{"id":16208,"date":"2016-04-15T10:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T09:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=16208"},"modified":"2016-06-26T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T07:28:44","slug":"azane-oxide-a-tautomer-of-hydroxylamine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=16208","title":{"rendered":"Azane oxide, a tautomer of hydroxylamine."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"16208\">\n<p>\n\tIn the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=16118\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a> I described how hydronium hydroxide or H<sub>3<\/sub><font size=\"2\">O<\/font><sup>+<\/sup>&#8230;HO<sup>&#8211;<\/sup>, an intermolecular tautomer of water, has recently been observed captured inside an organic cage<span id=\"cite_ITEM-16208-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-16208-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span> and how the free-standing species in water can be captured computationally with the help of solvating water bridges. Here I explore <strong>azane oxide<\/strong> or<span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"> H<sub>3<\/sub>N<sup>+<\/sup>-O<sup>&#8211;<\/sup><\/span>,<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup> a tautomer of the better known hydroxylamine (<span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">H<sub>2<\/sub>N-OH<\/span>).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe usual search<span id=\"cite_ITEM-16208-1\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-16208-1\">[2]<\/a><\/span> of the Cambridge structure database reveals only two (related) entries<span id=\"cite_ITEM-16208-2\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-16208-2\">[3]<\/a><\/span>,<span id=\"cite_ITEM-16208-3\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-16208-3\">[4]<\/a><\/span> the second reported in 2015.<span id=\"cite_ITEM-16208-4\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-16208-4\">[5]<\/a><\/span>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NH3-8\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CUPZAQ.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NH3-8\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15936\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/','JmolAppletSigned.jar');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CUPZAQ.cif;spin 3;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CUPZAQ1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNow, location of hydrogen atoms is always a bit tricky, but here we see two species H<sub>3<\/sub>N<sup>+<\/sup>-OH&#8230;<sup>&#8211;<\/sup>O-<sup>+<\/sup>NH<sub>3<\/sub> connected by a strong hydrogen bond of 1.54&Aring; (click on the above image to see this packing). However, it is noteworthy that the N-O bonds for each of these species are exactly the same length (1.412&Aring;); one might have imagined that whether the oxygen carries a proton or not would affect its bond length to nitrogen. There is here a strong hint that energetically the azane oxide might be relatively low in energy relative to hydroxylamine and perhaps that the zwitterionic form might be favoured when captured with hydrogen bonds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSo certainly time for a computational exploration of this species. I am using the three water bridges as before, each comprised of three water molecules and the &omega;B97XD\/6-311++G(d,p)\/SCRF=water method. In fact the structure optimises<span id=\"cite_ITEM-16208-5\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-16208-5\">[6]<\/a><\/span> to a delightful propeller-like geometry in which bridges are formed from both two AND three waters across the ion-pair, with overall three-fold C<sub>3<\/sub> symmetry (i.e. chiral! Indeed, this species has a predicted optical rotation of 40&deg; at 589nm).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NH3-8\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15936\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/','JmolAppletSigned.jar');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/H3NO-819.586801.log; frame 36;spin 3;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/H3NO-9H2O.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHydroxylamine itself has a less symmetric arrangement of hydrogen bonds<span id=\"cite_ITEM-16208-6\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-16208-6\">[7]<\/a><\/span>, with a free energy in fact very similar (within 1 kcal\/mol) to the ion-pair isomer. Here, a stochastic (statistical) exploration of all the various arrangements of water would be needed to be confident that the lowest energy form had been located. I would note that the N-O bond lengths in the ion-pair and neutral forms are respectively 1.399 and&nbsp;1.435&Aring;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NH3-8\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15936\" onclick=\"jmolInitialize('..\/Jmol\/','JmolAppletSigned.jar');jmolSetAppletColor('white');jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/H2NOH-819.58558.log; frame 170;spin 3;');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/H2NOH-9H2O.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCertainly, this very brief computational look at <span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>azane oxide<\/strong><\/span> suggests that concentrations of this species in aqueous solutions of hydroxylamine might be appreciable (detectable). Its &quot;trapping&quot; inside a suitably designed cavity must be&nbsp;a realistic possibility (the cavity used to trap hydronium hydroxide probably does not have the correct dimensions for this purpose), as indeed illustrated in the two crystal structures noted above.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\t<sup>&Dagger;<\/sup> I have represented this species in ionic form, but you may find text books showing it in dative form, or H<sub>3<\/sub>N&rarr;O. My personal inclination is to always prefer the ionic form, if only because it enables connections\/analogies such as the one here to hydronium hydroxide to be more easily made.<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol class=\"kcite-bibliography csl-bib-body\"><li id=\"ITEM-16208-0\">M. Stapf, W. Seichter, and M. Mazik, \"Unique Hydrogen\u2010Bonded Complex of Hydronium and Hydroxide Ions\", <i>Chemistry \u2013 A European Journal<\/i>, vol. 21, pp. 6350-6354, 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/chem.201406383\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/chem.201406383<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-16208-1\">H. Rzepa, \"Search for Azane oxide\", 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/hpc\/380\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/hpc\/380<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-16208-2\">Fischer, Dennis., Klapotke, Thomas M.., and Stierstorfer, Jorg., \"CCDC 1054611: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination\", 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/cc14ddqn\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/cc14ddqn<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-16208-3\">Fischer, D.., Klapotke, T.M.., and Stierstorfer, J.., \"CCDC 827687: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination\", 2012. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/ccws8lh\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5517\/ccws8lh<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-16208-4\">D. Fischer, T.M. Klap\u00f6tke, and J. Stierstorfer, \"1,5\u2010Di(nitramino)tetrazole: High Sensitivity and Superior Explosive Performance\", <i>Angewandte Chemie International Edition<\/i>, vol. 54, pp. 10299-10302, 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/anie.201502919\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/anie.201502919<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-16208-5\">H.S. Rzepa, \"H 21 N 1 O 10\", 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/192000\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/192000<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-16208-6\">H.S. Rzepa, \"H 21 N 1 O 10\", 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/192001\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/ch\/192001<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 16208 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post I described how hydronium hydroxide or H3O+&#8230;HO&#8211;, an intermolecular tautomer of water, has recently been observed captured inside an organic cage and how the free-standing species in water can be captured computationally with the help of solvating water bridges. 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The measured concentrations [H3O+] \u2261 [OH-]\u00a0give\u00a0rise of course to the well-known\u00a0pH 7 of pure water, and converting this ionization constant to a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10184,"url":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=10184","url_meta":{"origin":16208,"position":4},"title":"Intermediates in oxime formation from hydroxylamine and propanone: now you see them, now you don&#8217;t.","author":"Henry Rzepa","date":"April 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent theme here has been to subject to scrutiny well-known mechanisms supposedly involving intermediates. These transients can often involve the creation\/annihilation of charge separation resulting from \u00a0proton transfers, something that a cyclic mechanism can avoid. 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