Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4): 749.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20170463

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Theoretical Studies of Structural Design and Stability of Double-layered Sandwich-like Tetrapyrrolic Uranium Complexes

TIAN Linfei1, ZHANG Chunhua2, QU Ning1, BI Yanting1, ZHANG Hongxing3,*(), PAN Qingjiang1,*()   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education,School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
    2. Water Environment Monitoring Branch Center,Daqing Hydrographic Bureau of Heilongjiang Province, Daqing 163311, China
    3. Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
  • Received:2017-07-14 Online:2018-04-10 Published:2018-03-16
  • Contact: ZHANG Hongxing,PAN Qingjiang E-mail:zhanghx@jlu.edu.cn;panqjitc@163.com
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21273063, 21573088) and the Scientific Foundation of Heilongjiang Province for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, China

Abstract:

To explore the interaction between tetrapyrrolic ligand and low-valent uranium ion, double-layered Sandwich-like complexes PzUmPzUmPz(labeled as $U^{m}_{2}$ Pz3; m=Ⅲ and Ⅳ, Pz=porphyrazine) were designed according to the single-layered PcUPc(Pc=phthalocyanine) that was experimentally synthesized. Relativistic density functional theory(RDFT) was used to examine structures, stability and chemical bonding. It is shown that complexes $U^{m}_{2}$Pz3 have the quintet ground state. Steric configurations are found to have a little effect on isomeric stability, while electron-spin states play more important role. Topological analyses of electron density suggest weakly polarized covalent character for U-N bonds. Tetravalent diuranium complex possesses four U(5f)-character high-lying occupied orbitals, in accordance with U 5f-electron number counting. Differently, some electron transfer from uranium to ligand(Pz) is unraveled for the trivalent complex, leading to more ligand contribution to frontier molecular orbitals.

Key words: Sandwich-like tetrapyrrolic uranium complex, Stability of isomer, Quantum theory of atoms in molecule(QTAIM), Electronic structure, Relativistic density functional theory

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