TY - JOUR
T1 - Crystal engineering using the unconventional hydrogen bond. Synthesis, structure, and theoretical investigation of cyclotrigallazane
AU - Campbell, John P.
AU - Hwang, Jen Wei
AU - Young, Victor G.
AU - Von Dreele, Robert B.
AU - Cramer, Christopher J.
AU - Gladfelter, Wayne L.
PY - 1998/1/28
Y1 - 1998/1/28
N2 - Cyclotrigallazane, [H2GaNH2]3, was prepared by condensing liquid ammonia onto solid trimethylamine gallane, GaH3(NMe3), at -78°C and allowing the mixture to warm to room temperature and was characterized by IR, mass spectroscopy, elemental analysis, single-crystal X-ray, and neutron powder diffraction. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction at T = -167°C established that the (GaN)3 ring was in the chair conformation. Neutron powder diffraction data collected at 25°C on the fully deuterated analogue were analyzed with Rietveld refinement to give an average bond distance for Ga-D of 1.56(3) Å and a N-D of 1.04(5) Å. The intermolecular interactions were dominated by four Ga-H···H-N unconventional hydrogen bonds per molecule that form a chain parallel to the crystallographic a axis. The crystallographically equivalent D D bond lengths are 1.97 Å. Calculations revealed that in the gas phase, twist-boat conformations are preferred over chairs for cyclotrigallazane and the related boron and aluminum compounds by 0.9 to 2.6 kcal/mol at correlated levels of electronic structure theory. For cyclotriborazane and cyclotrigallazane, calculations suggest that each H···H hydrogen bond contributes about 3 kcal/mol to the binding energy (relative to the chair monomer); this value is very slightly higher for cyclotrialumazane.
AB - Cyclotrigallazane, [H2GaNH2]3, was prepared by condensing liquid ammonia onto solid trimethylamine gallane, GaH3(NMe3), at -78°C and allowing the mixture to warm to room temperature and was characterized by IR, mass spectroscopy, elemental analysis, single-crystal X-ray, and neutron powder diffraction. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction at T = -167°C established that the (GaN)3 ring was in the chair conformation. Neutron powder diffraction data collected at 25°C on the fully deuterated analogue were analyzed with Rietveld refinement to give an average bond distance for Ga-D of 1.56(3) Å and a N-D of 1.04(5) Å. The intermolecular interactions were dominated by four Ga-H···H-N unconventional hydrogen bonds per molecule that form a chain parallel to the crystallographic a axis. The crystallographically equivalent D D bond lengths are 1.97 Å. Calculations revealed that in the gas phase, twist-boat conformations are preferred over chairs for cyclotrigallazane and the related boron and aluminum compounds by 0.9 to 2.6 kcal/mol at correlated levels of electronic structure theory. For cyclotriborazane and cyclotrigallazane, calculations suggest that each H···H hydrogen bond contributes about 3 kcal/mol to the binding energy (relative to the chair monomer); this value is very slightly higher for cyclotrialumazane.
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U2 - 10.1021/ja971478e
DO - 10.1021/ja971478e
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032573865
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 120
SP - 521
EP - 531
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 3
ER -