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Infrared Spectra and Quantum Chemical Calculations of the Uranium Carbide Molecules UC and CUC with Triple Bonds.

Wang, Xuefeng ; Andrews, Lester ; Malmqvist, Per-Åke LU ; Roos, Björn LU ; Gonçalves, António P ; Pereira, Cláudia C L ; Marçalo, Joaquim ; Godart, Claude and Villeroy, Benjamin (2010) In Journal of the American Chemical Society 132. p.8484-8488
Abstract
Laser evaporation of carbon-rich uranium/carbon alloys followed by atom reactions in a solid argon matrix and trapping at 8 K gives weak infrared absorptions for CUO at 852 and 804 cm−1. A new band at 827 cm−1 becomes a doublet with mixed carbon 12 and 13 isotopes and exhibits the 1.0381 isotopic frequency ratio, which is appropriate for the UC diatomic molecule, and another new band at 891 cm−1 gives a three-band mixed isotopic spectrum with the 1.0366 isotopic frequency ratio, which is characteristic of the linear CUC molecule. CASPT2 calculations with dynamical correlation find the C≡U≡C ground state as linear 3Σu+ with 1.840 Å bond length and molecular orbital occupancies for an effective bond order of 2.83. Similar calculations with... (More)
Laser evaporation of carbon-rich uranium/carbon alloys followed by atom reactions in a solid argon matrix and trapping at 8 K gives weak infrared absorptions for CUO at 852 and 804 cm−1. A new band at 827 cm−1 becomes a doublet with mixed carbon 12 and 13 isotopes and exhibits the 1.0381 isotopic frequency ratio, which is appropriate for the UC diatomic molecule, and another new band at 891 cm−1 gives a three-band mixed isotopic spectrum with the 1.0366 isotopic frequency ratio, which is characteristic of the linear CUC molecule. CASPT2 calculations with dynamical correlation find the C≡U≡C ground state as linear 3Σu+ with 1.840 Å bond length and molecular orbital occupancies for an effective bond order of 2.83. Similar calculations with spin-orbit coupling show that the U≡C diatomic molecule has a quintet (Λ = 5, Ω = 3) ground state, a similar 1.855 Å bond length, and a fully developed triple bond of 2.82 effective bond order. (Less)
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  abstract     = {{Laser evaporation of carbon-rich uranium/carbon alloys followed by atom reactions in a solid argon matrix and trapping at 8 K gives weak infrared absorptions for CUO at 852 and 804 cm−1. A new band at 827 cm−1 becomes a doublet with mixed carbon 12 and 13 isotopes and exhibits the 1.0381 isotopic frequency ratio, which is appropriate for the UC diatomic molecule, and another new band at 891 cm−1 gives a three-band mixed isotopic spectrum with the 1.0366 isotopic frequency ratio, which is characteristic of the linear CUC molecule. CASPT2 calculations with dynamical correlation find the C≡U≡C ground state as linear 3Σu+ with 1.840 Å bond length and molecular orbital occupancies for an effective bond order of 2.83. Similar calculations with spin-orbit coupling show that the U≡C diatomic molecule has a quintet (Λ = 5, Ω = 3) ground state, a similar 1.855 Å bond length, and a fully developed triple bond of 2.82 effective bond order.}},
  author       = {{Wang, Xuefeng and Andrews, Lester and Malmqvist, Per-Åke and Roos, Björn and Gonçalves, António P and Pereira, Cláudia C L and Marçalo, Joaquim and Godart, Claude and Villeroy, Benjamin}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{8484--8488}},
  publisher    = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
  series       = {{Journal of the American Chemical Society}},
  title        = {{Infrared Spectra and Quantum Chemical Calculations of the Uranium Carbide Molecules UC and CUC with Triple Bonds.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja102475t}},
  doi          = {{10.1021/ja102475t}},
  volume       = {{132}},
  year         = {{2010}},
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