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Alberto Vela

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PubMed2007

Recent advances in planar tetracoordinate carbon chemistry.

We summarize our contributions on the quest of new planar tetracoordinate carbon entities (new carbon molecules with exotic chemical structures and strange bonding schemes). We give special emphasis on the rationalization why in this type of molecules the planar configuration is favored over the tetrahedral one. We will concentrate on the latter and will show that molecules containing planar tetracoordinate carbons have a stabilizing system of delocalized pi electrons, which shows similar properties as pi systems in aromatic molecules.

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PubMed2006

Half-numerical evaluation of pseudopotential integrals.

A half-numeric algorithm for the evaluation of effective core potential integrals over Cartesian Gaussian functions is described. Local and semilocal integrals are separated into two-dimensional angular and one-dimensional radial integrals. The angular integrals are evaluated analytically using a general approach that has no limitation for the l-quantum number. The radial integrals are calculated by an adaptive one-dimensional numerical quadrature. For the semilocal radial part a pretabulation scheme is used. This pretabulation simplifies the handling of radial integrals, makes their calculation much faster, and allows their easy reuse for different integrals within a given shell combination. The implementation of this new algorithm is described and its performance is analyzed.

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PubMed2006

Quantum chemical study of the inhibitive properties of 2-pyridyl-azoles.

Four molecules that have been proven to act as corrosion inhibitors of mild steel in acidic media are studied. The inhibitive efficiency of these molecules is explained by means of electronic structure calculations of the protonated species that seem to represent better the actual situation of the experimental conditions. By assuming that the interaction between the inhibitor and the metallic surface occurs through donation and back-donation, it is shown, with a simple charge transfer model, that the interaction energy is favored when hardness increases, in agreement with the experimentally observed inhibition efficiencies. A local analysis with Hirshfeld condensed Fukui functions, and local Fukui functions, provides further support to the donation and back-donation mechanism.

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PubMed2006

Molecular fragments in density functional theory.

The second-order density functional approach to the partitioning of the molecular density of Cedillo, Chattaraj, and Parr (Int. J. Quantum Chem. 2000, 77, 403-407) is used, together with a local assumption for the function that projects the total density into its components, to show that the distribution function adopts a stockholders form, in terms of the local softness of the isolated fragments, and that the molecular Fukui function is distributed in the molecular fragments in the same proportion as the electronic density.

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PubMed2006

Donor-acceptor heteroleptic open sandwiches.

A series of donor-acceptor heteroleptic open sandwiches with formula CpM-M'Pyl (M = B, Al, Ga; M' = Li, Na; Cp = cyclopentadienyl; Pyl = pentadienyl) has been designed in silico using density functional theory. The most stable complexes are those containing boron as a donor atom. A molecular orbital analysis shows that the s character of the lone pair located at the group 13 element is mainly responsible for the complex stabilization. It is also found that the surrounding medium has a similar effect on these sandwiches such as in the "classical" donor-acceptor complexes, showing a decrement in the group 13 element-alkaline metal bond lengths.

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PubMed2006

Parallelization of the deMon2k code.

The parallelization of the LCGTO-KS-DFT code deMon2k is presented. The parallelization of the three-center electron repulsion integrals, the numerical integration using a direct grid algorithm and the matrix multiplication and diagonalization are described. The efficiency of the parallelization is analyzed by selected benchmark calculations. It is shown that geometry optimizations of systems with more than 8,000 basis functions are feasible on cluster architectures.

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PubMed2005

Planar tetracoordinate carbons in cyclic hydrocarbons.

[structure: see text] A series of cyclic hydrocarbons containing a planar tetracoordinate carbon atom is proposed. To rationalize the electronic factors contributing to the stability of these molecules, an analysis of the molecular orbitals and the induced magnetic field is presented.

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PubMed2004

Theoretical analysis of the smallest carbon cluster containing a planar tetracoordinate carbon.

A series of molecules, based on the smallest carbon cluster with one planar tetracoordinate carbon atom, C5(2-), are presented. To gain a better understanding about which electronic factors contribute to their stabilization, several global reactivity indexes, molecular scalar fields, and magnetic responses were calculated. The optimized bond lengths and the topological analysis of the electron density show that the central carbon atom in the parent dianion C5(2-) has a planar local environment, and it is coordinated to four other carbon atoms. The bonding of the parent dianion with the metal cations is highly ionic. The magnetic properties show that the C5(2-) derivatives are strongly diatropic and have a remarkable transferability of structural and electronic features from the anion to the salts. The theoretical analysis suggests that the lithium salt, C5Li2, is the most plausible candidate for experimental detection.

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PubMed2004

Planar tetracoordinate carbon in extended systems.

A recently proposed system with a central planar tetracoordinate carbon linking two three-membered rings, C(5)(2-), lends itself to extension in one, two, and three dimensions. Our construction of potential realizations begins with an analysis of the electronic structure of C(5)(2-). Dimers such as C(10)Li(3-), C(10)Li(4), and a trimer C(15)Li(6) are then examined, and their geometries are optimized to find clues for ways the C(5)(2-) unit may polymerize in the presence of countercations. Coordination through the terminal carbons is favored in the oligomers and polymers; several electronically and structurally reasonable systems of the stoichiometry C(5)M(x) (M = Li, x = 2; M = Be, Pt, Zn, x = 1) emerge from band structure calculations and energetic considerations.

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PubMed2003

(C5M2-n)(n-) (M = Li, Na, K, and n = 0, 1, 2). A new family of molecules containing planar tetracoordinate carbons.

By highly correlated ab initio methods and DFT calculations, we have shown that alkaline metals can stabilize planar tetracoordinate carbon-containing molecules with the C(C4) skeleton. This family of molecules is C5M2, where M is an alkaline metal. The stability of these compounds is rationalized in terms of the delocalization of the p-orbital perpendicular to the molecular plane, the global hardness, and the electrophilicity. The analysis of several molecular scalar fields shows that the bonding between the C52- dianion and the metals is strongly ionic. The structures reported are the first examples with a planar tetracoordinate carbon, surrounded by carbon atoms, and stabilized, only, by electronic factors.

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