title: Hydrogen bonds in gas-phase clusters between halide ions and olefins.
abstract: Gas-phase clustering reactions of halide ions (X- = F-, Cl-, Br-, and I-) with ethylene (C2H4) and propylene (C3H6) were studied with a pulsed electron beam mass spectrometer. Bonding energies of all cluster ions were found to be less than 10 kcal/mol, i.e., no anion-initiated polymerization of C2H4 and C3H6 took place. For the cluster F-(C2H4)n, a small gap in the binding energy is observed between n = 4 and 5 suggesting that the first shell is completed with n = 4. For larger halide ions, the bond energies for the clusters X-(C2H4)n were found to be nearly n independent. For Cl-(C3H6)n a steep decrease in binding energies was observed between n = 2 and 3 and n = 3 and 4. The structure of the cluster ions was investigated by ab initio calculations. X-(C2H4)n complexes were calculated to have hydrogen-bond geometries regardless of the identity of the halide ions, and bidentate (chelate) type geometries of X-(C3H6)1 were found.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, Yamanashi University, Takeda, Japan. hiraoka@ab11.yamanashi.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiraoka
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Katsuragawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kojima
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamabe