Microhydration Structures of Protonated Oxazole
Posted on 2019-08-22 - 18:06
The
initial microhydration structures of the protonated pharmaceutical
building block oxazole (Ox), H+Ox-Wn≤4, are determined by infrared photodissociation (IRPD)
spectroscopy combined with quantum chemical dispersion-corrected density
functional theory calculations (B3LYP-D3/aug-cc-pVTZ). Protonation
of Ox, achieved by chemical ionization in a H2-containing
plasma, occurs at the most basic N atom. The analysis of systematic
shifts of the NH and OH stretch vibrations as a function of the cluster
size provides a clear picture for the preferred cluster growth in
H+Ox-Wn. For n = 1–3, the IRPD spectra are dominated by a single isomer,
and microhydration of H+Ox with hydrophilic protic W ligands
occurs by attachment of a hydrogen-bonded (H-bonded) Wn solvent cluster to the acidic NH group via an NH···O
H-bond. Such H-bonded networks are stabilized by strong cooperativity
effects. This is in contrast to previously studied hydrophobic ligands,
which prefer interior ion solvation. The strength of the NH···O
ionic H-bond increases with the degree of hydration because of the
increasing proton affinity (PA) of the Wn cluster. At n = 4, proton-transferred structures
of the type Ox-H+Wn become
energetically competitive with H+Ox-Wn structures, because differences in solvation energies can
compensate for the differences in the PAs, and barrierless proton
transfer from H+Ox to the Wn solvent subcluster becomes feasible. Indeed, the IRPD spectrum of
the n = 4 cluster is more complex suggesting the
presence of more than one isomer, although it lacks unequivocal evidence
for the predicted intracluster proton transfer.
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Chatterjee, Kuntal; Dopfer, Otto (2019). Microhydration Structures of Protonated Oxazole. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06587
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