Density functional theory computations (B3LYP) have been used to explore the chemistry of titanium-aromatic carbon "edge complexes" with 1,3-metal-carbon (1,3-MC) bonding between Ti and planar tetracoordinate Cβ . The titanium-coordinated, end-capping chlorides are replaced with OH or SH groups to afford two series of difunctional monomers that can undergo condensation to form oxide- and sulfid...

Quantized double layer (QDL) charging of a Au130(SR)50 nanomolecule is reported for the first time. In the past, QDL charging was known only for Au144(SR)60 and Au225(SR)75 nanomolecules, which intrigued much research in this field. Here, using differential pulse voltammetry, we demonstrate that Au130 shows QDL charging. Furthermore, 13 different oxidation-reduction waves corresponding to singl...

This paper reports novel pyrazine-acenes containing electron-deficient heteroaromatic π-extenders, such as pyridine, pyrazine, and benzothiadiazole, directly fused with pyrazine. Electronic properties of these systems were characterized by UV-Vis, fluorescence spectroscopy, and cyclic voltammetry. Computational electronic property evaluation of all experimentally synthesized compounds is provid...

A 2.5 monolayer (ML) thick graphene film grown by chemical vapor deposition of thermally dissociated C(2)H(4) on MgO(111), displays a significant band gap. The apparent six-fold low energy electron diffraction (LEED) pattern actually consists of two three-fold patterns with different 'A' and 'B' site diffraction intensities. Similar effects are observed for the LEED patterns of a 1 ML carbon fi...

We report herein a new nanoparticlization process for the bulk-to-nano transformation of Ag2S by incorporating both top-down and bottom-up approaches. Bulk Ag2S was dissolved in solution with the assistance of a macrocyclic ligand, hexamethylazacalix[6]pyridine (Py[6]), to produce polynuclear silver sulfide cluster aggregates. All Ag-S cluster aggregates obtained in three crystalline complexes ...

Quantum mechanical calculations have been carried out to determine the structural and electronic properties of the electron donor-acceptor complexes of C60 and C70 with azulene and some of its derivative, viz, 1,3-dichloroazulene, 2-hydroxyazulene and 4,6,8-trimetrhyl azulene. The molecules studied are optimized first with semi-empirical molecular orbital theory at the third parametric level, a...

In this study interaction of phenothiazine sulfur dye with (5, 5) armchair open-end boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) in interaction (with a length of 7 Å) was investigated. The impacts of the estereoelectronic effect associated with donor-acceptor electron delocalizations, dipole-dipole interactions and total steric exchange energies on the structural and electronic properties and reactivity of ...

In the present work, the quantum theoretical calculations of the molecular structure of the 1-(1, 3-Benzothiazol-2-yl)-3-(thiophene-5-carbonyl) thiourea has been predicted and are evaluated using Density Functional Theory (DFT) in gas phase. The geometry of the title compound was optimized by B3LYP/6-311+G and B3LYP/6-311+G* methods and the experimental geometrical parameters of the title compo...

By using density functional theory (PBE and Grimme's dispersion correction) we studied how a stepwise addition of 4f electrons influences the geometries electronic properties lanthanide bisphthalocyanine (LnPc2) single-molecule magnets (SMMs). To handle convergence problems, which are common for compounds, tested DN, DND DNP basis sets. The calculations all fifteen bisphthalocyanines were possi...