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Theoretical Insights into Monometallofullerene Th@C76: Strong Covalent Interaction between Thorium and the Carbon Cage Pei Zhao,† Xiang Zhao,*,† and Masahiro Ehara‡ †

Institute for Chemical Physics & Department of Chemistry, School of Science, State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China ‡ Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan S Supporting Information *

that Th@C76 is the third most abundant species according to the mass spectrum. There are a total of 19151 classical fullerene isomers of C76, and only two of them (labeled as 19151 and 19150) satisfy the isolated pentagon rule (IPR).34 For M@C76 (M = Yb, Ca, Sr, and Ba), computational results revealed that two non-IPR structures, C1(17459) and C2v(19138), are the best candidates because the metal atom donates two electrons.28,29 Later, Sm@C2v(19138)-C76,35 TbNC@C2v(19138)-C76, and YNC@C2v(19138)-C7636 were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, indicating a preference for C2v(19138)-C76 when two or three electrons transfer to C cages. When the transfer of four electrons from the inner cluster to the cage occurs, Td(19151)-C76, C2v(19138)-C76, and C1(17459)-C76 have been viewed as possible isomers to encapsulate the Sc2S cluster by theoretical calculations.37 Later, Sc2O@Td(19151)C76 was characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, in which the C cage obtains four valence electrons from the metallic cluster.38 For such a special mono-EMF, Th@C76, which cage will be the best candidate? Consequently, a systematic investigation on Th@C76 has been performed by density functional theory (DFT) combined with statistical thermodynamic studies. Optimizations on the tetraanions of C76 including two IPR isomers, 12 isomers with one pentagon adjacency (PA) fragment, and the five most stable isomers with a triple sequentially fused pentagon (according to the results at the AM1 method from ref 37) were carried out at hybrid DFT B3LYP39−41 with a splitvalence d-polarized 6-31G* basis set (the results are shown in Table S1). All of the corresponding Th@C76 species were optimized at B3LYP with the basis sets of 3-21G (for C) and SDD (for Th)42−44 (the results are shown in Table S2). The SDD basis set was chosen because it has been demonstrated to provide an accurate estimation on the geometrical and electronic features of EMFs involving lanthanide and actinide.45,46 Reoptimizations on 14 isomers with relative energies of less than 30 kcal·mol−1 were carried out at the B3LYP/631G*∼SDD level, and stationary points were verified as minima by vibrational frequency analyses at the B3LYP/6-31G*∼SDD level. All quantum-chemical calculations were carried out using the Gaussian 09 program.47 As listed in Table S3, the IPR structure, Th@Td(19151)-C76, was determined to possess the lowest energy, followed by a nonIPR isomer, [Th@C1(17418)-C76], with a relative energy of 8.3

ABSTRACT: Th@C76 has been studied by density functional theory combined with statistical mechanics calculations. The results reveal that Th@Td(19151)-C76 satisfying the isolated pentagon rule possesses the lowest energy. Nevertheless, considering the enthalpy−entropy interplay, Th@C1(17418)-C76 with one pair of adjacent pentagons is thermodynamically favorable at elevated temperatures, which is reported for the first time. The bonding critical points in both isomers were analyzed to disclose covalent interactions between the inner Th and cages. In addition, the Wiberg bond orders of M−C bonding in different endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) were investigated to prove stronger covalent interactions of Th−C in Th-based EMFs.

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ntrapping metal atoms or metal-containing clusters in fullerene cages results in the formation of endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs).1,2 The encapsulated species significantly influence the electronic and magnetic properties of these hybrid molecules.3,4 Recently, maximum pentagon separation and aromaticity rules were proposed to interpret the preferred encapsulation cage for EMF formation.5−9 The former pointed out that the negative charge in the EMFs mainly accumulated in the pentagons and preferred the cages with the largest separation among the 12 pentagons. The latter indicates that maximizing the total aromaticity is the main stabilizing force for highly charged fullerenes or EMFs. Monometallofullerenes (mono-EMFs) are the simplest prototypes of EMFs, in which only one single metal atom is incarcerated in the C cages.10,11 Generally, two or three valence electrons could be transferred from the metal to the cage, generating an ionic structure, Mx+@(C2n) x−. For those containing Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, and Lu, three electrons are transferred from the metal to the cage.12−25 In the case of mono-EMFs involving Sm, Eu, Tm, Yb, and alkalineearth atoms, two electrons are transferred to the cage.26−30 Nevertheless, recent studies reveal that actinide mono-EMFs exhibit special features of charge transfer. The transfer of three or four electrons can be found in uranium mono-EMFs,31 while four electrons can be transferred from the metal to the cage in Th@ C2n (n = 82, 84).32,33 It is reasonable to speculate that novel C cages can be discovered because of unique charge transfer from actinide to C cages. The family of Th@C2n (n = 37−48) has been synthesized by a modified arc-discharge method. It was found © XXXX American Chemical Society

