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All-Transition Metal Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity

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Though aromaticity in compounds containing a transition-metal atom has already been discussed for quite a long time, aromaticity in all-transition metal systems have been recognized only recently. There are examples of σ-, π-, and δ-aromaticity based on s-, p-, and d-AOs. We derived the counting rules for σ −, π-, δ-, and ϕ-aromaticity/antiaromaticity for both singlet/triplet coupled model triatomic and tetratomic systems so that one could use those to rationalize aromaticity and antiaromaticity in all-transition metal systems. These rules can be easily extended for any cyclic systems composed out of odd or even number of atoms. We elucidated the application of these rules to the all-transition metal cyclic systems: Au3 +/Au3 −, Na2Zn3, Hg4 6 −, Mo3O9 2 −, Sc3 −, Hf3, and Ta3 − clusters. We believe that the use of concepts of aromaticity, antiaromaticity and conflicting aromaticity can be an important theoretical tool for deciphering chemical bonding in various known and novel chemical compounds containing transition metal atoms.

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Acknowledgements

The work done was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant CHE-0714851. Computer time from the Center for High Performance Computing at Utah State University is gratefully acknowledged. The computational resource, the Uinta cluster supercomputer, was provided through the National Science Foundation under Grant CTS-0321170 with matching funds provided by Utah State University.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 84322–0300, USA

    Alina P. Sergeeva, Boris B. Averkiev & Alexander I. Boldyrev

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Sergeeva, A.P., Averkiev, B.B., Boldyrev, A.I. (2010). All-Transition Metal Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity. In: Parkin, G. (eds) Metal-Metal Bonding. Structure and Bonding, vol 136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05243-9_8

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