Proton affinity of methyl peroxynitrate

The equilibrium structures, harmonic vibrational frequencies of methyl peroxynitrate, and structures of protonated methyl peroxynitrate have been investigated using ab initio methods. The methods include the single- and double-excitation quadratic configuration (QCISD) methods and the QCISD(T) method, which incorporates a perturbational estimate of the effects of corrected triple excitation. The lowest-energy gas-phase form of protonated methyl peroxynitrate is a complex between CH3OOH and NO2+. The CH3OOH.NO2+ complex is bound by 22 +/- 2 kcal/mol. The estimated proton affinity of methyl peroxynitrate is 178.8 +/- 3 kcal/mol. A general trend for the proton affinity of ROO-NO2 (peroxynitrates) compounds is discussed.     

Proton affinity correlations for alkyl chlorides

Ab initio SCF calculations with minimal STO-3G and extended 44-31G basis sets have been performed on the simple alkyl chlorides, HCl to t-BuCl, and their protonated analogs. MINDO/3 calculations are also reported for these species and a variety of cyclic and bicyclic chlorides. The much closer agreement with experiment for STO-3G proton affinities than for 44-31G values is in sharp contrast to the results for first-row bases. An excellent correlation is found between both the STO-3G and MINDO/3 proton affinities and the charge on the CIH fragment in RCIH⁺. For the acyclic chlorides, correlations of PA's with the polar substituent constant, σ*, and IP's are also reasonable. In addition, the calculated carbonium ion-HCl interaction energy for t-BuClH⁺ indicates that protonated tertiary chlorides are no more than marginally stable in the gas phase.     

Proton transport in polybenzimidazole blended with H3PO4 or H2SO4

Proton transport in H₃PO₄‐ and H₂SO₄‐blended polybenzimidazoles (PBIs) has been studied with both temperature‐ and pressure‐dependent dielectric spectroscopy. The influences of the acid concentration and temperature on the relative conductance and activation volume are discussed. An Arrhenius relation is used to model the temperature‐dependent conductivity at a constant acid content. The logarithm of the relative conductance for PBI blended with H₃PO₄ decreases linearly with increasing pressure. As the temperature increases, the activation volume becomes smaller for PBI blended with H₃PO₄. It is proposed that proton transport in acid‐blended PBI is mainly controlled by proton hopping and diffusion rather than a mechanism mediated by the segmental motions in the polymer. The conductivities of PBIs blended with H₃PO₄ and H₂SO₄ are compared. At a 1.45 molar acid doping concentration, the former has the higher conductivity. With water, the conductivity of H₃PO₄‐blended PBI increases significantly. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 40: 663–669, 2002; DOI 10.1002/polb.10132     

Proton affinity correlations between hydrogen and dihydrogen bond acceptors

Several series of hydrogen- and dihydrogen-bonded complexes with HCN, C2H2, HF, H2O, CH3CONH2, and CH3COOH as donors and H2O, MeOH, EtOH, MeOMe, NH3, NH2Me, NHMe2, NMe3, NEtMe2, and BH3-NMe3 as acceptors were investigated using the MP2/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory. The total lowering of the X-H stretching frequencies in the hydrogen-bonded complexes were linearly correlated with the proton affinities of the accepting bases. From comparison of hydrogen- and dihydrogen-bonded complexes, a scaling factor to estimate the exact proton affinity of a dihydrogen bond acceptor was developed. Further, the scaling factor involving linear donors (1.204) is marginally higher than that involving nonlinear donor molecules (1.162). Finally, it was found that, given identical conditions, a hydrogen bond will be about 16-20% stronger than a corresponding dihydrogen bond.     

Electronic Structure of SO3H Functional Groups and Proton Mobility in Nafion and Aquivion Ionomer Membranes

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - The electronic structure of SO3H functional groups in Nafion and Aquivion monomers was calculated. The effect of charge states of the functional group atoms...     

