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Nitrogen


Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constants


in Pentafluorobenzonitrile


 








 








 


 





Calculation of the nitrogen nqcc's in pentafluorobenzonitrile was made here on a molecular structure given by B3P86/6-31G(3d,3p) optimization.  These are compared with the experimental nqcc's of Kamaee et al. [1,2] in Table 1.  Structure parameters are given in Table 2, atomic coordinates in Table 3, and rotational constants in Table 4.

 








Subscripts a,b,c refer to the principal axes of the inertia tensor.  ETA = (Xbb - Xcc)/Xaa = (Xxx - Xyy)/Xzz, where x,y,z are principal axes of the nqcc tensor.

RMS is the root mean square differene between calculated and experimental nqcc's (percent of average experimental nqcc).  RSD is the calibration residual standard deviation of the B3PW91/6-311+G(df,pd) model for calculation of the efg's/nqcc's.

 








 








   







Table 1. Nitrogen nqcc's in Pentafluorobenzonitrile (MHz).  Calculation was made on the B3P86/6-31G(3d,3p) ropt structure.

 









Calc.
Expt. [1,2] *

   







14N Xaa - 4.420 - 4.3871(8)


Xbb
2.479
2.4096(15)


Xcc
1.941
1.9776(15)


ETA - 0.122



 







RMS
0.049 (1.7 %)




RSD
0.030 (1.3 %)



 







 








* Calculated here from experimental 1.5Xaa = -6.5807(12) and 0.25(Xbb - Xcc) = 0.10804(68) MHz using Kisiel's program QDIAG.

 








 
 




Table 2.  Pentafluorobenzonitrile and Benzonitrile.  B3P86/6-31G(3d,3p) ropt molecular structure parameters (Å and degrees).
 







C6X5CN X = F X = H









C(1)C(2) 1.3977 1.3988



C(2)C(3) 1.3860 1.3871



C(3)C(4) 1.3910 1.3909



C(1)C(7) 1.4207 1.4290



C(7)N 1.1569 1.1580



C(2)X(2) 1.3216 1.0839



C(3)X(3) 1.3232 1.0844



C(4)X(4) 1.3196 1.0849



C(6)C(1)C(2) 118.37 120.21



C(1)C(2)C(3) 121.11 119.61



C(2)C(3)C(4) 119.47 120.18



C(3)C(4)C(5) 120.48 120.21



C(1)C(2)X(2) 119.88 119.54



C(2)C(3)X(3) 120.62 119.71



 








 














Table 3.  Pentafluorobenzonitrile.  Atomic coordinates, ropt.
 







 a (Å)
 b (Å)







N - 3.7902
0.0

C(7) - 2.6332
0.0

C(1) - 1.2125
0.0

C(2,6) - 0.4965 ± 1.2004

C(3,5)
0.8895 ± 1.2075

C(4)
1.5799
0.0

F(2,6) - 1.1432 ± 2.3529

F(3,5)
1.5576 ± 2.3496

F(4)
2.8995
0.0


 








 












Table 4.  Pentafluorobenzonitrile.  Rotational Constants (MHz).
 




Calc ropt     Expt. [1,2]





A 1032.0 1029.368635(32)

B   767.5   764.5952880(91)

C   440.2   438.7218484(60)



 









 









[1] M.Kamaee, M.Sun, H.Luong, and J. van Wijngaarden, J.Phys.Chem. A 119(41),10279(2015).

[2] M.Kamaee and J. van Wijngaarden, Abstract WJ13, 69th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. 2014.

 









M.Krüger and H.Dreizler, Z.Naturforsch. 47a,865(1992):  Xaa = -4.51(41), Xbb = 2.50(23), Xcc = 2.01(23) MHz.


 









 








Benzonitrile 2,3-Difluorobenzonitrile

o-Fluorobenzonitrile o-Tolunitrile

m-Fluorobenzonitrile m-Tolunitrile

p-Fluorobenzonitrile p-Tolunitrile

 








 








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