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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
卷 125, 期 33, 页码 7125-7137出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05962
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- United States Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences [DESC0008550]
This article illustrates the inaccuracy of low-order multipole moments in explaining intermolecular interactions, showing that they can lead to misunderstandings. Specific examples are used to demonstrate this point.
Multipole moments such as charge, dipole, and quadrupole are often invoked to rationalize intermolecular phenomena, but a low-order multipole expansion is rarely a valid description of electrostatics at the length scales that characterize nonbonded interactions. This is illustrated by examining several common misunderstandings rooted in erroneous electrostatic arguments. First, the notion that steric repulsion originates in Coulomb interactions is easily disproved by dissecting the interaction potential for Ar-2. Second, the Hunter-Sanders model of pi-pi interactions, which is based on quadrupolar electrostatics, is shown to have no basis in accurate calculations. Third, curved buckybowls exhibit unusually large dipole moments, but these are ancillary to the forces that control their intermolecular interactions, as illustrated by two examples involving corannulene. Finally, the assumption that interactions between water and small anions are dictated by the dipole moment of H2O is shown to be false in the case of binary halide-water complexes. These examples present a compelling case that electrostatic explanations based on low-order multipole moments are very often counterfactual for nonbonded interactions at close range and should not be taken seriously in the absence of additional justification.
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