C18 Is a Polyyne
C18 Is a Polyyne
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00120a026
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发表时间:
1995-04
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Dietmar A. Plattner;K. N. Houk
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作者:
Dietmar A. Plattner;K. N. Houk
Cyclic carbon clusters have stimulated much attention during the past years, both experimentally1 11· 2 and theoretically. 1· 3· 4 There is now growing evidence that cyclocarbons play a decisive role in the formation of fullerenes. 5-7 Numerous theoretical efforts notwithstanding, a consensus on the bonding in mono-cyclic carbon clusters C „(n= 10—20) is still lacking. 8 We present theoretical arguments and computational evidence that monocyclic Cig has a flattened circular polyyne structure. The tendency for bond alternation in the C „systems is greater than that in C „H „systems. Previous calculations on this system led to erroneous conclusions about structures. Our studies also show that density functional theory (DFT) errs consistently in the prediction of energies for isomericcumulenic and acetylenic structures. 9 Nevertheless, the combination of RHF and DFT calculations provides firm conclusions about structural trends in the potentially doubly-aromatic cyclocarbons, Cm, C14, and