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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 111, Issue 28, Pages 6472-6480Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp071337r
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The intramolecular hydrogen bond (H-bond) energies in several polyhydroxy systems are estimated using an isodesmic/homodesmic reaction approach as well as a molecular tailoring approach (MTA) [Deshmukh, M. M.; Gadre, S. R.; Bartolotti, L. J. J. Phys. Chem. A 2006, 110, 12519]. It is shown that the isodesmic/homodesmic reaction approach as advocated in the literature does not give true H-bond energy but includes the effect of strain energy due to the formation of a ring structure. Such a ring strain is duly accounted for in the MTA method. The isodesmic H-bond energies are found to be smaller than their MTA energy counterparts typically by the strain energy. The MTA is applied to decitol, a system with more than five different H-bonds for which an application of an appropriate isodesmic reaction is extremely difficult. It has been shown that the MTA method is able to predict not only the H-bond energies but also the trends in conformational energies for three different conformers of decitol studied in the present work.
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