Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.118, No.15, 3738-3742, 1996
Contrasting Stabilities of Classical and Bridged Pyramidal Si(3)H(3)X Molecules (X=bh-,CH,N,Nh+,No,Sih,P,Ph+, and Po)
Trigonal-pyramidal Si(3)H(3)X systems have been studied at HF/6-31G*, MP2(FC)/6-31G*, and Becke3LYP/ 6-31G* levels. The classical trigonal-pyramidal structure (5) is a higher order stationary point for X = BH-, CH, NO, SiH, P, PH+, and PO, whereas it is a minima for X = N and NH+, at the MP2(FC)/6-31G* level. An alternative pyramidal structure (6, C-3 nu,) with three SiHSi 3c-2e bonds is minima, lower in energy than 5 by 47.7 (X = BH-), 39.1 (X = CH), 31.7 (X = N), 25.0 (X = NH+), 20.6 (X = SiH), 20.7 (X = P), 16.1 (X = PH+), and 18.2 (X PO) kcal/mol. Isolobal analogy connects 6 with various triply hydrogen bridged pyramidal structures in organometallics.
Keywords:EFFECTIVE CORE POTENTIALS;NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION;SILICON-COMPOUNDS;DIVALENT SILICON;TRIVALENT BORON;SINGLET SI4H4;X-RAY;ANALOGS;CYCLOBUTADIENE;ENERGIES