Interference of H-bonding and substituent effects in nitro- and hydroxy-substituted salicylaldehydes

Two intramolecular interactions, i.e., (1) hydrogen bond and (2) substituent effect, were analyzed and compared. For this purpose, the geometry of 4- and 5-X-substituted salicylaldehyde derivatives (X = NO2, H or OH) was optimized by means of B3LYP/6-311 + G(d,p) and MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ methods. The results obtained allowed us to show that substituents (NO2 or OH) in the para or meta position with respect to either OH or CHO in H-bonded systems interact more strongly than in the case of di-substituted species: 4- and 3-nitrophenol or 4- and 3-hydroxybenzaldehyde by ∼31%. The substituent effect due to the intramolecular charge transfer from the para-counter substituent (NO2) to the proton-donating group (OH) is ∼35% greater than for the interaction of para-OH with the proton-accepting group (CHO). The total energy of H-bonding for salicylaldehyde, and its derivatives, is composed of two contributions: ∼80% from the energy of H-bond formation and ∼20% from the energy associated with reorganization of the electron structure of the systems in question

Environment influences on the aromatic character of nucleobases and amino acids

Geometric (HOMA) and magnetic (NICS) indices of aromaticity were estimated for aromatic rings of amino acids and nucleobases. Cartesian coordinates were taken directly either from PDB files deposited in public databases at the finest resolution available (≤1.5 Å), or from structures resulting from full gradient geometry optimization in a hybrid QM/MM approach. Significant environmental effects imposing alterations of HOMA values were noted for all aromatic rings analysed. Furthermore, even extra fine resolution (≤1.0 Å) is not sufficient for direct estimation of HOMA values based on Cartesian coordinates provided by PDB files. The values of mean bond errors seem to be much higher than the 0.05 Å often reported for PDB files. The use of quantum chemistry geometry optimization is strongly advised; even a simple QM/MM model comprising only the aromatic substructure within the QM region and the rest of biomolecule treated classically within the MM framework proved to be a promising means of describing aromaticity inside native environments. According to the results presented, three consequences of the interaction with the environment can be observed that induce changes in structural and magnetic indices of aromaticity. First, broad ranges of HOMA or NICS values are usually obtained for different conformations of nearest neighborhood. Next, these values and their means can differ significantly from those characterising isolated monomers. The most significant increase in aromaticities is expected for the six-membered rings of guanine, thymine and cytosine. The same trend was also noticed for all amino acids inside proteins but this effect was much smaller, reaching the highest value for the five-membered ring of tryptophan. Explicit water solutions impose similar changes on HOMA and NICS distributions. Thus, environment effects of protein, DNA and even explicit water molecules are non-negligible sources of aromaticity changes appearing in the rings of nucleobases and aromatic amino acids residues

Strustural consequences of the h-bonding

Hydrogen bonding belongs to the most important chemical interactions in life and geochemical processes as well as in technologies, that is documented in many review articles [1-10], monographs [11-17] and numerous publications. Figure 1 presents how "popular" are studies concerning hydrogen bonds (the term H-bond/bonding/bonded in a title, key-words or in abstract) in the last decade. First information about H-bond formation appeared at the end of XIX and a few other at beginning of XX centuries [19-24]. Most common definition of H-bonding stems from Pauling [27], whereas the newest IUPAC definition was published very recently [26]. Most frequently H-bonding is experimentally described by geometry parameters [28, 32] - results of X-ray and neutron diffraction measurements, but NMR and IR/Raman spectroscopies are also in frequent use. Characteristic of interactions by H-bonding is usually discussed in terms of energies [29-31], with use of various quantum chemical theories [54-57] and applications of various models as AIM [35, 41, 42, 45-48] and NBO [43, 44] which allowed to formulate detailed criteria for H-bond characteristics [35, 48]. H-bonds are classified as strong, mostly covalent in nature [7, 29, 34], partly covalent of medium strength [35] and weak ones, usually non-covalent [7, 29, 34, 35]. Theoretical studies of H-bonding mainly concern equilibrium systems, however simulation of H-bonded complexes with controlled and gradually changing strength of interactions [61-71] are also performed. The latter is main source of data referring to effect of H-bonding on structural properties: changes in the region of interactions, short and long-distance consequences of H-bonding. Application of the model [61] based on approaching hydrofluoric acid to the basic center of a molecule and fluoride to the acidic one, (Schemes 2 and 3) allows to study changes in molecular structure of para-substituted derivatives of phenol and phenolate [62, 64] in function of dB…H, or other geometric parameter of H-bond strength (Fig. 2). It is also shown that CO bond lengths in these complexes is monotonically related to H-bond formation energy and deformation energy due to H-bond formation [65]. Alike studies carried out for para-substituted derivatives of aniline and its protonated and deprotonated forms [77, 78, 81] give similar picture (Fig. 3). AIM studies of anilines [77, 78] lead to an excellent dependence of logarithm of electron density in the bond critical point and geometric parameter of H-bond strength, dB…H presented in Figure 4. Substituents and H-bond formation affect dramatically geometry of amine group [66] in H-bonded complexes of aniline as shown by changes of pyramidalization of bonds in amine group (Fig. 5). Some short- and long-distance structural consequences of H-bonding are shown by means of changes in ipso angle (for amine group) in the ring and ipso-ortho CC bond lengths (Fig. 6). Moreover, the mutual interrelations are in line with the Bent-Walsh rule [84, 86]. Changes of the strength of H-bonds in complexes of p-substituted aniline and its protonated and deprotonated derivative are dramatically reflected by aromaticity of the ring66 estimated by use of HOMA index [87, 88] (Fig. 7), where strength of H-bonding is approximated by CN bond lengths. Scheme 4 presents application of the SESE [91] (Substituent Effect Stabilization Energy) for description in an energetic scale joint substituent and H-bond formation effects

