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Chen X, Yan X, Liu Z, Yuan T, Bu C, Shang Y, Wu Y, Wei H, Xu J. Electronic Structure Determines Geometry: Bond Length Alternating in Cyclo[2 n]carbons. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:8825-8832. [PMID: 39360988 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c01540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2024]
Abstract
Structure determines the properties. However, whether electronic structure determines geometry or geometry determines electronic structure seems a philosophical question in a chicken and egg situation, which remains unclear. In this work, by applying density functional theory (DFT) and DMRG(4n,4n)-CASSCF methods, theoretical investigation suggested that the dual antiaromaticity in cyclo[2n]carbons with even n should be attributed to the electron correlation effect, instead of decreased geometric symmetry, which actually exists in all cyclo[2n]carbon molecules and does not point out the essence. Such dual antiaromaticity can be conceptualized as electron correlation-stabilized dual antiaromaticity. Results also showed that DFT is reliable for cyclocarbons larger than C14, but we should be careful when applying it to smaller ones. DFT failed to give the correct structure of C6 compared with density matrix renormalization group results.
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- Xi Chen
- College of Chemistry & Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Weifang University, Weifang, Shandong 261061, China
- Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210037, China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Numerical Simulation of Large-Scale Complex System and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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- College of Chemistry & Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Weifang University, Weifang, Shandong 261061, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Numerical Simulation of Large-Scale Complex System and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- School of Chemical Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
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- School of Chemical Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Numerical Simulation of Large-Scale Complex System and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Numerical Simulation of Large-Scale Complex System and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- School of Chemical Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Sun L, Zheng W, Kang F, Gao W, Wang T, Gao G, Xu W. On-surface synthesis and characterization of anti-aromatic cyclo[12]carbon and cyclo[20]carbon. Nat Commun 2024; 15:7649. [PMID: 39223168 PMCID: PMC11369269 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52115-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2024] [Accepted: 08/26/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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Cyclo[n]carbons have recently attracted significant attention owing to their geometric and electronic structures remaining largely unexplored in the condensed phase. In this work, we focus on two anti-aromatic cyclocarbons, namely C12 and C20. By designing two fully halogenated molecular precursors both including 4-numbered rings, we further extend the on-surface retro-Bergman ring-opening reaction, and successfully produce C12 and C20. The polyynic structures of C12 and C20 are unambiguously revealed by bond-resolved atomic force microscopy. More importantly, subtly positioning the C20 molecule into an atomic fence formed by Cl clusters allows us to experimentally probe its frontier molecular orbitals, yielding a transport gap of 3.8 eV measured from scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Our work may advance the field by easier synthesis of a series of cyclocarbons via on-surface retro-Bergman ring-opening strategy.
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- Luye Sun
- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, People's Republic of China
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, People's Republic of China
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, People's Republic of China
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Special Artificial Microstructure Materials and Technology, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Special Artificial Microstructure Materials and Technology, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, People's Republic of China.
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Yang P, Pan H, Wang Y, Li J, Dong Y, Wang Y, Hou S. Exploring Aromaticity Effects on Electronic Transport in Cyclo[n]carbon Single-Molecule Junctions. Molecules 2024; 29:3827. [PMID: 39202906 PMCID: PMC11356915 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29163827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2024] [Revised: 07/30/2024] [Accepted: 08/07/2024] [Indexed: 09/03/2024] Open
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Cyclo[n]carbon (Cn) is one member of the all-carbon allotrope family with potential applications in next-generation electronic devices. By employing first-principles quantum transport calculations, we have investigated the electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions of Cn, with n = 14, 16, 18, and 20, connected to two bulk gold electrodes, uncovering notable distinctions arising from the varying aromaticities. For the doubly aromatic C14 and C18 molecules, slightly deformed complexes at the singlet state arise after bonding with one Au atom at each side; in contrast, the reduced energy gaps between the highest occupied and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals due to the orbital reordering observed in the doubly anti-aromatic C16 and C20 molecules lead to heavily deformed asymmetric complexes at the triplet state. Consequently, spin-unpolarized transmission functions are obtained for the Au-C14/18-Au junctions, while spin-polarized transmission appears in the Au-C16/20-Au junctions. Furthermore, the asymmetric in-plane π-type hybrid molecular orbitals of the Au-C16/20-Au junctions contribute to two broad but low transmission peaks far away from the Fermi level (Ef), while the out-of-plane π-type hybrid molecular orbitals dominate two sharp transmission peaks that are adjacent to Ef, thus resulting in much lower transmission coefficients at Ef compared to those of the Au-C14/18-Au junctions. Our findings are helpful for the design and application of future cyclo[n]carbon-based molecular electronic devices.
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- Peiqi Yang
- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; (P.Y.); (H.P.); (Y.W.); (J.L.); (Y.D.); (Y.W.)
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; (P.Y.); (H.P.); (Y.W.); (J.L.); (Y.D.); (Y.W.)
- Institute of Spin Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 511442, China
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; (P.Y.); (H.P.); (Y.W.); (J.L.); (Y.D.); (Y.W.)
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; (P.Y.); (H.P.); (Y.W.); (J.L.); (Y.D.); (Y.W.)
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; (P.Y.); (H.P.); (Y.W.); (J.L.); (Y.D.); (Y.W.)
- Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; (P.Y.); (H.P.); (Y.W.); (J.L.); (Y.D.); (Y.W.)
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; (P.Y.); (H.P.); (Y.W.); (J.L.); (Y.D.); (Y.W.)
- Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Pooja, Yadav S, Pawar R. Chemistry of Cyclo[18]Carbon (C 18): A Review. CHEM REC 2024; 24:e202400055. [PMID: 38994665 DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202400055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2024] [Revised: 05/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
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Carbon-based allotropes are propelling a technological revolution in communication, sensing, and computing, concurrently challenging fundamental theories of the previous century. Nevertheless, the demand for advanced carbon-based materials remains substantial. The crux lies in the efficient and reliable engineering of novel carbon allotrope. Although C18 has undergone theoretical and experimental investigation for an extended period, its preparation and direct observation in the condensed phase occurred only recently through STM/AFM techniques. The distinctive cyclic ring structure and the dual 18-center π delocalization character introduce various uncommon properties to C18, rendering it a subject worthy of in-depth exploration. In this context, this review delves into past developments contributing to the state-of-the-art understanding of C18 and provides insights into how future endeavours can expedite practical applications. Encompassing a broad spectrum, this review comprehensively investigates almost all facets of C18, including geometric characteristics, electron delocalization, bonding nature, aromaticity, reactivity, electronic excitation, UV/Vis spectrum, intermolecular interaction, response to external fields, electron affinity, ionization, and other molecular properties. Moreover, the review also outlines representative strategies for the direct synthesis and characterization of C18 using atom manipulation techniques. Following this, C18-based complexes are summarized, and potential applications in catalysis, electrochemical devices, optoelectronics, and sensing are discussed.
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- Pooja
- Laboratory of Advanced Computation and Theory for Materials and Chemistry (LACTMC), Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW), Warangal, Telangana, 506004, India
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- Laboratory of Advanced Computation and Theory for Materials and Chemistry (LACTMC), Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW), Warangal, Telangana, 506004, India
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- Laboratory of Advanced Computation and Theory for Materials and Chemistry (LACTMC), Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW), Warangal, Telangana, 506004, India
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Payod RB, Pushkarchuk AL, Michels DL, Lyakhov DA, Saroka VA. Comparative analysis of absorption resonances between carbynes and cyclo[n]carbons. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2024; 36:425302. [PMID: 38986474 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ad61ab] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024]
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Two approaches are presented here to analyze the absorption resonances between carbynes and cyclo[n]carbons, namely the analytical tight-binding model to calculate the optical selection rules of cumulenic atomic rings and chains and theab initiotime-dependent density functional theory for the optical investigation of polyynic carbon ring and chains. The optical absorption spectra of the carbon ring match that of the finite chain when their eigen energies align following theNring=2Nchain+2rule, which states that the number of atoms in an atomic ringNringis twice the number of atoms on a finite chainNchainwith two additional atoms. Two representative atomic chains are chosen for our numerical calculations, specifically carbynes withN=7and8carbon atoms as optical resonance spectra match to a recently synthesized carbon ring called cyclo[18]carbon. Despite the mismatch in resonance peaks, molecular orbital transitions of both carbynesN = 7 and 8 and cyclo[18]carbon reveal a wave function symmetry change from inversion to reflection and vice versa for allowed molecular orbital transitions, which results in electron density redistribution along the polyynic carbyne axis or the cyclo[18]carbon circumference. Our investigation of the correlation of optical absorption peaks between carbynes and cyclo[n]carbons is a step towards enhancing the reliability of allotrope identification in advanced molecular device spectroscopy. Moreover, this work could facilitate the non-invasive, rapid and crucial assessment of these sensitive 1D allotropes by providing accurate descriptions of their electronic and optical properties, particularly in controlled synthesis environments.
