Kollipost Franz, Otto Katharina E, Suhm Martin A
Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2016 Mar 24;55(14):4591-5. doi: 10.1002/anie.201600603. Epub 2016 Mar 1.
Ethylene glycol has a transiently chiral, asymmetric global minimum structure, but it favors a highly symmetric, achiral dimer arrangement which has not been considered or found in previous quantum-chemical studies. Complementary FTIR and Raman spectroscopy in supersonic jets allows for the detection and straightforward assignment of this four-fold hydrogen-bonded dimer, which introduces an interesting supramolecular binding motif for vicinal diols and provides a strong case for transient chirality synchronization.
乙二醇具有一种瞬态手性、不对称的全局最小结构,但它倾向于一种高度对称的非手性二聚体排列,这种排列在以前的量子化学研究中尚未被考虑或发现。超声速射流中的互补傅里叶变换红外光谱和拉曼光谱能够检测并直接确定这种四重氢键二聚体,它为邻二醇引入了一种有趣的超分子结合基序,并为瞬态手性同步提供了有力例证。