Intrahydrogen Bonding and Transition States Between Enol and Enethiol Tautomers in β-Thioxoketones
- 1 Department of Chemistry, College of Education, Iraq
- 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Basrah, Iraq
- 3 Department of Studies in Chemistry, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570006, India
Abstract
Problem statement: Hydrogen bonding is one of the most important concepts in chemistry because it is crucial to understand many different interactions both in gas phase and in condensed media. A particular subset is presented by the intramolecular hydrogen bonds where two ends of the same molecule interact, resulting in a ringlike structure. Approach: The study involved theoretical investigation of proton transfer and transition states in β-thioxoketones. Both structures of the enol and enethiol tautomers of β-thioxoketones were geometrically optimized then the transition states were obtained. The calculations were done at the B3LYP hybrid and 6-31G(d,p), 6-31+G(d,p), 6- 31++G(d,p), 6-311G(d,p), 6-311+G(d,p) and 6-311++G(d,p) basis sets. Results: The calculated energies of the enethiol tautomer are higher than those of the enol tautomer for all the thioxoketones studied in this work. The S...O distances are in the order: enethiol > enol > transition state in addition the hydrogen bonding in the enol tautomer is stronger than that in the enethiol tautomer. Conclusion: The interconversion within the tautomeric mixture in these compounds is preferable in the enethiol → enol direction.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2011.762.765
Copyright: © 2011 Bahjat A. Saeed, Rita S. Elias and Ebraheem Abdu Musad. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- β-thioxoketones
- density functional theory
- intrahydrogen bonding
- reaction barrier
- Transition State (TS)
- tautomeric mixture
- basis sets
- enethiol
- ringlike structure
- isolatedmolecule conditions
- harmonic analyses