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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 1580-1587Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct7000254
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The homoleptic mono- and multinuclear carbonyls for Mo, Tc, Ru, and Rh, namely, Mo(CO)(6), Ru(CO)(5), Tc-2(CO)(10), Ru-3(CO)(12), Rh-4(CO)(12), and Rh-6(CO)(16), are investigated theoretically by the Hartree-Fock method and three density functional theory (DFT) methods, i.e., BP86, B3LYP, and MPW1PW91, along with the SDD ECP basis sets. The results predicted by all the methods are basically in agreement with each other. The MPW1PW91 and BP86 methods predict geometric parameters and vibrational spectra, respectively, closest to the experimental values. For Ru-3(CO)(12) the relative energies of the D-3h isomer with only terminal CO groups and the C-2v isomer with two bridging CO groups are within 3 kcal/mol of each other with the lower energy isomer depending upon the computational method used. For Rh-4(CO)(12) the global minimum is predicted to have C-3v symmetry, with three bridging and nine terminal carbonyls, in accord with experiment. The Rh-6(CO)(16) structure has T-d symmetry and satisfies the Wade-Mingos rules for an octahedral cluster. Using the MPW1PW91 method the Rh-Rh distances in Rh-4(CO)(12) are found to be 2.692 A and 2.750 A and those in Rh-6(CO)(16) to be 2.785 A.
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