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Abstract: Ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been performed at the MP2/6-31++G** theoretical level in order to obtain molecular properties of hydrogen-bonded complexes involving pyrazine and the HX linear acids with, X=F, NC, Cl, CN, and CCH. Both the 1:1 and 1:2 adducts have been investigated, i.e., Pyz⋯HX and XH⋯Pyz⋯HX. The H-bond strength for these complexes can be interpreted in terms of the H–X stretching frequency downward displacement. This latter shows a good linear correlation with the intermolecular charge transfer and follows the order: X=F>X=NC>X=Cl>X=CN>X=CCH. As expected, the H–X stretching intensity is much enhanced upon H-bond formation. Here these effects on the HX infrared spectra are much more pronounced than those previously found in complexes with unsaturated hydrocarbons as proton acceptors. On the other hand, no important change has been verified in pyrazine, except the inhibition of the lone-pair trans effect from the lone-pair of nitrogen to the σ* antibonding orbital of the CC chemical bond in pyrazine. The new vibrational modes arising from complexation show several interesting features, specially the bending modes of the proton-donor molecule and the intermolecular stretching mode. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

MP2/6-31++G(d,p) ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been employed to characterize hydrogen-bonded complexes between hydrogen fluoride as proton donor and aromatic azines (pyridine, pyrimidine, pyridazine, pyrazine, 1,3,5-triazine, and 1,2,4-triazine). Our calculations have shown that the H-bond strength in these complexes depends on both the number of nitrogen atoms as well as the position of these atoms in aromatic ring. The binding energies of azines-HF with or without BSSE and ZPE corrections decrease with the increasing number of nitrogen atoms in the ring. For example, its ΔEBSSE,ZPE value is 40.9 kJ · mol-1 in pyridine-HF, whereas its corresponding values in pyrazine-HF and 1,3,5-triazine-HF are 34.0 kJ · mol-1 and 26.6 kJ · mol-1, respectively. With respect to position of the nitrogen atom in the aromatic ring, the more pronounced effect is verified when it is at meta-position relative to the pyridine ring. There is a high linear correlation between the H-bond strength in these complexes and the intermolecular charge transfer using corrected Mulliken charges obtained from the charge-charge flux-overlap (CCFO) modified model for infrared intensities. Finally, our MP2/6-31++G(d,p) calculations have revealed that stronger hydrogen bonds are associated with smaller H-bond length values, larger intermolecular charge transfers and greater H&bond;F downward stretching frequency displacements. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2006 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]