Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 130, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.3058483
Keywords
ab initio calculations; fluorescence; hydrogen bonds; molecular beams; molecular configurations; molecule-photon collisions; organic compounds; photoelectron spectra; photoionisation; two-photon spectra
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
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The flexible model molecule 2-orthofluorophenylethanol has been investigated by laser-induced fluorescence, and low- and high-resolution resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization spectroscopy in combination with high-level ab initio quantum chemistry calculations. One dominant conformation has been identified in the cold molecular beam corresponding to the most stable theoretically predicted gauche structure stabilized by an intramolecular OH center dot pi hydrogen bond. A tentative assignment of a higher-lying gauche conformer present in the molecular beam separated by high potential barriers from the most stable one has been made. The missing other higher-energy theoretically predicted conformations most likely relax to the most stable ones during the process of the adiabatic expansion. The good agreement between the experimental and theoretical results demonstrates that even in the case of a substitution with an electronegative atom at the ortho position, bringing about a significant redistribution of the electron density in the benzene ring and providing a convenient binding site for the formation of a competing OH center dot F sigma hydrogen bond, the nonclassical OH center dot pi bond remains the preferred binding motif for the most stable conformer.
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