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P Pyykkö

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PubMed2001

Nuclear quadrupole moments of bismuth.

Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock models have been employed to compute the electric field gradient in the ground state of the neutral bismuth atom. Combined with the experimental electric quadrupole hyperfine interaction constant, one obtains for (209)Bi the nuclear quadrupole moment Q = -516 (15) mb, which is almost 40% away from the previously accepted standard value [ -370 (26) mb], and narrows by over an order of magnitude the long-standing, extremely broad array of various results ranging from -370 to -710 mb. The recent Q values of (202-208,210(m)-213)Bi by Pearson et al. suffer a consequent change.

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PubMed2001

The quest for beryllium peroxides.

There is no experimental proof documented in the literature for the existence of any beryllium peroxide compound. All recent pertinent preparative attempts described in this work, using a range of beryllium salts with various peroxides as reagents under mild conditions, were equally unsuccessful. (1)H and (9)Be NMR investigations of aqueous solutions containing beryllium salts and hydrogen peroxide in a broad pH range also gave no definite evidence for the presence of peroxoberyllates as components of the manifold equilibria in such solutions. Quantum chemical calculations have therefore been carried out to delineate the energetics and structures of various beryllium peroxide model compounds. Standard Hartree-Fock and density functional methods were employed at various levels of sophistication. The series of prototypes considered consists of [BeOH](+), Be(OH)(2), Be(OH)(OOH), Be(OOH)(2), [Be(O(2))(2)](2-), [BeO(2)(OH(2))(2)], and [Be(2)(O(2))(2)(OH(2))(4)] (all in the gas phase). Surprisingly, the triatomic cation [BeOH](+) has been found to have a linear structure. All the Be-O(peroxide) bonds are found to be rather long, suggesting weaker bonding compared to the Be-O bonds in aquo, hydroxo, or oxo complexes. Hydrogen peroxide or anions derived therefrom are therefore not able to compete successfully with water (hydroxide anions) in aqueous solution. In the mononuclear beryllium peroxide molecules, the peroxide groups form chelating units at tetrahedrally 4-coordinate metal atoms. The binuclear compound [Be(2)(O(2))(2)(OH(2))(4)] has a puckered six-membered-ring structure, close to the standard chair conformation. A significant lengthening of the O-O bonds upon coordination to the Be(2+) centers has been calculated, but it is unlikely that the polarization of the peroxide group by the high positive charge density at Be(2+) is significant to cause an intrinsic instability of beryllium peroxides. All structures represent distinct local minima on the potential energy surface and are predicted to be (meta)stable species in nonaqueous media. The field of aluminum peroxides is a similar gray area on the map of metal and metalloid peroxides and is reminiscent of the well-established "diagonal-relation" of Be and Al in the periodic table of the elements.

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PubMed2001

Magnetic-field-induced quadrupole splitting in gaseous and liquid 131Xe NMR: quadratic and quartic field dependence.

A theory for the magnetic-field-dependent quadrupole splitting in the 131Xe NMR spectra in isotropic media is presented and tested by ab initio electronic structure calculations. Evidence exists only for even-power magnetic field dependence. The dominant mechanism is verified to be the electric field gradient caused by the diamagnetic distortion of the atomic electron cloud, quadratic in the magnetic field. The computed results are in excellent agreement with the recent experiment by Meersmann and Haake.

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PubMed2000

Experimental and theoretical studies of the d8-d10 interaction between Pd(II) and Au(I): bis(chloro[(phenylthiomethyl)diphenylphosphine]gold(I))- dichloropalladium(II) and related systems.

The reaction between thioether phosphine gold(I) precursors such as [AuCl(Ph2PCH2SPh)], 1, or [Au(Ph2PCH2SPh)2]CF3SO3 and PdCl2(NCPh)2 affords the new compounds [(AuCl(Ph2PCH2SPh)2PdCl2], 2, and [AuPdCl2(Ph2PCH2SPh)2]CF3SO3, 3. The crystal structure of complex 2 has the sterically unhindered Pd(II) and Au(I) at a distance of 314 pm. Quasirelativistic pseudopotential calculations on [AuPdCl3(PH2CH2SH)(SH2)] models give short Au-Pd distances at the second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) level and long Au-Pd distances at Hartree-Fock (HF) level. A detailed analysis of the Au-Pd interaction shows dominant dispersion, some ionic contributions, and no net charge transfer between the metals.

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