Spectroscopic studies, potential energy surface and molecular orbital calculations of pramipexole.

A systematic vibrational spectroscopic assignment and analysis of pramipexole [(S)-N(6)-propyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1,3-benzothiazole-2,6-diamine] has been carried out using FT-IR and FT-Raman spectral data. The vibrational analysis was aided by an electronic structure calculation based on the hybrid density functional method B3LYP using a 6-311G(d, p) and cc-pVTZ basis sets. Molecular equilibrium geometries, electronic energies, IR and Raman intensities, harmonic vibrational frequencies have been computed. The assignments are based on the experimental IR and Raman spectra, and a complete assignment of the observed spectra has been proposed. The UV-visible spectrum of the compound was recorded and the electronic properties, such as HOMO and LUMO energies and the maximum absorption λmax were determined by time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) method. The geometrical parameters, vibrational frequencies and absorption wavelengths were compared with the experimental data. The complete vibrational assignments are performed on the basis of the potential energy distributions (PEDs) of the vibrational modes in terms of natural internal coordinates. The simulated FT-IR, FT-Raman, and UV spectra of the title compound have been constructed. In addition, the potential energy surface, HOMO and LUMO energies, the molecular electrostatic potential and the first-order hyperpolarizability have been computed. The magnitude of the first-order hyperpolarizability is 5 times larger than that of urea and the title compound may be a potential applicant for the development of NLO materials.