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Theoretical Investigations of the Crystal Structures and Molecular Energetics of High Quality Silicon Carbide (β-SiC) Precursor Compound 1,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)benzene

Anant Babu Marahatta

Asian Journal of Applied Chemistry Research · pp. 16–35 · Published 28 Aug 2023

10.9734/ajacr/2023/v14i2260

Abstract

Over the last decades, the rapidly growing theoretical methods have revolutionized whole scientific paradigm, developed state-of-art analyses, and created substantial computational platforms through the huge support of outstanding mathematical algorithms. The self-consistent-charge density-functional based tight-binding (SCC-DFTB) scheme is one of them that offers versatile and efficient quantum mechanical calculations with some unique features compatible especially to the crystalline solid even at low computational resources. Its effective parametrizations and computational implementations under the Gaussian standardized interface as an "External program" via the users' script (Gaussian- External methodology; GEM) has added an additional value because of which various in-built high-level Gaussian computations are directly accessible. Herewith, the Gaussian offered geometry optimization algorithms and convergence criteria plus the ModRedundant type relaxed potential energy surface (PES) scanning techniques are assessed through the GEM, and characterized the crystal structures with concerned molecular energetics and PES of the experimentally synthesized 1,4-bis (trimethylsilyl) benzene (1,4-BTMSB) compound; a potential precursor for the high quality Silicon Carbide (β-SiC) coating particles, and an ideal "Internal Standard" for the quantitative spectroscopic analyses. The general results reveal that the 1,4- BTMSB molecules in its unit-cell and crystal lattice experience significant non-bonding interactions that induces them to attain the definite molecular geometry with recognizable ring, angle, torsional, and steric strains. The quantitative analyses of its PES depict that the phenylene ring has to overcome multiple yet unidentical energy barriers with the tallest Ea1= 5.3 kcal/mol in order to undergo internal 2π angular rotation around the 1,4-(C-Si) axes. And, exhibiting such type internal rotation of its phenylene ring is energetically highly probable as this compound is widely employed in coating high temperature reactors, and in quantizing analyte in high energy run spectroscopic facilities. The same quantification is referred here in order to underscore the significance of adopting perfectly closed topological molecular architectures while designing/synthesizing amphidynamic type crystalline free molecular gyrotops and their prototypes.

SCC-DFTB gaussian-external β-SiC coating particle spectroscopic internal standard and monoclinic crystalline geometry

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