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Cabaço MI, Besnard M, Cruz C, Morgado P, Silva GC, Filipe EJM, Coutinho JA, Danten Y. Breaking the Structure of Liquid Hydrogenated Alcohols Using Perfluorinated tert-Butanol: A Multitechnique Approach (Infrared, Raman, and X-ray Scattering) Analyzed by DFT and Molecular Dynamics Calculations. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:1992-2004. [PMID: 35230118 PMCID: PMC9776561 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c10776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
The state of aggregation at room temperature of tert-butanol (TBH) and perfluoro tert-butanol (TBF) liquid mixtures is assessed by vibrational spectroscopy (Raman and infrared) and X-ray diffraction and analyzed using density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. It is shown that larger clusters (mostly tetramers) of TBH are destroyed upon dilution with TBF. Small oligomers, monomers, and mainly heterodimers are present at the equimolar concentration. At variance with slightly interacting solvents, the signature of hetero-oligomers is shown by the appearance of a new broad band detected in the infrared region. The same spectral observation is detected for mixtures of other hydrogenated alcohols (methanol and 1-butanol). The new infrared feature is unaffected by dilution in a polar solvent (CDCl3) in a high-concentration domain, allowing us to assign it to the signature of small hetero-oligomers. MD simulations are used to assess the nature of the species present in the mixture (monomers and small hetero-oligomers) and to follow the evolution of their population upon the dilution. Combining MD simulations with DFT calculations, the infrared spectral profile is successfully analyzed in equimolecular mixtures. This study shows that TBF is a structure breaker of hydrogen-bonded alcohol networks and that the TBF (donor)-TBH (acceptor) heterodimer is the dominant species in an extended range of concentration, centered in the vicinity of the equimolar fraction.
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- M. Isabel Cabaço
- CeFEMA,
Centro de Física e Engenharia de Materiais Avançados,
Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal,Laboratory
of Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics (LIBPhys-UNL),
Department of Physics, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal,
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- CeFEMA,
Centro de Física e Engenharia de Materiais Avançados,
Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal,GSM
Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, CNRS (UMR 5255), Université Bordeaux I, 351, Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
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- CeFEMA,
Centro de Física e Engenharia de Materiais Avançados,
Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro
de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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M. C. Silva
- Centro
de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro
de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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P. Coutinho
- CICECO,
Departamento de Química, Universidade
de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- GSM
Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, CNRS (UMR 5255), Université Bordeaux I, 351, Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
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Salman S, Rekik N, Suleiman J, Abuzir AR. Elucidating the Theoretical Evolution of the IR Spectral Density and the Potential Energy Surfaces of Hydrogen Bonded Complexes: A Quantum Dynamical Study. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2022.139380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Drużbicki K, Gaboardi M, Fernandez-Alonso F. Dynamics & Spectroscopy with Neutrons-Recent Developments & Emerging Opportunities. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:1440. [PMID: 33947108 PMCID: PMC8125526 DOI: 10.3390/polym13091440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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This work provides an up-to-date overview of recent developments in neutron spectroscopic techniques and associated computational tools to interrogate the structural properties and dynamical behavior of complex and disordered materials, with a focus on those of a soft and polymeric nature. These have and continue to pave the way for new scientific opportunities simply thought unthinkable not so long ago, and have particularly benefited from advances in high-resolution, broadband techniques spanning energy transfers from the meV to the eV. Topical areas include the identification and robust assignment of low-energy modes underpinning functionality in soft solids and supramolecular frameworks, or the quantification in the laboratory of hitherto unexplored nuclear quantum effects dictating thermodynamic properties. In addition to novel classes of materials, we also discuss recent discoveries around water and its phase diagram, which continue to surprise us. All throughout, emphasis is placed on linking these ongoing and exciting experimental and computational developments to specific scientific questions in the context of the discovery of new materials for sustainable technologies.
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- Kacper Drużbicki
- Materials Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain;
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Sienkiewicza 112, 90-363 Lodz, Poland
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- Elettra—Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., S.S. 14 km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Trieste, Italy;
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- Materials Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain;
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza Euskadi 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain
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Rekik N, Flakus HT, Hachula B, Salman S, Alshoaibi A, Farooq U. How far the vibrational exciton interactions are responsible for the generation of the infrared spectra of oxindole crystals? SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 237:118302. [PMID: 32416514 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.118302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Revised: 03/01/2020] [Accepted: 03/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Oxindole (indolin-2-one, Ox) is a unique and a crucial molecular system in spectroscopic studies. Indole is the core structure of many substances found in the human body (tryptophan, serotonin) and the indole alkaloids have highly differentiated pharmacological properties such as analgesic, anti-fever and anti-inflammatory. The Ox's structural results given in the Cambridge Structural Database revealed the existence of only one crystalline form of Ox, referred to the α-form. However, we have experimentally noticed the existence of two polymorphic forms during the crystallization of Ox. Furthermore, the significant spectral differences that we have observed in the solid state infrared spectra of these two forms additionally confirm the existence of the polymorphism phenomenon. Of the four polymorphic forms of Ox, two of them - α - and β-forms - were of particular interest. In the crystalline lattices of both polymorphs, we observed a similar pattern of molecular arrangements giving rise to the supramolecular synthon according to the terminology of Etter. Moreover, hydrogen bonds in the dimer of the α-form are found to be non-equivalent (non-centrosymmetric dimers), having a length of 2797 Å and 2979 Å, respectively. Comparatively, in the most densely packed crystalline structure of Ox, the β-form, the dimer is formed by a pair of almost identical intermolecular hydrogen bonds and consequently the crystals of β-form exhibited spectral properties typical to centrosymmetric hydrogen bond dimers. In addition, the spectroscopic studies that we have conducted to polymorphic forms of Ox, isotopically diluted with deuterium, show the dramatic influence of isotopic substitution in the hydrogen bridge on the infrared spectra of hydrogen bonding. Thus, the main goal of this work is the proposition of a theoretical approach that can describe the main features of the crystalline infrared spectra of the Ox polymorphs. The proposed approach is based on the phenomenon of the exciton coupling results directly from intermolecular interactions in the vibrationally excited state which leads to the delocalization of the excitation over the molecules in the lattice and to the Davydov splitting effect in the crystalline spectra.
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- Najeh Rekik
- Physics Department, College of Sciences, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia; Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada.
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, 9 Szkolna Street, Pl-40-006 Katowice, Poland.
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland
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- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
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- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
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- Physics Department, College of Sciences, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia
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Rekik N, Salman S, Suleiman J, Farooq U, Flakus HT. IR spectral density of the υS(Cl–H→) band in gaseous (CH3)2O…HCl complex: Phase decoherence due to the anharmonic coupling theory and the bending mode effects. Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Rekik N, Alshammari MF. Electrical anharmonicity and dampings contributions to Cl- H→ stretching band in gaseous (CH 3 ) 2 O…HCl complex: Quantum dynamic study and prediction of the temperature effects. Chem Phys Lett 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.04.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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