Molecules (Jan 2022)

Comparison of Proton Acceptor and Proton Donor Properties of H<sub>2</sub>O and H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> in Organic Crystals of Drug-like Compounds: Peroxosolvates vs. Crystallohydrates

  • Mikhail V. Vener,
  • Andrei V. Churakov,
  • Alexander P. Voronin,
  • Olga D. Parashchuk,
  • Sergei V. Artobolevskii,
  • Oleg A. Alatortsev,
  • Denis E. Makhrov,
  • Alexander G. Medvedev,
  • Aleksander Filarowski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27030717
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 3
p. 717

Abstract

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Two new peroxosolvates of drug-like compounds were synthesized and studied by a combination of X-ray crystallographic, Raman spectroscopic methods, and periodic DFT computations. The enthalpies of H-bonds formed by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as a donor and an acceptor of protons were compared with the enthalpies of analogous H-bonds formed by water (H2O) in isomorphic (isostructural) hydrates. The enthalpies of H-bonds formed by H2O2 as a proton donor turned out to be higher than the values of the corresponding H-bonds formed by H2O. In the case of H2O2 as a proton acceptor in H-bonds, the ratio appeared reversed. The neutral O∙∙∙H-O/O∙∙∙H-N bonds formed by the lone electron pair of the oxygen atom of water were the strongest H-bonds in the considered crystals. In the paper, it was found out that the low-frequency Raman spectra of isomorphous crystalline hydrate and peroxosolvate of N-(5-Nitro-2-furfurylidene)-1-aminohydantoin are similar. As for the isostructural hydrate and peroxosolvate of the salt of protonated 2-amino-nicotinic acid and maleic acid monoanion, the Raman spectra are different.

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