Rotational Spectroscopy Probes Water Flipping by Full Fluorination of Benzene

Abstract

The topology of the interaction of water with benzenec hanges drastically upon full H!Fs ubstitution on the aromatic ring:t he weak OÀH···p hydrogen bond is replaced by aO ···p linkage,o fa bout the same strength.Hexafluorobenzene-water appears to be the prototype system to investigate this kind of weak bond. The pulsed Fourier transform microwave technique has been used for the detection of the rotational spectra of the normal species and five isotopologues whichu nambiguously led to the identification of the geometry.Q uantum mechanical calculations have been performed to interpret the experimental evidence.Supportinginformation and the ORCID identification number(s) for the author(s) of this article can be found under: https://doi.

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