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On local aromaticity of selected model aza-[n]circulenes (n = 6, 7, 8 and 9): Density functional theoretical study

Denisa Cagardová *, Vladimír Lukeš, Ján Matúška, Peter Poliak

Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského 9, SK-812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia

E-mail: * denisa.cagardova@stuba.sk

Abstract: A computational study using density functional theory is reported for selected model aza[n]circulenes (n = 6, 7, 8 and 9) and their derivatives consisting of pyrrole and benzene units. Local aromaticity of central rings was discussed and analyzed using theoretical structural indices. Depending on their molecular structures, energies of the highest occupied and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals changes from –5.23 eV to –4.08 eV and from –1.97 eV to –0.41 eV, respectively. Based on B3LYP calculated optimal geometries, electronic structure of molecules and their charge transport properties resulted in the suggestion of three planar molecules containing three or four pyrrole units as potential candidates for p-type semiconductors. Hole drift mobilities for ideal stacked dimers of these potential semiconductors were calculated and they range from 0.94 cm2·V–1·s–1 to 7.33 cm2×V–1·s–1.

Keywords: aromaticity index, HOMED, hole mobility, molecular orbitals, reorganization energy

Full paper in Portable Document Format: acs_0328.pdf

Acta Chimica Slovaca, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2019, pp. 70—81, DOI: 10.2478/acs-2019-0011