Karaminkov, R. ; Chervenkov, S. ; Neusser, H. J. ; Ramanathan, V. ; Chakraborty, T. (2009) Competition between π and σ hydrogen bonds and conformational probing of 2-orthofluorophenylethanol by low- and high-resolution electronic spectroscopy The Journal of Chemical Physics, 130 (3). Article ID 034301. ISSN 0021-9606
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Abstract
The flexible model molecule 2-orthofluorophenylethanol has been investigated by laser-induced fluorescence, and low- and high-resolution resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization spectroscopy in combination with high-level ab initio quantum chemistry calculations. One dominant conformation has been identified in the cold molecular beam corresponding to the most stable theoretically predicted gauchestructure stabilized by an intramolecular OH⋯π hydrogen bond. A tentative assignment of a higher-lying gauche conformer present in the molecular beam separated by high potential barriers from the most stable one has been made. The missing other higher-energy theoretically predicted conformations most likely relax to the most stable ones during the process of the adiabatic expansion. The good agreement between the experimental and theoretical results demonstrates that even in the case of a substitution with an electronegative atom at the ortho position, bringing about a significant redistribution of the electron density in the benzene ring and providing a convenient binding site for the formation of a competing OH⋯F σhydrogen bond, the nonclassical OH⋯π bond remains the preferred binding motif for the most stable conformer.
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