Low-energy Structures (low-energy + structure)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Generation and characterization of low-energy structures in atomic clusters

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 7 2010
J. M. C. Marques
Abstract Factors relevant for controlling the structures determined in the local optimization of argon clusters are investigated. In particular, the role of volume and shape for the box where initial structures are generated is assessed. A thorough characterization of the optimization is also presented, based on a nearest-neighbor analysis, in clusters ranging from 30 to 55 atoms. This includes the assessment of the degree of preservation of aspects of the initial randomly generated structure in the final optimized counterpart, and the correlation between optimized energy and the number of nearest neighbors and average departure from the diatomic reference distance. The usefulness of this analysis to explore the energy landscape of atomic clusters is also highlighted. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem, 2010 [source]


Conformational properties of the macrocyclic trichothecene mycotoxin verrucarin A in solution

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY, Issue 12 2008
Georgia Fragaki
Abstract Phase-sensitive nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (NOESY) experiments, 3J couplings and computational molecular modeling (MM2* and MMFF force fields) were employed to examine the conformational properties of verrucarin A in chloroform solutions. The MMFF force field calculations resulted in a family of 12 low-energy structures along with their populations, the latter being determined by the NMR analysis of molecular flexibility in solution(NAMFIS) deconvolution analysis. The concluded model was capable of reproducing successfully the experimental NOESY cross-peak volumes and the proton-coupling constants. Among the 12 conformers, the one which was similar to the structure of verrucarin A in the solid state was the predominant accounting for 75% of the total relative population, although other low-energy conformations contributed to a lesser degree in order to explain the experimental data. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Experimental and predicted crystal structures of Pigment Red 168 and other dihalogenated anthanthrones

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B, Issue 5 2010
Martin U. Schmidt
The crystal structures of 4,10-dibromo-anthanthrone (Pigment Red 168; 4,10-dibromo-dibenzo[def,mno]chrysene-6,12-dione), 4,10-dichloro- and 4,10-diiodo-anthanthrone have been determined by single-crystal X-ray analyses. The dibromo and diiodo derivatives crystallize in P21/c, Z = 2, the dichloro derivative in , Z = 1. The molecular structures are almost identical and the unit-cell parameters show some similarities for all three compounds, but the crystal structures are neither isotypic to another nor to the unsubstituted anthanthrone, which crystallizes in P21/c, Z = 8. In order to explain why the four anthanthrone derivatives have four different crystal structures, lattice-energy minimizations were performed using anisotropic atom,atom model potentials as well as using the semi-classical density sums (SCDS-Pixel) approach. The calculations showed the crystal structures of the dichloro and the diiodo derivatives to be the most stable ones for the corresponding compound; whereas for dibromo-anthanthrone the calculations suggest that the dichloro and diiodo structure types should be more stable than the experimentally observed structure. An experimental search for new polymorphs of dibromo-anthanthrone was carried out, but the experiments were hampered by the remarkable insolubility of the compound. A metastable nanocrystalline second polymorph of the dibromo derivative does exist, but it is not isostructural to the dichloro or diiodo compound. In order to determine the crystal structure of this phase, crystal structure predictions were performed in various space groups, using anisotropic atom,atom potentials. For all low-energy structures, X-ray powder patterns were calculated and compared with the experimental diagram, which consisted of a few broad lines only. It turned out that the crystallinity of this phase was not sufficient to determine which of the calculated structures corresponds to the actual structure of this nanocrystalline polymorph. [source]


The Diversity of Difluoroacetylene Coordination Modes Obtained by Coupling Fluorocarbyne Ligands on Binuclear Manganese Carbonyl Sites

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 22 2009
Xian-mei Liu
Abstract One Mn or two? The fluorocarbyne manganese carbonyl complexes [Mn(CF)(CO)n] (n=3,,4) and [Mn2(CF)2(CO)n] (n=4,7; see picture) have been investigated by density functional theory. In mononuclear complexes the CF ligand behaves very much like the NO ligand in terms of ,-acceptor strength. In binuclear complexes the two CF ligands couple in many of the low-energy structures to form a bridging C2F2 ligand derived from difluoroacetylene. Recent work has shown that the fluorocarbyne ligand CF, isoelectronic with the NO ligand, can be generated by the defluorination of CF3 metal complexes, as illustrated by the 2006 synthesis by Hughes et,al. of [C5H5Mo(CF)(CO)2] in good yield by the defluorination of [C5H5Mo(CF3)(CO)3]. The fluorocarbyne ligand has now been investigated as a ligand in the manganese carbonyl complexes [Mn(CF)(CO)n] (n=3,,4) and [Mn2(CF)2(CO)n] (n=4,7) by using density functional theory. In mononuclear complexes, such as [Mn(CF)(CO)4], the CF ligand behaves very much like the NO ligand in terms of ,-acceptor strength. However, in the binuclear complexes the two CF ligands couple in many of the low-energy structures to form a bridging C2F2 ligand derived, at least formally, from difluoroacetylene, FCCF. The geometries of such [Mn2(C2F2)(CO)n] complexes suggest several different bonding modes of the bridging C2F2 unit. These include bonding through the orthogonal ,,bonds of FCCF, similar to the well-known [R2C2Co2(CO)6] complexes, or bonding of the C2F2 unit as a symmetrical or unsymmetrical biscarbene. This research suggests that fluorocarbyne metal chemistry can serve as a means for obtaining a variety of difluoroacetylene metal complexes, thereby avoiding the need for synthesizing and handling the very unstable difluoroacetylene. [source]