Abstract:
Transition metal sandwich complexes are a highly promising compounds that have attracted much attention in many fields, but currently only a small portion of these complexes can be structurally characterized from experiments. Through density functional theory, adopting the B3PW91/DZP method and M06-L/DZP method.This article investigates the geometric configuration and electronic structure of (C
4H
4)M(C
8H
8) (M=Ti to Ni), which is the isomers of (C
5H
5)M(C
7H
7) and (C
6H
6)
2M. For the structure composed of early transition metals Ti and V (C
4H
4)M(C
8H
8), regardless of how the two ring ligands are combined, the lowest spin multiplicity sandwich structure with two parallel rings is the lowest energy structure in their respective systems. For early transition metal Cr, the lowest energy (C
4H
4)Cr(C
8H
8) is not a singlet structure with parallel rings, but a triplet structure composed of a hexhapto η
6-C
8H
8 ligand and a tetrahapto η
4-C
4H
4 ligand. For (C
4H
4)Mn(C
8H
8), it is predicted that the lowest energy state is the quadruplet state (η
4-C
4H
4)Mn(η
5-C
8H
8), where the C
8H
8 ring is a pentahapto. For (C
4H
4)Fe(C
8H
8) system, the predicted structure with the lowest energy is a singlet structure with a stable 18-electron configuration. For (C
4H
4)Co(C
8H
8) system and (C
4H
4)Ni(C
8H
8) system, the C
8H
8 ring for the lowest energy becomes a tetrahapto η
4-C
8H
8, giving the Co and Ni atoms the favored 17- and 18-electron configurations, respectively.