Vibrational spectra and analysis of acetohydrazide CH3-CO-NH-NH2

  • Hassan M. Badawi*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The structural stability of acetohydrazide CH3-CO-NH-NH2 was investigated by DFT-B3LYP and ab initio MP2 calculations with 6-311+G** basis set. The C-N rotational barrier in the molecule was calculated to be about 26 kcal/mol that suggested the planar sp2 nature of the nitrogen atom of the central NH moiety. The N atom of the terminal NH2 group was predicted to highly prefer the pyramidal sp3 structure with an inversion barrier of about 7-8 kcal/mol. The molecule was predicted to have a trans-syn (N-H bond is trans with respect to C{double bond, long}O bond and NH2 moiety is syn to C-N bond) conformation as the lowest energy structure. The vibrational frequencies were computed at B3LYP level of theory and normal coordinate calculations were carried out for the trans-syn acetohydrazide. Complete vibrational assignments were made on the basis of normal coordinate analyses and experimental infrared and Raman data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)592-597
Number of pages6
JournalSpectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Volume67
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2007

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The author gratefully acknowledges the support of this work by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. The author also greatly appreciates the free access to infrared and Raman spectra provided by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan through the web link: http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS .

Keywords

  • Ab initio MP2 and DFT-B3LYP calculations
  • Acetohydrazide
  • Vibrational spectra and assignments

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Instrumentation
  • Spectroscopy

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