University of South Wales
The study of proton-donor proton-acceptor interactions by infrared spectroscopy and computer modelling
Abstract
dc:description.abstractInfrared spectroscopy has been used to determine thermodynamic parameters for the reaction between ethanol and acetone in CC14 and in the vapour phase in which a hydrogen-bonded complex is formed. In carbon tetrachloride, AHf^ = -15.3 kJ mol"1 and ASf"0" = -50.8 J mol"1 K" 1 . These values are consistent with data reported in the literature for related alcohols. Equilibrium constants for the vapour phase reaction were not reproducible, possibly due to a combination of adsorption and pressure effects.The IR spectra of propionic and acetic acids was studied indilute CCl^ and for acetic acid (at low acid pressure) in gaseous argon mixtures. Bands were assigned to the monomer and dimer. Spectra confirm that carboxylic acids are much more strongly hydrogen-bonded than the corresponding alcohols. The IR spectra of acetic, propionic, butyric, benzoic, omethoxyland o-ethoxy benzoic, p-methoxyl and p-ethoxybenzoic and o-acetyl salicylic acids was studied in CCl^.The effect of inter and intramolecular hydrogen-bonding is discussed. Models of monomer and dimer carboxylic acids were constructed using the Chem-X computer modelling package(Chemical Design Ltd.). Molecular energies were generated for the most stable acid conformations. For o-methoxybenzoic acid, the variation of molecular energy with the degree of internal rotation for the four bonds for which internal rotation was feasible was plotted using Chem-X.The J-CAMP.DX file protocol was used to import IR spectra into the Chem-X package. The future potential of combining modelling and spectroscopic packages is discussed.
Degree
thesis:*- Name dc:type.qualificationname
- Master's Thesis
- Level dc:type.qualificationlevel
- Student thesis
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1994
Author and committee
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- Dilshad, Rahima
Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
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- oai:pure.atira.dk:studenttheses/91662907-f8ec-41c2-a067-f9ba0bc77e3a
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:pure.atira.dk:studenttheses/91662907-f8ec-41c2-a067-f9ba0bc77e3a