Toward an Understanding of Diamond sp2-Defects with Unsaturated Diamondoid Oligomer Models
2015
Zhuk, Tatyana S. | Koso, Tatyana | Pashenko, Alexander E. | Hoc, Ngo Trung | Rodionov, Vladimir N. | Serafin, Michael | Schreiner, Peter R. | Fokin, Andrey A.
Nanometer-sized doubly bonded diamondoid dimers and trimers, which may be viewed as models of diamond with surface sp²-defects, were prepared from corresponding ketones via a McMurry coupling and were characterized by spectroscopic and crystallographic methods. The neutral hydrocarbons and their radical cations were studied utilizing density functional theory (DFT) and ab initio (MP2) methods, which reproduce the experimental geometries and ionization potentials well. The van der Waals complexes of the oligomers with their radical cations that are models for the self-assembly of diamondoids, form highly delocalized and symmetric electron-deficient structures. This implies a rather high degree of σ-delocalization within the hydrocarbons, not too dissimilar to delocalized π-systems. As a consequence, sp²-defects are thus also expected to be nonlocal, thereby leading to the observed high surface charge mobilities of diamond-like materials. In order to be able to use the diamondoid oligomers for subsequent surface attachment and modification, their C—H-bond functionalizations were studied, and these provided halogen and hydroxy derivatives with conservation of unsaturation.
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