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Title: Interrogating the Interplay between Hydrogen and Halogen Bonding in Graphitic Carbon Nitride Building Blocks

Abstract

Two graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) molecular building blocks designed for halogen bond driven assembly are evaluated through computational quantum chemistry. Unlike those typically reported in the literature, these g-C3N4-based acceptors each offer three unique sites for halogen bond formation, which when introduced to their donor counterparts, lead to 1:1, 2:1, and 3:1 donor-acceptor complexes. Although halogen bonding interactions are present in all donor-acceptor complexes considered in the work, intermolecular hydrogen bonding emerges in complexes in which an iodine-based donor is directly involved. The halogen bond complexes identified herein feature linear halogen bonds and supportive intermolecular hydrogen bonds that lead to nearly additive electronic binding energies of up to -9.7 (dimers), -18.6 (trimers), and -26.5 kcal mol-1 (tetramers). Select vibrational stretching frequencies (νC-X and νC≡C), and the perturbative shifts they incur upon halogen bond formation, are interrogated and compared to those observed in pyridine- and pyrimidine-based halogen-bonded complexes reported in the literature.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97348, Waco, Texas 76798-7348, United States
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Baylor Univ., Waco, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1735660
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1749885; OSTI ID: 1830731
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0019327
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory Journal Volume: 124 Journal Issue: 51; Journal ID: ISSN 1089-5639
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Group theory; Melamine; Oligomers; Complexation; Potential energy

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Devore, Daniel P., Ellington, Thomas L., and Shuford, Kevin L. Interrogating the Interplay between Hydrogen and Halogen Bonding in Graphitic Carbon Nitride Building Blocks. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.0c09154.
Devore, Daniel P., Ellington, Thomas L., & Shuford, Kevin L. Interrogating the Interplay between Hydrogen and Halogen Bonding in Graphitic Carbon Nitride Building Blocks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c09154
Devore, Daniel P., Ellington, Thomas L., and Shuford, Kevin L. Sat . "Interrogating the Interplay between Hydrogen and Halogen Bonding in Graphitic Carbon Nitride Building Blocks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c09154.
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title = {Interrogating the Interplay between Hydrogen and Halogen Bonding in Graphitic Carbon Nitride Building Blocks},
author = {Devore, Daniel P. and Ellington, Thomas L. and Shuford, Kevin L.},
abstractNote = {Two graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) molecular building blocks designed for halogen bond driven assembly are evaluated through computational quantum chemistry. Unlike those typically reported in the literature, these g-C3N4-based acceptors each offer three unique sites for halogen bond formation, which when introduced to their donor counterparts, lead to 1:1, 2:1, and 3:1 donor-acceptor complexes. Although halogen bonding interactions are present in all donor-acceptor complexes considered in the work, intermolecular hydrogen bonding emerges in complexes in which an iodine-based donor is directly involved. The halogen bond complexes identified herein feature linear halogen bonds and supportive intermolecular hydrogen bonds that lead to nearly additive electronic binding energies of up to -9.7 (dimers), -18.6 (trimers), and -26.5 kcal mol-1 (tetramers). Select vibrational stretching frequencies (νC-X and νC≡C), and the perturbative shifts they incur upon halogen bond formation, are interrogated and compared to those observed in pyridine- and pyrimidine-based halogen-bonded complexes reported in the literature.},
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journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory},
number = 51,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Sat Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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