Charge Transfer via the Dative N−B Bond and Dihydrogen Contacts. Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Studies of Small Lewis Acid−Base Adducts

Mebs, Stefan; Grabowsky, Simon; Förster, Diana; Kickbusch, Rainer; Hartl, Monika; Daemen, Luke L.; Morgenroth, Wolfgang; Luger, Peter; Paulus, Beate; Lentz, Dieter (2010). Charge Transfer via the Dative N−B Bond and Dihydrogen Contacts. Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Studies of Small Lewis Acid−Base Adducts. Journal of physical chemistry. A, 114(37), pp. 10185-10196. American Chemical Society 10.1021/jp100995n

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The electronic characteristics of the dative N−B bond in three Lewis acid−base adducts, hydrazine borane, hydrazine bisborane, and ammonia trifluoroborane, are analyzed by an approach combining experimental electron density determination with a broad variety of theoretical calculations. Special focus is directed to the weak dihydrogen contacts in hydrazine borane. The Atoms In Molecules partitioning scheme is complemented by additional methods like the Source Function, and the Electron Localizability Indicator. For the multipole-free theoretical models of hydrazine borane and hydrazine bisborane, a weak charge donation from Lewis base to acid of about 0.05 e is found, whereas multipole refinement of theoretical and experimental structure factors resulted in opposite signs for the Lewis acid and base fragments. For ammonia trifluoroborane, the donation from Lewis base to acid is slightly larger (about 0.13 e) in the multipole-free models, and the charges obtained by multipole refinement retain the direction of the charge donation but show quite large variations. The natural population analysis charges predict larger charge donations (0.35 e) from the Lewis bases to the acids for the three title complexes. Although the three compounds exhibit intermolecular interactions of different types and strengths, including classical hydrogen bonds, F···H contacts and the already mentioned dihydrogen bonds, almost no charge transfer is detected between different molecules within the crystal environment. The main electronic effect of the formation of the Lewis acid-base adducts and of the crystallization is an increase in the charge separation within the ammonia/hydrazine fragments, which is supported by all investigated bond and atomic properties. The nature of the dative N-B bond is found to be mainly electrostatic, but with a substantial contribution of covalency. The F-B bonds show similarities and differences from the N-B bonds, which makes a distinction of coordinative (or dative) bonds from polar covalent interactions possible.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DCBP)

UniBE Contributor:

Grabowsky, Simon

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
500 Science > 540 Chemistry

ISSN:

1089-5639

Publisher:

American Chemical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Simon Grabowsky

Date Deposited:

06 Feb 2020 11:30

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:35

Publisher DOI:

10.1021/jp100995n

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.138494

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/138494

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