A new look at the substituent effect

Classical view on the substituent effect (SE) is associated with an empiric approach presented 80-years ago by Hammett [1]. He proposed a simple formula to represent the effect of a substituent upon the rate or equilibrium constants of a reaction in which the reacting group is in a side chain attached to the ring and introduced quantitative descriptors of the SE named substituent constants σ, defined in terms of dissociation constants of meta- and para- substituted benzoic acids. Then the Hammett’s equation relied on using them to describe SE for various physicochemical properties, P(X), by means of linear regression like P(X)=ρ·σ, where ρ is so called reaction constants describing sensitivity of a system in question on the SE. Application of the quantum chemistry modeling allowed to find descriptors (independent of empirical approaches) which are characterized by clear physical meaning and are accessible by use of standard computational packages. The oldest descriptor is based on homodesmotic reaction [X-R-Y + R = R-X + R-Y] in which energy of products is subtracted from that of substrates [32]. The model is named as SESE (substituent effect stabilization energy) and its values are usually well correlated with empirical constants σ, or their modifications. Ten years ago Sadlej-Sosnowska introduced [23, 24] an effective descriptor of SE based on atomic charges of a substituent X and the ipso carbon atom named cSAR(X) (charge of the substituent active region). Unlike atomic charges at substituent, q(X), the cSAR(X) values correlate well with the Hammett substituent constants [25]. Recently as an interesting and showing new aspects descriptor of SE appeared a model making use of population of electrons at sigma and pi orbitals of planar pi-electron systems (or their fragments), named as sEDA and pEDA [33]. Again in particular cases these descriptors correlate with the Hammett σ. This descriptor allowed to reveal how strong is SE on population of pi-electron systems in substituted derivatives of benzene, and how much is this different for para and meta substituted species. Analysis of the relation of pEDA vs sEDA for meta and para substituted derivatives of nitrobenzene revealed that sEDA values increase with a decrease of electronegativity of the linking atom [47]. The above mentioned action of the sigma structure is modulated by the remaining part of the substituent as well as its pi-electron structure. This part of substituents (including also the linking atom) is responsible for an interplay of the sigma structure with the pi-electron one. Application of cSAR(X) for series of meta- and para- substituted phenol and phenolate derivatives [36] revealed that reverse substituent effect, i.e. the effect of impact of the functional group Y on the electron accepting/donating power of the substituent in systems like X-R-Y may be as large as the overall differences in these kind of properties between NO and NMe2! In the σ constants scale this is full range of σ for uncharged substituents, 1.73 units of σ. Application of cSAR for CH2 groups in 1-X-bicyclo[2.2.2]octane derivatives and using the regression of cSAR(CH2) against cSAR(X) values allowed to document that substituent effect in these systems is inductive in nature [39]. In summary, substituent effect descriptors based on quantum chemistry modeling are usually consistent with the empirical ones, but are able to present more detailed information on physical aspects of the problem

Management of the national administration of water from 2018

Podjęto próbę analizy zarządzania krajową gospodarką wodną od 2018 roku w Polsce. Przeanalizowano ustawę Prawo wodne, która zaczęła obowiązywać od 20 lipca 2017 roku. Przedstawiono zmiany w zakresie praw i obowiązków zwierzchnika w stosunku do wód publicznych stanowiących własność skarbu państw oraz porównano obowiązującą ustawę z ustawą z 18 lipca 2001 roku. Przedstawiono instytucję Państwowego Gospodarstwa Wodnego Wody Polskie oraz jej hierarchię i zakres obowiązków, a także dokumenty przez nią wydawane.An attempt was made to analyze the management f domestic water management since 2018 in Poland. The New Water Law, which became effective from 20 July 2017, has been analyzed. Changes in the scope of rights and duties of the superior in relation to public waters owned by the State Treasury were presented and the binding Act was compared to the Act of July 18, 2001. The institution of the State Aquatic Water Poland and its hierarchy and scope of duties was presented. The documents that are issued by the new institution are also specified