PROPERTIES OF ATOMS IN MOLECULES - ATOMIC VOLUMES
PROPERTIES OF ATOMS IN MOLECULES - ATOMIC VOLUMES
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00260a006
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发表时间:
1987-12-23
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
CHANG, C
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作者:
BADER, RFW;CARROLL, MT;CHANG, C
The theory of atoms in molecules defines an atom and the average values of its properties. The intersection of an atomic surface, as defined by a property of the charge density, with a particular envelope of the charge density defines the volume of an atom in a molecule. The value of the density envelope used tobound the “open” portion of an atomic region can be chosen on the basis of comparison with measured properties. The nature of the results are, in any event, independent of the choice for envelopes which contain over 96% of the total electronic charge and lie within the usual range of van der Waals contact distances. It is shown that the volumes of methyland methylene groups in normal hydrocarbons are transferable properties, as are their charge distributions, populations, and energies. The volume of a carbon atom subject to steric crowding is found to decrease as its stability and electron population increase. This behavior is opposite to that found for a carbon atom in a system with geometric strain as found in cyclic and bicyclic molecules. The stability, population, and volume of a carbon atom all undergo parallel increases as the atom is subjected to an increasing degree of geometric strain. The volumes of the bridgehead carbon atoms in bicyclo [1.1. 0] butane and [lll] propellane are 1.2 and 1.5 times, respectively, the volume of a methyl carbon atom. As anticipated on the basis of the orbital model, an increase in geometric strain is correlated with an increase in s character and thus one finds the electron population, stability, and volume of a carbon atom to undergo the same parallel increases in value through the series ethane, ethylene, acetylene. As a first step in the investigation of how atoms fit together, the changes in the atomic volumes accompanying the formation of a hydrogen bond are determined. The changes in volume are correlated with the changes in the atomic populations and energies for the formationof homo and hetero dimers of water and ammonia and their protonated species.