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New Strategies in Modeling Electronic Structures and Properties with Applications to Actinides
This chapter discusses contemporary quantum chemical methods and provides
general insights into modern electronic structure theory with a focus on
heavy-element-containing compounds. We first give a short overview of
relativistic Hamiltonians that are frequently applied to account for
relativistic effects. Then, we scrutinize various quantum chemistry methods
that approximate the -electron wave function. In this respect, we will
review the most popular single- and multi-reference approaches that have been
developed to model the multi-reference nature of heavy element compounds and
their ground- and excited-state electronic structures. Specifically, we
introduce various flavors of post-Hartree--Fock methods and optimization
schemes like the complete active space self-consistent field method, the
configuration interaction approach, the Fock-space coupled cluster model, the
pair-coupled cluster doubles ansatz, also known as the antisymmetric product of
1 reference orbital geminal, and the density matrix renormalization group
algorithm. Furthermore, we will illustrate how concepts of quantum information
theory provide us with a qualitative understanding of complex electronic
structures using the picture of interacting orbitals. While modern quantum
chemistry facilitates a quantitative description of atoms and molecules as well
as their properties, concepts of quantum information theory offer new
strategies for a qualitative interpretation that can shed new light onto the
chemistry of complex molecular compounds.Comment: 43 pages, 3 figures, Version of Recor
Activation of an alkyl C-H bond geminal to an agostic interaction:An unusual mode of base-induced C-H activation
Deuterium labeling studies indicate that base-induced intramolecular C-H activation in the agostic complex 2-D proceeds with exclusive removal of a proton from the methyl arm of an iPr substituent on the N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand. Computational studies show that this alkyl C-H bond activation reaction involves deprotonation of one of the C-H bonds that is geminal to the agostic interaction, rather than the agostic C-H bond itself. The reaction is readily accessible at room temperature, and a computed activation barrier of ÎEâ calcd = +11.8 kcal/mol is found when the NHC 1,3-diisopropyl-4,5-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene is employed as the external base. Charge analysis reveals that the geminal hydrogens are in fact more acidic than the agostic proton, consistent with their more facile deprotonation.</p
Activation of an alkyl C-H bond geminal to an agostic interaction:An unusual mode of base-induced C-H activation
Deuterium labeling studies indicate that base-induced intramolecular C-H activation in the agostic complex 2-D proceeds with exclusive removal of a proton from the methyl arm of an iPr substituent on the N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand. Computational studies show that this alkyl C-H bond activation reaction involves deprotonation of one of the C-H bonds that is geminal to the agostic interaction, rather than the agostic C-H bond itself. The reaction is readily accessible at room temperature, and a computed activation barrier of ÎEâ calcd = +11.8 kcal/mol is found when the NHC 1,3-diisopropyl-4,5-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene is employed as the external base. Charge analysis reveals that the geminal hydrogens are in fact more acidic than the agostic proton, consistent with their more facile deprotonation.</p
CCDC 679581: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the worldâs repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures
CCDC 679580: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the worldâs repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures