Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.108, No.12, 2290-2304, 2004
Theoretical possibility of the variety of ground-state spin arrangements created by the spin hole and spin cap in a pi-conjugated system
We have theoretically studied the stable spin state of selected heteroatom-substituted pi-conjugated systems. We employed several treatments of Huckel approaches, ab initio calculations, and a Neel state (Heisenberg-Ising) model consideration. All of them elucidate the fact that the different heteroatom arrangements in the pi system cause the different spin-stable states of the singlet and the triplet. The possibility of the singlet-triplet instable state is further predicted. These treatments also reveal that the pi-electron deficiency due to the replaced group III atom functions as a spin hole and that the excess pi electron due to the replaced group V atom functions as a spin cap. We theoretically demonstrate these features via quinodimethane isomers in which two carbon atoms are replaced by heteroatoms, boron and nitrogen.