{"id":19347,"date":"2018-01-13T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=19347"},"modified":"2018-02-25T08:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T08:44:23","slug":"hypervalent-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=19347","title":{"rendered":"Hypervalent hydrogen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"19347\">\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=15823\">discussed<\/a> the molecule the molecule CH<sub>3<\/sub>F<sup>2-<\/sup> a while back. It was a very rare computed example of a system where the added two electrons populate the higher valence shells known as Rydberg orbitals as an alternative to populating the C-F antibonding \u03c3-orbital to produce CH<sub>3<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup> and F<sup>&#8211;<\/sup>. The net result was the creation of a weak C-F &#8220;hyperbond&#8221;, in which the C-F region has an inner conventional bond, with an outer &#8220;sheath&#8221; encircling the first bond. But this system very easily dissociates to CH<sub>3<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup> and F<sup>&#8211;<\/sup> and is hardly a viable candidate for experimental detection.\u00a0 In an effort to &#8220;tune&#8221; this effect to see if a better candidate for such detection might be found, I tried\u00a0CMe<sub>3<\/sub>F<sup>2-<\/sup>. Here is its story.<\/p>\n<p>The calculation<sup>\u2021<\/sup> is at the\u00a0\u03c9B97XD\/Def2-TZVPPD\/SCRF=water level (water is here used as an approximate model for a condensed environment, helping to bind the two added electrons).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An NBO (Natural Bond orbital) analysis reveals a total Rydberg orbital population of 1.186e and the following bond indices; F 0.853, C 3.977, C(methyl) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>4.051<\/strong><\/span>, H(*3) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1.332<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0The latter corresponds to the three methyl hydrogens aligned antiperiplanar to the C-F bond.<\/li>\n<li>To put this value into context, the hydrogen in the FHF<sup>&#8211;<\/sup> anion has an NBO H bond index of 0.724, and the bridging hydrogens in diborane only have a value of 0.988. Even the hexa-coordinate hydride system [Co<sub>6<\/sub>H(CO)<sub>15<\/sub>]<sup>\u2013<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=10839\">discussed in an earlier blog<\/a>\u00a0 has an H bond index of just 0.86. Actually, coordination of six or even higher for hydrogen is no longer rare; some\u00a028 crystal structures of the type HM<sub>6<\/sub> (M=metal) are known (it would be useful to find out if any of the other 27 such structures might have a hydrogen bond index &gt;1).<\/li>\n<li>Next, the ELF analysis (Electron localisation function), analysed firstly using the excellent MultiWFN program.<span id=\"cite_ITEM-19347-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-19347-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-ELF-965x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-ELF-965x1024.jpg 965w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-ELF-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-ELF-768x815.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-ELF.jpg 1395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><br \/>\n This reveals an attractor basin integrating to 1.663e and located along the axis of the F-C bond and extended into the region of the three antiperiplanar methyl hydrogens. The C-F bond itself only supports a basin of 0.729e, typical of the fairly ionic C-F bond. The covalent C-Me bonds are also pretty normal, as are the other hydrogens.<\/li>\n<li>I also show ELF analysis using the alternative TopMod program<span id=\"cite_ITEM-19347-1\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-19347-1\">[2]<\/a><\/span>; the numerical values on this diagram are the calculated bond lengths in \u00c5. The basin integrations are very similar to those obtained using MultiWFN. <br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-a-890x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-a-890x1024.jpg 890w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-a-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-a-768x884.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MeCF2-a.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/> <br \/>\n The Wiberg bond orders of the three H&#8230;H regions shown connected by dashed lines above are 0.154, which contributes to the bond index of &gt;1\u00a0at these three hydrogens.<\/li>\n<li>The predicted <sup>1<\/sup>H chemical shift of these three &#8220;hypervalent&#8221; hydrogens is +3.0 ppm, whilst the other six methyl hydrogens are at -0.87ppm.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So changing\u00a0CH<sub>3<\/sub>F<sup>2-<\/sup> to\u00a0CMe<sub>3<\/sub>F<sup>2-<\/sup> has dramatically changed the bonding picture that emerges, rather than a fine-tuning. The C-F is no longer a &#8220;hyperbond&#8221;, although the Rydberg occupancy of 1.186e remains unusually large. Most of the additional electrons have fled the torus surrounding the C-F bond and relocated to the\u00a0<em>exo<\/em>-region of that bond where they now influence the three antiperiplanar methyl hydrogens. A\u00a0two-electron-three-centre interaction if you like, but with the electron basin occupying a tetrahedral vertex rather than the triatom centroid.<\/p>\n<p>I end with a challenge. Is it possible to find &#8220;real&#8221; molecules containing hydrogen where the formal bond index for at least one hydrogen exceeds 1.0 significantly, thus making it hypervalent?\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>\u2021<\/sup>The calculations are all collected at FAIR doi; <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/hpc\/3372\">10.14469\/hpc\/3372<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol class=\"kcite-bibliography csl-bib-body\"><li id=\"ITEM-19347-0\">T. Lu, and F. Chen, \"Multiwfn: A multifunctional wavefunction analyzer\", <i>Journal of Computational Chemistry<\/i>, vol. 33, pp. 580-592, 2011. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jcc.22885\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jcc.22885<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-19347-1\">S. Noury, X. Krokidis, F. Fuster, and B. Silvi, \"Computational tools for the electron localization function topological analysis\", <i>Computers &amp; Chemistry<\/i>, vol. 23, pp. 597-604, 1999. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/s0097-8485(99)00039-x\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/s0097-8485(99)00039-x<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 19347 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discussed the molecule the molecule CH3F2- a while back. It was a very rare computed example of a system where the added two electrons populate the higher valence shells known as Rydberg orbitals as an alternative to populating the C-F antibonding \u03c3-orbital to produce CH3&#8211; and F&#8211;. 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