Recent developments and future prospects of all-metal aromatic compounds
The usefulness of aromaticity/antiaromaticity concepts to foresee structural stability patterns and salient features of the electronic structure of small inorganic and all-metal rings has been put forward. A critical revision of the advances made in the theoretical methods to assess the aromaticity/...
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| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 44; no. 18; pp. 6519 - 6534 |
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| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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21.09.2015
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| Summary: | The usefulness of aromaticity/antiaromaticity concepts to foresee structural stability patterns and salient features of the electronic structure of small inorganic and all-metal rings has been put forward. A critical revision of the advances made in the theoretical methods to assess the aromaticity/antiaromaticity of these compounds has also been made. In particular, the performance of local
versus
non-local indices has been reviewed. Finally, the passivation of these rings has been put forward as a key issue in order to prevent them from collapsing into larger aggregates and to provide them protection against the environment.
This review illustrates recent advances in extending aromaticity/antiaromaticity concepts to inorganic and all-metal rings in order to account for their electronic structure and stability. |
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| Bibliography: | Gabriel Merino was born in Puebla (México) in 1975. He received his PhD from Cinvestav in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Alberto Vela. After a two-year period as Postdoctoral Associate at Technische Universitt Dresden (Prof. Gotthard Seifert and Prof. Thomas Heine), Gabriel started his independent career at Universidad de Guanajuato. In 2012, he joined the Department of Applied Physics at Cinvestav Mérida. His group is focused on predicting molecular systems that violate what is established by traditional chemistry and that allow taking to the limit basic concepts like structure, chemical bond, and aromaticity. He has co-authored 110 articles and was awarded the 2012 Academia Mexicana de Ciencias and the Moshinsky Foundation Awards. Jose M. Mercero graduated in 1995 at UPV/EHU after having spent one year as an exchange student at Universiteit Utrecht and another at the University of North Carolina at the Chapell Hill. He completed his PhD (with honors) in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Jesus M. Ugalde at UPV/EHU. Afterwards, he held a Postdoctoral position in Prof. Ugalde's group from 2001 to 2004. Since then, he is in charge of the Scientific Computing Department of the IZO-SGI SGIker at the UPV/EHU. Alexander I. Boldyrev was born in Siberia, Russia (1951), and received his BS/MS (1974) in chemistry from Novosibirsk University, his PhD in physical chemistry from Moscow State University, and his Dr Sci. in chemical physics from Moscow Physico-Chemical Institute (1984). He is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Utah State University. His current scientific interest is the development of chemical bonding models capable of predicting the structure, stability, chemical bonding, and other molecular properties of pure and mixed clusters, low-dimensional materials and solids. Jesus M. Ugalde, born in 1957 in Bergara, the Basque town where Tungsten was isolated in 1783, graduated in 1981, and got his PhD from the University of Valladolid in 1984. He made postdoctoral stays at ORNL, with Rufus Ritchie, and Cornell University with Roald Hoffmann. For many years he collaborated closely with Prof. Russell J. Boyd, Dalhousie University, until he got his position as Professor of Chemistry at the University of the Basque Country in 1994. He is currently the president of the Basque Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c5cs00341e |