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The geometric and electronic structure of the complex formed by dipole-dipole interaction between two molecules of DMSO in the "head-to-tail" orientation were calculated by the MNDO quantum-chemical method. The minimum total energy corresponds to a distance of 5.5 Å between the sulfur atoms, and the angle between the axis of the molecular dipoles is 16.4°. This agrees with calculations for liquid DMSO by molecular dynamics. The large equilibrium distance between the DMSO molecules explains its low density in the liquid phase and the high intensity of microwave absorption due to free volume sufficient for rotation of one molecule in the complex in relation to the dipole axis of the other.
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N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117334 Moscow. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1340–1344, June, 1992.
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Khurgin, Y.I., Isaev, A.N. Geometry and electronic structure of the dimethyl sulfoxide dimer. Calculation by the MNDO method. Russ Chem Bull 41, 1046–1049 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00866582
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00866582