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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue 40, Pages 13922-13932Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp41834g
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High level ab initio and hybrid DFT methods have been employed to investigate the interactions of metal ions (Li+ and Mg2+) with N and P substituted six membered heteroaromatics (CH)(6-m-n)NmPn. The binding energy (BE) of metal ions with the N and P substituted heteroaromatics has been computed at the CCSD(T)/cc-pVTZ//MP2/cc-pVTZ level with counterpoise correction. In the present study we systematically examined the preferential modes of binding of metal ions to the heteroaromatics. N-Substituted heteroaromatics show a strong preference for cation-sigma mode of binding whereas the P-substituted heteroaromatics prefer cation-pi mode of binding with the metal ions. Energy decomposition analysis (EDA) using the DFT-SAPT scheme has been carried out to analyse the contribution of various energy components to the BE. The results illustrate that for the cation-pi complexes, the contribution of the induction term is more whereas in the case of cation-sigma there is a competition between induction and electrostatic terms in the interaction energy.
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