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Quantitative Evaluation of Weak Nonbonded Se···F Interactions and Their Remarkable Nature as Orbital Interactions

2002; American Chemical Society; Volume: 124; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/ja016348r

1943-2984

Michio Iwaoka, Hiroto Komatsu, Takayuki Katsuda, Shuji Tomoda,

Advanced Chemical Physics Studies

To evaluate weak intramolecular nonbonded Se...F interactions recently characterized for a series of o-selenobenzyl fluoride derivatives (Iwaoka et al., Chem. Lett. 1998, 969-970), the temperature dependence of the nuclear spin coupling between Se and F (J(Se...F)) was investigated for 2-(fluoromethyl)phenylselenenyl cyanate (1a) and bis[2-(fluoromethyl)phenyl] diselenide (1e) in CD2Cl2 and CD3CN. A significant increase in the magnitude of J(Se...F) was observed for both 1a and 1e upon lowering temperature, whereas the values of J(Se...F) for the corresponding trifluoromethyl compounds slightly reduced or remained unchanged at low temperatures. Application of the rapid equilibrium model between two possible conformers revealed that conformer A with an intramolecular Se...F interaction is more stable in enthalpy (DeltaH) by 1.23 kcal/mol for 1a (in CD2Cl2) and by 0.85 and 0.83 kcal/mol for 1e (in CD2Cl2 and CD3CN, respectively) than conformer B, which does not have close Se...F contact. The negligible solvent effects for 1e suggested marginal electrostatic nature of the Se...F interactions. Instead, importance of the n(F) -->sigma*(Se-X) orbital interaction was suggested by quantum chemical (QC) calculations and the natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis.