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Amonov A, Scheiner S. Halogen Bonding to the π-Systems of Polycyclic Aromatics. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202400482. [PMID: 38923736 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400482] [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: 04/27/2024] [Revised: 06/06/2024] [Accepted: 06/26/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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The propensity of the π-electron system lying above a polycyclic aromatic system to engage in a halogen bond is examined by DFT calculations. Prototype Lewis acid CF3I is placed above the planes of benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, naphthacene, chrysene, triphenyl, pyrene, and coronene. The I atom positions itself some 3.3-3.4 Å above the polycyclic plane, and the associated interaction energy is about 4 kcal/mol. This quantity is a little smaller for benzene, but is roughly equal for the larger polycyclics. The energy only oscillates a little as the Lewis acid slides across the face of the polycyclic, preferring regions of higher π-electron density over minima of the electrostatic potential. The binding is dominated by dispersion which contributes half of the total interaction energy.
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- Akhtam Amonov
- Department of Optics and Spectroscopy, Institute of Engineering Physics Samarkand State University, University blv. 15, 140104, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 84322-0300, USA
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Michalczyk M, Kizior B, Zierkiewicz W, Scheiner S. Factors contributing to halogen bond strength and stretch or contraction of internal covalent bond. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:2907-2915. [PMID: 36636920 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp05598h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The halogen bond formed by a series of Lewis acids TF3X (T = C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb; X = Cl, Br, I) with NH3 is studied by quantum chemical calculations. The interaction energy is closely mimicked by the depth of the σ-hole on the X atom as well as the full electrostatic energy. There is a first trend by which the hole is deepened if the T atom to which X is attached becomes more electron-withdrawing: C > Si > Ge > Sn > Pb. On the other hand, larger more polarizable T atoms are better able to transmit the electron-withdrawing power of the F substituents. The combination of these two opposing factors leaves PbF3X forming the strongest XBs, followed by CF3X, with SiF3X engaging in the weakest bonds. The charge transfer from the NH3 lone pair into the σ*(TX) antibonding orbital tends to elongate the covalent TX bond, and this force is largest for the heavier X and T atoms. On the other hand, the contraction of this bond deepens the σ-hole at the X atom, which would enhance both the electrostatic component and the full interaction energy. This bond-shortening effect is greatest for the lighter X atoms. The combination of these two opposing forces leaves the T-X bond contracting for X = Cl and Br, but lengthening for I.
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- Mariusz Michalczyk
- Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University Logan, Utah, 84322-0300, USA.
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Zierkiewicz W, Michalczyk M, Scheiner S. Noncovalent Bonds through Sigma and Pi-Hole Located on the Same Molecule. Guiding Principles and Comparisons. Molecules 2021; 26:1740. [PMID: 33804617 PMCID: PMC8003638 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26061740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Over the last years, scientific interest in noncovalent interactions based on the presence of electron-depleted regions called σ-holes or π-holes has markedly accelerated. Their high directionality and strength, comparable to hydrogen bonds, has been documented in many fields of modern chemistry. The current review gathers and digests recent results concerning these bonds, with a focus on those systems where both σ and π-holes are present on the same molecule. The underlying principles guiding the bonding in both sorts of interactions are discussed, and the trends that emerge from recent work offer a guide as to how one might design systems that allow multiple noncovalent bonds to occur simultaneously, or that prefer one bond type over another.
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- Wiktor Zierkiewicz
- Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University Logan, Logan, UT 84322-0300, USA;
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Tiekink ERT. Supramolecular architectures sustained by delocalised C–I⋯π(arene) interactions in molecular crystals and the propensity of their formation. CrystEngComm 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d0ce01677b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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A survey of delocalised C–I⋯π(chelate ring) interactions is presented.
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- Edward R. T. Tiekink
- Research Centre for Crystalline Materials
- School of Science and Technology
- Sunway University
- Bandar Sunway
- Malaysia
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Sutradhar D, Chandra AK. Cl⋅⋅⋅Cl Halogen Bonding: Nature and Effect of Substituent at Electron Donor Cl atom. ChemistrySelect 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201903546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Dipankar Sutradhar
- Department of Chemistry, Centre for Advanced Studies North-Eastern Hill University Shillong 793022 India
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- Department of Chemistry, Centre for Advanced Studies North-Eastern Hill University Shillong 793022 India
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- Revannath L. Sutar
- Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, Bochum, 44801, Germany
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- Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, Bochum, 44801, Germany
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Sánchez-Sanz G, Trujillo C. Cyclohexane-Based Scaffold Molecules Acting as Anion Transport, Anionophores, via Noncovalent Interactions. J Chem Inf Model 2019; 59:2212-2217. [PMID: 30908020 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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A theoretical study of a variety of cyclohexane-based anion transporters interacting with the chloride anion has been conducted using density functional theory. The calculations have been performed in the gas phase but also, in order to describe the solvation effects on the interaction, two different solvents-chloroform and dimethylsulfoxide-have been taken into account. Gas-phase interaction energies within the complexes are found to be up to 400 kJ/mol, while, when solvent effects are considered, the interaction energy values decreased drastically concomitantly with an elongation in the interatomic distances. Atoms in molecules and natural bond analysis corroborate the trends found for the intermolecular energies and Cl···H distances, suggesting strong donations from the Cl- anion into the σ*H-N antibonding orbitals, as well as with noncovalent interaction plots showing large areas of electron density overlap within the chloride anion surroundings.
