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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
The electronic and optical properties of extended functionalized carbyne chains, polyynes and cumulenes, are investigated with the localized Hartree–Fock method, with conventional Kohn–Sham methods, and with the Hartree–Fock method. It is found that even for very long polyynes the carbon–carbon bond lengths within a polyyne alternate while for long cumulenes no carbon–carbon bond length alternation occurs. Polyynes exhibit a finite HOMO–LUMO gap even if they become very long while cumulenes are found to become metallic in the limit of long chain lengths. The geometry and the electro-optical properties of polyynes cannot be influenced significantly by simple sp-σ-bonded end groups. The optically active 1Σu+←X1Σg+ electronic transition in polyynes is investigated by time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT). The known systematic underestimation of excitation energies in large chain-like …
Publisher: 
North-Holland
Publication date: 
21 Feb 2005
Authors: 

Martin Weimer, Wolfgang Hieringer, Fabio Della Sala, Andreas Görling

Biblio References: 
Volume: 309 Issue: 1 Pages: 77-87
Origin: 
Chemical physics