An MO-based identification of charge-shift bonds.
An MO-based identification of charge-shift bonds.
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10.1002/cphc.201200147
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2012-06
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Renana Gershoni‐Poranne;A. Stanger
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作者:
Renana Gershoni‐Poranne;A. Stanger
The chemical bond is one of the fundamental concepts in chemistry. For over a century chemists recognized two types of intramolecular (ie between atoms in the same molecule, not between molecules) chemical bonds [1]—covalent and ionic bonds. Recently, Shaik, Hiberty, and their collaborators [2] introduced a new type of chemical bond—the charge-shift (CS) bond. This type of bond can be found in many compounds, as has been demonstrated in numerous papers.[3, 4] It occurs when the bonding electrons have high kinetic energy due to repulsion by core electrons (eg F2). It also occurs in abnormal bonding situations (eg propellanes). In valence bond (VB) terms, this type of bond is manifested by an unusually large resonance energy between the covalent and ionic canonic forms of the given bond. It is also manifested, in quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) terminology, by a positive Laplacian (LAP) at the bond-critical point.[2b, 4] For 1st row elements, this criterion seems to correlate well with VB calculations. However, for 2nd row elements, QTAIM assigns positive LAPs to normal covalent bonds, such as in H3SiÀSiH3 and hexasilacyclohexane.[5] This, coupled with the fact that most computational chemists use molecular orbital (MO)-based rather than VB-based computational tools, led us to search for MO-based criterions for the identification of CS bonds. Isodesmic and homodesmic reactions were first suggested by Pople et al.[6] about four decades ago, as a means to overcome computational level deficiencies. The assumption behind the use of these reactions is that each computational level that is not the exact solution of the Schrçdinger equation (therefore, all computations) describes different bonds with different accuracies. Consequently, if the number of bonds of each type is kept equal on both sides of the reactions, the deficiencies should cancel each other out and the result of the equation should be independent of the computational level (and very similar to reality). Indeed, this approach has been used in hundreds of papers and was shown to yield good results. Here we employ this principle in the opposite manner. Namely, homodesmic reactions are devised such that the bonds in question are compared to pure covalent bonds, eg H3CÀCH3. It is expected that if the bond in question is of a purely covalent nature, the results of the isodesmic (or homodesmic) reactions will not depend on the computational level. However, if the bond in question is of a different type, such as a CS bond, it is expected that the results will show a large dependence on the computational level.[7]