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- Renebeth B Payod
- Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna 4031, The Philippines
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- Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 13 Surganov Str., Minsk 220072, Belarus
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- Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, University of Rome Tor Vergata and INFN, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Roma 00133, Italy
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Niamat Y, Yaqoob J, Khan MU, Hussain R, Gilani MA, Hassan AU, Ahamad T. Investigating the potential of monocyclic B 9N 9 and C 18 rings for the electrochemical sensing, and adsorption of carbazole-based anti-cancer drug derivatives: DFT-based first-principle study. J Mol Model 2024; 30:245. [PMID: 38960925 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-024-06049-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 06/25/2024] [Indexed: 07/05/2024]
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CONTEXT For the first time, the use of monocyclic rings C18 and B9N9 as sensors for the sensing of carbazole-based anti-cancer drugs, such as tetrahydrocarbazole (THC), mukonal (MKN), murrayanine (MRY), and ellipticine (EPT), is described using DFT simulations and computational characterization. The geometries, electronic properties, stability studies, sensitivity, and adsorption capabilities of C18 and B9N9 counterparts towards the selected compounds confirm that the analytes interact through active cavities of the C18 and B9N9 rings of the complexes. METHODS Based on the interaction energies, the sensitivity of surfaces towards EPT, MKN, MRY, and THC analytes is observed. The interaction energy of EPT@B9N9, MKN@B9N9, MRY@B9N9, and THC@B9N9 complexes are observed - 20.40, - 19.49, - 20.07, and - 18.27 kcal/mol respectively which is more exothermic than EPT@C18, MKN@C18, MRY@C18, and THC@C18 complexes are - 16.37, - 13.97, - 13.96, and - 11.39 kcal/mol respectively. According to findings from the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) and the reduced density gradient (RDG), dispersion forces play a significant role in maintaining the stability of these complexes. The electronic properties including FMOs, density of states (DOS), natural bond orbitals (NBO), charge transfer, and absorption studies are carried out. In comparison of B9N9 and C18, the analyte recovery time for C18 is much shorter (9.91 × 10-11 for THC@C18) than that for B9N9 shorter recovery time value of 3.75 × 10-9 for EPT@B9N9. These results suggest that our reported sensors B9N9 and C18 make it faster to detect adsorbed molecules at room temperature. The sensor response is more prominent in B9N9 due to its fine energy gap and high adsorption energy. Consequently, it is possible to think of these monocyclic systems as a potential material for sensor applications.
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- Yumna Niamat
- Department of Chemistry, University of Okara, Okara, -56300, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Okara, Okara, -56300, Pakistan.
- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, 54600, Pakistan.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Okara, Okara, -56300, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, 54600, Pakistan
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- Lunan Research Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology, 888 Zhengtai Road, Tengzhou, 277599, China
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, 11451, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Sen S, Bag A, Pal S. Genesis of Polynitrogen Compounds Employing Silicon Substituted cyclo[18]carbon: A DFT Investigation. Chemphyschem 2024:e202400535. [PMID: 38923798 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2024] [Revised: 06/19/2024] [Accepted: 06/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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Activation of molecular N2 and its catalytic ability to form NH3 using C17Si has been already reported. This current study reports the formation of exclusive polynitrogen clusters (N4 and N5) on the C17Si ring. The clusters are generated using N2 and N3 respectively. Physical and chemical property analyses of the clusters show that the N5 cluster exhibits greater stability than N4. The former is seen to experience reduced molecular strain compared to the latter owing to its co-planar geometry. The thermodynamic calculations of the systems further show that the formation of the N5 cluster is spontaneous compared to N4 on the C17Si ring.
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- Sobitri Sen
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, 741246, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Simhat, Haringhata, Nadia, 741249, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, 741246, West-Bengal, India
- Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana, 131029, India
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Stasyuk OA, Voityuk AA, Stasyuk AJ. Facilitating Electron Transfer by Resizing Cyclocarbon Acceptor from C 18 to C 16. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202400215. [PMID: 38530218 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202400215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Revised: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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Recent advances in synthetic methods, combined with tip-induced on-surface chemistry, have enabled the formation of numerous cyclocarbon molecules. Here, we investigate computationally the experimentally studied C16 and C18 molecules as well as their van der Waals (vdW) complexes with several typical donor and acceptor molecules. Our results demonstrate a remarkable electron-withdrawing ability of cyclocarbon molecules. The vdW complexes of C16 and C18 exhibit a thermodynamically favorable photoinduced electron transfer (ET) from the donor partner to the cyclocarbons that occurs on a picosecond time scale. The lower reorganization energy of C16 compared to C18 leads to a significant acceleration of the ET reactions.
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- O A Stasyuk
- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, C/ Maria Aurèlia, Capmany 69, 17003, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, C/ Maria Aurèlia, Capmany 69, 17003, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, C/ Maria Aurèlia, Capmany 69, 17003, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
- Departament de Farmàcia, i Tecnologia Farmacèutica, i Fisicoquímica, Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
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Sen S, Bag A, Pal S. Mechanistic Inquisition on the Reduction of C 17Si(NH 2) 2 to NH 3: A DFT Study. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202300723. [PMID: 38353668 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Revised: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
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Activation of molecular nitrogen by silicon-substituted cyclo[18]carbon and its ability to produce the C17Si-(NH2)2 derivative, as the precursor of NH3, has been recently reported. This specific acquisition has piqued an interest to investigate the possibility of NH3 formation with further addition of H2 molecules in the gaseous reaction media. The current investigations reported in this article show that two moles of molecular H2 generate two molecules of NH3 and a C17Si-H2 byproduct from its precursor. The catalyst gets restored by an in situ reaction between some unreacted C17Si-N2 and the byproduct in the media. This reaction also produces the next C17Si-(NH)2 adduct, which restarts the catalytic cycle for NH3 production again.
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- Sobitri Sen
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, 741246, West-Bengal, India
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Simhat, Haringhata, Nadia, 741249, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, 741246, West-Bengal, India
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, 741246, West-Bengal, India
- Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana, 131029, India
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Lu QL, Jiang SL, Luo QQ. Sr-centered monocyclic carbon ring Sr@C 14: A new stable cluster. J Mol Graph Model 2024; 128:108727. [PMID: 38354467 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2024.108727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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The study of stable neutral metal endohedral cyclo[n]carbon is helpful for discovering single-molecule devices. Extensive structural search and density functional theory calculations performed here indicate that the perfect planar alkaline metal-doped complexes Sr@C14 possess the well-defined global minima of the system with the metal atom located exactly at the center of the carbon ring. The configuration and bonding properties of C14 are different from those of pristine cyclo [14]carbon. The significant stabilization when forming Sr@C14 predominantly originates from the electrostatic interaction between Sr2+ and C142-. The detailed molecular orbital, nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS), and ring current analyses indicate that Sr@C14 is aromatic in nature. The NICS values of Sr@C14 are considerably larger than those of benzene. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations at different temperatures reveal that this system exhibits certain stability at low or moderate temperatures. The findings of this study effectively enrich the chemical structures and bonding patterns of metal-doped cyclo[n]carbon and provide the knowledge required to obtain novel structures of Sr@C14 in future experiments.
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- Qi Liang Lu
- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, Anhui, PR China.
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, Anhui, PR China
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- Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, PR China; Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, PR China
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Melesi S, Marabotti P, Milani A, Pigulski B, Gulia N, Pińkowski P, Szafert S, Del Zoppo M, Castiglioni C, Casari CS. Impact of Halogen Termination and Chain Length on π-Electron Conjugation and Vibrational Properties of Halogen-Terminated Polyynes. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:2703-2716. [PMID: 38507898 PMCID: PMC11017249 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
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We explored the optoelectronic and vibrational properties of a new class of halogen-terminated carbon atomic wires in the form of polyynes using UV-vis, infrared absorption, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray single-crystal diffraction, and DFT calculations. These polyynes terminate on one side with a cyanophenyl group and on the other side, with a halogen atom X (X = Cl, Br, I). We focus on the effect of different halogen terminations and increasing lengths (i.e., 4, 6, and 8 sp-carbon atoms) on the π-electron conjugation and the electronic structure of these systems. The variation in the sp-carbon chain length is more effective in tuning these features than changing the halogen end group, which instead leads to a variety of solid-state architectures. Shifts between the vibrational frequencies of samples in crystalline powders and in solution reflect intermolecular interactions. In particular, the presence of head-to-tail dimers in the crystals is responsible for the modulation of the charge density associated with the π-electron system, and this phenomenon is particularly important when strong I··· N halogen bonds occur.
