Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1993, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (6): 831.

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Ab initio Study on Transition Metal Binuclear Complexes MM'(O2CH)4(M,M'=Cr, Mo)

GONG Liang-Fa, ZHANG Ming-Yu   

  1. Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin Unitvrsity, Stale Key Laboratory of Computational Theoretical Chemistry, Changchun, 130023
  • Received:1992-07-03 Revised:1993-02-24 Online:1993-06-24 Published:1993-06-24

Abstract: In this paper, the ab initio calculations are performed on the metal-metal multiple bonds of the binuclear transition metal complexes MM'(O2CH)4, namely, Cr2(O2CH)4, Mo2(O2CH)4 and CrMo(O2CH)4. The optimized bond lengthes are in good agreement with the experimental values.The calculated results indicate that the Mo-Mo and Cr-Mo bonds are quadruple bonds which correspond to the configurations σ2π4δ2 and σ2δ2π4 in Mo2(O2CH)4 and CrMo(O2CH)4, respectively.For Cr2(O2CH)4, the bonding property of Cr-Cr bond is explored by comparing the calculated results of three configurations.It is shown that a more rigorous theoretical calculation is needed in order to correctly describe the Cr-Cr multiple bonding essence.

Key words: Meral-metal multiple bond, Basis function, Ab initio, Atomic population, Electron correlation

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