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A tale of two conformers: spectroscopic evidence for halide catalysed formic acid isomerisation

Published:2022 Issue:40 Volume:24 Page:24748-24758
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Haakansson Christian T.¹^ORCID,Corkish Timothy R.¹^ORCID,Watson Peter D.¹²^ORCID,Robinson Hayden T.¹^ORCID,Brookes James R.¹^ORCID,Adam Hannah C.¹,McKinley Allan J.¹^ORCID,Wild Duncan A.¹³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia

2. Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK

3. School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, 6027, Western Australia, Australia

Abstract

Halide anions are experimentally and theoretically shown to preferentially stabilise the higher energy formic acid conformer. Moreover, halide anions appear to lower the isomerisation barrier associated with conformer interconversion.

Funder

Danmarks Grundforskningsfond

Australian Research Council

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/CP/D2CP03634G

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