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- Simone Melesi
- Department
of Energy, Micro and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory - NanoLab,
Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/3, Milano 20133, Italy
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- Department
of Energy, Micro and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory - NanoLab,
Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/3, Milano 20133, Italy
- Institut
für Physik and IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Energy, Micro and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory - NanoLab,
Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/3, Milano 20133, Italy
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, 14 F. Joliot-Curie, Wrocław 50-383, Poland
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, 14 F. Joliot-Curie, Wrocław 50-383, Poland
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, 14 F. Joliot-Curie, Wrocław 50-383, Poland
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, 14 F. Joliot-Curie, Wrocław 50-383, Poland
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- Department
of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano 20133, Italy
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- Department
of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano 20133, Italy
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- Department
of Energy, Micro and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory - NanoLab,
Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/3, Milano 20133, Italy
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Siddique MBA, Su J, Meng Y, Cheng SB. Electron transfer-mediated synergistic nonlinear optical response in the Ag n@C 18 (n = 4-6) complexes: A DFT study on the electronic structures and optical characteristics. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 312:124069. [PMID: 38422934 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.124069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Seeking highly efficient and stable non-linear optical (NLO) materials is crucial yet challenging, given their promising applications in laser diodes and photovoltaics. In this study, we employ the excess electron and charge transfer strategies to theoretically design three novel complexes, namely Agn@C18 (n = 4-6), by adsorbing silver clusters onto the cyclo[18]carbon ring (C18). Our aim is to investigate the NLO characteristics of these complexes using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations. The results reveal that the adsorption of Ag clusters onto C18 leads to a decrease in excitation energy and an increase in dipole moment and oscillator strengths, thereby significantly enhancing the hyperpolarizability of the complexes. Strikingly, among all these complexes, Ag6@C18 exhibits the highest first hyperpolarizability value of approximately 109496.2620 au calculated at the B3LYP/cc-PVDZ-pp level of theory, which is about 1.3 × 106 times higher than that of pure C18. This finding validates the effectiveness of the proposed strategies in enhancing the NLO response of the species. Moreover, the calculated UV-Vis absorption spectrum demonstrates that the Agn@C18 complexes with excess electrons exhibit absorption at longer wavelengths (ranging from 385 to 731 nm) compared to C18. In addition, the stability, chemical bonding, and charge transfer characteristics of the Agn@C18 (n = 4-6) complexes were also discussed. These findings highlight the potential of these complexes for the development of highly efficient NLO devices.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China.
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Pavlak I, Matasović L, Buchanan EA, Michl J, Rončević I. Electronic Structure of Metalloporphenes, Antiaromatic Analogues of Graphene. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:3992-4000. [PMID: 38294407 PMCID: PMC10870706 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2023] [Revised: 01/13/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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Zinc porphene is a two-dimensional material made of fully fused zinc porphyrins in a tetragonal lattice. It has a fully conjugated π-system, making it similar to graphene. Zinc porphene has recently been synthesized, and a combination of rough conductivity measurements and infrared and Raman spectroscopies all suggested that it is a semiconductor (Magnera, T.F. et al. Porphene and Porphite as Porphyrin Analogs of Graphene and Graphite, Nat. Commun.2023, 14, 6308). This is in contrast with all previous predictions of its electronic structure, which indicated metallic conductivity. We show that the gap-opening in zinc porphene is caused by a Peierls distortion of its unit cell from square to rectangular, thus giving the first account of its electronic structure in agreement with the experiment. Accounting for this distortion requires proper treatment of electron delocalization, which can be done using hybrid functionals with a substantial amount of exact exchange. Such a functional, PBE38, is then applied to predict the properties of many first transition row metalloporphenes, some of which have already been prepared. We find that changing the metal strongly affects the electronic structure of metalloporphenes, resulting in a rich variety of both metallic conductors and semiconductors, which may be of great interest to molecular electronics and spintronics. Properties of these materials are mostly governed by the extent of the Peierls distortion and the number of electrons in their π-system, analogous to changes in aromaticity observed in cyclic conjugated molecules upon oxidation or reduction. These results give an account of how the concept of antiaromaticity can be extended to periodic systems.
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- Ivan Pavlak
- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University
of Zagreb, Horvatovac 102A, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
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- Cavendish
Laboratory, Department of Physics, University
of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, United States
- Institute
of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám. 2, Prague 6 16610, Czech Republic
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- Institute
of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám. 2, Prague 6 16610, Czech Republic
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K.
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Rončević I, Leslie FJ, Rossmannek M, Tavernelli I, Gross L, Anderson HL. Aromaticity Reversal Induced by Vibrations in Cyclo[16]carbon. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:26962-26972. [PMID: 38039504 PMCID: PMC10722511 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2023] [Revised: 10/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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Aromaticity is typically regarded as an intrinsic property of a molecule, correlated with electron delocalization, stability, and other properties. Small variations in the molecular geometry usually result in small changes in aromaticity, in line with Hammond's postulate. For example, introducing bond-length alternation in benzene and square cyclobutadiene by modulating the geometry along the Kekulé vibration gradually decreases the magnitude of their ring currents, making them less aromatic and less antiaromatic, respectively. A sign change in the ring current, corresponding to a reversal of aromaticity, typically requires a gross perturbation such as electronic excitation, addition or removal of two electrons, or a dramatic change in the molecular geometry. Here, we use multireference calculations to show how movement along the Kekulé vibration, which controls bond-length alternation, induces a sudden reversal in the ring current of cyclo[16]carbon, C16. This reversal occurs when the two orthogonal π systems of C16 sustain opposing currents. These results are rationalized by a Hückel model which includes bond-length alternation, and which is combined with a minimal model accounting for orbital contributions to the ring current. Finally, we successfully describe the electronic structure of C16 with a "divide-and-conquer" approach suitable for execution on a quantum computer.
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- Igor Rončević
- Department
of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry
Research Laboratory, Oxford OX1 3TA, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry
Research Laboratory, Oxford OX1 3TA, United
Kingdom
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- IBM
Research Europe − Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, Rüschlikon 8803, Switzerland
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- IBM
Research Europe − Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, Rüschlikon 8803, Switzerland
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- IBM
Research Europe − Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, Rüschlikon 8803, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry
Research Laboratory, Oxford OX1 3TA, United
Kingdom
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Wu Y, Liu Z, Lu T, Orozco-Ic M, Xu J, Yan X, Wang J, Wang X. Exploring the Aromaticity Differences of Isoelectronic Species of Cyclo[18]carbon (C 18), B 6C 6N 6, and B 9N 9: The Role of Carbon Atoms as Connecting Bridges. Inorg Chem 2023. [PMID: 37988331 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
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The cyclo[18]carbon (C18) has piqued widespread interest in recent years for its geometrical aesthetic and unique electronic structure. Inspired by it, theoretical investigations of its isoelectronic B9N9 have been published occasionally; however, few studies considered their other companion B6C6N6. In this work, we study the geometric structure, charge distribution, bonding characteristic, aromaticity, and electron delocalization of B6C6N6 and B9N9 for the first time and compare the relevant results with those of C18. Based on the comprehensive analysis of aromaticity indicators such as AV1245, nucleus-independent chemical shifts, anisotropy of the induced current density, magnetically induced current density, iso-chemical shielding surface, and induced magnetic field (Bind), we found that B6C6N6 has definitely a double aromatic character similar to C18 and the aromaticities of the two are very close, while B9N9 is a nonaromatic species. In response to this novel finding, we delved into its nature from an electron delocalization perspective through a localized orbital locator, electron localization function, Fermi hole, and atomic remote delocalization index analyses. The C atom between B and N as an interconnecting bridge strengthens the electron delocalization of the conjugate path, which is the essence of the significant enhancement of the molecular aromaticity from B9N9 to B6C6N6. This work elucidates that within the framework of the isoelectronicity of C18, different methods of atomic doping can achieve molecules with completely different properties.
