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Infrared spectroscopy and theoretical structure analyses of protonated fluoroalcohol clusters: the impact of fluorination on the hydrogen bond networks

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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 24, Issue 20, Pages 12631-12644

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01300b

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  1. JSPS [21H04671]
  2. Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST107-2628-M-001-002-MY4, MOST110-2639-M-A49-001-ASP, MOST110-2113-M-001-061, MOST111-2923-M-001-002-MY2]
  3. IAMS, Academia Sinica
  4. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21H04671] Funding Source: KAKEN

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This study investigated the impact of fluorination on the hydrogen bond networks of protonated alkylalcohols using infrared spectroscopy and theoretical computations. The results showed that fluorination facilitated the transition of the hydrogen bond networks from linear type to cyclic type in a specific size range for protonated alkylalcohol clusters. Additionally, fluorination effectively inhibited the formation of cyclic hydrogen bond networks in protonated clusters.
To explore the impact of fluorination on the hydrogen bond networks of protonated alkylalcohols, infrared spectroscopy and theoretical computations of protonated 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol clusters, H+(TFE)(n), (n = 4-7), were performed. It has been demonstrated that the development of the hydrogen bond networks from a linear type to cyclic types occurs in this size region for the protonated alkylalcohol clusters. In contrast, infrared spectroscopy of H+(TFE)(n) in the OH/CH stretch region clearly indicated that the linear type structures are held in the whole size range, irrespective of temperature of the clusters. The extensive stable isomer structure search of H+(TFE)(n) based on our latest sampling approach supported the strong preference of the linear type hydrogen bond networks. Detailed analyses of the free OH stretching vibrational bands evidenced the intra- and intermolecular OHMIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSISFC interactions in the clusters. In addition, infrared spectra of protonated clusters of 2,2-difluoroethanol, 2,2-difluoropropanol, and 3,3,3-trifluoropropanol were measured for n = 4 and 5, and their spectra also indicated the effective inhibition of the cyclic hydrogen bond network formation by the fluorination.

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