Vibrational assignments of monohydrate dimer of violuric acid by using FT-IR, FT-Raman and UV spectra and DFT calculations in different media

Abstract

Experimental FT-IR, FT-Raman and UV spectra have been combined with hybrid B3LYP/6–311++G** calculations and the scaled quantum mechanical force field (SQMFF) methodology to study structural and vibrational properties of monohydrated dimer (MD) of violuric acid in gas and aqueous media. Complete vibrational assignments and its scaled force constants are reported together with the corresponding to anhydrous and monohydrate monomer. From four anhydrous C1, C2, C3, C4 monomers, C4 is the most stable in both media. In solution, the initial structure of C2 change to the tautomeric species most stable C4. The MD reveals a higher solvation energy while natural bond orbital (NBO) and atoms in molecules (AIM) calculations support the higher stability of this species due to the six H bonds interactions and to its higher expansion of volume in solution. The MD is the most reactive species, as revealed by the lowest gap value and by high global electrophilicity and most negative global nucleophilicity indexes. Very good concordances are observed among the predicted IR, Raman, 13C NMR and UV spectra and the corresponding experimental ones. Comparisons of predicted 13C NMR and electronic spectra with the experimental one show that those three species of violuric acid could be present in aqueous solution. Similar f(νC=O) and f(νC-O) force constants for the three species are justified by the important delocalization of electrons evidenced in anhydrous and monohydrate species by NBO calculations.