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ground-state, ferromagnetic coupler, localization function, topological analysis, s-triazine, 1,3,5-tridehydrobenzene, aromaticity, reactivity, unit, ion, Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Chemistry, Physical, Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical, Chemistry, Physics, GROUND-STATE, FERROMAGNETIC COUPLER, LOCALIZATION FUNCTION, TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, S-TRIAZINE, 1,3,5-TRIDEHYDROBENZENE, AROMATICITY, REACTIVITY, UNIT, ION, 02 Physical Sciences, 03 Chemical Sciences, 10 Technology, Chemical Physics, 34 Chemical sciences, 51 Physical sciences

Abstract:

Substitution of C-H groups in 1,3,5-trimethylenebenzene (1,3,5-TMB) triradical by one, two or three N, P and As atoms is studied using CASSCF/CASPT2 computations with a ANO-RCC triple-zeta basis set. The computations showed that consistently with the previous results, the unpaired electrons in 1,3,5-TMB are highly delocalized, but our computations show that they become localized on the P and As atoms, with a more pronounced localization effect of As. All studied compounds have a quartet ground state, but the results showed in this Letter indicate that the quartet-doublet energy gap is reduced upon substitution. Localization of the unpaired electrons on the ring reduces the average distances between them, which induces a destabilization of the quartet states compared to the doublet. Therefore the position of the unpaired electrons and the doublet-quartet gap can be tuned by chemical methods, which opens the way to fine-tune the properties of the building blocks of organic magnets. (c) 2010 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.