The novel kind of charge-transfer porphyrin complexes with symmetrical and asymmetrical side groups were synthesized by the high-yielding [2 + 2] click chemistry reaction involved a two-step procedure. Both electrochemical and UV–vis studies were characterized and proved that the side groups of the porphyrin complexes played an important role on optical properties and energy gaps. The novel series did show the narrower band gap and broader absorption in the visible and near infrared region. As the side groups, the click moieties also affected the third-order nonlinear optical responses, and all the compounds exhibited the expected nonlinear optical properties which were affected by the chemical structures . The optical-limiting performance had also been studied, which was in agreement with the result of Z-scan experiments.
The weak intermolecular interaction between 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) and 3-chloro-2-methyl-1-propene (CMP) has been investigated by gas phase FTIR spectroscopy and DFT calculations. CMP offers two hydrogen bond docking sites to the hydrogen bond donor: the chlorine atom (O–H⋯Cl) and the CC π electron system (O–H⋯π). DFT calculations suggest that MeOH approaches CMP in five different orientations. The structural, energetic, and spectroscopic parameters of the most stable structures in each orientation were studied, and their binding energies range from −25.5 to −19.5 kJ mol−1. The docking to the π system is at least 1 kJ mol−1 more favored than the docking to the chlorine atom. The equilibrium constant for complexation (2.3 × 10−2) was determined from the experimental and calculated intensity of the OH-stretching transition. The Gibbs free energy of formation was found to be 9.3 kJ mol−1. The nature of the non-covalent interaction was analyzed with the atoms in molecules (AIM) method.
Glycoaldehyde (GA, HOCH2CHO) is the simplest sugar unit of the carbohydrates and the only sugar to have been detected in interstellar space to date. In the present report, the conformation of GA and its flexible hydrated complexes have been investigated in the gas phase by using mass-selected infrared (IR) spectroscopy based on vacuum-ultraviolet single photon ionization (118 nm). With the aid of theoretical calculations, the neutral GA bearing a ring-type intramolecular hydrogen bonding interaction was confirmed to be the dominant isomer in the gas phase. Moreover, the water molecules in the monohydrated complexes preferentially broke the intramolecular hydrogen bond and bridged the carbonyl oxygen and hydroxyl hydrogen of GA with two additional intermolecular H-bonds, revealing the “working rules” governing preferred binding. The theoretical results confirmed that the existence probability of the two lowest energy conformations stabilized by two intermolecular hydrogen bonds would be larger than that of the next two isomers with one intramolecular plus one intermolecular hydrogen bond. Structural investigation of hydrated GA conformers has revealed that the water molecules play the role of a bridge through intermolecular H-bonds, achieving selective population of specific GA molecular conformations. These results suggest that these hydrogen-bonded bridge structures in the hydrated complexes may provide good models for recognition in larger systems.