PMID- 35478783 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220716 IS - 2046-2069 (Electronic) IS - 2046-2069 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 35 DP - 2021 Jun 15 TI - In acid-aminopyrimidine continuum: experimental and computational studies of furan tetracarboxylate-2-aminopyrimidinium salt. PG - 21463-21474 LID - 10.1039/d1ra01714d [doi] AB - Salts and cocrystals are the two important solid forms when a carboxylic acid crystallizes with an aminopyrimidine base such that the extent of proton transfer distinguishes between them. The DeltapK (a) value (pK (a)(base) - pK (a)(acid)) predicts whether the proton transfer will occur or not. However, the DeltapK (a) range, 0 < DeltapK (a) < 3, is elusive where the formation of cocrystal or salt cannot be predicted. The current study has been done to obtain a generalization in this elusive range with the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). Based on the generalization, a novel salt (FTCA)(-)(2-AP)(+) of furantetracarboxylic acid (FTCA) with 2-aminopyrimidine (2-AP) is obtained. The structural confirmation was done by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD). Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed at the IEF-PCM-B3LYP-D3/6-311G(d,p) level to optimize the geometrical coordinates of salt for frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs) and molecular electrostatic potential (MESP). The geometrical parameters of most of the atoms of the optimized salt structure were comparable with SCXRD data. Additionally, results of other computational methods such as ab initio (Hartree-Fock; HF and second-order-Moller-Plesset perturbation; MP2) and semi-empirical were also compared with experimental results of the salt. Quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM), reduced density gradient (RDG), and natural bond orbital (NBO) analyses were done to calculate the strength and nature of non-covalent interactions present in the salt. Furthermore, Hirshfeld surface analysis, interaction energy calculations, and total energy frameworks were performed for qualitative and quantitative estimations of strong and weak intermolecular interactions. CI - This journal is (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry. FAU - Garg, Utsav AU - Garg U AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2294-0314 AD - Department of Applied Chemistry, Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh 202002 Uttar Pradesh India yasser.azim@gmail.com. FAU - Azim, Yasser AU - Azim Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3978-9171 AD - Department of Applied Chemistry, Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh 202002 Uttar Pradesh India yasser.azim@gmail.com. FAU - Alam, Mahboob AU - Alam M AD - Division of Chemistry & Biotechnology, Dongguk University 123 Dongdae-ro Gyeongju Republic of Korea mahboobchem@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210617 PL - England TA - RSC Adv JT - RSC advances JID - 101581657 PMC - PMC9034213 COIS- There are no conflicts to declare. EDAT- 2022/04/29 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/29 06:01 PMCR- 2021/06/17 CRDT- 2022/04/28 06:12 PHST- 2021/03/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/06/08 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/04/28 06:12 [entrez] PHST- 2022/04/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/29 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/06/17 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - d1ra01714d [pii] AID - 10.1039/d1ra01714d [doi] PST - epublish SO - RSC Adv. 2021 Jun 17;11(35):21463-21474. doi: 10.1039/d1ra01714d. eCollection 2021 Jun 15.