Topological analysis of charge density in heptasulfur imide (S7NH) from isolated molecule to solid Original Research Article

Intra and intermolecular interactions of heptasulfur imide (S7NH) are investigated in terms of topological properties analyses, such analyses are applied to both experimental (multipole model) and theoretically calculated (DFT and PDFT calculations) charge densities of the isolated molecule and of the crystal. The same analyses are also applied to a multipole model density obtained from theoretically (PDFT) derived structural amplitudes. The covalent bond character of S–N, N–H and S–S bonds are well described in terms of density, ρb, and total energy density, Hb, at the bond critical point rc, though it is clear that the S–S bonds are weaker shared interactions than those of N–H and S–N bonds. Lone pair electron regions of sulfur and nitrogen atoms are revealed as the local charge concentration site from the Laplacian of charge density. The even weaker intermolecular interactions are well characterized; these include the N–H⋯S hydrogen bonding, N⋯S binding interactions and S⋯S binding interactions. All these intermolecular binding interactions are closed-shell interactions. The Laplacian of charge density demonstrates a directional intermolecular binding interaction. The corresponding intermolecular binding energies are derived by MP2/6-311+G(d,p) calculations. Atomic graph of each atom of the molecule is described in detail by the vertices, edges and faces of the polyhedron around the nucleus to illustrate such directional interactions.