Experimental and Computational Studies on Aminoguanidine Free Base, Monocation and Dication, Part I: The Crystal and Molecular Structure of Aminoguanidine Monohydrochloride and the ab Initio Structure of the Endiamine Tautomer of Aminoguanidine Free Base

Abstract

The crystal and molecular structure of aminoguanidine monohydrochloride, CN4H7 +.CL- in which aminonoguanidine exists in the monocation form, was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structure of the monocation is largely similar to that of aminoguanidine dication as present in previously studied divalent salts. The monocation was found to exist in the form of the tautom er that allows strong resonance in the guanyl group. As compared to the dication, the terminal hydrazine nitrogen atom bears one hydrogen atom less. The monocation is planar, the only atoms deviating from the plane being the hydrogens attached to the terminal hydrazine nitrogen. Quantum chemical calculations on the endiamine tautomer of aminoguanidine free base as well as on aminoguanidine monocation and dication were also perform ed by using the HF and MP2 ab initio methods and also the B3- LYP and B-LYP methods based on density functional theory. On the basis of the calculations, a predicted structure of the endiamine tautom er of aminoguanidine free base is presented