화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.115, No.8, 1433-1439, 2011
Interpretation of Intermolecular Geometric Isotope Effect in Hydrogen Bonds: Nuclear Orbital plus Molecular Orbital Study
The intermolecular geometric isotope effect (GIE) in hydrogen bond A-X center dot center dot center dot B (X = H and D) is investigated theoretically using the nuclear orbital plus molecular orbital (NOMO) theory. To interpret the GIE in terms of physically meaningful energy components such as electrostatic and exchange-repulsion interactions, the reduced variational space self-consistent-field method is extended to the NOMO scheme. The intermolecular GIE is analyzed as a two-stage process: the intramolecular bond shrinkage and the intermolecular bond elongation. According to the isotopic shifts of energy components described by the NOMO/MP2 method, the intermolecular GIE is approximately interpreted as a process reducing the exchange-repulsion interaction after the decrease of electrostatic interaction.