A Relativity Enhanced, Medium-Strong Au(I)···H–N Hydrogen Bond in a Protonated Phenylpyridine-Gold(I) Thiolate

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• 作者：Raphael J. F. BergerJürgen Schoiber ; Uwe Monkowius
• 刊名：Inorganic Chemistry
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 17, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：56
• 期：2
• 页码：956-961
• 全文大小：287K
• ISSN：1520-510X

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Gold is an electron-rich metal with a high electronegativity comparable to that of sulfur. Hence, hydrogen bonds of the Au(I)···H–E (E = electronegative element) type should be possible, but their existence is still under debate. Experimental results are scarce and often contradictory. As guidance for possible preparative work, we have theoretically investigated (ppyH)Au(SPh) (ppy = 2-phenylpyridine) bearing two monoanionic ligands which are not strongly electronegative at the same time to further increase the charge density on the gold(I) atom. The protonated pyridine nitrogen atom in ppy is geometrically ideally suited to place a proton in close proximity to the gold atom in a favorable geometry for a classical hydrogen bond arrangement. Indeed, the results of the calculations indicate that the hydrogen bonded conformation of (ppyH)Au(SPh) represents a minimum geometry with bond metrics in the expected range for medium-strong hydrogen bonds [r(N–H) = 1.043 Å, r(H···Au) = 2.060 Å, a(N–H···Au) = 141.4°]. The energy difference between the conformer containing the H···Au bond and another conformer without a hydrogen bond amounts to 7.8 kcal mol^–1, which might serve as an estimate of the hydrogen bond strength. Spectroscopic properties were calculated, yielding further characteristics of such hydrogen bonded gold species.