Organic molecules characterized by high-spin ground states are of interest for many reasons, including their potential use as spin reservoirs in ferromagnetic organic materials. For the design of high-spin organic molecules having an even number of electrons, one typically tries to take advantage of Hund’s rule 4 in constructing systems biased towards having triplet ground states. That is, one ...

N-Cyclohexyl-2,4,4-trimethyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-benzo[b][1,5]diazepine-2-carboxamide (5) was synthesized using an efficient, highly recyclable and eco-friendly catalyst heteropolyacid/triethoxysilyl)propyl]isonicotinamide (HPA/TPI-Fe3O4 nanoparticles) in one-pot. The compound 5 was characterized by FT-IR,1H NMR, 13C NMR, mass spectra, and elemental analysis. The theoretical calculations on 5...

The detailed mechanism of the double hydrophosphination of terminal arylacetylenes catalyzed by an iron complex was studied by density functional theory. The calculated results suggest that the reaction proceeds in three steps: active species generation, single hydrophosphination reaction (Cycle 1), double hydrophosphination reaction, viz., active species regeneration (Cycle 2). The results unc...

A gold(I) complex with a triphenylphosphine and a monodentate N,N-dimethyldithiocarbamate ligand was synthesized and characterized by Raman spectroscopy and single crystal X-ray diffraction. DFT calculations (Gaussian 09, PBE1PBE/Lanl2dz) were undertaken for a single complex in the gas phase. The DFT-optimized structure and calculated Raman spectrum are in good agreement with the crystal struct...

A gold(I) complex with a triphenylphosphine and a monodentate N,N-dimethyldithiocarbamate ligand was synthesized and characterized by Raman spectroscopy and single crystal X-ray diffraction. DFT calculations (Gaussian 09, PBE1PBE/Lanl2dz) were undertaken for a single complex in the gas-phase. The DFT-optimized structure is in good agreement with the crystal structure and the DFT-calculated Rama...

With flavone as a structural template, three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) studies and ab initio calculations were performed on a series of flavonoids. A reasonable pharmacophore model was built through CoMFA, CoMSIA, and HQSAR analyses and electrostatic potential calculations. A plausible binding mode for flavonoids with GABA(A) receptors was rationalized. ...

A linear relationship was found between the singlet–triplet excitation energy and the energy difference presented by the Kohn–Sham frontier molecular orbitals, independently of the used exchange-correlation functional and of the basis set functions quality. The relationship was explored in three different situations: (a) when the number of carbons is increased in an all-trans acetylene family; ...

A series of six new, highly soluble N,N'-dialkylated isoindigo derivatives bearing different electron donating thiophene units at the 6,6'-positions were synthesized by Stille cross-coupling reaction. The optical and electrochemical properties of these dyes were studied by UV-vis spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry, revealing a good tunability of their electronic properties by peripheral substi...

The interplay of exchange correlations and spin-orbit interaction (SOI) on the many-body spectrum of a copper phtalocyanine (CuPc) molecule and their signatures in transport are investigated. We first derive a minimal model Hamiltonian in a basis of frontier orbitals that is able to reproduce experimentally observed singlet-triplet splittings. In a second step SOI effects are included perturbat...

The application of the local basis equation (Ferenczy and Adams, J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 130, 134108) in mixed quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) and quantum mechanics/quantum mechanics (QM/QM) methods is investigated. This equation is suitable to derive local basis nonorthogonal orbitals that minimize the energy of the system and it exhibits good convergence properties in a self-consis...