Anstöter, Cate S. and Rogers, Joshua P. and Verlet, Jan R. R. (2019) 'Spectroscopic determination of an anion-π bond strength.', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141 (15). pp. 6132-6135.
Abstract
The anion-π bond has emerged as an important non-valence interaction in supramolecular and biological structure. Although recognized as a strong non-covalent interaction, driven by electrostatic charge-quadrupole moment and correlation interactions, benchmark experimental and computational studies on the intrinsic anion-π bond strength are scarce. Here, we present a gas-phase photoelectron spectroscopic study on the archetypical iodide-hexafluorobenzene anion-π bonded complex. In combination with high-level electronic structure calculations, the anion-π bond strength is found to be 0.53 eV (51 kJ mol−1). The interaction arises for a large part from correlation forces (~40%), with electrostatic quadrupole-anion and polarization making up most of the remainder.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (525Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b01345 |
| Publisher statement: | This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b01345 |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 04 April 2019 |
| Date of first online publication: | 02 April 2019 |
| Date first made open access: | 02 April 2020 |
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