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Journal of Chemical Physics / Volume 134 / Issue 9 / ARTICLES / Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry

J. Chem. Phys. 134, 094312 (2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3557680 (5 pages)

Novel pentagonal silicon rings and nanowheels stabilized by flat pentacoordinate carbon(s)

Aristides D. Zdetsis

Department of Physics, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece

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(Received 24 November 2010; accepted 2 February 2011; published online 3 March 2011)

It is predicted by accurate density functional and coupled-cluster theory that planar [Si5C]2− and [Si5C]1− rings can be stabilized by flat pentacoordinate carbon–silicon bonds. The energy difference of the [Si5C]2− dianion from the lowest energy three-dimensional isomer is about 12.2 kcal/mol at the level of the density functional theory using the Becke 3-parameter (exchange), Lee, Yang and Parr functional, and the triple-ζ doubly polarized basis sets. Stable composite [Si5C]2 structures are formed either as nanowheels with axial C–C bonds of 1.51 Å or as isoenergetic pentagonal graphiticlike layers with double C–C distance (3.02 Å) and almost double aromaticity index, based on nucleus independent chemical shifts. Both of these structures are at least 12 kcal/mol lower in energy than the lowest energy Si10C2 structure reported in the literature, but about 5 kcal/mol higher than the lowest energy structure found here.

© 2011 American Institute of Physics

Article Outline

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. SOME TECHNICAL DETAILS OF THE CALCULATIONS
  3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
    1. The [CSi 5 ] 1−,2− planar pentagonal rings
    2. [CSi 5 ] 2 nanowheels and graphitic layers
  4. CONCLUSIONS

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Keywords

bonds (chemical), coupled cluster calculations, density functional theory, molecular configurations, nanostructured materials, silicon compounds

PACS

  • 31.15.ae

    Electronic structure and bonding characteristics

  • 33.15.Bh

    General molecular conformation and symmetry; stereochemistry

  • 33.15.Fm

    Bond strengths, dissociation energies

  • 31.15.bw

    Coupled-cluster theory

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3557680

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0021-9606 (print)  
1089-7690 (online)

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