Journal
CRYSTALS
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cryst10050379
Keywords
molecular cocrystal; sandwiched-layer structure; C-I center dot center dot center dot F halogen bonds; pi center dot center dot center dot pi stacking interactions; PBE0-D3(BJ) calculations
Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [21773104]
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The cocrystal formed by hexamethylbenzene (HMB) with 1,3-diiodotetrafluorobenzene (1,3-DITFB) was first synthesized and found to have an unexpected sandwiched-layer structure with alternating HMB layers and 1,3-DITFB layers. To better understand the formation of this special structure, all the noncovalent interactions between these molecules in the gas phase and the cocrystal structure have been investigated in detail by using the dispersion-corrected density functional theory calculations. In the cocrystal structure, the theoretically predicted pi center dot center dot center dot pi stacking interactions between HMB and the 1,3-DITFB molecules in the gas phase can be clearly seen, whereas there are no pi center dot center dot center dot pi stacking interactions between HMB molecules or between 1,3-DITFB molecules. The attractive interactions between HMB molecules in the corrugated HMB layers originate mainly in the dispersion forces. The 1,3-DITFB molecules form a 2D sheet structure via relatively weak C-I center dot center dot center dot F halogen bonds. The theoretically predicted much stronger C-I center dot center dot center dot pi halogen bonds between HMB and 1,3-DITFB molecules in the gas phase are not found in the cocrystal structure. We concluded that it is the special geometry of 1,3-DITFB that leads to the formation of the sandwiched-layer structure of the cocrystal.
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