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- Title
A potential energy surface survey of OB<sub>6</sub>: global minima and isomerization stability.
- Authors
Chang-bin Shao; Lin Jin; Li-juan Fu; Yi-hong Ding
- Abstract
In light of the very recent significant discrepancies on the global isomer of the sept-atomic molecule OB6, we performed a detailed potential energy surface survey of OB6 covering various isomeric forms. We showed that at the CCSD(T)/6-311+G(2df)//B3LYP/6-311+G(d) level, the planar knife-like isomer 01 with a –BO moiety has the lowest energy, followed by the planar belt-like isomer 02 at 22.6 kcal/mol. Another isomer 05 at 33.1 kcal/mol can be viewed as the direct O-adduct of the pentagonal pyramid B6. Kinetically, the three isomers 01, 02 and 05 all have considerable barriers (19–29 kcal/mol) (obtained at B3LYP/6-311+G(d) level) against isomerization. However, other isomers either have much higher energy or possess much smaller conversion barriers and are thus of little likeliness for isolation. Moreover, though being isoelectronic to the well-known CB molecule, OB6 does not have any kinetically stabilized wheel-like isomers with O or B centers. The three OB6 isomers 01, 02 and 05 await future laboratory studies. The detailed results reported in this paper are expected to provide useful information for understanding the growing process of boron oxides, O-doping and oxidation mechanism of boron clusters.
- Subjects
QUANTUM chemistry; POTENTIAL energy surfaces; ISOMERIZATION; NONMETALS; BORON
- Publication
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, & Modeling, 2009, Vol 124, Issue 3/4, p161
- ISSN
1432-881X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00214-009-0593-1