CH2Cl




 









Chlorine


Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constants


in the Chloromethyl Radical


 







 
 
Calculation was made of the Cl nqcc tensors in the chloromethyl radical on a structure given by MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ optimization (assuming C2V symmetry), ropt; and on this structure but with empirically corrected CCl bond length, ~re.  These are compared with the experimental nqcc's of Bailleux [1] in Table 1.  Structure parameters are given in Table 2, rotational constants in Table 3.
 
In Table 1, 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 difference between calculated and experimental diagonal nqcc's (percentage of the average of the magnitudes of the experimental nqcc's).  RSD is the calibration residual standard deviation for the B1LYP/TZV(3df,2p) model for calculation of the chlorine nqcc's, which may be taken as an estimate of the uncertainty in the calculated nqcc's.

 







 
 
   






Table 1.  Chlorine nqcc's in CH2Cl Radical (MHz).  Calculation was made on the ropt and ~re structures.
   








Calc. ropt Calc. ~re
Expt. [1]
   





Xaa(35Cl) - 65.74 - 65.50 - 66.0697(77)
Xbb - Xcc 19.80 19.95 19.567(164)
Xbb 42.77 42.73 42.818 *
Xcc 22.97 22.78 23.251 *
ETA - 0.301 - 0.304
 
RMS 0.25 (0.57 %) 0.43 (0.97 %)
RSD 0.49 (1.1 %) 0.49 (1.1 %)
 
Xaa(37Cl) - 51.81 - 51.62 - 52.3928(140)
Xbb - Xcc 15.60 15.72 16.467(236)
Xbb 33.71 33.68 34.430 *
Xcc 18.10 17.95 17.963 *
ETA - 0.301 - 0.304
 
RMS 0.54 (1.6 %) 0.62 (1.8 %)
RSD 0.44 (1.1 %) 0.44 (1.1 %)
 

 
* Calculated here from experimental Xaa (= - Xbb - Xcc) and Xbb - Xcc.
 
 
Table 2.  Chloromethyl Radical.  Molecular structure parameters (Å and degrees).
 
  ropt   ~re
HC 1.0730 1.0730
CCl 1.6932 1.6901
HCCl 117.84 117.84
 
 
 
Table 3.  Chloromethyl Radical.  Rotational Constants (MHz).  35Cl species.
 
  ropt   ~re Expt. [1]
A 278 470.1 278 470.1 274 317.60(52)
B   15 987.1   16 042.8   15 948.00830(79)
C   15 119.1   15 168.9   15 057.06934(79)
 
 
[1] S.Bailleux, P.Dréan, Z.Zelinger, M.Godon, J.Mol.Spectrosc. 229,140(2005).

 








 








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