Quantitative chirality synchronization in trifluoroethanol dimers.

作者信息

Scharge Tina, Häber Thomas, Suhm Martin A

机构信息

Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.

出版信息

Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2006 Oct 28;8(40):4664-7. doi: 10.1039/b609868a. Epub 2006 Sep 21.

2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol molecules synchronize their transiently chiral gauche configurations upon dimerization in supersonic jet expansions, while they avoid an energetically competitive heteroconfigurational hydrogen bonded dimer topology predicted by extensive quantum chemical calculations.