Experimental and Theoretical Study of Aromatic-Aromatic Interactions. Association Enthalpies and Central and Distributed Multipole Electric Moments Analysis
Experimental and Theoretical Study of Aromatic-Aromatic Interactions. Association Enthalpies and Central and Distributed Multipole Electric Moments Analysis
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芳香-芳香相互作用的实验和理论研究。
DOI:
10.1021/jp0225828
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发表时间:
2003
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
M. Costas
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作者:
Silvia Pérez;Jesús Hernández‐Trujillo;M. Costas
Aromatic-aromatic interactions are studied experimentally through heat capacity measurements that, with the aid of an association model, provide an estimate of the association enthalpy of the aromatic -aromatic complexes formed in solution. These enthalpies are empirically correlated with the product of the quadrupole moments of the molecules involved. The compounds used in this work are hexafluorobenzene (HFB), pentafluorobenzene (PFB), triflourobenzene (TFB), flourobenzene, (FB), benzene (BEN), toluene (TOL), naphthalene (NAP), and 1-methylnaphthalene (MEN). The 10 pairs studied are HFB-MEN, HFB-BEN, HFB-TOL, NAP-HFB, PFB-MEN, PFB-BEN, HFB-FB, BEN-MEN, FB-MEN, and TFB-MEN. The electrostatic interaction between the molecules forming the 10 aromatic -aromatic pairs is calculated expressing their charge distributions in terms of both central and distributed multipole electric moments. It is concluded that the changes in association enthalpies of aromatic -aromatic complexes can be explained by the electrostatic contribution to the interaction energy. I. Introduction Aromatic-aromatic interactions have been shown to play an important role in the properties of many systems in chemistry, biochemistry, and material science. 1 For this reason, they have been the subject of numerous reports at both the experimental and theoretical levels. Often, these interactions occur between parts of complicated molecules as in the cases of many hostguest systems 2 and proteins, where aromatic-aromatic interactions have been suggested to be important in the stabilization of their tertiary structure. 3 In these kinds of systems, it is difficult to isolate the role played by the aromatic-aromatic interactions from the many others present, and hence, it is useful to examine simple mixtures. It is in this context that in the present work we study, at the experimental and theoretical levels, a series of mixtures where interactions between aromatic molecules are present. At the experimental level, solid-liquid phase equilibria measurements for binary mixtures composed of an aromatic hydrocarbon and an aromatic fluorocarbon have shown the existence of 1:1 complexes in the solid state. These complexes melt at a considerable higher temperature than the pure components, e.g., 19° in the case of hexafluorobenzene mixed with benzene 4 and approximately 100° in the case of hexafluorobenzene mixed with 1-methylnaphthalene. 5 The solidliquid phase diagrams for other binary mixtures 6 such as hexafluorobenzene mixed with toluene, with p-xylene, and with mesitylene display a similar behavior. The hexafluorobenzenebenzene complex, by far the most studied one, has been characterized by X-ray difraction and D and 13 C NMR. 7 It was concluded that the crystal structure consists of molecular pairs packed in a face-to-face manner and that the interaction between the two molecules is of a relatively weak nature. This complex has also been studied using optical heterodyne-detected Ramaninduced Kerr effect spectroscopy. 8 In the liquid state, the existence of these complexes was suggested long ago on the basis of thermodynamic data 9 which indicated that for these aromatic fluorocarbon + aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures the excess Gibbs energies G E and the excess enthalpies H E are negative and the excess heat capacities Cp E