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- Yang Wu
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing 100022, China
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Donostia 20018, Euskadi, Spain
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
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Kozáková S, Alharzali N, Černušák I. Cyclo[ n]carbons and catenanes from different perspectives: disentangling the molecular thread. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:29386-29403. [PMID: 37901943 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03887d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
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All-carbon atomic rings, cyclo[n]carbons, have recently attracted vivid attention of experimentalists and theoreticians. Among them, cyclo[18]carbon is the most studied system. In this paper, we summarize and review various properties of cyclo[n]carbons, emphasising the aspects of their aromaticity/antiaromaticity. In the first part, the trends in bonding patterns and selected aromaticity indices with the increasing size of the rings are discussed. In the second part we explore the properties of catenane models based on interlocked cyclo[18]carbon rings from different perspectives and investigate their behaviour under the action of external force using computational experiments.
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- Silvia Kozáková
- Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia.
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- Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia.
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- Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Sun L, Zheng W, Gao W, Kang F, Zhao M, Xu W. On-surface synthesis of aromatic cyclo[10]carbon and cyclo[14]carbon. Nature 2023; 623:972-976. [PMID: 38030782 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06741-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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All-carbon materials based on sp2-hybridized atoms, such as fullerenes1, carbon nanotubes2 and graphene3, have been much explored due to their remarkable physicochemical properties and potential for applications. Another unusual all-carbon allotrope family are the cyclo[n]carbons (Cn) consisting of two-coordinated sp-hybridized atoms. They have been studied in the gas phase since the twentieth century4-6, but their high reactivity has meant that condensed-phase synthesis and real-space characterization have been challenging, leaving their exact molecular structure open to debate7-11. Only in 2019 was an isolated C18 generated on a surface and its polyynic structure revealed by bond-resolved atomic force microscopy12,13, followed by a recent report14 on C16. The C18 work trigged theoretical studies clarifying the structure of cyclo[n]carbons up to C100 (refs. 15-20), although the synthesis and characterization of smaller Cn allotropes remains difficult. Here we modify the earlier on-surface synthesis approach to produce cyclo[10]carbon (C10) and cyclo[14]carbon (C14) via tip-induced dehalogenation and retro-Bergman ring opening of fully chlorinated naphthalene (C10Cl8) and anthracene (C14Cl10) molecules, respectively. We use atomic force microscopy imaging and theoretical calculations to show that, in contrast to C18 and C16, C10 and C14 have a cumulenic and cumulene-like structure, respectively. Our results demonstrate an alternative strategy to generate cyclocarbons on the surface, providing an avenue for characterizing annular carbon allotropes for structure and stability.
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- Luye Sun
- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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Sburlati S, Gustafson A, Kahr B. Comparative rotatory power of bent and twisted polyynes. Chirality 2023; 35:838-845. [PMID: 37226985 DOI: 10.1002/chir.23579] [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: 03/11/2023] [Revised: 04/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Linear polyynes of the formula C18 H2 (symmetry D∞h ) were bent in silico by progressively introducing CCC angles less than 180°. The bent structures (symmetry C2v ) were then twisted by introducing torsion angles across the CCCC segments by as much as 60°. The gyration tensors of these 19 structures (linear, bent, and twisted) were computed by linear response methods. Bending is massively generative of optical activity in oriented structures, even achiral structures, whereas twisting in conjunction with bending, serves to linearize the molecules and diminish maximally observable optical activity. This computational exercise is intended to unbind the infelicitous linkage of optical activity and chirality, which is only meaningful in isotropic media. Although bent structures are not optically active in solution-the spatial average of the optical activity is necessarily zero-solution measurements that deliver the spatial averages are a special class of measurements, albeit the overwhelmingly most common chiroptical measurements, that prejudice our common understanding of how π-conjugated structures generate gyration. Bending is far more effective than twisting at generating optical activity along some directions for oriented structures. The respective contributions from the transition electric dipole-magnetic dipole polarizability and the transition electric dipole-electric quadrupole polarizability are compared.
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- Sophia Sburlati
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Design Institute, New York University, New York City, New York, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Design Institute, New York University, New York City, New York, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Design Institute, New York University, New York City, New York, USA
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Liu Z, Wang J, Zhou Q, Lu T, Wang X, Yan X, Zhao M, Yuan A. Size dependence of optical nonlinearity for H-capped carbon chains, H-(CC) n-H ( n = 3-15): analysis of its nature and prediction for long chains. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:29165-29172. [PMID: 37870160 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04150f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
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Based on a computational approach that can accurately describe their geometric structures and electronic spectra, we have theoretically studied the nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of H-capped carbon chains, H-(CC)n-H (n = 3-15), for the first time. Special attention was paid to the size dependence of the molecular (hyper)polarizability of these species through the nonlinear fitting of the data, which formed two power-law formulas of αiso(∞) = -0.206 + 0.264n1.498 and γ‖(∞) = -0.624 + 0.006n3.368 and was thoroughly discussed at the electronic structure level by in-depth wavefunction analyses. The fundamental gap (ΔE) between vertical ionization energy (VIE) and vertical electron affinity (VEA) is found to be related to the molecular (hyper)polarizability. The calculated (hyper)polarizability of the carbon chains H-(CC)n-H (n = 3-15) is more sensitive to the density functional theory (DFT) applied than to the basis set selected. The results are expected to provide theoretical guidance for the property prediction of arbitrarily long carbon chains not yet synthesized.
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- Zeyu Liu
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing 100022, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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Gao Y, Albrecht F, Rončević I, Ettedgui I, Kumar P, Scriven LM, Christensen KE, Mishra S, Righetti L, Rossmannek M, Tavernelli I, Anderson HL, Gross L. On-surface synthesis of a doubly anti-aromatic carbon allotrope. Nature 2023; 623:977-981. [PMID: 37880363 PMCID: PMC10686826 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06566-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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Synthetic carbon allotropes such as graphene1, carbon nanotubes2 and fullerenes3 have revolutionized materials science and led to new technologies. Many hypothetical carbon allotropes have been discussed4, but few have been studied experimentally. Recently, unconventional synthetic strategies such as dynamic covalent chemistry5 and on-surface synthesis6 have been used to create new forms of carbon, including γ-graphyne7, fullerene polymers8, biphenylene networks9 and cyclocarbons10,11. Cyclo[N]carbons are molecular rings consisting of N carbon atoms12,13; the three that have been reported to date (N = 10, 14 and 18)10,11 are doubly aromatic, which prompts the question: is it possible to prepare doubly anti-aromatic versions? Here we report the synthesis and characterization of an anti-aromatic carbon allotrope, cyclo[16]carbon, by using tip-induced on-surface chemistry6. In addition to structural information from atomic force microscopy, we probed its electronic structure by recording orbital density maps14 with scanning tunnelling microscopy. The observation of bond-length alternation in cyclo[16]carbon confirms its double anti-aromaticity, in concordance with theory. The simple structure of C16 renders it an interesting model system for studying the limits of aromaticity, and its high reactivity makes it a promising precursor to novel carbon allotropes15.
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- Yueze Gao
- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK
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- IBM Quantum, IBM Research - Zürich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- IBM Quantum, IBM Research - Zürich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK.
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- IBM Research Europe - Zürich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
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Fedik N, Nebgen B, Lubbers N, Barros K, Kulichenko M, Li YW, Zubatyuk R, Messerly R, Isayev O, Tretiak S. Synergy of semiempirical models and machine learning in computational chemistry. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:110901. [PMID: 37712780 DOI: 10.1063/5.0151833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023] Open
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Catalyzed by enormous success in the industrial sector, many research programs have been exploring data-driven, machine learning approaches. Performance can be poor when the model is extrapolated to new regions of chemical space, e.g., new bonding types, new many-body interactions. Another important limitation is the spatial locality assumption in model architecture, and this limitation cannot be overcome with larger or more diverse datasets. The outlined challenges are primarily associated with the lack of electronic structure information in surrogate models such as interatomic potentials. Given the fast development of machine learning and computational chemistry methods, we expect some limitations of surrogate models to be addressed in the near future; nevertheless spatial locality assumption will likely remain a limiting factor for their transferability. Here, we suggest focusing on an equally important effort-design of physics-informed models that leverage the domain knowledge and employ machine learning only as a corrective tool. In the context of material science, we will focus on semi-empirical quantum mechanics, using machine learning to predict corrections to the reduced-order Hamiltonian model parameters. The resulting models are broadly applicable, retain the speed of semiempirical chemistry, and frequently achieve accuracy on par with much more expensive ab initio calculations. These early results indicate that future work, in which machine learning and quantum chemistry methods are developed jointly, may provide the best of all worlds for chemistry applications that demand both high accuracy and high numerical efficiency.
