Journal
MOLECULAR SIMULATION
Volume 30, Issue 13-15, Pages 929-933Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08927020412331298667
Keywords
metal porphyrin; transport properties; first-principles calculations; 3d-orbital splitting
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The geometry and electronic structures of metal 5, 15-di(4-thiophenyl)-porphyrin (MDTP) have been investigated using first-principles calculations. Several metal atoms, including Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn, have been selected. It has been found that the dihedral angle between porphyrin and thiophenyl planes is close to the perpendicular, which means that the pi conjugation in whole MDTP molecules is broken. The most stable spin configurations of Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and NiDTPs are S = 2, 5/2,1, 1/2 and 0, respectively. Analysis of metal 3d-orbital splitting in Zn and NiDTP have shown that in the case of NiDTP, the out-of-plane interaction between metal 3d-orbitals and pi orbital of porphyrin is larger than that in the case of ZnDTP. The results suggest that the Ni metal will enhance the conductance of DTP because transport properties in molecular systems have strong relations to the molecular pi orbital.
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