Aqueous microsolvation of 4-hydroxy-2-butanone: competition between intra- and inter-molecular hydrogen bonds.

Phys Chem Chem Phys

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Daxuecheng South Rd. 55, 401331, Chongqing, China.

Published: August 2022

The rotational spectra of 4-hydroxy-2-butanone and its monohydrate were investigated by Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy complemented by quantum chemical calculations. One conformer of 4-hydroxy-2-butanone, with the intramolecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bond, has been observed in the pulsed jet. Rotational spectra of the six isotopologues (including four C and one O mono-substitution species) in natural abundance were measured and assigned, enabling the accurate structural determination of the molecular skeleton. The most stable isomer of its monohydrate, in which water inserts into the intramolecular hydrogen bond and serves the dual role of being a proton donor and acceptor, was also detected. The rotational spectra of HOD, DOH, DO and HO isotopologues were also measured allowing the accurate evaluation of the parameters of the intermolecular hydrogen bonds. This rotational spectroscopic investigation demonstrates that upon complexation, the weak intramolecular hydrogen bond in the monomer is replaced by two strong intermolecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, leading to a change in the orientation of the -OH group of 4-hydroxy-2-butanone.

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