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- Goar Sánchez-Sanz
- Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) , Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2 , Ireland
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- School of Chemistry , Trinity Biomedical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin , 152-160 Pearse Street , Dublin 2 , Ireland
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Bartashevich E, Mukhitdinova S, Yushina I, Tsirelson V. Electronic criterion for categorizing the chalcogen and halogen bonds: sulfur–iodine interactions in crystals. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B-STRUCTURAL SCIENCE CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS 2019; 75:117-126. [DOI: 10.1107/s2052520618018280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Accepted: 12/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Diversity of mutual orientations of Y–S and I–X and covalent bonds in molecular crystals complicate categorizing noncovalent chalcogen and halogen bonds. Here, the different types of S...I interactions with short interatomic distances are analysed. The selection of S...I interactions for the categorization of the chalcogen and halogen bonds has been made using angles that determine the mutual orientation of electron lone pairs and σ-holes interacted S and I atoms. In complicated cases of noncovalent interactions with `hole-to-hole' of S and I orientations, distinguishing the chalcogen and halogen bonds is only possible if the atom is uniquely determined, which also provides the electrophilic site. The electronic criterion for chalcogen/halogen bonds categorizing that is based on analysis of dispositions of electron density and electrostatic potential minima along the interatomic lines has been suggested and its effectiveness has been demonstrated.
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Can Combined Electrostatic and Polarization Effects Alone Explain the F···F Negative-Negative Bonding in Simple Fluoro-Substituted Benzene Derivatives? A First-Principles Perspective. COMPUTATION 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/computation6040051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The divergence of fluorine-based systems and significance of their nascent non-covalent chemistry in molecular assemblies are presented in a brief review of the field. Emphasis has been placed to show that type-I and -II halogen-centered F···F long-ranged intermolecular distances viable between the entirely negative fluorine atoms in some fluoro-substituted dimers of C6H6 can be regarded as the consequence of significant non-covalent attractive interactions. Such attractive interactions observed in the solid-state structures of C6F6 and other similar fluorine-substituted aromatic compounds have frequently been underappreciated. While these are often ascribed to crystal packing effects, we show using first-principles level calculations that these are much more fundamental in nature. The stability and reliability of these interactions are supported by their negative binding energies that emerge from a supermolecular procedure using MP2 (second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory), and from the Symmetry Adapted Perturbation Theory, in which the latter does not determine the interaction energy by computing the total energy of the monomers or dimer. Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules and Reduced Density Gradient Non-Covalent Index charge-density-based approaches confirm the F···F contacts are a consequence of attraction by their unified bond path (and bond critical point) and isosurface charge density topologies, respectively. These interactions can be explained neither by the so-called molecular electrostatic surface potential (MESP) model approach that often demonstrates attraction between sites of opposite electrostatic surface potential by means of Coulomb’s law of electrostatics, nor purely by the effect of electrostatic polarization. We provide evidence against the standalone use of this approach and the overlooking of other approaches, as the former does not allow for the calculation of the electrostatic potential on the surfaces of the overlapping atoms on the monomers as in the equilibrium geometry of a complex. This study thus provides unequivocal evidence of the limitation of the MESP approach for its use in gaining insight into the nature of reactivity of overlapped interacting atoms and the intermolecular interactions involved.
