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Chlorine


Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constants

in Isoflurane


(1-Chloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethyl-difluoromethyl ether)
 
 
AG AT
 
 
Calculation was made of the chlorine nqcc tensors in isoflurane - AG and AT - on ropt structures given by PBE1PBE/6-311+G(3d,3p) optimization.  These nqcc's are compared with the experimental values of Lesarri et al. [1] in Tables 1 - 4.  Structure parameters are given in Table 5.  Rotational constants and dipole moments are given in Table 6.
 
In Tables 1 and 2, subscripts a,b,c refer to the principal axes of the inertia tensor; x,y,z to principal axes of the nqcc tensor.  Øz,CCl is the angle between the z-principal and CCl bond axes.
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 nqcc's, which may be taken as an estimate of the uncertainty in the calculated nqcc's (notwithstanding inaccuracies in the optimized structure).
 

  








   







Table 1.  Chlorine nqcc tensors in Isoflurane, AG (MHz).  Calculation was made on the PBE1PBE/6-311+G(3d,3p) ropt structure.
 



Calc.
Expt. [1]
   






35Cl Xaa 33.20 33.263(29)
Xbb - 66.53 - 65.567(29)
Xcc 33.33 32.303(29)
Xab 13.70
Xac   2.36
Xbc - 24.75
 
RMS 0.82 (1.9 %)
RSD 0.49 (1.1 %)
 
Xxx 34.84
Xyy 39.28
Xzz - 74.12
  ETA 0.0600
Øz,CCl 0.94
 

   
 
   







Table 2.  Chlorine nqcc tensors in Isoflurane, AG (MHz).  Calculation was made on the PBE1PBE/6-311+G(3d,3p) ropt structure.
 



Calc.
Expt. [1]
   






37Cl Xaa 26.05 26.129(37)
Xbb - 52.39 - 51.660(39)
Xcc 26.34 25.532(39)
Xab 11.19
Xac   1.94
Xbc - 19.36
 
RMS 0.63 (1.8 %)
RSD 0.44 (1.1 %)
 
 
 
   







Table 3.  Chlorine nqcc tensors in Isoflurane, AT (MHz).  Calculation was made on the PBE1PBE/6-311+G(3d,3p) ropt structure.
 



Calc.
Expt. [1]
   






35Cl Xaa 36.61 35.981(15)
Xbb - 74.92 - 73.84(2)
Xcc 38.31 37.86(2)
Xab 13.67
Xac - 0.32
Xbc - 7.21
 
RMS 0.77 (1.6 %)
RSD 0.49 (1.1 %)
 
Xxx 37.30
Xyy 39.71
Xzz - 77.02
  ETA 0.0313
Øz,CCl 1.15
 
 
 
   







Table 4.  Chlorine nqcc tensors in Isoflurane, AT (MHz).  Calculation was made on the PBE1PBE/6-311+G(3d,3p) ropt structure.
 



Calc.
Expt. [1]
   






37Cl Xaa 28.75 28.231(11)
Xbb - 58.92 - 58.040(15)
Xcc 30.17 29.809(15)
Xab 11.20
Xac - 0.20
Xbc - 5.89
 
RMS 0.62 (1.6 %)
RSD 0.44 (1.1 %)
 
 
 
Table 5.  Isoflurane.  Selected structure parameters, ropt (Å and degrees).  Complete structures are given here in Z-matrix format.
  AG   AT
C(1)Cl 1.7853 1.7704
C(1)C(2) 1.5310 1.5311
C(1)O 1.3790 1.3919
OC(meth) 1.3741 1.3639
C(2)C(1)O 106.83 107.09
C(2)C(1)Cl 109.82 109.92
  OC(1)Cl 112.43 111.64
C(1)OC(meth) 115.62 116.54
C(1)C(2)OC(meth) 167.44 138.84


 







 
 
Table 6.  35Cl-Isoflurane.  Rotational constants (MHz) and electric dipole moments (D).  
 
                  Isoflurane AG                  Isoflurane AT
   Calc.
 Expt. [1]  Calc.      Expt. [1]
A 1627.8 1630.8870(12) 1578.4 1569.03462(23)
B   753.4   751.128775(98)   872.0   876.13130(12)
C   633.1   631.72101(17)   657.6   658.486625(98)
 
a|   0.55   1.42
b|   1.48   0.38
c|   0.92   1.50
 
 
Enflurane 2-Chloroethyl ethyl sulfide Chloromethyl ethyl ether
Chloromethyl methyl ether
 
 
[1] A.Lesarri, A.Vega-Toribio, R.D.Suenram, D.J.Brugh, D.Nori-Shargh, J.E.Boggs, and J.-U.Grabow, PCCP, 13,6610(2011).
 

 








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