Hydrogen-bond energies of FHFand HOHF. Ab initio studies of strong hydrogen bonds involving fluoride, using improved fluoride energies

Abstract
Using a large flexible Gaussian basis set the calculated hydrogen-bond energy of FHF is 169 kJ mol–1, which agrees well with a recent gas-phase ion cyclotron resonance determination of 163 kJ mol–1. Reoptimization of the 4-31G and double-zeta basis-set scale factors for F results in substantially lower energies for the fluoride ion and also leads to much improved hydrogen-bond energies for FHF. A similar improvement is found for HOHF. The hydrogen-bond energy of the CH3OHF complex is computed for the first time and shows good agreement with experiment. Other heteronuclear systems involving hydrogen bonding to F have been recalculated using this approach.

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