Cooperative Catalysis Involving Hydrogen and Halogen Bond Donors: A Computational Study on the Thiourea–Iodonium System

03 April 2023, Version 1
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Abstract

A computational analysis of possible routes of cooperative catalysis involving hydrogen bond (HB) and halogen bond (XB) donating organocatalysts has been carried out. Previously suggested route including electrophilic activation of HB donor by XB donor was ruled out but a path involving double activation of a reaction electrophile by its simultaneous association with the HB and XB donating species was confirmed by DFT calculations.

Keywords

Iodine(III)
Iodonium
Iodolium
Halogen bond
Thiourea
Electrophilic activation
Weak interactions
Noncovalent interactions

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Table S1. Calculated total electronic energies (E, in Hartree), enthalpies (H, in Hartree), Gibbs free energies (G, in Hartree), and entropies (S, cal/mol•K) for optimized equilibrium model structures; Table S2. Calculated values of maximal and minimal molecular surface electrostatic potentials located on the heteroatoms and/or H atoms for optimized equilibrium model structures (Vs(max) and Vs(min), in kJ/mol)
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Optimized structures in xyz-format
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