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SUBMITTER: Zimmermann C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8400467 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zimmermann Charlotte C Lange Manuel M Suhm Martin A MA
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20210812 16
Phenol is added to acetophenone (methyl phenyl ketone) and to six of its halogenated derivatives in a supersonic jet expansion to determine the hydrogen bonding preference of the cold and isolated 1:1 complexes by linear infrared spectroscopy. Halogenation is found to have a pronounced effect on the docking site in this intermolecular ketone balance experiment. The spectra unambiguously decide between competing variants of phenyl group stacking due to their differences in hydrogen bond strength. ...[more]