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Homoconjugation/homoaromaticity in main group inorganic molecules
- Source :
- Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(28)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Quantum chemical computations show that three groups of inorganic ions and neutral molecules, whose structures have long been known and characterized, are aromatic due to through-space homoconjugation: (i) I(4)(2+), S(6)N(4)(2+), and S(2)I(4)(2+) dications and the (O(2))(4) cluster with pericyclic transition-state-like (PTS-like) homoaromaticity; (ii) the bishomoaromatic Te(6)(2+) and 1,5-diphosphadithiatetrazocines; and (iii) the spherically homoaromatic Te(6)(4+). The S(2)I(4)(2+) dication has an unusually high S-S bond order (approximately 2.3) and dual PTS-like aromaticity arising from two separate sets of four-center, six-electron (4c-6e) in-plane through-space conjugation. The diamagnetic (O(2))(4) structural unit recently observed in epsilon-phase oxygen solid has quadruple PTS-like aromaticity, each arising from 4c-6e in-plane through-space conjugation within an O(2)-O(2) plane. Finally, we note that the lighter S(6)(4+) and Se(6)(4+) homologues of Te(6)(4+) also are spherically homoaromatic and might be observable in complexes.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15205126
- Volume :
- 131
- Issue :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....457b8d72307a7758f31b400c836e6145