Proton affinity of uracil. A computational study of protonation sites

Relative stabilities of uracil tautomers and cations formed by gas-phase protonation were studied computationally with the B3LYP, MP2, QCISD, and QCISD(T) methods and with basis sets expanding from 6-31G(d,p) to 6-311+G(3df,2p). In accordance with a previous density functional theory study, the dioxo tautomer 1a was the most stable uracil isomer in the gas phase. Gibbs free energy calculations using effective QCISD(T)/6-311+G(3df,2p) energies suggested >99.9% of 1a at equilibrium at 523 K. The most stable ion isomer corresponded to N-1 protonated 2,4-dihydroxypyrimidine, which however is not formed by direct protonation of 1a. The topical proton affinities in 1a followed the order O-8 > O-7 > C-5 > N-3 > N-1. The thermodynamic proton affinity of 1a was calculated as 858 kJ mol⁻¹ at 298 K. A revision is suggested for the current estimate included in the ion thermochemistry database.     

Proton magnetic resonance investigation of structure of ω-alkyl-α-olefin/SO2 copolymers

The 100 MHz proton magnetic resonance (PMR) spectra of free radical alternating ω-alkyl-α-olefin/SO₂ copolymers has been investigated. The data obtained from the quantitative evaluation of the spectra are consistent with a copolymer structure containing unrearranged olefinic monomer units. The 4-methyl-1-pentene/SO₂ copolymer shows a quadruplet resonance in the CH₃ proton region. This multiplicity, observed also in the analogous 1,2-dichloro-4-methylpentane and 1,2-dibromo-4-methylpentane, arises from the presence of magnetically nonequivalent CH₃ protons located in the vicinity of the asymmetric carbon atoms of the main chain. There is no detectable nonequivalency of CH₃ protons in the 5-methyl-1-hexene/SO₂ copolymer, probably because the center of asymmetry is further removed from the isopropyl group. In poly-4-methyl-1-pentene, prepared with Ziegler-Natta catalyst, the polymer structure around the main chain tertiary carbons is fairly symmetrical; and, as expected, the CH₃ protons of the isopropyl group are magnetically equivalent.     

Dependence of the reactivity of five-membered heterocycles on their structure. 3. Proton affinity of azoles and oxazoles

The proton affinity (PA) of a number of azoles and oxazoles was calculated by MNDO and STO-3G ab initio methods. In spite of the fact that these methods predict poorly the absolute values of the PA, a good correlation between the PA values calculated by STO-3G and the experimental values of PA as well as pK_a values exists. Correlation of the experimental values with MNDO results are much worse.For Communication 2, see [1].Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 508–511, April, 1989.     

SO2气体对质子交换膜燃料电池阴极性能的影响

将5×10-8~3.2×10-6(空气中的体积含量)的SO2通入质子交换膜燃料电池(PEMFC)单电池阴极, 研究了SO2对PEMFC性能的影响. 实验得到的电压-时间(V-t)曲线和极化(V-I)曲线表明, 空气中SO2含量达到5×10-7时, 将对PEMFC的性能产生显著的和不可逆的影响, 且SO2浓度越大电池性能的下降幅度越大. 对SO2影响前后的电化学交流阻抗谱(EIS)的解析表明, 电池电荷传递阻抗(Rct)的变化可逆, 而阴极的表面状态发生了不完全可逆的变化. 循环伏安(CV)实验数据进一步证明, SO2毒化后阴极的活性电化学表面积(EAS)缩小.     

Proton affinity of peroxyacetyl nitrate. A computational study of topical proton affinities

The structure and energetics of the peroxyacetyl nitrate conformers syn- and anti-PAN and several cations formed by PAN protonation were investigated by a combination of density functional theory and ab initio calculations. syn-PAN is the more stable conformer that is predicted to predominate in gas-phase equilibria. The acetyl carbonyl oxygen was found to be the most basic site in PAN, the oxygen atoms of the peroxide and NO(2) groups being less basic. The 298 K proton affinity of syn-PAN was calculated as 759-763 kJ mol(-1) by effective QCISD(T)/6-311 + G(3df,2p) and 771-773 kJ mol(-1) by B3-MP2/6-311 + G(3df,2p). The calculated values are 25-39 kJ mol(-1) lower than the previous estimate by Srinivasan et al. (Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 1998; 12: 328) that was based on competitive dissociations of proton-bound dimers (the kinetic method). The calculated threshold dissociation energies predicted the formation of CH(3)CO(+) + syn - HOONO(2) and CH(3)COOOH + NO(2)(+) to be the most favorable fragmentations of protonated PAN that required 83 and 89 kJ mol(-1) at the respective thermochemical thresholds at 298 K. The previously observed dissociation to CH(3)COOH + NO(3)(+) was calculated by effective QCISD(T)/6-311 + G(3df,2p) to require 320 kJ mol(-1). The disagreement between the experimental data and calculated energetics is discussed.     

