Roles of the Ether Oxygen in Hydration of Tetrahydrofuran Studied by IR, NMR, and DFT Calculation Methods
- 7 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Vol. 113 (4), 906-915
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp807497d
Abstract
We studied the concentration dependence of ν(C−H)’s in IR and 1J(C,H) in NMR for binary water−tetrahydrofuran (THF) mixtures and found different trends for the two types of CH2 groups in the five-membered ring. The changes of the ν(C−O) spectra showed that complexes of THF associated with water are formed, in which the number of water molecules increases with the water concentration. We suggested that hydration proceeds through the formation of 1:1, and 1:2 complexes of [THF:water] up to XH2O ≈ 0.9, where XH2O is the mole fraction of the water in the mixtures. We carried out ab initio MO and DFT calculations to optimize the geometries of a THF dimer as a model of THF molecules in pure liquid, and 1:1 and 1:2 complexes of [THF:water] to simulate observed concentration dependence of ν(C−H)’s in IR and 1J(C,H) in NMR. The changes of the calculated ν(C−H) spectra and 1J(C,H) values for the optimized complexes are in agreement with those observed with varying XH2O, supporting our proposal. From the vibrational and NBO analyses of the optimized complexes, the observed blue shift of ν(C−H)’s and the increase of 1J(C,H) for the CH2 groups neighboring to the ether oxygen were explained in terms of the changes in the stereoelectronic effect, resulting from HO−H···O< hydrogen bonding. The optimized 1:2-complex contains two weak C−H···OH2 hydrogen bonds, and blue shift of ν(C−H)’s and increase of 1J(C,H) were demonstrated from the same analyses of the complexes. This result of simulation also supports that the blue shift of ν(C−H)’s and increase of 1J(C,H) observed for both the type of CH2 groups at 0.6 XH2O < 0.9 are attributed to these interactions. On the basis of all these results, we propose that the formation of the 1:2-complex involving weak C−H···OH2 hydrogen bonds is responsible dominantly for the hydrophobic hydration of THF.Keywords
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