How to Make the Ionic Si−O Bond More Covalent and the Si−O−Si Linkage a Better Acceptor for Hydrogen Bonding

Grabowsky, Simon; Hesse, Maxie F.; Paulmann, Carsten; Luger, Peter; Beckmann, Jens (2009). How to Make the Ionic Si−O Bond More Covalent and the Si−O−Si Linkage a Better Acceptor for Hydrogen Bonding. Inorganic chemistry, 48(10), pp. 4384-4393. American Chemical Society 10.1021/ic900074r

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Variation of a bond angle can tune the reactivity of a chemical compound. To exemplify this concept, the nature of the siloxane linkage (Si−O−Si), the most abundant chemical bond in the earth’s crust, was examined using theoretical calculations on the molecular model compounds H3SiOSiH3, (H3Si)2O···HOH, and (H3Si)2O···HOSiH3 and high-resolution synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiments on 5-dimethylhydroxysilyl-1,3-dihydro-1,1,3,3-tetramethyl-2,1,3-benzoxadisilole (1), a molecular compound that gives rise to the formation of very rare intermolecular hydrogen bonds between the silanol groups and the siloxane linkages. For theoretical calculations and experiment, electronic descriptors were derived from a topological analysis of the electron density (ED) distribution and the electron localization function (ELF). The topological analysis of an experimentally obtained ELF is a newly developed methodology. These descriptors reveal that the Si−O bond character and the basicity of the siloxane linkage strongly depend on the Si−O−Si angle. While the ionic bond character is dominant for Si−O bonds, covalent bond contributions become more significant and the basicity increases when the Si−O−Si angle is reduced from linearity to values near the tetrahedral angle. Thus, the existence of the exceptional intermolecular hydrogen bond observed for 1 can be explained by its very small strained Si−O−Si angle that adopts nearly a tetrahedral angle.

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:

0020-1669

Publisher:

American Chemical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Simon Grabowsky

Date Deposited:

06 Feb 2020 11:17

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:35

Publisher DOI:

10.1021/ic900074r

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.138498

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/138498

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