The interplay and strength of the π⋯HF, C⋯HF, F⋯HF and F⋯HC hydrogen bonds upon the formation of multimolecular complexes based on C2H2⋯HF and C2H4⋯HF small dimers.

The conception of this theoretical research was idealized aiming to unveil the intermolecular structures of complexes formed by acetylene or ethylene and hydrofluoric acid. At light of computational calculations by using the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) method, the geometries of the C2H2⋯(HF), C2H2⋯2(HF), C2H2⋯4(HF), C2H4⋯(HF), C2H4⋯2(HF) and C2H4⋯4(HF) hydrogen-bonded complexes were fully optimized. Moreover, the Post-Hartree-Fock calculations MP2/6-311++G(d,p), MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ, MP4(SDQ)/6-311++G(d,p) and CCSD/6-311++G(d,p) also were also used. The infrared spectra were analyzed in order to identify the new vibrational modes and frequencies of the proton donors shifted to red region. Through the modeling of charge-fluxes on the basis of the Quantum Theory of Atoms In Molecules (QTAIM) and, by contradicting the expectation of the hydrofluorination mechanisms of acetylene or ethylene, C⋯HF was recognized as a new type of hydrogen bond instead of the already well known π⋯H. The calculations of the Natural Bonding Orbital (NBO) and Charges derived from the Electrostatic Potential Grid-based (ChElPG) were also applied to interpret the shifting frequencies as well as measuring of the punctual charge-transfer after the formation of the complexes. Finally, the determination of the stabilization energy was carried out through the arguments of the Fock matrix in NBO basis and through the supermolecule approach. Also it is worthwhile to notice that some algebraic formulations were used for determining the electronic cooperative effect (CE).

Structure, energy, vibrational spectrum, and Bader's analysis of π···H hydrogen bonds and H(-δ)···H(+δ) dihydrogen bonds.

In this paper, the intermolecular structural study asserted by the vibrational analysis in the stretch frequencies of hydrogen bonds (π···H) and dihydrogen bonds (H(-δ)···H(+δ)) have definitively been revisited by means of calculations carried out by Density Functional Theory (DFT) and topological parameters derived from the classic treatise of the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (QTAIM). As a matter of fact the π···H hydrogen bond is formed between the hydrofluoric acid and the C≡C bond of the acetylene, but the QTAIM calculations revealed a distortion in this interaction due to the formation of the ternary complex C(2)H(2)···2(HF). Although the π bonds of ethylene (C(2)H(4)), propylene (C(2)H(3)(CH(3))), and t-butylene (C(2)H(2)(CH(3))(2)) are considered proton acceptors, two hydrogen-bond types--π···H and C···H--can be observed. Over and above the analysis of the π hydrogen bonds, theoretical arguments also were used to discuss the red-shifts in the stretch frequencies of the binary dihydrogen complexes formed by BeH(2)···HX with X = F, Cl, CN, and CCH. Although a vibrational blue-shift in the stretch frequency of the H-C bond of HCF(3) due to the formation of the BeH(2)···HCF(3) dihydrogen complex was obtained, unmistakable red-shifts were detected in LiH···HCF(3), MgH(2)···HCF(3), and NaH···HCF(3). Moreover, the alkali-halogen bonds were identified in relation to the formation of the trimolecular systems NaH···2(HCF(3)) and NaH···2(HCCl(3)). At last, theoretical calculations and QTAIM molecular integrations were used to study a novel class of dihydrogen-bonded complexes (mC(2)H(5)(+)···nMgH(2) with m = 1 or 2 and n = 1 or 2) based in the insight that MgH(2) can bind with the non-localized hydrogen H(+δ) of the ethyl cation (C(2)H(5)(+)). In an overview, QTAIM calculations were applied to evaluate the molecular topography, charge density, as well as to interpret the shifted frequencies either to red or blue caused by the formation of the hydrogen bonds and dihydrogen bonds.

Design, synthesis and cruzain docking of 3-(4-substituted-aryl)-1,2,4-oxadiazole-N-acylhydrazones as anti-Trypanosoma cruzi agents.

Research in recent years has demonstrated that the Trypanosoma cruzi cysteine protease cruzain (TCC) is a valid chemotherapeutic target, since inhibitors of this protease affect the pathology appropriately. By exploring the N-acylhydrazones (NAH) as privileged structures usually present in antiparasitic agents, we investigated a library of 16 NAH bearing the 3-(4-substituted-aryl)-1,2,4-oxadiazole scaffold (NAH 3a-h, 4a-h). The in vitro bioactivity against epimastigote and trypomastigote forms of T. cruzi was evaluated, and some NAH under study exhibited antitrypanosomal activity at concentrations that are not toxic to mammalian cells. The series of compounds based on the 3-(4-substituted-aryl)-1,2,4-oxadiazole scaffold revealed the remarkable importance of each substituent at the phenyl's 4-position for the inhibitory activity. Non-nitrated compounds 3a and 4e were found to be as potent as the reference drug, Benznidazole. In addition, the molecular origin of the antitrypanosomal properties for these series was investigated using docking studies of the TCC structure.