Posts Tagged ‘lowest energy form’
Friday, April 15th, 2016
In the previous post I described how hydronium hydroxide or H3O+…HO–, an intermolecular tautomer of water, has recently been observed captured inside an organic cage[1] and how the free-standing species in water can be captured computationally with the help of solvating water bridges. Here I explore azane oxide or H3N+-O–,‡ a tautomer of the better known hydroxylamine (H2N-OH).
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References
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M. Stapf, W. Seichter, and M. Mazik, "Unique Hydrogen‐Bonded Complex of Hydronium and Hydroxide Ions", Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 21, pp. 6350-6354, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201406383
Tags:Ammonia, aqueous solutions, Bases, energy relative, free energy, Functional groups, General, Hydrogen bond, Hydronium, Hydroxides, Hydroxyl, Hydroxylamine, Interesting chemistry, lowest energy form, Properties of water, Reducing agents, Self-ionization of water
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Friday, October 23rd, 2015
Steve Bachrach on his own blog has commented on a recent article[1] discussing the structure of the trimer of fluoroethanol. Rather than the expected triangular form with three OH—O hydrogen bonds, the lowest energy form only had two such bonds, but it matched the microwave data much better. Here I explore this a bit more.
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References
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J. Thomas, X. Liu, W. Jäger, and Y. Xu, "Unusual H‐Bond Topology and Bifurcated H‐bonds in the 2‐Fluoroethanol Trimer", Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 54, pp. 11711-11715, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201505934
Tags:Atoms in molecules, chemical bonding, Diagram, Hydrogen bond, Interesting chemistry, low energy structure, lowest energy form, microwave, Steve Bachrach
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