ABSTRACT:The conformational study of b-thioaminoacrolein was performed at various theoretical levels, HF, B3LYP, and MP2 with 6-311þþG(d,p) basis set, and the equilibrium conformations were determined. To have more reliable energies, the total energies of all conformers were recomputed at high-level ab initio methods, G2MP2, G3, and CBS-QB3. According to these calculations, the intramolecular hydrogen bond is accepted as the origin of conformational preference in thialamine (TAA) and thiolimine groups. The hydrogen bond strength in various resonance-assisted hydrogen bond systems was evaluated by HB energy, geometrical parameters, topological parameters, and charge transfers corresponding to orbital interactions. Furthermore, our results reveal that the TAA tautomer has extra stability with respect to the other tautomers. The population analyses of the possible conformations by NBO predict that the origin of this preference is mainly due to the p-electron delocalization in framework of TAA forms, especially usual p C¼ ¼C ! p* C¼ ¼S and Lp (N) ! p* C¼ ¼C charge transfers.
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