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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99525-0
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, CNPq
- Fundacao de Amparo a Ciencia e Tecnologia de Pernambuco, PRONEX/FACEPE
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Niivel Superior, CAPES
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When dealing with metallic centers of higher coordination numbers, it is important to consider the multiple stereoisomers and coordination chirality, which are often overlooked. The Complex Build algorithm aims to generate starting structures with full stereochemical control, identifying stereoisomers and recognizing coordination chirality.
When handling metallic centers of higher coordination numbers, one is commonly deluded with the presumption that any assembled metal complex geometry (including a crystallographic one) is good enough as a starting structure for computational chemistry calculations; all oblivious to the fact that such a structure is nothing short of just one out of several, sometimes dozens, or even thousands of other stereoisomers. Moreover, coordination chirality, so frequently present in complexes of higher coordination numbers, is another often overlooked property, rarely recognized as such. The Complex Build algorithm advanced in this article has been designed with the purpose of generating starting structures for molecular modeling calculations with full stereochemical control, including stereoisomer complete identification and coordination chirality recognition. Besides being in the chosen correct stereochemistry, the ligands are positioned by the Complex Build algorithm in a very unobstructed and unclogged manner, so that their degrees of freedom do not hinder or even choke one another, something that would otherwise tend to lead to negative force constants after further geometry optimizations by more advanced computational model chemistries. The Complex Build algorithm has been conceived for any metallic center, but at present is targeting primarily lanthanoids whose coordination numbers range mostly from 5 to 12 and often lead to a combinatorial explosion of stereoisomers.
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