HO-C=O




 






Deuterium


Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constants


in trans and cis Hydrocarboxyl Radical


 







 
 
Deuterium nqcc's in both the cis and trans conformers of DOCO,  as well as an ro structure, were determined by Oyama et al. [1].
 
cis-HOCO trans-HOCO
 
 
 
Calculations of the deuterium nqcc's in DOCO were made here on the ro structure of Oyama et al., on an approximate re structure derived by Botschwina, and on an ropt structure derived here by MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ optimization.  These are compared with the experimental nqcc's in Tables 1 and 2.  Structure parameters are given in Table 3.

 


 




In Tables 1 and 2, 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 of the B3LYP/6-31G(df,3p) model for calculation of the nqcc's. 
 

 








 






Table 1.  D nqcc's in cis-DOCO (kHz).  Calculation was made on the ro [1], re [2], and ropt structures.
 








Calc/ro Calc/re Calc/ropt
Expt. [1]
 





Xaa - 101.0 - 118.3 - 114.7 - 104.(11)
Xbb 230.8 266.8 259.1 255.(13)
Xcc - 129.8 - 148.5 - 144.4 - 151. *
|Xab|     3.6     3.3     1.7
RMS 18. (11 %) 11. (6.4 %) 8. (4.5 %)
RSD   1.1 (0.9 %)   1.1 (0.9 %) 1.1 (0.9 %)
 


 







* Calculated here from zero trace condition.
 
 






Table 2.  D nqcc's in trans-DOCO (kHz).  Calculation was made on the ro [1], re [2], and ropt structures.
 








Calc/ro Calc/re Calc/ropt
Expt. [1]
 





Xaa   73.4   82.0   77.5 71.2(78)
Xbb   72.2   76.0   76.0
Xcc - 145.6 - 158.0 - 153.5
|Xab| 187.4 204.9 198.4
 
 
 
 
Table 3.  Hydrocarboxyl.  Molecular structure parameters, ro [1],  re [2], ropt (Å and degrees).
 
  cis-HOCO   ro   re   ropt

HO 0.991 0.971 0.9752
OC 1.329 1.328 1.3321
C=O 1.184 1.181 1.1881
HOC 107.3 108.0 108.07
OC=O 131.1 130.3 130.74
 
trans-HOCO
HO 0.974 0.962 0.9663
OC
1.342 1.340 1.3438
C=O 1.181 1.176 1.1837
HOC 107.4 107.8 107.40
OC=O 127.4 127.1 127.20
 
 

[1]  Y.Oyama, W.Funato, Y.Sumiyoshi, and Y.Endo, J.Chem.Phys. 134,174303(2011).

[2]  P.Botschwina, Mol.Phys. 103,1441(2005).

 








 








Salicylaldehyde H2CO3 HC(=O)OH CF3C(=O)OH
 

 








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