Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

The stability of covalent dative bond significantly increases with increasing solvent polarity

  • Rabindranath Lo,
  • Debashree Manna,
  • Maximilián Lamanec,
  • Martin Dračínský,
  • Petr Bouř,
  • Tao Wu,
  • Guillaume Bastien,
  • Jiří Kaleta,
  • Vijay Madhav Miriyala,
  • Vladimír Špirko,
  • Anna Mašínová,
  • Dana Nachtigallová,
  • Pavel Hobza

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29806-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Non covalent complexes are often considerably destabilized in the solvent. Here the authors combine vibrational Raman and NMR spectroscopy with a coupled-cluster computational investigation to show that the solvent polarity enhance the complex stability of a Me3NBH3 complex.