Different configurations of the C2H2 + H2O system obtained
by various translations and rotations of H2O around the C2H2 molecule
were studied. The two molecules were found to form not
only hydrogen bond but also a charge transfer complex

D. Bonchev

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Different configurations of the C2H2 + H2O system obtained

by various translations and rotations of H2O around the C2H2 molecule

were studied. The two molecules were found to form not

only hydrogen bond but also a charge transfer complex

Bonchev, D.

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CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA CCACAA 49 (1) 83-88 (1977) CCA-978 YU ISSN 0011-1643 516.11 Note CND0/2 Study of C2H2 + H20 System D. Bonchev* D epartment of Physicai Chemistry, Higher Schooi of Chemicai Technoiogy, 8015 Burgas, Buigaria Received May 12, 1976 Different configurations of the C2H2 -!- H20 system obtained by various translations and rotations of H20 around the C2H2 mole-cule were studied. The two molecules were found to form not only hydrogen bond but also a charge transfer complex. Acethylene and water molecule are known to form hydrogen bond of two different types with a bonding energy of 2-4 kcal/mol1-7 : H / HC=:CH ··· 0 "-H HC and Ill ... HOH HC In systems like these, where both molecular fragments appear as good electron donors and acceptors, charge transfer complexes have often been found to exists-14• In this paper the possibility for the existence of such a complex in the C2H 2 + H 20 system was studied by examining all kinds of intermediates between hydrogen bonded structures. It was also of importance to find how the molecular features change upon different movements of the water molecule around acethylene, and how different is the contribution of charge transfer and electronic rearrangements in the bonding. The CND0/2 method15 was used since it provides good relative values of the main molecular features in such cases. The 0-H bond length and HOH bond angle were taken as variables. The examined rotations and translations of H 20 around the C2H2 molecule, as well as a number of minimum energy molecular properties, are shown in Figure 1 and Table I. The linear hydrogen bond was found to be more stable .than the four different bent hydrogen bonds (Figure 2) . The y and !}-rotations of the water molecule around the terminal atom of C2H 2 , however lead, after a small barrier at 60° (l'iE ~ 2 kcal/mol) to a new, deeper energy minimum at the rotation angle of 108° (see also Figure 1.2 and 1.4). This minimum could hardly be caused by hydrogen bonding since the hydrogen in the C-H group turns into an electron acceptor upon a rotation of more than 100°. The charge transfer from * The paper was written during the author's stay at the Ruder Boskovic Institute in Zagreb as a Cultural Exchange Visitor. 84 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.4 1. 7 D. BONCHEV ~.~.~H Rc .. . o=2 .840, RH .. . 0=1.741 I I z I I J-x ~\'. . . ~ 0 H y H~H -- 0 ~~~'.oe• H C C H X0= 1.154, Rc ... o= 1.656, RH .. . o=l.979; Hi,H2~ --?i~O f ,~o "100° ~·· H C C H I I I 0 I fJ H ~~···~H 1. 4 ~ ~· H 01~·?Z,._ ~ 1.3 H C C H 1. 5 Xo= 1.154, Rc ... o=l.654, RH ... o=2.213; Xo=l .040, Zo=l.698, ZH=2.261 O'H 1.691 __ _(, o--o--1-o-o 1.9 H C C H Zo=2.743, ZH=l.690 ~ 100.4° ~ 1. 8 H C C H Xo=O, Zo=2.673, ZH=2.100 Figure 1. C2H2 + H20 system configurations under study. a., y-angles of rotation in xy-plane; ~. a-angles of furcated rotation out of xy-plane. Origin of the coordinate system in the centre of the C- C bond ; all coordinates and distances in A. (Classification of configurations is given in Table I). H20 to C2H~, as well as the charge shifts in both fragments, decreases to a rotation angle of 75° and then increases rapidly. At the energy minimum the dipole moment and the total charge transferred to :rt-MO of C2H 2 both from the water molecule and from the a-MO of C2H 2 , have their maximum· values. The charge transfer from the a-MO is twice as large as that from the water CND0/2 STUDY OF c ,H , + H,o, SYSTEM 85 -6 -8 -10 -12 .Figure 2. Bonding ene rgy of c , H , + H , o system as a f unction of four angles of water molecule rotation . molecule. One can conclude that probably a charge transfer complex is formed, associated with an inner a-n: charge t r ansfer in C2H~ . The amount of charge transferred (0.04-0.06) is more than t wice greater than those found by Schlug and Levinson16 for the benzene-chlorine complex (CT = 0.02). We studied further the translations of the water molecule along the acethylene chain, starting from the minimum energy geometries of y- and {)-rotations (Figure 1.3 and 1.5). The lowest energy configuration was found to be the one with-an oxygenatom __ at 1.66 ~ over C-H bond and the H atoms away from C2H 2 • The energy of the complex, the charge transfer (H20 ---?- C2H2 ) , the charge shift and the total change in the rr-electron charge of acethylene are shown in Figure 3 to vary with translation in nearly the same way. The charge transfer changes its sign near the centre of the the C=C bond where the water · molecule turns into an electron acceptor. 86 D. BONCHEV TABLE I Minimum Energy Properties of C2H2 + H20 System Quantities E µ Configurations 1.1 Linear H bond 3.93 I 2.42 I .040 I .012 0.52 I .009 1.2 Unfurcated rotation 12.69 2.33 .109 .068 .177 .039 1.3 Horizontal unfurcated I I I translation 16.12 I 2.62 .216 .075 .291 .053 1.4 Furcated rotation 12.61 I 2.67 .138 .042 .180 0.64 1.5 Horizontal furcated I translation 12.48 2.74 .201 .046 I .247 .047 1.6 Vertical H bond 18.86 2.57 .168 .014 .182 0.52 1.7 Parallel furcated structure 22.27 2.28 .045 .006 .051 .019 1.8 Perpendicular furcated structure 18.57 2.32 .045 I .008 .053 .018 Energy, E, in kcal/mol; dipole moment, µ, in D; charge transfer. CT, and charge shift, CS, in atomic units (See ref. 6 for a definition of a charge 'shift) . :i ::i 0 0 ...... ~ (/) 0-u <I I-u .250 .050 .200 .040 .150 .030 .100 .020 .050 .010 0 2 - .010 Figure 3. Bonding energy, charge transfer, charge shift and change in it-electron atomic charge in C2H 2 + H20 system upon horizontal unfurcated translation of H20 over CsH2. CND0/2 STUDY OF C2H2 + H202 SYSTEM 87 In the other four translations, shown in Figures 1.6 to 1.9, one or two of the water hydrogens are closer to the acethylene molecule and the bond should be classified as an 0-H ... re hydrogen bond. The bonding energy is greater when oxygen is above the centre of the C=C bond, although in the case of horizontal translation 1.9, it is nearly the same along the whole bond. The parallel furcated structure 1.7 is the most favourable with no energy barrier between structures 1.7 and 1.8 As can be seen in Figure 4, the bonding energy of the structure 1.7 correlates yery well with the dipole moment and the re-charge transfer. The charge shift has a minimum at the minimum energy distance between the two molecules, although it remains nearly three times greater than the charge transfer. Comparing these two physical effects in all examined positions of C2H2 and H20 (Table I) one can state that ' the charge transfer is less important than the charge shift, the latter being 3 to 5 times greater. The ratio between both effects varies from a nearly constant value with rotations 1.2 and 1.4, to a slight relative increase of CT with translations 1.3 and 1.5 and to a greater increase in cases 1.6 to 1.9. One can summarize that four of the 9 structures studied in this paper (Figures 1.2 to 1.5) may be classified as a charge transfer complex between H 20 and C2H2 • This result is in agreement with some findings11 ,12 that for weak complexes probably a wide range of geometries exist having similar binding energy. The C2H 2 + H 20 complex appears as an intermediate bet.ween the linear C-H .. . 0 (Figure 1.1) and the vertical 0-H . . . re hydrogen bond structure (Figures 1.6 to 1.9). 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Nadeno je da dvije molekule stvaraju ne samo vodikovu vezu nego takoder i kompleks s prijenosom naboja. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY HIGHER SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY Prispjelo 12. svibnj a 1976. 8005 BURGAS, BULGARIA 

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