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Supertetrahedrane and its boron analogs

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Novel stable structures, viz., supertetrahedrane (C104H32), supertetraborane (B104H32), and mixed supertetracarboranes (B64C40H32 and B40C64H32), derived by substituting for carbon atoms in the diamond lattice by tetrahedra C4 and B4, respectively, and being supermolecular models of the corresponding carbon and boron crystalline structures were studied by the DFT B3LYP/6-311+G** method. The low difference in energies of the frontier orbitals indicate semiconduction properties of these compounds. The carbon-carbon, boron-boron, and carbon-boron bonds in the studied compounds are shorter than in diamond and in the borane or carboranes systems, respectively. Along with the calculated vibrational spectra, this indicates that their mechanical properties are similar to those of diamond. However, a considerably low density of these compounds shows their high potential possibility of applying them in aerospace technology.

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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 1657–1664, September, 2012.

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Minyaev, R.M. Supertetrahedrane and its boron analogs. Russ Chem Bull 61, 1673–1680 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-012-0232-1

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