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Yáñez M, Ortíz-Chi F, Merino G, Alkorta I. Dismantlement of ammonia upon interaction with Be n (n ≤ 10) clusters. J Comput Chem 2023; 44:159-167. [PMID: 35297069 PMCID: PMC10078787 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Revised: 03/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The interaction of ammonia with Ben (n < 1-10) clusters has been investigated by density functional theory and ab initio calculations. The main conclusion is that, regardless of the size of the Be cluster, neither the structure of ammonia nor that of the Be clusters are preserved due to a systematic dissociation of its NH bonds and a spontaneous H-shift toward the available Be atoms. This H migration not only leads to rather stable BeH bonds, but dramatically enhances the strength of the BeN bonds as well. Accordingly, the maximum stability is found for the interaction with the beryllium trimer, leading to a complex with three NBe and three BeH bonds. Another maximum in stability, although lower than that reached for n = 3, is found for the Be heptamer, since from n = 6, a new NBe bond is formed, so that complexes from n = 6 to n = 10 are characterized by the formation of a NBe4 moiety, whose stability reaches a maximum at n = 7. The bonding characteristics of the different species formed are analyzed by means of AIM, NBO, ELF and AdNDP approaches.
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- Manuel Yáñez
- Departamento de Química, Módulo 13, Facultad de Ciencias and Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- CONACYT-Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Centro de Investigación de Ciencia y Tecnología Aplicada de Tabasco, Cunduacán, Tabasco, Mexico
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- Centro Investigación & Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Mérida, Dept. Física Aplicada, Merida, Mexico
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- Instituto de Química Médica (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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Mó O, Montero-Campillo MM, Yáñez M, Alkorta I, Elguero J. Are Anions of Cyclobutane Beryllium Derivatives Stabilized through Four-Center One-Electron Bonds? J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:1515-1521. [PMID: 31962049 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b10187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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High-level G4 ab initio calculations allowed us to show that C4H4(BeX)4 (X = H, Cl) derivatives behave as rather efficient electron capturers due to their ability to trap the extra electron through the formation of a four-membered beryllium ring. This finding is in agreement with previous work showing the ability of highly electron-deficient atoms, such as beryllium, to lead to multicenter one-electron bonds. In our particular case, the formation of the four-center bond is characterized, in very good harmony, by different topological methods such as quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM), the electron localization function (ELF), and the noncovalent interactions (NCI) approach and is accompanied by large electron affinity values, around 300 kJ·mol-1, in the gas phase. Preliminary results may anticipate that the ability of groups of beryllium atoms to trap electrons decays on going to bigger systems.
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- Otilia Mó
- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Módulo 13, and Institute of Advanced Chemical Sciences (IadChem) , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Campus de Excelencia UAM-CSIC, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid , Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Módulo 13, and Institute of Advanced Chemical Sciences (IadChem) , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Campus de Excelencia UAM-CSIC, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid , Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Módulo 13, and Institute of Advanced Chemical Sciences (IadChem) , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Campus de Excelencia UAM-CSIC, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Química Médica (CSIC) , Juan de la Cierva, 3 , E-28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Química Médica (CSIC) , Juan de la Cierva, 3 , E-28006 Madrid , Spain
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Fantuzzi F, Wolff W, Quitián-Lara HM, Boechat-Roberty HM, Hilgers G, Rudek B, Nascimento MAC. Unexpected reversal of stability in strained systems containing one-electron bonds. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:24984-24992. [PMID: 31709438 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04964a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Ring strain energy is a very well documented feature of neutral cycloalkanes, and influences their structural, thermochemical and reactivity properties. In this work, we apply density functional theory and high-level coupled cluster calculations to describe the geometry and relative stability of C6H12+˙ radical cations, whose cyclic isomers are prototypes of singly-charged cycloalkanes. Molecular ions with the mentioned stoichiometry were produced via electron impact experiments using a gaseous cyclohexane sample (20-2000 eV). From our calculations, in addition to structures that resemble linear and branched alkenes as well as distinct conformers of cyclohexane, we have found low-lying species containing three-, four- and five-membered rings with the presence of an elongated C-C bond. Remarkably, the stability trend of these ring-bearing radical cations is anomalous, and the three-membered species are up to 11.3 kcal mol-1 more stable than the six-membered chair structure. Generalized Valence Bond calculations and the Spin Coupled theory with N electrons and M orbitals were used in conjunction with the Generalized Product Function Energy Partitioning (GPF-EP) method and Interference Energy Analysis (IEA) to describe the chemical bonding in such moieties. Our results confirm that these elongated C-C motifs are one-electron sigma bonds. Our calculations also reveal the effects that drive thermochemical preference of strained systems over their strained-free isomers, and the origin of the unusual stability trend observed for cycloalkane radical cations.
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- Felipe Fantuzzi
- Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos 149, 21941-909, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. and Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany and Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Emil-Fischer-Straße 42, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos 149, 21941-972, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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- Observatório do Valongo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ladeira do Pedro Antônio 43, 20080-090, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Observatório do Valongo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ladeira do Pedro Antônio 43, 20080-090, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany and Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, 30 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos 149, 21941-909, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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de Sousa DWO, Nascimento MAC. One-electron bonds are not "half-bonds". Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:13319-13336. [PMID: 31184654 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp02209k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Despite the success of the molecular orbital (MO) and valence-bond (VB) models to describe the electronic structure and properties of molecules, neither MO nor VB provides an explanation for the nature of the chemical bond. The first to address this problem was Ruedenberg, who showed that chemical bonds result from quantum interference. He developed a method to calculate the interference contribution to the total electronic energy and density and applied it to molecules containing typical two-centre two-electron (2c-2e) covalent bonds. To test the generality of Ruedenberg's hypothesis, we developed a powerful Interference Energy Analysis (IEA) method to calculate the interference contributions of individual chemical bonds to the total energy of diatomic and polyatomic molecules, and showed that any two-electron bond, despite its polarity, results from quantum interference. Nevertheless, many stable molecules are experimentally known whose chemical structures clearly indicate the existence of two-centre one-electron bonds (2c-1e). Therefore, the question remains if quantum interference will be the dominant effect for these systems. This work describes the extension of the IEA for treating two-centre one-electron bonds, making use of a Generalised Product Function (GPF) built from spin coupled wave functions of N electrons in M orbitals, SC(N,M). Several diatomic and polyatomic molecules were analysed and whenever possible the results were compared with the analogous case of a two-electron bond. The results indicate that interference is the dominant effect for the one-electron bonds, which reinforces the role of quantum interference as the central element in chemical bonding theory.
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- David Wilian Oliveira de Sousa
- Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Cidade Universitária, CT Bloco A Sala 412, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-909, Brazil.
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Alkorta I, Montero-Campillo MM, Elguero J, Yáñez M, Mó O. Complexes between H2 and neutral oxyacid beryllium derivatives. The role of angular strain. Mol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1521012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Ibon Alkorta
- Instituto de Química Médica, IQM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, and Institute of Advanced Chemical Sciences (IadChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Médica, IQM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, and Institute of Advanced Chemical Sciences (IadChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, and Institute of Advanced Chemical Sciences (IadChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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