Quantum chemical study on influence of the substitution effect on the structural and electronic properties and intramolecular hydrogen bonding of 2-nitrophenyl hydrosulfide in ground and electronic excited state

A density functional theory (DFT)-based quantum chemical computational study has been carried out to characterize the intramolecular hydrogen bonding (IMHB) interaction in 2-nitrophenyl hydrosulfide. This compound and its 24 derivatives are optimized by B3LYP method using 6-311++G** basis set in the gas phase and the water solution. The following substituents have been taken into consideration: F, Cl, Br, C2H5, CH3, CF3, NHCOCH3, NO2, OH, OCH3, SH, CH2F, CH2Cl, CH2Br, CH2OH, SH, SCH3, SCF3, SCOCH3, CH2CF3, CH2OCH3, CHO, COCH3, and OCHF2. The IMHB interaction has been explored by calculation of electron density rho(r) and Laplacian del(2) p(r) at the bond critical point using atoms-in-molecule (AIM) theory. The electron density (p) and Laplacian (del(2)p) properties, estimated by AIM calculations, indicate that H-6 . . . O-1 bond possesses low p and positive del(2)p values which are in agreement with electrostatic character of the HBs, whereas S5 H6 bond has covalent character (del(2)p < 0). The natural bond orbital analysis is applied to get a more precise insight into the nature of such H-6...O-1 interactions. Vibrational frequencies, several well-established indices of aromaticity, and physical properties such as dipole moment, chemical potential, and chemical hardness of these compounds have been systematically explored. Also, the excited-state properties of intramolecular hydrogen bonding in these systems have been investigated theoretically using the time-dependent DFT method.