Structural features of pyridylcinnamic acid dimers and their extended hydrogen-bonded aggregations
作者:K. Csankó、K.I. Ruusuvuori、B. Tolnai、P. Sipos、O. Berkesi、I. Pálinkó
DOI:10.1016/j.molstruc.2014.11.041
日期:2015.6
The conformational as well as the structure-forming properties of E-3-(x-pyridyl)propenoic acids (x = 2,3 or 4) have been studied with a combination of computational and spectroscopic methods. IR spectroscopy revealed that in the solid state the zwitterionic species predominate, while NMR measurements showed that dimers, kept together by strong C=O center dot center dot center dot H-O hydrogen bonds, were formed in a dipolar aprotic solvent (DMSO). In concentrated solution, extended aggregation occurred through the cooperative effect of (aromatic) C-H center dot center dot center dot N weak hydrogen bonds. Conformational search was performed at the HF/6-31G(d,p) level of theory. Comparison with experimental values as well as benchmarking calculations at several different levels of theory to probe the performance of the methods, B3LYP/6-31G++(d,p) method was found to be able to provide reasonable geometries as well as quantitative formation energies for the dimers and the tetramers, too. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.