1. Theoretical investigation of C56 fullerene isomers and related compounds.
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De-Li Chen, Wei Quan Tian, Ji-Kang Feng, and Chia-Chung Sun
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FULLERENE polymers ,FULLERENES ,THERMODYNAMICS ,ISOMERIZATION ,MICROENCAPSULATION ,PHYSICAL & theoretical chemistry - Abstract
All the 924 classical isomers of fullerene C
56 have been investigated by PM3, and some most stable isomers are refined with HCTH/3-21G and B3LYP/6-31G(d) methods. D2 :003 with the least number of adjacent pentagons is predicted to be the most stable isomer at B3LYP/6-31G(d) level, while Cs :022 and C2 :049 possess nearly degenerate energies with relative energies of 0.03 and 3.90 kcal/mol, respectively. However, as to dianionic C56 2- fullerene, C2v :011 is predicted to be the most stable isomer. Investigations also show that the encapsulation of Ca atom in C56 fullerene is exothermic and the metallofullerenes Ca@C56 can be described as Ca2+ @C56 2- . The computed relative stabilities show that the D2 :003 behaves more thermodynamically stable than other isomers in a wide temperature interval, and C2v :011 should also be an important component. The electronic isomerization of C56 (C2v :011) and C50 (D5h :002) indicates that this phenomenon might be rather general in fullerenes and causes different properties, thus bringing about new possible applications of fullerenes. The static second-order hyperpolarizabilities of the three most stable isomers are slightly larger than that of C60 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2008
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