Spectroscopy (FT-IR, FT-Raman), hydrogen bonding, electrostatic potential and HOMO-LUMO analysis of tioxolone based on DFT calculations

Abstract

Tioxolone possess antipsoriatic and antibacterial properties. Therefore, it has been used in treating various skin and scalp disorders for many years. Spectroscopic analysis of tioxolone was presented by using density functional theory (DFT) calculations and experiments (FT-IR, FT-Raman and UV–Vis). Molecular geometry and vibrational wavenumbers of tioxolone were investigated by using B3LYP method with aug-cc-pVTZ basis set. A complete vibrational spectra was made to analyze the potential energy distributions (PED). In addition, analysis of frontier molecular orbitals, electrostatic potential (ESP) and thermodynamic properties (heat capacity, entropy, enthalpy and Gibbs free energy) was presented with the same basis-set. Furthermore, the nature of molecular association through hydrogen bonding were discussed using atoms in molecules (AIM) and reduced density gradient (RDG) methods.