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Investigation on the Coordination Bonding Nature of Actinide-Doped Endohedral Borospherenes An@B400/+/- (An = U, Np, Pu, Am, Cm)

Version 1 : Received: 30 October 2024 / Approved: 30 October 2024 / Online: 30 October 2024 (11:37:25 CET)

How to cite: Zhao, X.-N.; Wei, Z.-H.; Li, S.-D. Investigation on the Coordination Bonding Nature of Actinide-Doped Endohedral Borospherenes An@B400/+/- (An = U, Np, Pu, Am, Cm). Preprints 2024, 2024102373. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.2373.v1 Zhao, X.-N.; Wei, Z.-H.; Li, S.-D. Investigation on the Coordination Bonding Nature of Actinide-Doped Endohedral Borospherenes An@B400/+/- (An = U, Np, Pu, Am, Cm). Preprints 2024, 2024102373. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.2373.v1

Abstract

Endohedral metallo-borospherenes M@B40 have received considerable attention since the discovery of B40 in 2014. However, the coordination bonding nature of most of the actinide-doped endohedral An@B40 still remains in disputes or unexplored. Extensive first-principles theory calculations performed herein unveil the ground states of triplet U@B40 (1, C2v, 3A2), quartet U@B40- (2, C2v, 4B1), quintet Np@B40+ (3, C2v, 5A1), sextet Np@B40 (4, C2, 6A), septet Pu@B40 (5, C2v, 7A2), octet Am@B40 (6, C2v, 8A2), and octet Cm@B40+ (7, C2v, 8A2) at the coupled-cluster with triple excitations CCSD(T) level. Detailed principal interacting spin orbital (PISO) and adaptive natural density partitioning (AdNDP) analyses reveal their coordination bonding patterns and show that, with the numbers of unpaired α-electrons in parallel spins varying from nα = 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, to 7 in these complexes, the percentage contribution of the An 5f-involved PISO pairs to overall coordination bonding interactions decreases monotonously from 41% to 1%, the contribution of An 6d-involved PISO pairs increases monotonously from 47% to 72%, while the marginal contribution of An 7s-involved PISO pairs remains basically unchanged (4~7%). The IR, Raman, and photoelectron spectra of the most concerned species are computationally simulated to facilitate their characterizations in future experiments.

Keywords

Actinides; Metallo-Borospherenes; First-Principles Theory; Structures; Coordination Bonding Patterns

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Theoretical Chemistry

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