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Bing Yin1, YuanHe Huang, Guo Wang
1College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Two groups of isoelectronic molecules with different SiXN (X=C, N, O ) units are analyzed by a combined DFT and NBO study to investigate the electronic basis of Si...N-beta-donor bond. The influence of various energy components on the formation of Si...N-beta-donor bond is explored. The importance of the electron delocalization from the lone pair of nitrogen atom into the acceptor-orbitals connected with Si atom is elicited by our calculations. The electron delocalization from the lone pair of nitrogen atom into the antibonding orbital of Si-X bond is quite different among the isoelectronic molecules with various types of SiXN units.
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