Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2003, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (4): 682.

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Ab initio Investigation of the Rearrangement Between the Isomers of C36 Fullerene Derivative(C36OH)+──Intramolecular OH shift

XU Xiu Fang, YANG Zuo Yin, WANG Gui Chang, SHANG Zhen Feng, WU Ben Xiang, PAN Yin Ming, ZHAO Xue Zhuang   

  1. Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 370001, China
  • Received:2002-04-22 Online:2003-04-24 Published:2003-04-24

Abstract: The mechanism of the rearrangement between the isomers of (C36OH)+, one of C 36 fullerene derivatives, has been investigated by ab initio calculation at HF/STO-3G level. The result shows that isomer 2 is thermodynamically the most stable, and kinetically it is much easier to convert isomers 1 and 3 into 2 than to convert 2 into 1 and 3 judging from the calculated energy barriers. On the other hand, the distribution of the charges on the cage of the (C36OH)+ isomers implies relatively more probability for the addition of OH group to the 1,4 sites in the six membered ring locating at the equatorial belt of the C 36 cage than to the other sites, which agrees with the themodynamic stability of the C36 (OH)2 isomers.

Key words: Ab initio, Fullerene derivative (C36OH)+, Rearrangement mechanism

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