EVIDENCE FOR RESONANCE-ASSISTED HYDROGEN-BONDING FROM CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE CORRELATIONS ON THE ENOL FORM OF THE BETA-DIKETONE FRAGMENT
EVIDENCE FOR RESONANCE-ASSISTED HYDROGEN-BONDING FROM CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE CORRELATIONS ON THE ENOL FORM OF THE BETA-DIKETONE FRAGMENT
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00185a035
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发表时间:
1989-02-01
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15
通讯作者:
BERTOLASI, V
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作者:
GILLI, G;BELLUCCI, F;BERTOLASI, V
The geometry variations caused by inter-and intramolecular hydrogen bond (HB) formation on the molecular fragment acacH (HOCR= CR—CR= 0) contained in the enol form of acetylacetone and other related 0-diketones and 0-keto esters have been studied by crystal structure correlation methods on 25 X-ray or neutron crystallographically determined molecules containing such a fragment. acacH can form either a single intramolecularHB closing a 6-membered ring or intermolecular HBs connecting the groups head-to-tail in infinite linear arrays. Experimental data show that there is a strong correlation between the strength of the HB formed (measured by both the d0... 0 and 0o_H values) and the delocalizationof thesystem of conjugated double bonds. The effect is qualitatively interpreted in terms of a mechanism of synergistic interplay of resonance and HB formation which is called resonance-assisted hydrogen bonding (RAHB), and it is shown that the proposed model is in agreement with all present NMR and IR data and with the most recent ab initio quantum mechanical calculations reported for malonaldehyde. For more complex molecules a semiempirical model has been developed to evaluate both the energy of the HB formed (£,) and the heightof the barrier for proton transfer (E2); with reference to water, where£ j= 20 and E2= 40 kj mol'1, E¡ and E2 are calculated to be 53.4 and 35 kj mol" 1 in acetylacetone and 82.5 and 27.5 kJ mol" 1 in hexamethylacetylacetone, showing that very strong HB’s with central hydrogen position are favored by substituents of relevant steric hindrance. These conclusions are generalized to take into account the possiblerole played by RAHB in a variety of heteroconjugated systems.The ever growing number of structure determinations of mo-lecular crystals by X-ray or neutron diffraction has contributed to the systematic comparison of the geometries of a molecular fragment in different crystal structures with the aim of extracting new, valuable chemicalinformation, and in this connection, some specific techniques have been developed which are usually referred to as structure correlation methods. 1 In this paper such methods are applied to the 0-diketone fragment in its enol form 1 (hereafter named acacHfrom acetylacetone) with the aim of understanding what happens to the fragment geometry when it is perturbed by intramolecular, 2, or intermolecular, 3, hydrogen bonding. The