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From acetylene complexes to vinylidene structures: The GeC2H2 system

✍ Scribed by Qiang Hao; Andrew C. Simmonett; Yukio Yamaguchi; De-Cai Fang; Henry F. Schaefer III


Book ID
102305888
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
342 KB
Volume
32
Category
Article
ISSN
0192-8651

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✦ Synopsis


The expansion of germanium chemistry in recent years has been rapid. In anticipation of new experiments, a systematic theoretical investigation of the eight low lying electronic singlet GeC 2 H 2 stationary points is carried out. This research used ab initio self-consistent-field (SCF), coupled cluster (CC) with single and double excitations (CCSD), and CCSD with perturbative triple excitations [CCSD(T)] levels of theory and a variety of correlation-consistent polarized valence cc-pVXZ and cc-pVXZ-DK (Douglas-Kroll) (where X = D, T, and Q) basis sets. At all levels of theory used in this study, the global minimum of the GeC 2 H 2 potential energy surface (PES) is confirmed to be 1-germacyclopropenylidene (Ge-1S). Among the eight singlet stationary points, seven structures are found to be local minima and one structure (Ge-6S) to be a second-order saddle point. For the seven singlet minima, the energy ordering and energy differences (in kcal mol -1 , with the zero-point vibrational energy corrected values in parentheses) at the cc-pVQZ-DK (Douglas-Kroll) CCSD(T) level of theory are predicted to be 1-germacyclopropenylidene (Ge-1S) [0.0(0.0)] < vinylidenegermylene (Ge-3S) [13.9(13.5)] < ethynylgermylene (Ge-2S) [17.9(14.8)] < Ge-7S [37.4(33.9)] < syn-3-germapropenediylidene (Ge-8S) [41.2(37.9)] < germavinylidenecarbene (Ge-5S) [66.6(61.6)] < nonplanar germacyclopropyne (Ge-4S) [67.8 (63.3)]. These seven isomers are all well below the dissociation limit to Ge ( 3 P) + C 2 H 2 ( X 1 + g ). This system seems particularly well poised for matrix isolation infrared (IR) experiments.


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