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.