1. Molecular Structure of Silatrane Determined by Gas Electron Diffraction and Quantum-Mechanical Calculations
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Igor F. Shishkov, Svein Samdal, Galina S. Zaitseva, Sergey S. Karlov, F. M. Rudakov, L. V. Khristenko, A. B. Golubinskii, and Lev V. Vilkov
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Bond length ,Molecular geometry ,Chemistry ,Ab initio quantum chemistry methods ,Gas electron diffraction ,Perpendicular ,Ab initio ,Infrared spectroscopy ,Molecule ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Molecular physics - Abstract
The geometry of silatrane HSi(OCH2CH2)3N has been determined by gas electron diffraction, ab initio calculations, and vibrational spectroscopy of crystal. Using the scaled force field from DFT calculations the amplitudes and perpendicular corrections were calculated. It was assumed that the silatrane molecule has C 3 symmetry. The following values (r g bond lengths in A and ∠ a bond angles in deg. with three standard deviations from the least-squared refinements using a diagonal weight matrix) are: SiN 2.406(27); NC 1.443(7); OC 1.399(11); SiO 1.648(3); CC 1.504(15); NSiO 78.8(21); SiOC 128.1(11); SiNC 105.4(14); CCO 117.0(26); CCN 108.2(30); CNC 113.2(17); OSiO 116.3(13). The 5-membered rings are flattened. The sum of its bond angles is equal to 537.5(42). It is shown that a very large difference is found for Si—N distance from ab initio and DFT calculating.
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- 2004
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