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Zhang C, Zhu C, Eckhardt AK, Kaiser RI. Formation of the elusive tetrahedral P 3N molecule. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabo5792. [PMID: 35648866 PMCID: PMC9159698 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo5792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
The tetrahedral 1,2,3-triphospha-4-azatricyclo [1.1.0.02,4] butane (P3N) molecule-an isovalent species of phosphorus (P4)-was prepared in low-temperature (5 K) phosphine-nitrogen ices and was identified in the gas phase through isomer-selective, tunable, soft photoionization reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Theoretical calculations reveal that the substitution of a single phosphorus atom by nitrogen in the P4 molecule results in enhanced spherical aromaticity while simultaneously increasing the strain energy from 74 to 195 kJ mol-1. In P3N, the P─P bond is shortened compared to those in P4 by 3.6 pm, while the P─N─P bond angle of 73.0° is larger by 13.0° compared to the P─P─P bond angle of 60.0° in P4. The identification of tetrahedral P3N enhances our fundamental understanding of the chemical bonding, electronic structure, and stability of binary, interpnictide tetrahedral molecules and reveals a universal route to prepare ring strained cage molecules in extreme environments.
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- Chaojiang Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2545 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
- W. M. Keck Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2545 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2545 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
- W. M. Keck Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2545 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2545 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
- W. M. Keck Laboratory in Astrochemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2545 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Rey Planells A, Espinosa Ferao A. Accurate Ring Strain Energies of Unsaturated Three-Membered Heterocycles with One Group 13-16 Element. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:6459-6468. [PMID: 35442022 PMCID: PMC9066411 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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High-quality ring
strain energy (RSE) data for 1H-unsaturated (CH)2X parent rings, where X is a group 13–16
element, are reported in addition to the 2H-isomers
of the pnictogenirene rings. RSE data are obtained from appropriate
homosdesmotic reactions and calculated at the DLPNO-CCSD(T)/def2-TZVPP//B3LYP-D3/def2-TZVP(ecp)
level. 1H-Tallirene and 1H-plumbirene
have unique donor–acceptor structures between an acetylene
π(CC) orbital and an empty p orbital of a metallylene subunit
(a Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson description) and therefore
cannot be described as proper rings but as pseudocyclic structures.
Also, 1H-indirene and 1H-oxirene
lack ring critical points and constitute borderline cases of pseudorings.
1H-Unsaturated rings exhibit enhanced RSE compared
to their saturated homologues. The mechanism of ring strain relaxation
by increasing the s character in the lone pair (LP) of group 15–16
elements is remarkable and increases on descending the groups. Furthermore,
RSE is affected by the aromatic character of group 13 rings and certain
aromatic or antiaromatic character in group 14 or 15–16 rings,
respectively, which tend to vanish on descending the group as shown
by NICS(1) values. 2H-Unsaturated rings were found
only for group 15 elements (although only 2H-azirine
shows a proper cyclic structure) and displayed lower RSE (higher stability)
than the corresponding 1H-isomers. Accurate ring strain energies (RSE) are
calculated for three-membered
1H-unsaturated rings containing a 13−16 group
element and group 15 2H-isomers. The presence or
absence of lone pairs at the heteroatom and the existence of intrinsic
or residual (anti)aromaticity were shown to affect the RSE.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alicia Rey Planells
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química, Campus de Espinardo, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química, Campus de Espinardo, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
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Riu MLY, Ye M, Cummins CC. Alleviating Strain in Organic Molecules by Incorporation of Phosphorus: Synthesis of Triphosphatetrahedrane. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:16354-16357. [PMID: 34606717 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Phosphatetrahedranes (tBuCP)2 and (tBuC)3P were recently reported and represent the first tetrahedranes containing a mixed carbon/phosphorus core. Herein, we report that tetrahydrofuran (THF) solutions of the parent triphosphatetrahedrane HCP3 may be generated in 31% yield (NMR internal standard yield) by combining [Na(THF)3][P3Nb(ODipp)3] (Dipp = 2,6-diisopropylphenyl), INb(ODipp)3(THF), and bromodichloromethane in thawing THF. While HCP3 was found to be stable in dilute THF solutions for extended periods of time, the concentration of the solution at -40 °C led to the formation of a black precipitate, which has been tentatively assigned as a polymerized form of HCP3. HCP3 reacts readily with (dppe)Fe(Cp*)Cl (dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane, Cp*= η5-C5Me5) in the presence of Na[BPh4] to form a purple cationic iron complex of triphosphatetrahedrane (50% yield), which was structurally characterized in a single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiment. Additionally, we present a series of homodesmotic equations analyzed via quantum chemical calculations that suggest triphosphatetrahedrane is the least strained of the mixed C/P phosphatetrahedranes.
