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Bonding and aromaticity of cyclic phosphazenes viewed as interaction of Dnh fragments

KAPIČKA, Libor, Pavel KUBÁČEK a Petr HOLUB

Základní údaje

Originální název

Bonding and aromaticity of cyclic phosphazenes viewed as interaction of Dnh fragments

Autoři

KAPIČKA, Libor (203 Česká republika), Pavel KUBÁČEK (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Petr HOLUB (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

Journal of Molecular Structure (Theochem), Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2007, 0166-1280

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10403 Physical chemistry

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.112

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/07:00032396

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000250354000022

Klíčová slova anglicky

Cyclic phosphazenes; Aromaticity; Orbital interactions; Potential energy surface

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 29. 4. 2020 21:48, doc. RNDr. Petr Holub, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The qualitative molecular orbital approach based on orbital interactions was used to explore the nature of bonding in cyclic fluorophosphazenes (F2PN)n, where n is 2-6. Besides the classical skeleton of sigma-bonds, only two, one radial and one axial, 2n-center two-electron pi-bonds significantly participate in the extra stabilization of the (PN)n ring. The pi-radial interaction is more effective and comparable by size with the sigma ones. Additional slight stabilization of a (PN)n ring is achieved by nonbonding pi-radial and pi-axial molecular orbitals (MOs) which are mainly localized on nitrogen atoms. The orbital interactions have a hyperconjugation character. The bonding energy decomposition analysis showed that the cyclic interactions are about half covalent and half electrostatic. The covalent bonding is dominated by radial interactions. The aromaticity concept is not appropriate for description of bonding in cyclophosphazenes. The contribution of phosphorus d atomic orbitals to the concept of chemical bonding in phosphazenes is negligible, but the inclusion of d phosphorus functions in a basis set is appropriate for a correct quantitative description of electronic and geometric structure. Extended Hückel (EHT), ab initio and density functional (DFT) calculations provide the same qualitative picture of the bonding. The very flat B3LYP/6-311+G(3df)//B3LYP/6-31G(3df) potential energy surface (PES) with the low energy barrier (1.6 kJ mol-1) indicates the very fast and easy conformational motion of (F2PN)4. The global minimum on this PES is the S4 conformation.