The interactions of the first-row hydrides (HF, H
2O, and NH
3) with ClF have beeninvestigated by performing calculations at the second-order perturbation theory based on theM
ller-Plesset partition of the Hamiltonian with the aug-cc-pVTZ basis set. The geometriesand vibrational frequencies in the present study were obtained by carrying out explicitcounterpoise-corrected optimization. In order to understand that the Cl-X-type (X = F, O, andN) structure is more stable than the corresponding hydrogen-bonded structure in thesecomplexes, the electronic properties were also investigated. Furthermore, the symmetry-adaptedperturbation theory calculations were performed to gain more insight into the nature of thehydrogen-bond and Cl-X-type interactions. The analysis of the interaction energy componentsindicates that, in contrast to the hydrogen-bonded complexes, the inductive and dispersiveinteraction is the most important term in the Cl-X-type complexes, as we progress from HF toNH
3.