An electron can never see a nucleus which it is orbiting as being significantly moving. Nuclei always appear to be motionless relative to the higher velocity of electrons. For example, if a nucleus needed to move ten units to affect an electron which orbits it, the electron would make thousands of orbits before the nuclei could move that much distance. So the displacement of the nucleus would be infinitesimal during each orbit of the electron. This principle applies to thermal energy as well as kinetic energy.
Thermal energy is randomized motion of nuclei.
Randomized motion of nuclei would be as invisible to electrons as the liner motion of kinetic energy. Since the motion of nuclei is invisible to electrons, it cannot influence the energy of electrons. Therefore, neither kinetic energy nor thermal energy can ever be transformed into chemical energy. The problem is that binding force is a stress force between nuclei. It cannot add energy to electrons.