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Density Functional Method Studies on Configuration and Electronic Structure of R—ReO3

HE Xu-Min*, YANG Pei-Xie, CHEN Zhe-Ning, FU Gang, XU Xin   

  1. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
  • Received:2008-02-19 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-11-10 Published:2008-11-10
  • Contact: HE Xu-Min

Abstract: We performed a systematic densities functional(X3LYP) study on the configuration and electronic structures of a series of high valence organorhenium oxides(R—ReO3·Ln). Our calculations show that X3LYP function can give a good description of rhenium oxide geometries. In most cases, the deviations of bond lengths from the experimental results are less than 0.001 nm, while the errors of bond angels are around 1°. We found that the Lewis acidity and the strength of the Re—O bond could be subtly tuned by various R groups as well as amine ligands such that rhenium oxo can play a versatile role in catalytic oxidation. These results are rationalized in terms of NBO analysis and frontier orbital theory.

Key words: Organorhenium oxide, CH3ReO3, X3LYP method

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