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SUBMITTER: Zeng T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4827494 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zeng Tao T Danovich David D Shaik Sason S Ananth Nandini N Hoffmann Roald R
ACS central science 20150811 5
The lowest excited state of the acetylenyl radical, HCC, is a (2)Π state, only 0.46 eV above the ground state, (2)Σ(+). The promotion of an electron from a π bond pair to a singly occupied σ hybrid orbital is all that is involved, and so we set out to tune those orbital energies, and with them the relative energetics of (2)Π and (2)Σ(+) states. A strategy of varying ligand electronegativity, employed in a previous study on substituted carbynes, RC, was useful, but proved more difficult to apply ...[more]