PMID- 34340374 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20210804 LR - 20210804 IS - 1089-7690 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9606 (Linking) VI - 155 IP - 4 DP - 2021 Jul 28 TI - A comprehensive computational and principal component analysis on various choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvents to reveal their structural and spectroscopic properties. PG - 044308 LID - 10.1063/5.0052569 [doi] AB - In this study, the quantum chemical properties, nonbonding interactions, and spectroscopic insights of a wide variety of choline chloride (ChCl)-based deep eutectic solvents were investigated employing molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory, and spectroscopic analyses. Nine experimentally reported ChCl-based deep eutectic solvents (DESs) were selected for this study where ChCl was common in all the DESs and the hydrogen bond donors (HBDs) were varied. The most energetically favorable cluster was selected using MD simulation followed by density functional theory calculation. The most stable cluster structures were fully optimized, and their quantum chemical properties and IR spectra were computed at the omegaB97XD/6-31G++(d,p) level of theory. Principal component analysis was performed to distinguish their behavioral differences and to find out if any correlation exists among the 1:1 and 1:2 clusters. The atom-atom radial distribution functions based on MD simulations revealed that several hydrogen bonds were formed among the donor and acceptor molecules. However, the most prominent hydrogen bonds were found to be N-H(HBD)cdots, three dots, centeredCl(-) for ChCl:U, ChCl:TU, and ChCl:Ace and O-H(HBD)cdots, three dots, centeredCl(-) for ChCl:Glu, ChCl:Ma, ChCl:Ox, ChCl:Gly, and ChCl:Phe. Both N-H(HBD)cdots, three dots, centeredCl(-) and O-H(HBD)cdots, three dots, centeredCl(-) were major interactions for ChCl:Pro, where Cl(-) worked as a bridge between Ch(+) and the respective donors. In addition, the -OH of Ch(+) showed strong intermolecular interactions with the acceptor groups of the donor molecules, such as C=O and O-H. This study has tried to extract a pattern of the contributions of HBDs by comparing the structural, spectroscopic, and thermodynamic properties of ChCl-based DESs, which have also been successfully correlated with the intermolecular interactions. FAU - Rain, Mahmudul Islam AU - Rain MI AUID- ORCID: 0000000273607458 AD - Division of Quantum Chemistry, The Red-Green Research Center, BICCB, 16, Tejkunipara, Tejgaon, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh. FAU - Iqbal, Humayun AU - Iqbal H AUID- ORCID: 0000000243765789 AD - Division of Quantum Chemistry, The Red-Green Research Center, BICCB, 16, Tejkunipara, Tejgaon, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh. FAU - Saha, Mousumi AU - Saha M AUID- ORCID: 0000000291740105 AD - Division of Quantum Chemistry, The Red-Green Research Center, BICCB, 16, Tejkunipara, Tejgaon, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh. FAU - Ali, Md Ackas AU - Ali MA AUID- ORCID: 0000000282353517 AD - Division of Quantum Chemistry, The Red-Green Research Center, BICCB, 16, Tejkunipara, Tejgaon, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh. FAU - Chohan, Harmeet Kaur AU - Chohan HK AD - Department of Physical Sciences, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, Fort Smith, Arkansas 72913-3649, USA. FAU - Rahman, Md Sajjadur AU - Rahman MS AUID- ORCID: 0000000229964845 AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota 57007, USA. FAU - Halim, Mohammad A AU - Halim MA AUID- ORCID: 0000000216987044 AD - Department of Physical Sciences, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, Fort Smith, Arkansas 72913-3649, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - J Chem Phys JT - The Journal of chemical physics JID - 0375360 SB - IM EDAT- 2021/08/04 06:00 MHDA- 2021/08/04 06:01 CRDT- 2021/08/03 05:28 PHST- 2021/08/03 05:28 [entrez] PHST- 2021/08/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/08/04 06:01 [medline] AID - 10.1063/5.0052569 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chem Phys. 2021 Jul 28;155(4):044308. doi: 10.1063/5.0052569.