Title of article :
Linking the atomistic scale and the mesoscale: molecular orbital and solid state packing calculations on poly(p-phenylene)
Author/Authors :
Rabias، نويسنده , , Ioannis and Langlois، نويسنده , , Cyril and Provata، نويسنده , , Astero and Howlin، نويسنده , , Brendan J. and Theodorou، نويسنده , , Doros N. Theodorou، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
دوهفته نامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
Pages :
9
From page :
185
To page :
193
Abstract :
The energies and structures of neutral benzenoid and neutral quinonoid polyphenylenes in the gas phase were calculated at the ab initio and semi-empirical levels for oligomers containing up to 11 rings as a function of the torsion angles between consecutive aromatic rings. In the gas-phase poly(p-phenylene) (PPP) simulations, a transition to the aromatic benzenoid structure occurs in the centre of chains as short as about six to seven rings. The development of electronic properties such as ionisation potential, the carbon–carbon bond length between rings, the band gap and width of the highest occupied bands were studied. On going from a coplanar to a perpendicular conformation, qualitatively, the ionisation potential and band gap values increase and the band widths of the highest occupied bands decrease. Molecular mechanics simulations were used to model the crystal structures of PPP oligomers using Lennard–Jones and sinusoidal torsion potentials, with parameters derived initially from the gas-phase calculations. These solid state simulations reproduced known crystal structures and predictions are made for the crystal structures of PPP oligomers up to a degree of polymerisation of 11. The crystal packing forces the PPP molecules to be planar, hence increasing conductivity in the solid state. Interestingly, there is an anomaly in the packing energy results for the sexiphenylene case which is in accord with the gas phase calculations.
Keywords :
molecular orbital , Ab initio , Molecular mechanics
Journal title :
Polymer
Serial Year :
2002
Journal title :
Polymer
Record number :
1716251
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