posted on 2014-11-20, 00:00authored byCecilie
L. Andersen, Christine S. Jensen, Kasper Mackeprang, Lin Du, Solvejg Jørgensen, Henrik G. Kjaergaard
The weakly interacting complexes
of dimethylamine with dimethyl
ether (DMA–DME) and with dimethylsulfide (DMA–DMS) have
been detected in the gas phase using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
at room temperature. The observed redshift of the fundamental NH-stretching
frequency was found to be extremely small with only 5 and 19 cm–1 for DMA–DME and DMA–DMS, respectively.
The experimentally determined integrated absorbance has been combined
with a calculated oscillator strength to determine an equilibrium
constant of 2 × 10–3 and 4 × 10–3 for the DMA–DME and DMA–DMS complexes, respectively.
The topological analyses reveal that several hydrogen bond interactions
are present in the complexes. The calculated binding energies, geometric
parameters, observed redshifts, and topological analyses suggest that
oxygen and sulfur are hydrogen bond acceptors of similar strength.