Quantum chemical studies of the pyrrole-water and pyridine-water complexes

Abstract

An ab initio quantum chemical study of the hydrogen bonded binary complexes pyrrole-water and pyridine-water is reported. The calculations were performed largely at the MP2 level of theory using basis sets of double-zeta-plus polarization functions quality and focus on properties of the complexes such as molecular geometries, energies, harmonic vibrational frequencies, dipole moments and 14N nuclear quadrupole coupling constants. Where possible, the results of the calculations are compared with experimental data. In addition, the interaction potentials are studied in some detail, specifically with regard to basis set superposition and its effect on geometries, intermolecular vibrational frequencies and binding energies. The nature of interaction, i.e., the importance of electrostatic, Pauli repulsion, polarization, charge transfer and dispersion contributions to the hydrogen bond energies, as obtained in constrained spatial orbital variation analyses, is also discussed.