Effects of internal hydrogen bonds between amide groups: Gas-phase basicity and proton affinity of linear aliphatic dicarboxamides

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Eur. J. Mass Spectrom. 6, 97 - 107 (2000)

Effects of internal hydrogen bonds between amide groups: Gas-phase basicity and proton affinity of linear aliphatic dicarboxamides

Matthias Witt and Hans-Friedrich Grützmacher^*
Fakultät für Chemie der Universität Bielefeld, P.O.B 10 01 31, D-33501 Bielefeld,

ABSTRACT:

The apparent gas-phase basicity GB_app and the proton affinity PA of aliphatic dicarboxamides has been determined by tandem mass spectrometry using the kinetic method. The diamides analyzed are primary maleic acid diamide (1a), fumaric acid diamide (2a) and trans,trans-muconic acid diamide (3a) and the tertiary N,N,N¢,N¢-tetramethyl derivatives 2b and 3b, which have an almost fixed relative orientation of the terminal amide groups because of the CC double bond(s) in the carbon skeleton, and the 1,n-dicarboxamides of succinic acid (4a) and (4b), of glutaric acid (5a) and (5b), of adipinic acid (6a) and (6b) and of sebacinic acid (7a) and (7b) containing a flexible (CH₂)_n chain with n = 2, 3, 4 and 8. Very large differences are observed for GB_app derived from the dissociation of proton-bound heterodimers either as metastable ions or by CID for all diamides which are expected to form an internal proton bridge between the carbonyl-O atoms of the terminal amide groups in the protonated species. These effects indicate considerable conformational changes of the diamides by protonation and entropic effects accompanying the dissociation of their proton-bound heterodimers. To study the effect of collisional activation, which is believed to alter the effective temperature, T_eff, of the proton-bound dimer ions, on their dissociation, separate experiments have been performed with thermalized proton bound heterodimers of 5a using Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) spectrometry to control the collision energy. The evaluation of T_eff from these experiments and the use of T_eff in Van't Hoff plots to determine the PA of 5a shows a surprisingly good agreement with the results from tandem mass spectrometry, which supports the view that the kinetic method using different T_eff can be used to determine the PA and the difference of the "apparent entropy" of protonation, D(DS_H+)^app, of the compound under study and the reference base of the proton bound heterodimer from GB_app even in the case of large entropy effects. The PA of maleic acid diamide 1a and its trans isomer 2a, not building an internal proton bridge by protonation, differ by 80 kJ mol¹. A value of 19 J mol¹ K is obtained for (DS_H+)^app (1a) while entropic effects are essentially absent in the case of 2a. The PA of linear dicarboxamides 4a7a increases with the length of the (CH₂)_n chain and exceeds that of monoamides of a comparable size by 60100 kJ mol¹. This is attributed to the formation of an internal proton bridge and a release of constraints for the

Keywords: dicarboxamides, proton affinity, entropic effects, internal hydrogen bonds, kinetic method

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