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- Nikita Fedik
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
- Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
- Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
- Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Liu Z, Wang X, Lu T, Yan X, Wang J, Wu Y, Xu J, Xie Z. Theoretical design of a dual-motor nanorotator composed of all-carboatomic cyclo[18]carbon and a figure-of-eight carbon hoop. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023. [PMID: 37486103 DOI: 10.1039/d3cc02262e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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A novel supramolecular complex (2C18@OPP) constructed from two kinds of unique nanorings, all-carboatomic cyclo[18]carbon (C18) and figure-of-eight carbon hoop (OPP), has been studied theoretically from the perspective of an extraordinary dual-motor nanorotator. The rotational barrier of C18 in OPP is extremely small at ambient temperature, implying the possibility of the host-guest complex as an ultrafast nanorotator. The rotational characteristics and thermodynamic stability of the nanorotator at different temperatures were then explored. The rotational behaviors of the two C18 rings in OPP are basically independent of each other. The supramolecule investigated in this work is the first example of a dual-motor nanorotator that promises to be an important building block for constructing complicated molecular machines.
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- Zeyu Liu
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing 100022, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China
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Rojas C, León A, Pacheco M, Chico L, Orellana PA. Tuning the conductance of carbon rings with impurities and electric fields. RSC Adv 2023; 13:22358-22366. [PMID: 37497092 PMCID: PMC10366656 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra03297c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023] Open
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We explore two mechanisms to tune the electronic conductance of carbon atom rings, namely, substitutional impurities and in-plane external electric fields. First-principles calculations and a tight-binding approach are used to model the systems. Two bond configurations are studied, cumulenic and polyynic, which can be relevant depending on the number of carbon atoms in the ring. We find that both impurity substitution and electric field mechanisms allow for modifying the electronic spectrum and transport characteristics. Interestingly, cumulenic and polyynic carbon rings present a different response to these perturbations, which can also be a way to elucidate the bond nature of these structures.
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- Carlos Rojas
- Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Casilla 110 V Valparaíso Chile
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- Instituto de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales Avda. Ejército 441 Santiago Chile
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Casilla 110 V Valparaíso Chile
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- GISC, Departamento de Física de Materiales, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28040 Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Casilla 110 V Valparaíso Chile
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Pawar R. Origin of structure and stability of M@C 18 (M = Cu, Ag, and Au) complexes with D 9h point group. J Comput Chem 2023. [PMID: 37114386 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.27127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Revised: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Theoretical predictions and recent experimental studies lead to the discovery of an exciting new member of the carbon allotrope family polyynic cyclo[18]carbon (C18 ). Present investigation aims to probe the structure, stability, and properties of coinage metal (M)@C18 complexes using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The DFT results unequivocally show that even Cu@C18 , Ag@C18 , and Au@C18 complexes substantially preserve the ground state polyynic structure of C18 . It is also worth to mention that only Au@C18 is a stable D9h structure, however the symmetry is distorted in the case of Cu@C18 and Ag@C18 . Due to computational limitations, in this investigation the M@C18 complexes were scrutinized using the C2v sub abelian group of D9h . The highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of D9h conformers are a singlet a1 and two same value singlets a1 ⊕ b1 generated from doublet e, respectively. The non-covalent interaction index (NCI), quantum theory of atoms in molecule (QTAIM), and energy decomposition analysis (EDA) vividly explains the interaction between a coinage metal atom and C18 ring. It is found from the results that the stability of Cu@C18 Ag@C18 , and Au@C18 is governed by the attractive electrostatic, orbital and dispersion interaction.
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- Ravinder Pawar
- Laboratory of Advanced Computation and Theory for Materials and Chemistry (LACTMC), Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW), Warangal, Telangana, India
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Cheng X, Zhang X, Zhao Y, Zhuo L. Theoretical investigation of the borazine B9N9 monocyclic ring. Chem Phys Lett 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2023.140476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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Trapping of Small Molecules within Single or Double Cyclo[18]carbon Rings. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28052157. [PMID: 36903404 PMCID: PMC10004474 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28052157] [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: 01/23/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2023] Open
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The encapsulation of a set of small molecules, H2, CO, CO2, SO2, and SO3, by a circular C18 ring is investigated by quantum calculations. These ligands lie near the center of the ring but, with the exception of H2, are disposed roughly perpendicular to the ring plane. Their binding energies with the C18 vary from 1.5 kcal/mol for H2 up to 5.7 kcal/mol for SO2, and the bonding is dominated by dispersive interactions spread over the entire ring. The binding of these ligands on the outside of the ring is weaker but allows the opportunity for each to bond covalently with the ring. A pair of C18 units lie parallel to one another. This pair can bind each of these ligands in the area between them with only small perturbations of the double ring geometry. The binding energies of these ligands to this double ring configuration are amplified by some 50% compared to the single ring systems. The presented data concerning the trapping of small molecules may have larger implications regarding hydrogen storage or air pollution reduction.
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Peng Y, Wu T, Yuan G, Chi L, Jiang S, Dorfman K, Yu C, Lu R. Solid state-like high harmonic generation from cluster molecules with rotational periodicities. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadd6810. [PMID: 36800426 PMCID: PMC9937566 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add6810] [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: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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High harmonic generation (HHG) from solid-state crystals in strong laser fields has been understood by the band structure of the solids, which is based on the periodic boundary condition (PBC) due to translational invariance. For the systems with PBC due to rotational invariance, an analogous Bloch theorem can be applied. Considering a ring-type cluster of cyclo[18]carbon as an example, we develop a quasi-band model and predict the solid state-like HHG in this system. Under the irradiation of linearly polarized laser field, cyclo[18]carbon exhibits solid state-like HHG originated from intraband oscillations and interband transitions, which, in turn, is promising to optically detect the symmetry and geometry of molecular or material structures. Our results based on the Liouville-von Neumann equations are well reproduced by the time-dependent density functional theory calculations and are foundational in providing a connection linking the HHG physics of gases and solids.
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- Yigeng Peng
- Institute of Ultrafast Optical Physics, Department of Applied Physics, and MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Institute of Ultrafast Optical Physics, Department of Applied Physics, and MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Institute of Ultrafast Optical Physics, Department of Applied Physics, and MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Institute of Ultrafast Optical Physics, Department of Applied Physics, and MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Institute of Ultrafast Optical Physics, Department of Applied Physics, and MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
- Center for Theoretical Physics and School of Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
- Himalayan Institute for Advanced Study, Unit of Gopinath Seva Foundation, MIG 38, Avas Vikas, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand 249201, India
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- Institute of Ultrafast Optical Physics, Department of Applied Physics, and MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Institute of Ultrafast Optical Physics, Department of Applied Physics, and MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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Sen S, Bag A, Pal S. Activation and Conversion of Molecular Nitrogen to the Precursor of Ammonia on Silicon Substituted Cyclo[18]Carbon: a DFT Design. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202200627. [PMID: 36129796 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200627] [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: 08/19/2022] [Revised: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Recent synthesis of sp-hybridized cyclo[18]carbon allotrope has attracted immense curiosity. Since then, a generous amount of theoretical studies concerning aromaticity, adsorption, and spectra of the molecule have been performed. However, very few stuides have been carried out concerning its reactivities and catalytic behaviour. In this article, a DFT-based inquisition has been reported regarding the reactivity of Si substituted cyclo[18]carbon molecule towards molecular N2 . Results show that the Si substituted derivative is effective in producing adducts with molecular nitrogen. Charge calculations and IRC trapping methods indicate that only the Si center of C17 Si and its (HOMO-1) level participate in N2 addition. The N-adduct so formed, is then found to spontaneously react with molecular H2 . The addition of two H2 molecules to the activated nitrogen molecule to give respective amine derivatives have also been studied. The successful generation of the precursor of NH3 by C17 Si lays a clear emphasis on its potentiality.