Proton affinity of amino acids: Their interpretation with density functional theory-based descriptors

The calculation of group electronegativity and hardness for amino acid “functional groups,” considered as a biradical taken out of their protein environment, is performed for both the α-helix and β-sheet geometry of these amino acids. Group electronegativity and hardness are then used to interpret the experimental gas-phase proton affinity sequence of the amino acids. Group hardness was found to play the dominant role, whereas group electronegativity only had a minor influence on the sequence, thereby stressing the importance of the charged form in the acid-base equilibrium. An explanation for the deviations, seen for some of the amino acids, from the correlation between these group properties and the proton affinity was sought. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Proton affinity of five‐membered heterocyclic amines: Assessment of computational procedures

Ab initio quantum chemical calculations, G3B3, second‐order Møller–Plesset (MP2), and the hybrid density functional method B3LYP were employed to compute the proton affinities of 24 heterocyclic amines. A range of basis sets are employed, starting from double‐ζ polarization quality to triple‐ζ quality basis set with augmented diffuse and polarization function. Experimental values were used to calibrate the performance of various theoretical models. The regioselectivity for the protonation has been unambiguously established by performing B3LYP/6‐31G* calculations on the possible putative sites of attack. For the given series of compounds the performance of B3LYP/6‐31++G** and G3B3 levels of theory have been in excellent agreement with the experimental results with the deviations are of the order comparable with the experimental error. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2006     

A comparison of local structures in crystalline P(EO)3LiCF3SO3 and glyme-LiCF3SO3 systems

The newly discovered crystal structures of CH₃(OCH₂CH₂)OCH₃(LiCF₃SO₃)₂, monoglyme:(LiTf)₂, and CH₃(OCH₂CH₂)₃OCH₃(LiCF₃SO₃)₂, triglyme:(LiTf)₂, are briefly described. The coordination of lithium cations and the CF₃SO₃⁻ anions in these structures is compared with the cation and anion coordination in the crystalline phase of high molecular weight P(EO)₃LiCF₃SO₃. Comparison is also made with the previously reported crystalline phase of CH₃(OCH₂CH₂)₂OCH₃LiCF₃SO₃, diglyme:LiTf. A tendency to form trans-gauche-trans conformations for the bond order -O-C-C-O- is noted in adjacent ethylene oxide sequences interacting with a five-coordinate lithium ion.     

Introduction of H2SO4 and H3PO4 into Crystalline Porous Organic Salts(CPOS-1) for Outstanding Proton Conductivity

To improve the proton conduction of crystalline porous organic salts(CPOS-1), H₂SO₄ and H₃PO₄ were introduced into the channel to obtain H₂SO₄@CPOS-1 and H₃PO₄@CPOS-1. Compared to CPOS-1, the proton conductivities of H₂SO₄@CPOS-1 and H₃PO₄@CPOS-1 increased two orders of magnitude and one order of magnitude at 303 K and 100% RH, respectively. It can be attributed to the increasing concentration of the protons, which dissociates from the acids.     

High-temperature kinetics of the reactions of SO2 and SO3 with atomic oxygen

A nozzle-beam-skimmer sampling system is used to measure species concentration profiles for a lean one-dimensional premixed CO? O₂? Ar flame, into which small amounts of sulfur dioxide are introduced. The net formation rate for sulfur trioxide is obtained from the flux fraction profile for this species. The kinetic scheme is then utilized, along with the measured temperature profiles, to evaluate the rate coefficients k₁ and k₂ over the temperature range of 1435–1850 K. The most satisfactory agreement between the measured net formation rate for SO₃ and that calculated on the basis of reactions (1) and (2) is obtained with the rate coefficients Reactions (1) and (2) are found to be nearly balanced in a substantial region of the flame. Here the data are more sensitive to the difference in activation energies, as opposed to a particular value for either. Implications of this observation on the uncertainty of the deduced temperature dependence for each reaction are discussed, as are some of the procedures used in the data analysis.