider J, Binnenbrinkmann TML, Wang R, Englert U, Strohmann C. The Halogen Bond to Ethers - Prototypic Molecules and Experimental Electron Density. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:35037-35045. [PMID: 39157102 PMCID: PMC11325402 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c05124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2024] [Revised: 07/14/2024] [Accepted: 07/16/2024] [Indexed: 08/20/2024]
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Halogen bonds to dialkyl ether molecules have remained largely unexplored. We here address the synthesis and the structural chemistry of the first halogen-bonded noncyclic alkyl ethers, combining 1,4-diiodotetrafluorobenzene and the prototypic or commonly used ethers dimethyl ether, tetrahydrofuran, and methyl-tert-butyl ether as halogen acceptors. Two different structural motifs based on moderately strong halogen bonds were obtained: Discrete trimolecular aggregates are formed, and unexpected halogen-bonded supramolecular chain adducts feature oxygen-bifurcated halogen bonds with 1:1 donor:acceptor ratio. Both structure types may be selectively obtained even for the same ether by adjusting the stoichiometry in the crystallization experiments. The geometric features of the etheric oxygen center were found to be flexible, in contrast to the almost linear geometry about the halogen donor atom. A high-resolution X-ray diffraction experiment on the extended adduct of dimethyl ether allowed us to study the electronic details of the acceptor-bifurcated I···O···I halogen bonds. The electron density in the bond critical points and derived properties such as the Laplacian indicate essentially electrostatic interactions and explain the geometrical flexibility of ethers in halogen bonds. Our studies demonstrate the great versatility of ethers as halogen bond acceptors, that can occur in many geometrical arrangements and whose contribution to nature's structural designs should not be underestimated.
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- Annika Schmidt
- Inorganic
Chemistry, TU Dortmund University, Otto-Hahn-Straße 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Inorganic
Chemistry, TU Dortmund University, Otto-Hahn-Straße 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Inorganic
Chemistry, TU Dortmund University, Otto-Hahn-Straße 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, 52056 Aachen, Germany
- Institute
of Molecular Science, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular
Engineering of the Education Ministry, Shanxi
University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, 52056 Aachen, Germany
- Institute
of Molecular Science, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular
Engineering of the Education Ministry, Shanxi
University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- Inorganic
Chemistry, TU Dortmund University, Otto-Hahn-Straße 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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Ejarque D, Calvet T, Font-Bardia M, Pons J. Structural Landscape of α-Acetamidocinnamic Acid Cocrystals with Bipyridine-Based Coformers: Influence of Crystal Packing on Their Thermal and Photophysical Properties. CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 2024; 24:1746-1765. [PMID: 38405168 PMCID: PMC10885007 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
Abstract
Controlling the supramolecular synthon outcome in systems with different functionalities has been a key factor for the design of supramolecular materials, which also affected their physicochemical properties. In this contribution, we have analyzed the structural landscape of α-acetamidocinnamic acid (HACA) aiming to find its synthon outcome from the competitivity between its acidic and amidic groups. We prepared four multicomponent forms including one dihydrate (HACA·2H2O) and three cocrystals bearing different bipyridine coformers with formulas (HACA)2(1,2-bpe) (1), (HACA)2(4,4'-azpy) (2), and (HACA)2(4,4'-bipy)3 (3) (1,2-bpe = 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene; 4,4'-azpy = 4,4'-azopyridine; 4,4'-bipy = 4,4'-bipyridine). First, we applied a virtual screening approach to assess the feasibility of cocrystal formation. Then, we synthesized the cocrystals, via liquid-assisted grinding (LAG) (1 and 2) or solvothermal (3) techniques, and single crystals of HACA, and their four multicomponent forms were obtained showing different synthons and crystal packings. Besides, a Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) search of the cocrystals presenting bipyridine-type coformers and molecules with acid and amide functionalities was performed, and the observed synthon occurrences as well as the possibility of synthon modification by tuning the H-donor/H-acceptor propensity of the acidic and amidic groups were shown. Finally, we measured their thermal and photophysical properties, which were correlated with their structural features.
