An approach is developed to predict stability of carbyne-based nanodevices. Within this approach, the thermo-fluctuation model of instability and break of contact bond in nanodevices, containing carbyne chains and graphene sheets, is offered. Unlike the conventional models, it does not include empirical constants. The results of DFT calculations are used as initial data for this model. Possibil...

Easily available carbyne complexes of manganese were used as a source of carbyne fragments in an unconventional synthesis of backbone-substituted diphosphinomethanes and cyclic P-ylides upon coupling with secondary or tertiary phosphines, respectively, followed by demetalation under mild conditions.

A guanidinato-stabilized binuclear yttrium carbyne complex [(PhCH 2 ) NC(NC 6 H 3 i Pr -2,6) ] Y (µ -Me)(AlMe 4 -CH) ( 1 was synthesized via C−H bond activation and its versatile reactivities were investigated. Complex underwent σ-bond metathesis with PhSSPh nucleophilic addition...

Advances in molecular assembly are converging to an ultimate in atomistic precision —nanostructures built by single atoms. Recent experimental studies confirm that single chains of carbon atoms —carbyne— exist in stable polyyne structures and can be synthesized, representing the minimal possible nanowire. Here we report the mechanical properties of carbyne obtained by first-principles–based Rea...

The elastic modulus of carbyne, a one-dimensional carbon chain, was recently predicted to be much higher than graphene. Inspired by this discovery and the fundamental correlation between elastic modulus and thermal conductivity, we investigate the intrinsic thermal transport in two carbon allotropes: carbyne and cumulene. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we discover that thermal conductivi...

The structural, electronic, molecular and thermochemical properties of hypothetical [Tp(CO)2Mo≡C-Ph)]2+ (1) [Tp = hydridotris(pyrazolyl) borate] [L(CO)2Mo≡C-Ph)]+ (2) [L=hydrido 2-phenoxybis(pyrazolyl) carbyne complexes were investigated by quantum chemical calculations. optimized at B3LYP/LANL2DZ/6-31G(d) level. Structural parameters, vibration spectra, electronic spectra NMR computationally o...

Synthesis of (PNP(R))ReOCl(2) (PNP(R) = (R(2)PCH(2)SiMe(2))(2)N, R = (i)()Pr, Cy, and (t)()Bu) from (Me(2)S)(2)ReOCl(3) and (PNP(R))MgCl is described. Magnesium and H(2) convert (PNP(R))ReOCl(2) first to (PNP(R))ReO(H)(2) and then to (PNP(R))Re(H)(4), the last being an operationally unsaturated species which can bind PMe(3) or p-toluidine. Acyclic alkenes react with (PNP(R))Re(H)(4) at 22 degre...

On the basis of ab initio simulations, the value of strength of interatomic bonds in one-, two- and three-dimensional carbon crystals is obtained. It is shown that decreasing in dimensionality of crystal gives rise to nearly linear increase in strength of atomic bonds. It is ascertained that growth of strength of the crystal with a decrease in its dimensionality is due to both a reduction in co...