Structures and bond energies of the noble gas complexes NgBeO (NgAr, Kr, Xe)

✍ Scribed by A. Veldkamp; G. Frenking

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 533 KB
• Volume: 226
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(94)00697-0

✦ Synopsis

The geometries, vibrational frequencies and Ng-Be0 bond dissociation energies are calculated for the title compounds using quantum chemical methods. The electronic structure of the molecules is investigated with the help of the topological analysis of the electron density distribution. At the MP4 level of theory using effective core potentials for the noble gases and large valence basis sets (quadruple-zeta for Ng, triple-zeta for Be and 0, three d and one f type polarization functions), the bond strengths D,, are predicted after correcting for the BSSE to be 12.6 for XeBeO, 9.3 for KrBeO and 6.7 kcal mol-' for ArBeO. The Ng-Be0 bond of ArBeO and KrBeO is caused by induced dipole interactions, but the Xe-Be0 bond has small covalent contributions. The shift of the Be0 stretching frequency towards higher wave numbers upon formation of the noble gas complexes is in agreement with the observed blue-shift of the compounds.