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Varadwaj A, Varadwaj PR, Marques HM, Yamashita K. A DFT assessment of some physical properties of iodine-centered halogen bonding and other non-covalent interactions in some experimentally reported crystal geometries. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:15316-15329. [PMID: 29796486 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp01085d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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A set of six binary complexes that feature iodine-centered halogen bonding, extracted from structures deposited in the Cambridge Structure Database, has been examined computationally using density functional theory calculations with the M06-2X global hybrid, and dispersion corrected B3LYP-D3 and B97-D3, to determine their equilibrium geometries, binding energies and electronic properties. The results show that gas phase calculations are very informative in evaluating what occurs in the solid state, even though these calculations ignore the importance of lattice packing and counter ion effects. The calculated binding energies for the non-covalent interactions responsible for these complexes lie between -4.15 and -7.48 kcal mol-1 (M06-2X), which enables us to characterize them as weak-to-moderate in strength. The basis set superposition error energies are calculated to vary between 0.60 and 2.42 kcal mol-1 for all the complexes examined, even though an all-electron QZP basis set used in the analysis was of quadrupole-ζ (plus polarization) quality. Dispersion is found to have a profound effect on the binding energy of some of these complexes, and was estimated to be as large as 5.0 kcal mol-1. For one complex, the crystal geometry could not be precisely reproduced using a gas phase calculation. While both halogen- and hydrogen-bonding interactions were found competitive, they cooperate with each other to determine the stable configuration of the binary complex. The molecular electrostatic surface potential, quantum theory of atoms in molecules, and reduced density gradient non-covalent Interaction models were utilized to arrive at a fundamental understanding of the various inter- and intra-molecular molecular interactions involved, as well as some other previously-overlooked non-covalent interactions that emerge in the modelling.
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- Arpita Varadwaj
- Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656, Japan.
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Scheiner S. Tetrel Bonding as a Vehicle for Strong and Selective Anion Binding. Molecules 2018; 23:E1147. [PMID: 29751608 PMCID: PMC6100077 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23051147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Revised: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Tetrel atoms T (T = Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb) can engage in very strong noncovalent interactions with nucleophiles, which are commonly referred to as tetrel bonds. The ability of such bonds to bind various anions is assessed with a goal of designing an optimal receptor. The Sn atom seems to form the strongest bonds within the tetrel family. It is most effective in the context of a -SnF₃ group and a further enhancement is observed when a positive charge is placed on the receptor. Connection of the -SnF₃ group to either an imidazolium or triazolium provides a strong halide receptor, which can be improved if its point of attachment is changed from the C to an N atom of either ring. Aromaticity of the ring offers no advantage nor is a cyclic system superior to a simple alkyl amine of any chain length. Placing a pair of -SnF₃ groups on a single molecule to form a bipodal dicationic receptor with two tetrel bonds enhances the binding, but falls short of a simple doubling. These two tetrel groups can be placed on opposite ends of an alkyl diamine chain of any length although SnF₃⁺NH₂(CH₂)nNH₂SnF₃⁺ with n between 2 and 4 seems to offer the strongest halide binding. Of the various anions tested, OH− binds most strongly: OH− > F− > Cl− > Br− > I−. The binding energy of the larger NO₃− and HCO₃− anions is more dependent upon the charge of the receptor. This pattern translates into very strong selectivity of binding one anion over another. The tetrel-bonding receptors bind far more strongly to each anion than an equivalent number of K⁺ counterions, which leads to equilibrium ratios in favor of the former of many orders of magnitude.
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- Steve Scheiner
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-0300, USA.
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- Steve Scheiner
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322-0300, United States
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Sánchez-Sanz G, Trujillo C. Improvement of Anion Transport Systems by Modulation of Chalcogen Interactions: The influence of solvent. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:1369-1377. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b10920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Goar Sánchez-Sanz
- Irish Centre of High-End Computing, Grand Canal
Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School
of Chemistry, Trinity Biomedical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, 152−160 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Zapata F, Benítez-Benítez SJ, Sabater P, Caballero A, Molina P. Modulation of the Selectivity in Anions Recognition Processes by Combining Hydrogen- and Halogen-Bonding Interactions. Molecules 2017; 22:E2273. [PMID: 29261168 PMCID: PMC6149874 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22122273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Most of the halogen bonding receptors for anions described use halogen bonding binding sites solely in the anion recognition process; only a few examples report the study of anion receptors in which the halogen bonding interaction has been used in combination with any other non-covalent interaction. With the aims to extend the knowledge in the behaviour of this kind of mixed receptors, we report here the synthesis and the anion recognition and sensing properties of a new halogen- and hydrogen- bonding receptor which binds anions by the cooperation of both non-covalent interactions. Fluorescence studies showed that the behaviour observed in the anion recognition sensing is similar to the one previously described for the halogen analogue and is quite different to the hydrogen one. On the other hand, the association constants obtained by ¹H-NMR data demonstrate that the mixed halogen- and hydrogen-bonding receptor is more selective for SO₄2- anion than the halogen or hydrogen analogues.
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- Fabiola Zapata
- Dto de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, E-30100 Murcia, Spain.
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- Dto de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, E-30100 Murcia, Spain.
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- Dto de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, E-30100 Murcia, Spain.
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- Dto de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, E-30100 Murcia, Spain.
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