Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-015-2709-y
Keywords
DFT; Linear aliphatic polyamines; Linear polyamines; NCI; Protonation sequence; QTAIM; Structural preferences; Topological preferences; Trien
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- National Research Foundation of South Africa [87777]
- University of Pretoria
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A large set of lowest and medium energy conformers of aliphatic tetramine trien was used to uncover structural-topological preferences of poliamines. Numerous common structural features among HL and H2L tautomers were identified, e.g., H-atoms of protonated functional groups are always involved in intramolecular NH center dot center dot center dot N interactions and they result in as large and as many as possible rings in lowest energy conformers. Largest, 11-membered, molecular rings stabilize a molecule most and they appeared to be strain free whereas 5-memebred intramolecular rings were most strained (all formed due to NH center dot center dot center dot N interactions). The CH center dot center dot center dot HC interactions with QTAIM-defined atomic interaction lines were also found but, surprisingly, mainly in the lowest energy conformers of HL tautomers. According to the non-covalent interaction-based (NCI) analysis, 5-memebered rings formed by CH center dot center dot center dot HC interactions are not strained and, in general, 3D NCI isosurfaces mimic those obtained for weaker NH center dot center dot center dot N interactions. Also, 3D NCI isosurfaces found for NH center dot center dot center dot N and CH center dot center dot center dot HC interactions, regardless whether linked or not by an atomic interaction line, appeared to be indistinguishable. Using lowest energy conformers, theoretically predicted mixture of primary (HLp) and secondary (HLs) forms of trien was found to be in accord with the literature reports; using linear conformers resulted in predicting HLs as the only tautomer formed. In contrast to HF, the overall performance of B3LYP was found satisfactory for the purpose of the study.
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