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- Sobitri Sen
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, 741246, West-Bengal, India
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, Simhat, Haringhata, Nadia, West Bengal, 741249, India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, 741246, West-Bengal, India.,Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana, 131029, India
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Zheng P, Zhang L, Zhang X, Ma Y, Jiang Y, Li H. Parallel-Self-Assembling Stack, Center-Capture Effect, and Reactivity-Enhancing Effect of N-Layer ( N = 1, 2, 3) Cyclo[18]carbon. ACS NANO 2022; 16:21345-21355. [PMID: 36378142 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c09611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Cyclo[18]carbon (C18) is an captivating allotrope of carbon synthesized recently, which has drawn the attention among scientists. There are still few studies on the dynamic behaviors of C18. To gain knowledge in this area, we systematically explored the stacking behaviors and the oxidation kinetics of C18, as well the electronic transport behaviors of C18 oxides, by density functional theory and nonequilibrium Green's function calculations combined with reactive force field molecular dynamics simulations. The parallel-self-assembling behaviors were observed in the stack of two- or three-layer C18. During the oxidation process of C18, we found an evident center-capture effect in which the hollow rings would preferentially attract an O2 molecule into their centers. Moreover, the adsorption of O2 on the O2-doped rings was dramatically enhanced by the O2 at the center of the ring, showing the reactivity-enhancing effect. The excellent electron transport property of central-O2-doped C18 among 13 types of C18 oxides demonstrates the potential of C18 oxides as promising molecular devices for various applications. This study reveals the dynamic behaviors of C18 and provides theoretical guidance for use of C18 and C18 oxides in molecular devices.
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- Peiru Zheng
- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan250061, China
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- Modeling and Simulation Lab, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore117542, Singapore
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- Kathleen Lonsdale Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, LondonWC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan250061, China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan250061, China
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- Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan250061, China
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Suresh R, Baryshnikov GV, Kuklin AV, Nemkova DI, Saikova SV, Ågren H. Cyclo[18]carbon Formation from C 18Br 6 and C 18(CO) 6 Precursors. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:10318-10325. [PMID: 36306526 PMCID: PMC9661529 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Although cyclo[18]carbon has been isolated experimentally from two precursors, C18Br6 and C18(CO)6, no reaction mechanisms have yet been explored. Herein, we provide insight into the mechanism behind debromination and decarbonylation. Both neutral precursors demonstrate high activation barriers of ∼2.3 eV, while the application of an electric field can lower the barriers by 0.1-0.2 eV. The barrier energy of the anion-radicals is found to be significantly lower for C18Br6 compared to C18(CO)6, confirming a considerably higher yield of cylco[18]carbon when the C18Br6 precursor is used. Elongation of the C-Br bond in the anion-radical confirms its predissociation condition. Natural bonding orbital analysis shows that the stability of C-Br and C-CO bonds in the anion-radicals is lower compared to their neutral species, indicating a possible higher yield. The applied analysis provides crucial details regarding the reaction yield of cyclo[18]carbon and can serve as a general scheme for tuning reaction conditions for other organic precursors.
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- Rahul Suresh
- International
Research Center of Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry - IRC SQC, Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny pr., 660041Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- Laboratory
of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, 60174Norrköping, Sweden
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- Division
of X-ray Photon Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box
516, SE-751 20Uppsala, Sweden
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- International
Research Center of Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry - IRC SQC, Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny pr., 660041Krasnoyarsk, Russia
- Division
of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Non-ferrous Metals, Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny pr., 660041Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- Division
of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Non-ferrous Metals, Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny pr., 660041Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- Division
of X-ray Photon Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box
516, SE-751 20Uppsala, Sweden
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Brzyska A, Panczyk T, Wolinski K. From Cyclo[18]carbon to the Novel Nanostructures-Theoretical Predictions. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:12960. [PMID: 36361747 PMCID: PMC9654130 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232112960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Revised: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2023] Open
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In this paper, we present a number of novel pure-carbon structures generated from cyclo[18]carbon. Due to the very high reactivity of cyclo[18]carbon, it is possible to link these molecules together to form bigger molecular systems. In our studies, we generated new structures containing 18, 36 and 72 carbon atoms. They are of different shapes including ribbons, sheets and tubes. All these new structures were obtained in virtual reactions driven by external forces. For every reaction, the energy requirement was evaluated exactly when the corresponding transition state was found or it was estimated through our new approach. A small HOMO-LUMO gap in these nanostructures indicates easy excitations and the multiple bonds network indicates their high reactivity. Both of these factors suggest that some potential applications of the new nanostructures are as components of therapeutically active carbon quantum dots, terminal fragments of graphene or carbon nanotubes obtained after fracture or growing in situ in catalytic reactions leading to the formation of carbonaceous materials.
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- Agnieszka Brzyska
- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Krakow, Poland
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, pl. Maria Curie-Sklodowska 3, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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Cyclo[18]carbon-A new class of electron acceptor for organic solar cells applications. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.134025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Rojas C, León A, Pacheco M, Chico L, Orellana PA. Transport signatures of few-atom carbon rings. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:15973-15981. [PMID: 35730548 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01308h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We study the electronic transport through an all-carbon quantum ring side-coupled to a quantum wire. We employ both first-principles calculations and a tight-binding approach; the latter allows for the derivation of analytical expressions for the conductance and density of states, which facilitates the interpretation of the transport characteristics. Two bond models are employed: either all the hoppings are equal (cumulenic ring) or they have alternating bonds (polyynic ring). Assuming cumulenic bonds, if the number of atoms in the carbon ring is a multiple of four, it produces an antiresonant peak in the conductance at the Fermi level. This effect disappears for the polyynic configuration, i.e., when the hoppings in the carbon rings are alternating. Additionally, a gap opens at the Fermi energy in the polyynic rings, yielding distinct transport signatures for the two bond configurations. Comparison to first-principles calculations shows an excellent agreement on the changes of the conductance due to the carbon ring. We propose such transport measurements as a way to elucidate the character of the bonds in these novel carbon nanostructures.
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- Carlos Rojas
- Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110 V, Valparaíso, Chile.
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- Instituto de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales, Avda. Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110 V, Valparaíso, Chile.
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110 V, Valparaíso, Chile. .,GISC, Departamento de Física de Materiales, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110 V, Valparaíso, Chile.
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Baryshnikov GV, Valiev RR, Valiulina LI, Kurtsevich AE, Kurtén T, Sundholm D, Pittelkow M, Zhang J, Ågren H. Odd-Number Cyclo[ n]Carbons Sustaining Alternating Aromaticity. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:2445-2452. [PMID: 35420813 PMCID: PMC9059118 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c08507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cyclo[n]carbons (n = 5, 7, 9,
..., 29) composed from an odd number of carbon atoms are studied computationally
at density functional theory (DFT) and ab initio complete
active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) levels of theory to get
insight into their electronic structure and aromaticity. DFT calculations
predict a strongly delocalized carbene structure of the cyclo[n]carbons and an aromatic character for all of them. In
contrast, calculations at the CASSCF level yield geometrically bent
and electronically localized carbene structures leading to an alternating
double aromaticity of the odd-number cyclo[n]carbons.
CASSCF calculations yield a singlet electronic ground state for the
studied cyclo[n]carbons except for C25, whereas at the DFT level the energy difference between the lowest
singlet and triplet states depends on the employed functional. The
BHandHLYP functional predicts a triplet ground state of the larger
odd-number cyclo[n]carbons starting from n = 13. Current-density calculations at the BHandHLYP level
using the CASSCF-optimized molecular structures show that there is
a through-space delocalization in the cyclo[n]carbons.
The current density avoids the carbene carbon atom, leading to an
alternating double aromaticity of the odd-number cyclo[n]carbons satisfying the antiaromatic [4k+1] and aromatic [4k+3] rules.
C11, C15, and C19 are aromatic and
can be prioritized in future synthesis. We predict a bond-shift phenomenon
for the triplet state of the cyclo[n]carbons leading
to resonance structures that have different reactivity toward dimerization.
