Chalcogen-bonded complexes of some carbon dioxide analogues

Ab initio calculations have been carried out on the sulphur-bonded van der Waals complexes formed between the carbon dioxide analogues carbonyl sulphide, carbon disulphide and thiocarbonyl selenide, and the common electron donors ammonia, water, phosphine and hydrogen sulphide. The structures of these twelve complexes are all similar, and involve an approximately linear XCS center dot center dot center dot Y fragment (X = O, S, Se; Y = N, O, P, S). These structures contrast with those of the oxygen-bound complexes of carbon dioxide, carbonyl sulphide and carbonyl selenide reported earlier which, with the exception of the hydrogen sulphide species, are characterized by four-membered rings with varying orientations involving the C, O, H and Y atoms. The molecular structures, interaction energies and vibrational spectra have been studied, and the variations in these properties have been correlated with the complex structures and with the molecular quadrupole moments of the acid monomers. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.