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Ab initio molecular orbital study of 1‐fluorosilatrane
Author(s) -
Csonka G. I.,
Hencsei P.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of computational chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.907
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1096-987X
pISSN - 0192-8651
DOI - 10.1002/jcc.540150403
Subject(s) - ab initio , fragment molecular orbital , molecular orbital , computational chemistry , physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics , molecule
The molecular geometry of 1‐fluorosilatrane was optimized fully by restricted Hartree–Fock (HF) calculations using the 3‐21G, 3‐21G( d ) and 6‐31G( d ) basis sets, with the aim of locating the positions of the local minima on the energy hypersurface. The optimized geometries were compared with available experimental (X‐ray and ED) and semiempirical data. The ab initio calculations using polarized basis sets are in good agreement with those of previously reported semiempirical calculations, giving a slightly longer equilibrium SiN distance (∼ 256 pm) in the case of the endo minimum. However, the exo minimum predicted by the semiempirical methods is not supported. There was no experimental evidence for the existence of this exo minimum, and the present ab initio calculations suggest that it is highly unstable. There is considerable disagreement among the experimental results in the CN and CC bond lengths in various silatranes, their differences being as large as 13 pm. The present calculations predict that these differences may appear because the silatrane skeleton is flexible with low‐energy, large‐amplitude internal motions which introduce considerable uncertainties into the position of ring carbon atoms. © 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.