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temperatures. The contributions of other isomers can be neglected. The geometry structures of Th@Td(19151)-C76 and Th@ C1(17418)-C76 are shown in Figure 2. The Th atom in Th@

Figure 2. Optimized molecular structures of Th@Td(19151)-C76 and Th@C1(17418)-C76 (left, side view; right, top view).

Td(19151)-C76 coordinates with a sumanene-type hexagon with Th−C distances of 2.488−2.489 Å (Table S6), indicating the location of the Th atom near the center of the hexagon. The same coordination between Th and a hexagon with similar Th−C separation (2.5 Å) was also identified in Th@C84-Cs(10).33 However, the major Th site in Th@C3v(8)-C82 situates at the intersection of three hexagons with a short Th−C distance of 2.340(14) Å. The Th atom in Th@C1(17418)-C76 resides under the adjacent pentagons, in which the two nearest Th−C separations are 2.497 and 2.508 Å for Th−C72 and Th−C70, respectively, indicating a slight elongation of the Th−C distances compared to that in Th@Td(19151)-C76. Natural electron configuration analyses on both isomers reveal that electron transfer from the inner metal to C76 cages are mainly from the 7s and 6d orbitals of the Th atoms by four electrons, which is consistent with the previous report (Table S5).32,33 In order to gain further insight into the interaction between the inner metal atom and C cages, the bonding critical point (BCP) indicators based on the quantum theory of atoms in molecules of Th−C in both isomers were obtained to investigate their bonding nature, which were examined with the MULTIWFN 3.3.7 program.54 In the case of Th@Td(19151)C76, each Th−C bond coordinating with the hexagon generates one BCP with almost the same parameters (Table S6), which further indicates the same Th−C bonding nature. The electron density (ρBCP) and density Laplacian (∇2ρBCP) at these BCPs are positive and small. Their total energy density (HBCP) are negative, and the ratios of the kinetic energy density GBCP to ρBCP are smaller than 1. These features of Th−C bonds are consistent with that of covalent interactions involving transition metals summarized by Macchi and Sironi.55 As for Th@C1(17418)-C76, except for Th−C75, other Th−C bonds coordinating with the

Figure 1. Relative concentrations of Th@C76 isomers at the B3LYP/631G*∼SDD level.

Td(19151)-C76 is overwhelming at low temperatures, the relative concentration of Th@C1(17418)-C76 increases rapidly as the temperature rises. Th@C 1 (17418)-C 76 surpasses Th@ Td(19151)-C76 with a relative concentration of 47.0% at 1200 K and reaches its maximum with 53.6% at 1600 K. Even when the temperature increases up to 4500 K, Th@C1(17418)-C76 still has the highest relative concentration, which should be the most favorable product in the experiments. Further analyses reveal that both the rotational and vibrational partition functions of Th@ C1(17418)-C76 are larger than those of Th@Td(19151)-C76 in the considered temperature range. Meanwhile, Th@C1(17750)C76, Th@C1(17894)-C76, and Th@C1(17459)-C76 exhibit quite similar trends at high temperatures, which keep rising from 1000 K and get to around 16% at 4500 K. Therefore, it is reasonable to predict that the three isomers may be obtained at high B

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Xiang Zhao: 0000-0003-3982-4763 Masahiro Ehara: 0000-0002-2185-0077 Notes

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work has been financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 21573172, 21773181, and 21503159) and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (SRFDP No. 20130201110033). The authors also acknowledge financial support from the Nanotechnology Platform Program (Molecule and Material Synthesis) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan.

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The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website at DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03114. Relative energies and HOMO−LUMO gaps of C764− and Th@C76 isomers, different positions of the Th atom in IPR isomers, HOMA-based aromaticity of Th@C76 isomers, relative concentrations of Th@C76 isomers at the M06-2X/6-31G*∼SDD level, natural electron configuration populations of Th atoms in Th@Td(19151)-C76 and Th@C1(17418)-C76, bond lengths, Wiberg bond orders, and BCP parameters of the Th−C bonds in both isomers, vertical/adiabatic electron affinity and vertical/ adiabatic ionization potential values, main molecular C

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