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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 467, Issue 1-3, Pages 37-40Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.11.009
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- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
- Department of Science and Technology
- CSIR, India
- Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research
- IUPAC
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Ab initio and atoms in molecules (AIM) theoretical studies have been used to show that in a 1: 1 complex formed between CH(4) and H(2)O, CH(4) acting as a hydrogen bond acceptor leads to the global minimum structure. There is a bond path connecting C to the H of H(2)O revealing a penta-coordinate carbon that could be the precursor to the CH(5)(+). It appears to be a general feature in CH(4)center dot center dot center dot HX complexes (X = F, Cl, and SH). It is in agreement with the experimental structure for analogous complexes and also the C(2)H(6)center dot center dot center dot HF/HCN complexes, suggesting that it is also a general feature for hydrocarbon-HX interaction. (C) 2008 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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