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Bond indices, enthalpies and relative stabilities of real and hypothetical closo-BnHc−n clusters (n = 5–12; c = 0, 2 or 4) as revealed by the molecular-orbital bond index method

Mulvey, Robert and ONEILL, M E and WADE, K and SNAITH, R (1986) Bond indices, enthalpies and relative stabilities of real and hypothetical closo-BnHc−n clusters (n = 5–12; c = 0, 2 or 4) as revealed by the molecular-orbital bond index method. Polyhedron, 5 (9). pp. 1437-1447. ISSN 0277-5387

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Abstract

Bond indices (I) have been calculated, using the CNDO-based molecular-orbital bond index method, for real and hypothetical closo borane species, BnHc−n (n = 5–12; c = 0, 2 or 4), and used to infer their relative stabilities by means of the bond index (I)bond enthalpy [E (kJ mol−1)] equations E(BB) = 297.9I(BB) and E(BH) = 374.8I(BH). For the species able to tolerate n + 2 skeletal electron pairs (n = 8, 9 or 11) in closed-shell electronic configurations, estimates of the relative stabilities of alternative nido structures for the anions BnH4−n have been made. Detailed assessments of the changes in bond index with electron numbers of particular edge types for BnHc−n species (n = 8, 9 or 11; c = 0, 2 or 4) have been carried out, providing quantitative confirmation of earlier qualitative predictions, and showing that generally for the “normal” closo BnH2−n species addition or removal of an electron pair leads to the same type of polyhedral distortion, because, where the HOMO of BnH2−n is bonding for a particular edge, the LUMO is antibonding.

Item type: Article
ID code: 37548
Keywords: bond indices, enthalpies , molecular-orbital bond index method, Physical and theoretical chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
Subjects: Science > Chemistry > Physical and theoretical chemistry
Department: Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited: 09 Feb 2012 16:24
Last modified: 01 Feb 2019 03:19
URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/37548
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