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Hydrogen Bonding Versus Halogen Bonding: Spectroscopic Investigation Of Gas-Phase Complexes Involving Bromide And Chloromethanes, Hayden T. Robinson, Christian T. Haakansson, Timothy R. Corkish, Peter D. Watson, Allan J. Mckinley, Duncan A. Wild
Hydrogen Bonding Versus Halogen Bonding: Spectroscopic Investigation Of Gas-Phase Complexes Involving Bromide And Chloromethanes, Hayden T. Robinson, Christian T. Haakansson, Timothy R. Corkish, Peter D. Watson, Allan J. Mckinley, Duncan A. Wild
Research outputs 2022 to 2026
Hydrogen bonding and halogen bonding are important non-covalent interactions that are known to occur in large molecular systems, such as in proteins and crystal structures. Although these interactions are important on a large scale, studying hydrogen and halogen bonding in small, gas-phase chemical species allows for the binding strengths to be determined and compared at a fundamental level. In this study, anion photoelectron spectra are presented for the gas-phase complexes involving bromide and the four chloromethanes, CH3Cl, CH2Cl2, CHCl3, and CCl4. The stabilisation energy and electron binding energy associated with each complex are determined experimentally, and the spectra are rationalised …