{"id":13083,"date":"2014-11-29T09:48:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T09:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=13083"},"modified":"2016-06-18T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T06:53:09","slug":"halogen-bonds-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=13083","title":{"rendered":"Halogen bonds: Part 1."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"13083\">\n<p>\n\tHalogen bonds are less familiar cousins to hydrogen bonds. They are defined as <em>non-covalent interactions<\/em> (NCI) between a halogen atom (<strong>X<\/strong>, acting as a Lewis acid, in accepting electrons) and a Lewis base <strong>D<\/strong> donating electrons; <strong>D&#8230;.X-A<\/strong> <em>vs<\/em> <strong>D&#8230;H-A<\/strong>. They are superficially surprising, since both D and X look like electron rich species. In fact the electron distribution around X-X (A=X) is highly anisotropic, with the electron rich distribution (the &quot;donor&quot;) &nbsp;being in a torus encircling the bond, and an electron deficient region (the &quot;acceptor&quot;) lying along the axis of the bond.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI will start this simple exploration of halogen bonds by a crystal structure search, defined as below, where <strong>A<\/strong> in the above definition is also any halogen, the donor D is a tri-alkyl nitrogen donating <em>via<\/em> a lone pair, the green contact is defined as an intermolecular distance equal to or shorter than the sum of the van der Waals radii together with an angle subtended as N&#8230;7A&#8230;7A.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halogen-search.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"halogen-search\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13085\" height=\"108\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halogen-search.jpg\" width=\"176\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe result of such a search is shown below:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halogen-search1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"halogen-search1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13086\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halogen-search1.jpg\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halogen-search1.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/halogen-search1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\tThere are surprises.\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n\t\tThe sparsity of hits. If the search is repeated with <strong>A<\/strong> = N, O or S, only six further hits are obtained, all with <strong>A=N <\/strong>and X=I with one example of X=Br.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tThere is a&nbsp;hot-spot&nbsp;at an N&#8230;I distance of 2.37&Aring;, a massive 1.2&Aring; shorter than the combined van der Waals radii of N and I, and with a linear N&#8230;I-I angle.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n\tThis next search replaces <strong>A<\/strong> with a carbon instead of a halogen. The hot-spot moves to ~2.8&Aring;, still much shorter than the combined van der Waals radii, &nbsp;and there are rather more hits this time.<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/N-IC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"N-IC\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13095\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/N-IC.jpg\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/N-IC.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/N-IC-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI will next start with a simple exploration of how the electron density on I<sub>2<\/sub> changes when it accepts an electron from a donor <strong>D<\/strong> (&omega;B97XD\/Def2-TZVPP-PP calculation). The following is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=12969\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"WATOC2014 Conference report. Concepts for Organizing Chemical Knowledge\">electron density difference<\/a> isosurface (0.002au) showing how the density changes. The red phase is <em>increased<\/em> density, which adds <em>exo<\/em> to the bond, and the blue is <em>decreased<\/em> density, mostly at the iodine atom but also in the centre of the bond. These changes have axial symmetry along the axis of the I-I bond.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"halogen-search1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13086\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/I2_den_sub.cub.xyz;isosurface colour red blue wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/I2_den_sub.cub.jvxl translucent;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/I2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs usual, if you want to view a 3D model of this surface, click on the graphic above.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis next difference map shows the inverse, <em>i.e.<\/em> what happens when an electron is removed from I<sub>2<\/sub> to form a radical cation. Again blue&nbsp;shows decreased density, and this is not axially symmetric, coming from the &pi;-system (more specifically just one of the &pi;-MOs; &nbsp;the orthogonal &pi;-manifold actually gains red density). This is a nice way of showing that&nbsp;&nbsp;I<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp; accepts electrons into the &sigma;-manifold and looses them from the &pi;-manifold. In other words,&nbsp;the density responds in a very anisotropic way to addition or loss of electrons.<sup>&dagger;<\/sup>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"halogen-search1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13086\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/I2_den_sub.cub.xyz;isosurface colour red blue wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/I2_den_sub.cub.jvxl translucent;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/I2+.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn part 2, I will focus on one of the examples,&nbsp;HEKZOO<span id=\"cite_ITEM-13083-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-13083-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> as published in 2012<span id=\"cite_ITEM-13083-1\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-13083-1\">[2]<\/a><\/span>. This is a complex between the base DABCO and molecular iodine, in which the DABCO donates electrons into that I<sub>2<\/sub> &sigma;-manifold.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\t<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup>There are only three significant hits with D=di-alkyloxygen rather than nitrogen. The first two<span id=\"cite_ITEM-13083-2\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-13083-2\">[3]<\/a><\/span>,<span id=\"cite_ITEM-13083-3\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-13083-3\">[4]<\/a><\/span> involve X-A=I-I with a D&#8230;X distance of 2.8Aring; and the third X-A=Cl-Cl.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\t<sup>&dagger;<\/sup>I have now added also the density difference map for the base DABCO as a model for the donor D. Note that for this base, when an electron is lost to form the radical cation, the density reduces not just at the nitrogen lone pairs, but also the adjacent C-C bonds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DABCO Density\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13086\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DABCO_den_sub.cub.xyz;isosurface colour red blue wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DABCO_den_sub.cub.jvxl translucent;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DABCO.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\tThis post is the first I have written since hearing the very sad news about the death of Paul Schleyer. He was a frequent commentator on these posts, and his towering presence over the last sixty years in chemistry will be sorely missed.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"citizen-ex__pane\" style=\"\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol class=\"kcite-bibliography csl-bib-body\"><li id=\"ITEM-13083-0\">Peuronen, A.., Valkonen, A.., Kortelainen, M.., Rissanen, K.., and Lahtinen, M.., \"CCDC 879935: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination\", 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/ccyjn03\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/ccyjn03<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-13083-1\">A. Peuronen, A. Valkonen, M. Kortelainen, K. Rissanen, and M. Lahtinen, \"Halogen Bonding-Based \u201cCatch and Release\u201d: Reversible Solid-State Entrapment of Elemental Iodine with Monoalkylated DABCO Salts\", <i>Crystal Growth &amp; Design<\/i>, vol. 12, pp. 4157-4169, 2012. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/cg300669t\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/cg300669t<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-13083-2\">H. Bock, and S. Holl, \"CCDC 147854: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination\", 2001. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/cc4yvhd\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/cc4yvhd<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-13083-3\">Walbaum, C.., Pantenburg, I.., and Meyer, G.., \"CCDC 837899: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination\", 2012. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/ccx3x0x\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/ccx3x0x<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 13083 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halogen bonds are less familiar cousins to hydrogen bonds. They are defined as non-covalent interactions (NCI) between a halogen atom (X, acting as a Lewis acid, in accepting electrons) and a Lewis base D donating electrons; D&#8230;.X-A vs D&#8230;H-A. They are superficially surprising, since both D and X look like electron rich species. 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