We thank Dr. S. E. Barlow for valuable discussions. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Science Division. The experiment and calculations were performed at the W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility sponsored by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is operated for the DOE by Battelle.
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H⋅⋅⋅O Hydrogen Bonding to Unactivated Alkanes†
Article first published online: 8 JUL 2005
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200501349
Copyright © 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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How to Cite
Wang, X.-B., Woo, H.-K., Kiran, B. and Wang, L.-S. (2005), Observation of Weak CH⋅⋅⋅O Hydrogen Bonding to Unactivated Alkanes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44: 4968–4972. doi: 10.1002/anie.200501349
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 29 JUL 2005
- Article first published online: 8 JUL 2005
- Manuscript Received: 19 APR 2005
Keywords:
- alkanes;
- conformation analysis;
- density functional calculations;
- hydrogen bonds;
- photoelectron spectroscopy
From linear to folded simply by CH⋅⋅⋅O bonding: A new low-temperature photoelectron spectroscopy apparatus is used to study hydrogen bonding between unactivated alkanes and a carboxylate group. Gaseous linear carboxylates 1, CH3(CH2)nCO2−, assume folded structures 2 at low temperatures by weak CH⋅⋅⋅O hydrogen bonding between the terminal CH3 and CO2− groups for n≥5.