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- Daniel Ejarque
- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona, 08193-Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament
de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Unitat
de Difracció de Raig-X, Centres Científics i Tecnològics
de la Universitat de Barcelona (CCiTUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Solé i Sabarís, 1-3, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona, 08193-Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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Puttreddy R, Rautiainen JM, Yu S, Rissanen K. N-X⋅⋅⋅O-N Halogen Bonds in Complexes of N-Haloimides and Pyridine-N-oxides: A Large Data Set Study. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202307372. [PMID: 37314001 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202307372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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N-X⋅⋅⋅- O-N+ halogen-bonded systems formed by 27 pyridine N-oxides (PyNOs) as halogen-bond (XB) acceptors and two N-halosuccinimides, two N-halophthalimides, and two N-halosaccharins as XB donors are studied in silico, in solution, and in the solid state. This large set of data (132 DFT optimized structures, 75 crystal structures, and 168 1 H NMR titrations) provides a unique view to structural and bonding properties. In the computational part, a simple electrostatic model (SiElMo) for predicting XB energies using only the properties of halogen donors and oxygen acceptors is developed. The SiElMo energies are in perfect accord with energies calculated from XB complexes optimized with two high-level DFT approaches. Data from in silico bond energies and single-crystal X-ray structures correlate; however, data from solution do not. The polydentate bonding characteristic of the PyNOs' oxygen atom in solution, as revealed by solid-state structures, is attributed to the lack of correlation between DFT/solid-state and solution data. XB strength is only slightly affected by the PyNO oxygen properties [(atomic charge (Q), ionization energy (Is,min ) and local negative minima (Vs,min )], as the σ-hole (Vs,max ) of the donor halogen is the key determinant leading to the sequence N-halosaccharin>N-halosuccinimide>N-halophthalimide on the XB strength.
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- Rakesh Puttreddy
- University of Jyvaskyla, Department of Chemistry, P.O. BOX 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- University of Jyvaskyla, Department of Chemistry, P.O. BOX 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- University of Jyvaskyla, Department of Chemistry, P.O. BOX 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- University of Jyvaskyla, Department of Chemistry, P.O. BOX 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Iglesias-Reguant A, Reis H, Medved' M, Ośmiałowski B, Zaleśny R, Luis JM. Decoding the infrared spectra changes upon formation of molecular complexes: the case of halogen bonding in pyridine⋯perfluorohaloarene complexes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023. [PMID: 37466634 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02412a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
Abstract
A recently developed computational scheme is employed to interpret changes in the infrared spectra of halogen-bonded systems in terms of intermolecular interaction energy components (electrostatic, exchange, induction, dispersion) taking pyridine⋯perfluorohaloarene complexes as examples. For all complexes, we find a strong linear correlation between the different terms of the interaction-induced changes of the IR band associated with an intermolecular halogen bond stretching mode and the corresponding terms of the interaction energy, which implies that the interaction components play similar roles in both properties. This is not true for other vibrational modes localized in one of the monomers studied here, for which the corresponding interaction-induced changes in IR bands may present a completely different decomposition than the interaction energy.
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- Alex Iglesias-Reguant
- Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Gagarina 7, PL-87100 Toruń, Poland
- Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis and Department of Chemistry, University of Girona, Campus de Montilivi, 17003, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Institute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), Vassileos Constantinou Ave 48th, 116 35 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovského 40, SK-97400 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic
- Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacký University in Olomouc, Šlechtitelu 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Gagarina 7, PL-87100 Toruń, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland.
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- Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis and Department of Chemistry, University of Girona, Campus de Montilivi, 17003, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Sušanj R, Nemec V, Bedeković N, Cinčić D. Halogen Bond Motifs in Cocrystals of N, N, O and N, O, O Acceptors Derived from Diketones and Containing a Morpholine or Piperazine Moiety. CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 2022; 22:5135-5142. [PMID: 36097548 PMCID: PMC9461725 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
In this study, we investigate the halogen bond acceptor potential of oxygen and nitrogen atoms of morpholine and piperazine fragments when they are peripherally located on N,O,O or N,N,O acceptor molecules. We synthesized four acceptor molecules derived from either acetylacetone or benzoylacetone and cocrystallized them with 1,4-diiodotetrafluorobenzene and 1,3,5-triiodotrifluorobenzene. This resulted in eight cocrystals featuring different topicities and geometric dispositions of donor atoms. In all cocrystals, halogen bonds are formed with either the morpholinyl oxygen atom or the terminal piperazine nitrogen atom. The I···Omorpholine halogen bonds feature lower relative shortening values than I···Nterminal, I···Ocarbonyl, and I···Nproximal halogen bonds. The N and O halogen bond acceptor sites were evaluated through calculations of molecular electrostatic potential values.
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Völkel M, Engelage E, Kondratiuk M, Huber SM. Evaluation of 6‐halogenated 2‐pyridone moieties as halogen bond donors. European J Org Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202200211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Martin Völkel
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Chemie und Biochemie GERMANY
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Chemie und Biochemie GERMANY
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Chemie und Biochemie GERMANY
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie NC 4/171Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum GERMANY
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