Small Amount Makes a Big Difference: Critical (n - 1)d Valence Orbitals of Heavy Alkaline Earth Metals inside Cage Clusters.

Inorganic Chemistry
Le YangPeng Jin

Abstract

Heavy alkaline earth metals (Aes) are usually considered to engage in chemical bonding by donating the two electrons on ns atomic orbitals (AOs). In this work, a series of typical endohedrally doped cage clusters Ae@cage (Ae = Ca, Sr, Ba; cage = C32, C74, C94, B40, Si20, Sn12, Au16) were thoroughly investigated by means of density functional theory calculations. We found that their occupied molecular orbitals have ∼1 to 14% contributions from Ae-(n - 1)d AOs due to electron back-donation from the cage. Though the amount is small, it is hard to ignore: with the d orbitals, all these endohedral clusters exhibit obviously shortened Ae-cage distances, greatly enhanced encapsulation stabilities, changed highest occupied molecular orbital-lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (HOMO-LUMO) gaps, and much lowered Ae valences far from ideal +2. Evidently, the valence orbitals of Ca/Sr/Ba in these systems should include both ns and (n - 1)d. By disclosing the critical role of unnoticed metal orbitals, our work provides completely new insights into the cluster field.

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