Electron, affinity repulsion

The ground-state electronic structure of As, as with all Group 15 elements features 3 unpaired electrons ns np there is a substantial electron affinity for the acquisition of 1 electron but further additions must be effected against considerable coulombic repulsion, and the formation of As is highly endothermic. Consistent with this there are no ionic compounds containing the arsenide ion and... 

Figure 9. Determination of the first electron affinity, and the first and higher ionization potentials of formyl radical from the SCF orbital energies and electronic repulsion integrals, and K,j (cf. eqs. (90), (92), and (93)). The experimental value (112), 9.88 eV, for the first ionization potential corresponds to the theoretical value I . All entries are given in eV. With A and I a lower index stands for MO the upper one indicates the state multiplicity after ionization.

The aufbau principle must be obeyed when an electron is added to a neutral atom, so the electron goes into the most stable orbital available. Hence, we expect trends in electron affinity to parallel trends in orbital stability. However, electron-electron repulsion and screening are more important for negative ions than for neutral atoms, so there is no clear trend in electron affinities as ft increases. Thus, there is only one general pattern ... 

Return to the case of LiF. Lithium ionizes readily, but has little affinity for electrons (I = ionization energy = 5.4 eV and A = electron affinity = 0eV.). On the other hand, fluorine is difficult to ionize, but has considerable electron affinity (I = 17.4eV. and A = -3.6eV.). Thus, when Li and F atoms are close neighbors, electrons can transfer to make Li+ and I. These then attract electrostatically until compression of their ion-cores prevent them from contracting further. In a solid crystal, there are both attractive +/- pairs, and repulsive (+/+ as well as -/-) pairs. However, for large arrays, there is a net attraction. This can be shown most simply by examining a linear chain of +q, and -q charges (Kittel, 1966). 

It is seen from the data presented in Table 6.8 that the triplet repulsion AET makes an important contribution to the activation energy Ee0. The difference between the electronegativities of the fragments X and Y lowers the activation energy. When the discrepancy between the electron affinities is large, this decrease may be very considerable. For example,... 

In addition to the enthalpy and polar interaction, the following factors influence the activation energy of these reactions triplet repulsion, electron affinity of atoms C and O in the TS, radii of C and O atoms, and n-bonds in the vicinity of the reaction center. These factors were discussed in Chapter 6 in application to the reaction of peroxyl radicals with hydrocarbons. 

Similar to phenoxyl radical, the nitroxyl radical reacts rapidly with phenol Ar OH due to the low triplet repulsion in the TS of the structure >NO - - - H - - - OAr and very rapidly with amine due to a high difference in electron affinity in the TS of the structure >NO H Am. The IPM parameters for the nitroxyl radical reactions are presented in Table 18.5. 

At this point, we have reached the stage where we can describe the adatom-substrate system in terms of the ANG Hamiltonian (Muscat and Newns 1978, Grimley 1983). We consider the case of anionic chemisorption ( 1.2.2), where a j-spin electron in the substrate level e, below the Fermi level (FL) eF, hops over into the affinity level (A) of the adatom, whose j-spin electron resides in the lower ionization level (I), as in Fig. 4.1. Thus, the intra-atomic electron Coulomb repulsion energy on the adatom (a) is... 

Desorption can proceed via several mechanisms. For solids with a negative electron alSnity such as Ar [49,149-151] and N2 [153], the extended electron cloud around a metastable center will interact repulsively with the surrounding medium and metastables formed at the film-vacuum interface will be expelled into vacuum (the so-called cavity expulsion mechanism [161]). Also permitted in solids with positive electron affinities (e.g., CO) is the transfer of energy intramolecular vibration to the molecule-surface bond with the resulting desorption of a molecule in lower vibrational level [153,155,158-160]. Desorption of metastables via the excitation of dissociative molecular (or excimer) electronic states is also possible [49,149-151,154,156,157]. A concise review of the topic can be found in Ref. 162. 

The bonding of ions to metals is dominated by Coulomb attraction since there is a significant difference in electron affinity between the metals and ions. The bonding also involves a redistribution of charge through intermolecular charge transfer (between adsorbed ions and the surface) and intramolecular polarization (in ions and on the surface), which reduces the Pauli repulsion. 

As in the case of phenoxyl and nitroxyl radical reactions, the value of Ee0 for the quinone reaction with phenol (AriOH) is much lower than that for the reaction of Q with R1 H (AEdJ 23 kj mol ). Such a difference is the result of the high triplet repulsion in TS of the type C H and low in the TS of the type H O, as in the reactions of the nitroxyl radical. The very low value of Ee0 for the reaction Q with aromatic amine is due to a high difference in electron affinity of N and atoms in TS of the type H N. The values of rate constants of p-benzoquinone with several inhibitors were calculated by the IPM method. The parameters of the IPM model are collected in Table 18.9. 

Dewar and Maitlis143 discussed quite successfully the course of nitration in series of pyridine-like heterocycles in terms of the Dewar reactivity numbers. There is a continuing interest in the electronic structure of pyridine65, 144-140 a model of this compound has been studied by the ASP MO LCAO SCF (antisymmetrized products) method in the 77-electron approxition.146 The semi-empirical parameters146 were obtained from the most recent values of ionization potentials and electron affinities, and bicentric repulsion integrals were computed theoretically. 

Br- (g). The electron affinity of Br (g) is calculable by the method of lattice energies. Selecting the crystal RbBr, because Rb+ and Br have exactly the same nuclear structure, and taking the exponent of the repulsive term to be 10, we have computed, for the reaction, RbBr (c) = Rb+ (g)+Br g), Dz= —151.2 whence the electron affinity of Br (g) becomes 87.9. Using the lattice energies of the alkali bromides as calculated by Sherman,1 we have computed the values 89.6, 85.6, 84.6, 83.6, and 89.6, respectively. Butkow,1 from the spectra of gaseous TIBr, deduced the value 86.5. From data on the absorption spectra of the alkali halides, Lederle1 obtained the value 82. See also Lennard-Jones.2... 

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