ISSN:
1434-1948
Keywords:
Organogermanium ions
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Mass spectrometry
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Ab initio theory
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NBO
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Chemistry
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General Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The cation [Ge,C,H]+ has been generated by the electron ionisation of trichloromethylgermane. Collisional activation experiments were used to establish a Ge-C-H connectivity in this species, for which a significant fraction of the ion population was found to survive neutralisation-reionisation mass spectrometry (NRMS) experiments. Thus, the neutral counterpart [Ge,C,H]0 is stable on a microsecond timescale. Becke's 3 parameter hybrid density functional (B3LYP) was used to map the ion and neutral potential-energy surfaces, in conjunction with double-zeta and triple-zeta basis sets. The computational results obtained using the triple-zeta basis sets suggest that, for the cation, the global minimum is the high spin 3Σ GeCH+, with the first Ge-C-H excited state, 1Σ GeCH+, approximately 39 kcal mol-1 less stable. The lowest energy ion structure with H-Ge-C connectivity is bent (3A′′HGeC+,∠H-Ge-C = 126.3) and 69 kcal mol-1 less stable than the global minimum. For the neutral, a doublet (2π) with Ge-C-H connectivity is predicted to be the global minimum. The classical barrier for the neutral 1,2-hydrogen shift reaction on the doublet surface is negligible (0.1 kcal mol-1), while the smallest barrier for the cation is 13.0 kcal mol-1, corresponding to (3A′′) HGeC+ → (3Σ) GeCH+. Natural bond order analysis has been used to establish the order of the metal-carbon bond for selected states of both the neutral and the ion. Neutral and cationic isomers with Ge-C triple bonds were found to be high-energy excited states, with the metal-carbon bonds in the cation and neutral ground states of order 2.0 and 2.5, respectively. The instability of Ge-C triple bonded species is attributed to the energy required for electronic promotion in the metal in order to achieve a hybrid configuration suitable for the formation of such a bond.
Additional Material:
5 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
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