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Royal Society of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 30(17), p. 19690-19694

DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03178h

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Endohedral C<sub>3</sub>Ca@B<sub>39</sub><sup>+</sup>and C<sub>2</sub>Ca@B<sub>39</sub><sup>+</sup>: axially chiral metalloborospherenes based on B<sub>39</sub><sup>−</sup>

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Abstract

Using the newly discovered borospherenes C3 B39 and C2 B39 as molecular devices, we present herein the possibility of the first axially chiral metalloborospherenes C3 Ca@B39+ (1, 1A) and C2 Ca@B39+ (2, 1A) and their degenerate enantiomers (1′/2′) based on extensive global-minimum searches and first-principles calculations. These metalloborospherenes as the global minimum and the second lowest-lying isomer of CaB39+, respectively, turn out to be charge-transfer complexes Ca2+@B39 in nature, with the Ca centre on the C3 or C2 molecular axis donating one electron to the B39 cage which behaves like a superhalogen. Molecular orbital analyses indicate that C3/C2 Ca2+@B39 possess the universal bonding pattern of σ plus π double delocalization, similar to their C3/C2 B39 parents. Molecular dynamics simulations show that both C3 Ca@B39+ (1) and C2 Ca@B39+ (2) are dynamically stable at 200 K, with the former starting to fluctuate strucutrally at 300 K and the latter at 400 K, again similar to C3/C2 B39. The infrared and Raman spectra of C3/C2 Ca@B39+ (1/2) are simulated and compared with those of C3/C2 B39 to facilitate their forthcoming experimental characterizations.