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Electrostatics Explains the Reverse Lewis Acidity of BH₃ and Boron Trihalides: Infrared Intensities and a Relative Energy Gradient (REG) Analysis of IQA Energies.

ABSTRACT: The reaction path for the formation of BX₃-NH₃ (X = H, F, Cl, Br) complexes was divided into two processes: (i) rehybridization of the acid while adopting a pyramidal geometry, and (ii) the complex formation from the pyramidal geometries of the acid and base. The interacting quantum atom (IQA) method was used to investigate the Lewis acidity trend of these compounds. This topological analysis suggests that the boron-halogen bond exhibits a considerable degree of ionicity. A relative energy gradient (REG) analysis on IQA energies indicates that the acid-base complex formation is highly dependent on electrostatic energy. With increasing halogen electronegativity, a higher degree of ionicity of the B-X is observed, causing an increase in the absolute value of X and B charges. This increases not only the attractive electrostatic energy between the acid and base but also enhances the repulsive energy. The latter is the main factor behind the acidity trend exhibited by trihalides. Changes in geometry are relevant only for complexes where BH₃ acts as an acid, where lower steric hindrance facilitates the adoption of the pyramidal geometry observed in the complex. The CCTDP analysis shows that infrared intensities of BX₃-NH₃ are determined mostly by the atomic charges and not by the charge transfer or polarization. The opposite is observed in covalent analogues.

SUBMITTER: Duarte LJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8503881 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:The relative energy gradient (REG) method is paired with the topological energy partitioning method interacting quantum atoms (IQA), as REG-IQA, to provide detailed and unbiased knowledge on the intra- and interatomic interactions. REG operates on a sequence of geometries representing a dynamical change of a system. Its recent application to peptide hydrolysis of the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) protease (PDB code: 4HVP) has demonstrated its full potential in recovering reaction mechanisms and through-space electrostatic and exchange-correlation effects, making it a compelling tool for analyzing enzymatic reactions. In this study, the computational efficiency of the REG-IQA method for the 133-atom HIV-1 protease quantum mechanical system is analyzed in every detail and substantially improved by means of three different approaches. The first approach of smaller integration grids for IQA integrations reduces the computational overhead by about a factor of 3. The second approach uses the line-simplification Ramer-Douglas-Peucker (RDP) algorithm, which outputs the minimal number of geometries necessary for the REG-IQA analysis for a predetermined root mean squared error (RMSE) tolerance. This cuts the computational time of the whole REG analysis by a factor of 2 if an RMSE of 0.5 kJ/mol is considered. The third approach consists of a "biased" or "unbiased" selection of a specific subset of atoms of the whole initial quantum mechanical model wave-function, which results in more than a 10-fold speed-up per geometry for the IQA calculation, without deterioration of the outcome of the REG-IQA analysis. Finally, to show the capability of these approaches, the findings gathered from the HIV-1 protease system are also applied to a different system named haloalcohol dehalogenase (HheC). In summary, this study takes the REG-IQA method to a computationally feasible and highly accurate level, making it viable for the analysis of a multitude of enzymatic systems.

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