Directly Insight Into the Inter- and Intramolecular Interactions of CL-20/TNT Energetic Cocrystal through the Theoretical Simulations of THz Spectroscopy
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- 作者：Lu Shi ; Xiao-Hui Duan ; Li-Guo Zhu ; Xun Liu ; Chong-Hua Pei
- 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：March 3, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：120
- 期：8
- 页码：1160-1167
- 全文大小：646K
- ISSN：1520-5215
文摘
Compared with cocrystal coformers, an explosive cocrystal has distinctive packing arrangements and complex intermolecular interactions. Identifying the spectral signatures of an explosive cocrystal and understanding the molecular low-frequency modes by means of the spectrum in the terahertz range are of great worth to the explicit mechanism of cocrystal formation. In this work, on the basis of the joint molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and solid-state density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we have investigated the terahertz (THz) absorption spectra of the CL-20/TNT cocrystal and its different directions as well as cocrystal coformers and determined the systematic and all-sided assignments of corresponding THz vibration modes. The THz spectral comparison of the cocrystal with different directions and the cocrystal coformers indicates that the CL-20/TNT cocrystal has five fresh low-frequency absorption features as unique and discernible peaks for identification, in which 0.25, 0.73, and 0.87 THz are attributed to intensive crystalline vibrations; 0.87 THz is also caused by C–H···O hydrogen-bonding bending vibrations; 1.60 and 1.85 THz features originate from C–H···O hydrogen-bond stretching vibrations. Additionally, the THz spectrum of the (001) direction of the CL-20/TNT cocrystal verifies that the molecular conformation of the CL-20 is the same as that in the β-polymorph, other than the initial conformation of raw material ε-CL-20.