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- Glib V Baryshnikov
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, Henan, P. R. China.,Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Norrköping SE-60174, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Optics and Spectroscopy, Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø DK-2100, Denmark
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, Henan, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, Henan, P. R. China.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-75120, Sweden
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Chen BJ, Chai JD. TAO-DFT fictitious temperature made simple. RSC Adv 2022; 12:12193-12210. [PMID: 35481082 PMCID: PMC9026342 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra01632j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Over the past few years, thermally-assisted-occupation density functional theory (TAO-DFT) [J.-D. Chai, J. Chem. Phys., 2012, 136, 154104] has been proved to be an efficient electronic structure method for investigating the ground-state properties of large electronic systems with strong static correlation effects. In TAO-DFT, the strength of static correlation in an electronic system at zero temperature is closely related to the so-called fictitious temperature (i.e., the temperature of the corresponding noninteracting reference system). In this work, we propose a simple model to define the optimal system-independent fictitious temperature of a given energy functional in TAO-DFT. Besides, we employ this model to determine the optimal system-independent fictitious temperature of a global hybrid functional in TAO-DFT as a function of the fraction of exact exchange. In addition, we adopt TAO-DFT with various global hybrid functionals and system-independent fictitious temperatures to explore the ground-state properties of several electronic systems with strong static correlation effects, such as the linear acenes and cyclic carbon chains. Furthermore, we discuss the role of exact exchange and an optimal system-independent fictitious temperature in TAO-DFT. Owing to the much reduced self-interaction error, TAO-DFT with exact exchange and an optimal system-independent fictitious temperature can accurately predict the radical character and bond length alternation of cyclic carbon chains (with even number of carbon atoms), which are challenging problems for traditional electronic structure methods. Optimal system-independent fictitious temperature θ of TAO-GH as a function of the fraction of exact exchange ax.![]()
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- Bo-Jyun Chen
- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan .,Center for Theoretical Physics, Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan.,Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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Varandas AJC. From six to eight Π-electron bare rings of group-XIV elements and beyond: can planarity be deciphered from the "quasi-molecules" they embed? Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:8488-8507. [PMID: 35343978 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04130d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ab initio molecular orbital theory is used to study the structures of six and eight π-electron bare rings of group-XIV elements, and even larger [n]annulenes up to C18H18, including some of their mono-, di-, tri-, and tetra-anions. While some of the above rings are planar, others are nonplanar. A much spotlighted case is cyclo-octatetraene (C8H8), which is predicted to be nonplanar together with its heavier group-XIV analogues Si8H8 and Ge8H8, with the solely planar members of its family having the stoichiometric formulas C4Si4H8 and C4Ge4H8. A similar situation arises with the six π-electron bare rings, where benzene and substituted ones up to C3Si3H6 or so are planar, while others are not. However, the explanations encountered in the literature find support in ab initio calculations for such species, often rationalized from distinct calculated features. Using second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory and, when affordable (particularly tetratomics, which may allow even higher levels), the coupled-cluster method including single, double, and perturbative triple excitations, a common rationale is suggested based on a novel concept of quasi-molecules or the (3+4)-atom partition scheme. Any criticism of tautology is therefore avoided. The same analysis has also been successfully applied to even larger [n]annulenes, to their mixed family members involving silicon and germanium atoms, and to the C18 carbon ring. Furthermore, it has been extended to annulene anions to check the criteria of the popular Hückel rule for planarity and aromaticity. Exploratory work on cycloarenes is also reported. Besides a partial study of the involved potential energy surfaces, equilibrium geometries and harmonic vibrational frequencies have been calculated anew, for both the parent and the actual prototypes of the quasi-molecules.
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- A J C Varandas
- School of Physics and Physical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, 273165 Qufu, China.,Department of Physics, Universidade Federal do Esp rito Santo, 29075-910 Vitória, Brazil.,Department of Chemistry, and Chemistry Centre, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal.
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Lambropoulos K, Alvertis AM, Morphis A, Simserides C. Cyclo[18]carbon including zero-point motion: ground state, first singlet and triplet excitations, and hole transfer. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:7779-7787. [PMID: 35293921 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00343k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Recent synthesis of cyclo[18]carbon has spurred increasing interest in carbon rings. We focus on a comparative inspection of ground and excited states, as well as of hole transfer properties of cumulenic and polyynic cyclo[18]carbon via Density Functional Theory (DFT), time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) and real-time time-dependent DFT (RT-TDDFT). Zero-point vibrations are also accounted for, using a Monte Carlo sampling technique and a less exact, yet mode-resolved, quadratic approximation. The inclusion of zero-point vibrations leads to a red-shift on the HOMO-LUMO gap and the first singlet and triplet excitation energies of both conformations, correcting the values of the 'static' configurations by 9% to 24%. Next, we oxidize the molecule, creating a hole at one carbon atom. Hole transfer along polyynic cyclo[18]carbon is decreased in magnitude compared to its cumulenic counterpart and lacks the symmetric features the latter displays. Contributions by each mode to energy changes and hole transfer between diametrically opposed atoms vary, with specific bond-stretching modes being dominant.
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- Konstantinos Lambropoulos
- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos GR-15784, Athens, Greece.
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. .,Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos GR-15784, Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos GR-15784, Athens, Greece.
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Wang X, Liu Z, Yan X, Lu T, Wang H, Xiong W, Zhao M. Photophysical properties and optical nonlinearity of cyclo[18]carbon (C 18) precursors, C 18-(CO) n ( n = 2, 4, and 6): focusing on the effect of the carbonyl groups. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:7466-7473. [PMID: 35274653 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05883e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The electronic spectra and (hyper)polarizability of C18-(CO)n (n = 2, 4, and 6) are studied using theoretical calculations to reveal the effect of introducing carbonyl (-CO) groups on the molecular optical properties. Successive introduction of -CO groups is observed to cause a red-shift in the absorption spectrum, but maximum absorption of all molecules is mainly due to the charge redistribution within the C18 moiety. The (hyper)polarizabilities of the cyclocarbon oxides present an ascending trend with the -CO groups in the molecule, and the higher-order response properties are more sensitive. With (hyper)polarizability density analysis and (hyper)polarizability contribution decomposition, the fundamental reasons for the difference of (hyper)polarizability of different molecules are systematically discussed from the perspective of physical and structural origins, respectively. Significant optical resonances under the frequency-dependent fields are found for the (hyper)polarizabilities of the cyclocarbon oxides, which is in contrast to the insignificant influence on their polarizability.
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- Xia Wang
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing 100022, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, People's Republic of China
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Nandi A, Martin JML. Heavy-Atom Tunneling in the Covalent/Dative Bond Complexation of Cyclo[18]carbon-Piperidine. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:1799-1804. [PMID: 35180344 PMCID: PMC8900127 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recent quantum chemical
computations demonstrated the electron-acceptance
behavior of this highly reactive cyclo[18]carbon (C18)
ring with piperidine (pip). The C18–pip complexation
exhibited a double-well potential along the N–C reaction coordinate,
forming a van der Waals (vdW) adduct and a more stable, strong covalent/dative
bond (DB) complex by overcoming a low activation barrier. By means
of direct dynamical computations using canonical variational transition
state theory (CVT), including the small-curvature tunneling (SCT),
we show the conspicuous role of heavy atom quantum mechanical tunneling
(QMT) in the transformation of vdW to DB complex in the solvent phase
near absolute zero. Below 50 K, the reaction is entirely driven by
QMT, while at 30 K, the QMT rate is too rapid (kT ∼ 0.02 s–1), corresponding to a
half-life time of 38 s, indicating that the vdW adduct will have a
fleeting existence. We also explored the QMT rates of other cyclo[n]carbon–pip systems. This study sheds light on the
decisive role of QMT in the covalent/DB formation of the C18–pip complex at cryogenic temperatures.
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- Ashim Nandi
- Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Reḥovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Reḥovot, Israel
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Brémond E, Pérez-Jiménez AJ, Adamo C, Sancho-García JC. Stability of the polyynic form of C 18, C 22, C 26, and C 30 nanorings: a challenge tackled by range-separated double-hybrid density functionals. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:4515-4525. [PMID: 35119058 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04996h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We calculate the relative energy between the cumulene and polyyne structures of a set of C4k+2 (k = 4-7) rings (C18, C22, C26, and C30 prompted by the recent synthesis of the cyclo[18]carbon (or simply C18) compounds. Reference results were obtained by a costly Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) approach, providing thus very accurate values allowing to systematically compare the performance of a variety of wavefunction methods [(i.e., MP2, SCS-MP2, SOS-MP2, DLPNO-CCSD, and DLPNO-CCSD(T)] as well as DFT approaches, applying for the latter a diversity of density functionals covering global and range-separated hybrid and double-hybrid models. The influence of the use of a range-separation scheme for density functionals, for both hybrid and double-hybrid expressions, is discussed according to its key role. Overall, range-separated double-hybrid functionals (e.g., RSX-QIDH) behave very accurately and provide competitive results compared with DLPNO-CCSD(T), at a more reasonable computational cost.
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- E Brémond
- Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Alicante, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences (i-CLeHS), UMR 8060, F-75005 Paris, France.,Institut Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint Michel, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Alicante, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
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Yang YF, Cederbaum LS. On the Endocircular Li@C16 System. Front Chem 2022; 10:813563. [PMID: 35186881 PMCID: PMC8854773 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.813563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The endocircular Li@C16 is a promising system as it can form both a charge-separated donor-acceptor complex and a non-charge-separated van der waals complex. By employing the state-of-the-art equation-of-motion coupled-cluster method, our study shows that the carbon ring of this system possesses high flexibility and may undertake large distortions. Due to the intricate interaction between the guest Li+ cation and the negatively charged ring, this system can form several isomers possessing different ground states. The interesting electronic structure properties indicate its applicability as a catalyst candidate in the future.
