Quantum mechanical investigations of fullerene, photoactive and organometallic molecules, complexes, supramolecules, supermolecules and design of molecular logical devices

Arvydas Tamulis1, V. Tamulis2, J. Tamuliene1, N. A. Kotov3
 
1 Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, A. Gostauto 12, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania, Fax: +(370-2)-225361, Phone: +(370-2)-620861
2Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius Universty, M.K. Ciurlionio 21/27, Vilnius, Lithuania
 3Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
 

The quantum chemical calculations and investigations of three photo electron donor molecules: carbazole (abbreviation of this compound will be Cz and formula is C12H9N), N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-1,4-phenylene-diamine (abbreviation: TeMePhDA, formula: C6H4(N(CH3)2)2), 1,4-phenylenediamine (PhDA, C6H4(NH2)2); several organic electron acceptor molecules: 2,4,7-trinitro-9-fluorenone (TNF, C12H5O(NO2)3), 2,4,5,7-tetranitro-9-fluorenone (TeNF, C12H4O(NO2)4), 7,7,8,8- tetra-cyano-quino-dimethane (TCNQ, C8H4(CN)4), 2,4,7-trinitro-9-dicyano-fluorene (TN9(CN)2F, C12H5C(CN)2(NO2)3), 2,4,5,7-tetranitro-9-dicyano-fluorene (TeN9(CN)2F, C12H4C(CN)2(NO2)4), 1,2,4,5-tetra-cyano-benzene (TCNB, C6H2(CN)4), 2,3,5,6-tetrachlor-1,4-benzoquinone (TeClBQ, C6Cl4O2), 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetra-cyano-quino-dimethane (TeFTCNQ, C8F4(CN)4); empty and endohedral fullerene C20+2n (n= 0, 2, 3, ..., 16) molecules; electron donor - containing supermolecules (electron donors are connected via the alkane or alkene electron insulator bridges with electron acceptor molecules) and electron donor - containing supramolecules (electron door and electron acceptor molecules are stabilised by the van der Waals forces) were performed using semiempirical MNDO, AM1, PM3, and CNDO/S-Configuration Interaction methods. The results of our investigations show that photoactive charge transfer electron donor-containing supermolecules and supramolecules should be molecular implementation of photodiodes. The quantum mechanical investigations of fullerene C24, C26, C28 molecule conformers are performed in the framework of point set group theory and semiempirical PM3 configuration interaction, MNDO, AM1. The main criterion of stability of calculated fullerene molecules we stated the lowest total energy of various isomers and conformers that appears due to the Jahn-Teller distortion. The most stable occurs C24 D6 symmetry conformation with term  and open shell C26 D3h symmetry conformation with term
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Molecular Implementation (MI) of two, three, four variable logic functions, summators of neuromolecular networks, cells of molecular cellular automata, molecular trigger - molecular logic devices were designed based on results of semiempirical quantum chemical calculations of above mentioned electron donor, electron insulator, electron acceptor and fullerene molecules. Complete set of sixteen MIs of two variable logic functions (for example: OR, AND, Implication, Equivalence, Difference, etc.) was designed and also proposed using MIs of two variable molecular logic function initial basic sets: {OR, AND, Negation} or {NOR} and, or {NAND}. We have described in more detail the designed MIs of: a) two variable logic functions OR, NOR, AND, NAND (from fullerene molecules) , Converse Unitary Negation-1, Converse Unitary Negation-0, Unitary Negation-1, Unitary Negation-0, "0" and "1" Matrix Constants; b) three variable logic functions AND, NAND, OR, NOR analogs; c) four variable logic functions OR, NOR, AND, NAND analogs. The electron hoping via the insulator bridges in the supermolecules: electron donor-bridge-electron acceptor phenomenon was investigated by using CNDO/S-Configuration Interaction method.

 We are investigating in more detail the electronic structure of above mentioned planar electron donor and electron acceptor molecules, series of fullerene C60 substituted derivatives: C60CH2, C60C2H4, C60C3H6, C60C4H8 , electron donor-bridge-electron acceptor diodes, and triodes using ab initio Hartree-Fock and Density Functional Theory methods and designing new series of more correctly MIs of two variable logic functions OR, NOR, AND, NAND (two sets: one designed from planar molecules and another - from fullerene molecules) , Converse Unitary Negation-1, Converse Unitary Negation-0, Unitary Negation-1, Unitary Negation-0, "0" and "1" Matrix Constants based on geometry optimization procedure of above mentioned molecular devices.

A. Tamulis thanks CEA Saclay, France for the financial support.