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- Martin-Louis Y Riu
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Planells AR, Ferao AE. Accurate Ring Strain Energy Calculations on Saturated Three-Membered Heterocycles with One Group 13-16 Element. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:11503-11513. [PMID: 32799495 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Accurate ring strain energy (RSE) data for parent (CH2)2X rings are reported, where X are group 13-16 elements (El) in their lowest oxidation state, from the second to the sixth row, with their covalence completed by bonds to H. They are obtained from appropriate homodesmotic and hyper-homodesmotic reactions at different levels up to the CCSD(T) level, thus providing a benchmark of high-quality reference RSE values, as well as acceptably accurate faster lower-level options. Derivatives of indium, thallium, and lead cannot be properly described by a three-member ring connectivity, because they display a unique donor-acceptor structure from an ethylene π(C═C) orbital to an empty p orbital of a metallylene subunit. The RSE of groups 13 and 14 heterocycles increases on descending in the group (except for Ga and Ge), while it decreases for groups 15 and 16. The latter is presumably due to a strain-releasing mechanism favored by the increase of p-character at the sp3-type atomic orbital used by El in the endocyclic El-C bonds, %p(El)El-C, originated by the tendency of the El lone pairs in groups 15-16 to increase their s-character. This strain-releasing mechanism does not exist in heavier tetrels, which keep almost unchanged the p-character in the endocyclic bonds at El, whereas for triels the p-character is still lower owing to their sp2-like hybridization. Remarkable linear correlations were found between the RSE and either the above-mentioned %p(El)El-C, the distal C-C bond distance or the relaxed force constants for the endocyclic bond angles.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alicia Rey Planells
- Depto. Quı́mica Orgánica, Facultad de Quı́mica, Campus de Espinardo, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
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- Depto. Quı́mica Orgánica, Facultad de Quı́mica, Campus de Espinardo, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
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Espinosa Ferao A. Kinetic energy density per electron as quick insight into ring strain energies. Tetrahedron Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2016.10.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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On the relationship between ring strain energies and ‘atoms-in-molecules’ properties in N2P2 rings. Chem Phys Lett 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2014.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Rekken BD, Brown TM, Fettinger JC, Lips F, Tuononen HM, Herber RH, Power PP. Dispersion Forces and Counterintuitive Steric Effects in Main Group Molecules: Heavier Group 14 (Si–Pb) Dichalcogenolate Carbene Analogues with Sub-90° Interligand Bond Angles. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:10134-48. [DOI: 10.1021/ja403802a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Brian D. Rekken
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue,
Davis, California, 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue,
Davis, California, 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue,
Davis, California, 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue,
Davis, California, 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35,
FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue,
Davis, California, 95616, United States
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Rekken BD, Brown TM, Olmstead MM, Fettinger JC, Power PP. Stable Plumbylene Dichalcogenolate Monomers with Large Differences in Their Interligand Angles and the Synthesis and Characterization of a Monothiolato Pb(II) Bromide and Lithium Trithiolato Plumbate. Inorg Chem 2013; 52:3054-62. [DOI: 10.1021/ic302513c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Brian D. Rekken
- Department of Chemistry, University of California—Davis, Davis, California
95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California—Davis, Davis, California
95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California—Davis, Davis, California
95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California—Davis, Davis, California
95616, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California—Davis, Davis, California
95616, United States
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Aromaticity in silicon-containing molecules has been a controversy for more than a century. Combining molecular dynamics simulations with ab initio calculations, we show here that it is possible to obtain aromatic-like behavior with pure hydrogenated silicon clusters without the need for multiple bonds. To this end, we exploit the natural tendency of silicon toward overcoordination to construct electron-deficient molecules with ring structures. Even without the incorporation of any protective bulky substituents the resulting structures are more stable than any other known hydrogenated silicon nanoparticles of this size and exhibit aromatic-like properties due to strong electron delocalization.
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- Holger Vach
- CNRS - LPICM , Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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Bauzá A, Quiñonero D, Deyà PM, Frontera A. Estimating ring strain energies in small carbocycles by means of the Bader’s theory of ‘atoms-in-molecules’. Chem Phys Lett 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2012.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Zeng X, Beckers H, Willner H, Francisco JS. Experimental Observation of the 16-Electron Molecules SPN, SNP, and Cyclic PSN. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012; 51:3334-9. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201108636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Zeng X, Beckers H, Willner H, Francisco JS. Experimental Observation of the 16-Electron Molecules SPN, SNP, and Cyclic PSN. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201108636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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