Polyacetylenes and Cumulenes, Potential Elements for Molecular Machines and Precursors of Carbon Clusters: A Theoretical Study
✍ Scribed by Rudolf Zahradník; Libuše Šroubková
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 195 KB
- Volume
- 86
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-019X
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A recently described very simple procedure for estimating Hartree–Fock (H. F.) energy and accurate nonrelativistic energy has been used with simple hydrocarbons possessing CC or CC bonds and for the acetylene dimer. Experimental characteristics (heats of formation, ionization potentials, electron affinities), structural features, and reactivity have been discussed in terms of quantum‐chemistry characteristics at the H. F. level and also at a level including a part of electron correlation. Deviations from linearity with derivatives of long polyacetylenes and cumulenes are ascribed to the lowest‐energy deformation vibrations, which decrease rapidly when passing from short to long acetylenic and cumulenic chains. The role of derivatives and heteroanalogues of hydrocarbons under study in atmospheric and interstellar chemistry is briefly mentioned. Derivatives with enhanced stability represent potentially promising construction materials for molecular devices and also resources for the preparation of defined clusters of C‐atoms.