Molecular pair analysis: C-H...F interactions in the crystal structure of fluorohenzene? And related matters
Molecular pair analysis: C-H...F interactions in the crystal structure of fluorohenzene? And related matters
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DOI:
10.1002/chem.200600092
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发表时间:
2006-09-06
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Schweizer, W. Bernd
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作者:
Dunitz, Jack. D.;Schweizer, W. Bernd
The crystal structure of fluorobenzene is compared with isomorphous crystal structures of molecules of roughly similar shape. The lowest-energy fluorobenzene dimers are identified by theoretical calculations. Molecular pair analysis of the crystal structure of fluorobenzene and of an isomorphous virtual low-energy polymorph of benzene suggests that the important intermolecular interactions in the two structures are closely similar. In particular, the intermolecular C-(HF)-F-... interactions in the fluorobenzene crystal have approximately the same structure-directing ability and influence on the intermolecular energy as the corresponding C-(HH)-H-... interactions in benzene. Molecular pair analysis of the isomorphous crystal structures of benzonitrile, alloxan, and cyclopentene-1,2,3-trione indicates that essentially the same crystal structure can be adopted with quite different patterns of pair energies and atom-atom interactions. The question as to whether the packing radius of organic fluorine is larger or smaller than that of hydrogen, is addressed, but not answered.