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    Phenylium and naphtylium cations in the interstellar medium: a density functional study on their reactivity towards D2 molecules

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    The reactions of the phenylium, C6H5+, and the naphtylium, C10H7+, cations with D-2 molecules are investigated at B3LYP/6-31G* level of theory. Our calculations indicate that the reactivity of C6H5+ and C10H7+ is dominated by the substitution of one or two hydrogen atoms with deuterium leading to isotope-exchange processes

    A Density Functional Study on the Interaction of a Polycyclic Aromatic Molecule and the Silicon (001) Surface

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    Static and dynamical density functional theory calculations have been carried out to investigate the coordination and haptotropic rearrangement of the Cr(CO)(3) fragment on the (6,0) carbon nanotube sidewalls. Geometry optimizations have been performed on the Cr(CO)(3)-(C72H12) complex, pointing out the preferred coordination sites of the metal fragment on the nanotube sidewalls. We find a hole site configuration of the Cr(CO)(3) to be the global energy minimum of the Cr(CO)(3)-(C72H12) system, with a binding energy of 143 kJ mol(-1). The shifting of the Cr(CO)(3) complex between two coordination sites on adjacent hexagonal rings of (6,0) carbon nanotubes has been investigated by means of Car-Parrinello simulations, from which the transition state structure for the haptrotropic rearrangement has been localized and found to be 68 kJ mol(-1) above the global minimum structure
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