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Silva WGDP, van Wijngaarden J. Disentangling the Conformational Space and Structural Preferences of Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol Using Rotational Spectroscopy and Computational Chemistry. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202400298. [PMID: 38637291 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400298] [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: 03/17/2024] [Revised: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
Abstract
The influence of the hydroxymethyl (CH2OH) group on the tetrahydrofuran (THF) ring structure was investigated by disentangling the gas phase conformational landscape of the sugar analogue tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA). By combining rotational spectroscopy (6-20 GHz) and quantum chemical calculations, transitions corresponding to two stable conformers of THFA and their 13C isotopologues were observed and assigned in the rotational spectrum. The positions of the C atoms were precisely determined to unambiguously distinguish between nearly isoenergetic pairs of conformers that differ in their ring configurations: envelope (E) versus twist (T). The rotational spectrum confirms that the E ring geometry is favoured when the CH2OH fragment lies gauche (-) to the THF backbone (OCCO ~-60°) whereas the T form is more stable for the gauche (+) alignment of the substituent (OCCO ~+60°). The observed spectral intensities suggest that conformational relaxation of the THF geometry (E↔T) to the more stable form readily occurs within the pairs of g- and g+ conformers which is consistent with the low barriers (1.5-1.7 kJ mol-1) for conversion determined via transition state calculations. Insights into the intramolecular hydrogen bonding and other weak interactions stabilizing the lowest energy structures of THFA were derived and rationalized using non-covalent interaction analyses.
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- Weslley G D P Silva
- I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937, Köln, Germany
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Chauhan D, Limbachiya C. Electron interactions with analogous of DNA/RNA nucleobases: 3-hydroxytetrahydroFuran and α-Tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2023.110802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Zhang Z, Nie W, Sun F, Zhang Y, Xie M, Hu Y. Conformational Landscapes and Infrared Spectra of Gas-phase Interstellar Molecular Clusters [(C 3H 3N)(CH 3OH) n, n = 1-4]. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:2398-2407. [PMID: 32149507 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b11387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Acrylonitrile (A) is one of the important interstellar molecules, which is considered closely related to the origin of life. And methanol (M) is one of the commonly used solvents, which is also found in outer space. Herein, we obtained the infrared (IR) spectra of size-selected AMn (n = 1-4) clusters in supersonic jet by monitoring their fragments of H+AMn-1 (n = 1-4) with vacuum ultraviolet single-photon soft ionization/IR-depletion technique. IR spectra of AMn (n = 1-4) clusters were recorded in the CH and OH vibration bands in the range of 2700-3800 cm-1. Spectra of AMn (n = 1-4) clusters are similar in the CH stretching regions, while those show significant variations in the OH stretching regions with the increase of methanol molecules. Calculated IR spectra, which were predicted with the B3LYP-D3(BJ)/aug-cc-pVDZ method, were employed to compare with the experimental results. For AM, AM2, and AM3, the structures with the methanol cyclic hydrogen bonded with [N1-C4(H6)] of acrylonitrile are more stable than the other H-bonded structures. For the most stable structures of AM4, however, the results show that the acrylonitrile is binding to a H-bonded ring formed by OH groups of four methanol molecules. The AM, AM2, and AM3 conformers with the single ring on the C1 side of acrylonitrile, such as C1-AM-a, C1-AM2-a, and C1-AM3-a, are dominant in the gas phase, while the C2-AM4-a conformer with the H-bonded ring formed by the OH groups on the C2 side of acrylonitrile is more stable than that of CM4-A-a in our experimental conditions (>130 K). These findings may provide valuable insight into the microsolvation process of the interstellar molecules and other biomolecules in gas phase.
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- Zhaoli Zhang
- MOE & Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Spectral Analysis and Functional Probes, College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, P. R. China
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- MOE & Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Spectral Analysis and Functional Probes, College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, P. R. China
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- MOE & Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Spectral Analysis and Functional Probes, College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, P. R. China
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- MOE & Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Spectral Analysis and Functional Probes, College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, P. R. China
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- MOE & Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Spectral Analysis and Functional Probes, College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, P. R. China
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- MOE & Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Spectral Analysis and Functional Probes, College of Biophotonics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, P. R. China
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Guo M, Wu H, Yang M, Luo Z. Acetone Dimer Hydrogenation under Vacuum Ultraviolet: An Intracluster Trimolecular Dissociation Mechanism. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:10739-10745. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b08833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Mengdi Guo
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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