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  • Title: Theoretical Study of Proton Tunneling in the Imidazole-Imidazolium Complex.
    Author: Boda Ł, Boczar M, Wójcik MJ, Nakajima T.
    Journal: J Phys Chem A; 2021 Aug 19; 125(32):6902-6912. PubMed ID: 34350765.
    Abstract:
    Proton tunneling in the hydrogen-bonded imidazole-imidazolium complex ion has been studied theoretically. Ab initio CASSCF/6-311++G(d,p) calculations concerning geometry optimization and vibrational frequencies have been carried out for equilibrium and transition state structures of the system. Two-dimensional double-well model potentials were constructed on the basis of ab initio results and used to analyze the proton dynamics in the hydrogen bond and the influence of the excitation of low-frequency hydrogen-bond vibrations on the proton tunneling splittings. The energy of tunneling-split vibrational sublevels of the high-frequency tunneling mode have been calculated for its ground and first excited vibrational state for the series of excitations of the coupled low-frequency intramolecular hydrogen-bond modes. The promoting and suppressing effect of the low-frequency modes on the proton splittings was shown in the ground and first excited vibrational state of the tunneling mode. The vibrational sublevels form the two separate semicontinuous bands between which the absorption transitions may occur. This mechanism explains the experimentally observed splitting and doublet-component broadening of the high-frequency N-H stretching infrared (IR) absorption band.
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