The nature of the Ga-Ga bonding in Na2[Arx*GaGaArx*](Arx* = C6H3-2,6-(C6H5)2) has been investigated and compared with that of in H2[Arx*GaGaArx*] using electron localization function(ELF) and orbital analysis.The calculation results show that in Na2[Arx*GaGaArx*],the Ga-Ga interaction is a non-classical triple bond,the heart of Na2[Arx*GaGaArx*] is the Ga2Na2 cluster rather than a simple Ga-Ga bond,and the contribution of the sodium atoms to the short Ga-Ga bond length is considerable.As the two sodium atoms are substituted by two hydrogen atoms,the Ga-Ga bond is replaced by two 3-center,2-electron(3c-2e) Ga-H-Ga covalent bridged bonding.
SUN JieMENG LingPengZHENG ShiJunSUN ZhengLI XiaoYan
The triatomic radicals NCO and NCS are of interest in atmospheric chemistry,and both the ends of these radicals can potentially serve as electron donors during the formation of σ-type hydrogen/halogen bonds with electron acceptors XY(X = H,Cl;Y = F,Cl,and Br).The geometries of the weakly bonded systems NCO/NCS···XY were determined at the MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level of calculation.The results obtained indicate that the geometries in which the hydrogen/halogen atom is bonded at the N atom are more stable than those where it is bonded at the O/S atom,and that it is the molecular electrostatic potential(MEP)-not the electronegativity-that determines the stability of the hydrogen/halogen bond.For the same electron donor(N or O/S) in the triatomic radical and the same X atom in XY,the bond strength decreases in the order Y = F > Cl > Br.In the hydrogen/halogen bond formation process for all of the complexes studied in this work,transfer of spin electron density from the electron donor to the electron acceptor is negligible,but spin density rearranges within the triatomic radicals,being transferred to the terminal atom not interacting with XY.
LI XiaoYanZENG YanLiZHANG XueYingZHENG ShiJunMENG LingPeng
