An insight on the aromatic changes in closed shell icosagen, tetrel, and pnictogen phenalenyl derivatives

作者：Trujillo Cristina; Sanchez Sanz Goar^*; Alkorta Ibon; Elguero Jose

来源：Structural Chemistry, 2017, 28(2): 345-355.

DOI：10.1007/s11224-016-0882-y

• Aromaticity
• NICS
• Wiberg bond indices
• Tetrel
• Pnictogen
• Icosagen
• Phenalenyl

A computational study of the aromatic and antiaromatic characteristics of closed shell charged phenalenyl (PLY+1 and PLY-1) upon replacement of the central carbon atom by icosagen (B, Al and Ga), tetrel (Si and Ge) and pnictogen (N, P and As) atoms comprising systems in which the icosagen and pnictogen derivatives considered are neutral while the tetrel ones are anions or cations, has been carried out at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) computational level. By substitution, two different kinds of structures have been obtained, one planar (N and B) and another one bowl-shaped depending on the size of the central atom. In terms of aromaticity, the substitution of the central C atom causes a loss of the aromatic character in all cases as indicated by nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) profiles and NICS values on the 0.001 au isosurface. Regarding the charge, PLY+1 presents larger electron delocalisation than PLY-1, phenomenon associated with aromaticity. Furthermore, the current density maps for those planar systems corroborate NICS findings, showing anticlockwise currents in PLY+1 (like in benzene) but clockwise in PLY-N-0 and PLY-B-0, indicating aromatic and antiaromatic behaviour, respectively.

• 出版日期2017-4