Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds: the QTAIM and ELF Characteristics
- 4 August 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- Vol. 115 (35), 10078-10086
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp2056859
Abstract
B3LYP/aug-cc-pVTZ calculations were performed on the species with intramolecular O-H ... O hydrogen bonds. The Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (QTAIM) and the Electron Localization Function (ELF) method were applied to analyze these interactions. Numerous relationships between ELF and QTAIM parameters were found. It is interesting that the CVB index based on the ELF method as well as the total electron energy density at the bond critical point of the proton-acceptor distance (H-bcp) may be treated as universal descriptors of the hydrogen bond strength, they are also useful to estimate the covalent character of this interaction. There are so-called resonance-assisted hydrogen bonds (RAHBs) among the species analyzed here, It was found that there are not any distinct differences between RAHBs and the other intramolecular hydrogen bonds.Keywords
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