Peculiar Transformations in the CxHxP4–x (x = 0–4) Series
- 19 December 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
- Vol. 8 (1), 135-140
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ct200727z
Abstract
In the current work, we performed a systematic study of the CxHxP4–x (x = 0–4) series using an unbiased CK global minimum and low-lying isomers search for the singlet and triplet P4–C4H4 species at the B3LYP/6-31G** level of theory. The selected lowest isomers were recalculated at the CCSD(T)/CBS//B3LYP/6-311++G** level of theory. We found that the transition from a three-dimensional tetrahedron-like structure to a planar structure occurs at x = 3, where planar isomers become much more stable than the tetrahedral structures due to significantly stronger π bonds between carbon atoms in addition to increasing strain energy at the carbon atom in the tetrahedral environment.Keywords
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