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- Yi-Fan Yang
- Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Wang X, Liu Z, Yan X, Lu T, Zheng W, Xiong W. Bonding Character, Electron Delocalization, and Aromaticity of Cyclo[18]Carbon (C 18 ) Precursors, C 18 -(CO) n (n=6, 4, and 2): Focusing on the Effect of Carbonyl (-CO) Groups. Chemistry 2021; 28:e202103815. [PMID: 34897864 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The bonding character, electron delocalization, and aromaticity of the cyclo[18]carbon (C18 ) precursors, C18 -(CO)n (n=6, 4, and 2), have been studied by combining quantum chemical calculations and various electronic wavefunction analyses with different physical bases. It was found that C18 -(CO)n (n=6, 4, and 2) molecules exhibit alternating long and short C-C bonds, and have out-of-plane and in-plane dual π systems (πout and πin ) perpendicular to each other, which are consistent with the relevant characteristics of C18 . However, the presence of carbonyl (-CO) groups significantly reduced the global electron conjugation of C18 -(CO)n (n=6, 4, and 2) compared to C18 . Specifically, the -CO group largely breaks the extensive delocalization of πin system, and the πout system is also affected by it but to a much lesser extent; as a consequence, C18 -(CO)n (n=6, 4, and 2) with larger n shows weaker overall aromaticity. Mostly because of the decreased but still apparent πout electron delocalization in the C18 -(CO)n (n=6, 4, and 2), a notable diatropic induced ring current under the action of external magnetic field is observed, demonstrating the clear aromatic characteristic in the molecules. The correlation between C18 -(CO)n (n=6, 4, and 2) and C18 in terms of the gradual elimination of -CO from the precursors showed that the direct elimination of two CO molecules in C18 -(CO)n (n=6, 4, and 2) has a synergistic mechanism, but it is kinetically infeasible under normal conditions due to the high energy barrier.
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- Xia Wang
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing, 100022, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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Ullah F, Ayub K, Gilani MA, Imran M, Mahmood T. C10F as a potential anode material for alkali-ion batteries; a quantum chemical approach. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2021.113470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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On the Stabilization of Carbynes Encapsulated in Penta-Graphene Nanotubes: a DFT Study. J Mol Model 2021; 27:318. [PMID: 34633553 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-021-04918-7] [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: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 09/16/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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We carried out density functional theory calculations to investigate the electronic and structural properties of linear carbon chains (carbynes) encapsulated in armchair and zigzag penta-graphene (PGNT) nanotubes. Results showed that PGNTs-wrapped carbyne can present negative formation energies that tend to stabilize that encapsulated carbon chains. These chains were stabilized in their cumulene and polyyne forms, with slight dependence on tube diameter. As a general trend, the PGNT band structures are kept almost unchanged upon carbyne encapsulation. This finding indicates weak orbital interactions between the PGNT and the carbyne. No net charge was found in chains encapsulated on zigzag PGNTs. Schematic representation of a carbyne encapsulated in a pentagraphene nanotube.
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Chen J, Sun L, Zhang R. Reaction mechanisms of cyclo[18]carbon and triplet oxygen. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:17545-17552. [PMID: 34369534 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02605d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Recently, a new carbon allotrope, cyclo[18]carbon, of alternating short and long carbon-carbon bonds has been synthesized and characterized in the condensed phase. Inspired by experiments, a lot of theoretical studies involving adsorption, aromaticity, catalysis and spectra have been performed. Although cyclo[18]carbon is generally regarded as an unstable molecule, the theoretical explanation of its instability is still inadequate. In this work, we studied the intermediate process of reactions between cyclo[18]carbon and triplet oxygen by density functional theory calculations. The reaction is expected to happen easily because the maximal reaction energy barrier is less than 1 eV, and cyclo[16]carbon, cyclo[17]carbon and straight-chain C18O2 molecules have been considered as possible products. Infrared and Raman spectra were calculated to help in differentiating the final products. The thermal stability of cyclo[17]carbon is rather weak according to ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. This work sheds light on the synthesis of other cyclo[n]carbons and cumulenes by utilizing cyclo[18]carbon.
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- Jialu Chen
- Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China.
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Liu Z, Lu T, Yuan A, Wang X, Chen Q, Yan X. Remarkable Size Effect on Photophysical and Nonlinear Optical Properties of All-Carboatomic Rings, Cyclo[18]carbon and Its Analogues. Chem Asian J 2021; 16:2267-2271. [PMID: 34180155 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202100589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Inspired by recent experimental observation of molecular morphology and theoretical predictions of multiple properties of cyclo[18]carbon, we systematically studied the photophysical and nonlinear optical properties of cyclo[2N]carbons (N=3-15) allotropes through density functional theory. This work unveils the unusual optical properties of the sp-hybridized carbon rings with different sizes. The remarkable size dependence of the optical properties of these systems and their underlying nature are profoundly explored, and the relevance between aromaticity and optical properties are highlighted. The extrapolation curves fitted for energy level of frontier molecular orbitals, maximum absorption wavelength, and (hyper)polarizability of considered carbon rings are presented, which can be used to reliably predict corresponding properties for arbitrarily large carbon rings. The findings in this study will facilitate the exploration of potential application of cyclocarbons in the field of optical materials.
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- Zeyu Liu
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing, 100022, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing, 100022, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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Lo R, Manna D, Hobza P. Cyclo[ n]carbons Form Strong N → C Dative/Covalent Bonds with Piperidine. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:2923-2931. [PMID: 33823590 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c01161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The newly synthesized C18 ring is demonstrated as the smallest all-carbon acceptor that exhibits strong electron acceptance. This study provides a quantum-chemical investigation of the electron-acceptance behavior of monocyclic carbon rings with a particular emphasis on C18 through the formation of a dative bond with piperidine. The results show that Cn rings form strong dative bonds with piperidine, whereas the respective van der Waals (vdW) complexes are higher in energy. The main driving force is the release of angle strain of cyclo[n]carbons caused by the change in hybridization from sp to sp2 associated with the formation of the dative bond. On the contrary, other sp allotropes, diynes, favorably form vdW complexes. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations support the stability of the dative bond throughout a simulation of 20 ps. This opens up the possibility of stabilizing highly reactive C18 through dative/covalent functionalization.
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- Rabindranath Lo
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Flemingovo nám. 2, 16000 Prague 6, Czech Republic.,Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University, Křížkovského 511/8, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Flemingovo nám. 2, 16000 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Flemingovo nám. 2, 16000 Prague 6, Czech Republic.,Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University, Křížkovského 511/8, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Jiang Y, Wu Y, Deng J, Wang Z. Antiaromaticity-aromaticity transition of cyclo[16]carbon upon metal encapsulation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:8817-8824. [PMID: 33876041 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06256a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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In contrast to aromatic compounds with particular stability, antiaromatic compounds are usually less stable due to their high reactivity and unfavorable formation energies. Cyclo[16]carbon (C16) is a carbon ring molecule with a dual antiaromatic character. In this study, we demonstrate that C16 can be transformed into highly aromatic molecules upon metal encapsulation. The geometrical characteristics, electronic properties and thermodynamic stability of MC16 compounds (M = Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Ce, U) are fully investigated from a theoretical perspective. Based on natural population analysis, atom-in-molecules theory and localized molecular orbital analysis, the nature of the metal-carbon interaction in the MC16 compounds is investigated. It has been proved that the bonding between Ca and C16 corresponds to a typical ionic interaction, while other metal atoms form polar covalent bonds with C16. By analyzing the frontier molecular orbitals and magnetic response of MC16, we have found that all the encapsulated metal atoms donate two electrons to the in-plane π orbitals via either electron transfer or orbital hybridization, which makes the in-plane π orbitals completely satisfy the 4n + 2 (n = 4) Hückel aromaticity rule. The U atom formally transfers four electrons to the carbon ring in total, two to the in-plane π orbitals and two to the out-of-plane π orbitals, which results in the remarkable dual aromaticity feature of UC16. The transformation of aromaticity can be utilized to develop new strategies for the synthesis of novel carbon ring molecules.
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- Yuhang Jiang
- Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, 100872 Beijing, P. R. China.
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Chen JL, Zhang RQ. Strong Interaction between Cyclo[18]Carbon and Graphene. ADVANCED THEORY AND SIMULATIONS 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/adts.202100022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Jialu L. Chen
- Department of Physics City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR P. R. China
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- Department of Physics City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR P. R. China
- Beijing Computational Science Research Center Beijing 100193 P. R. China
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