Estudo teórico de Buckyballs Cn@H2

Abstract

Currently the study of fullerene or buckyballs C60, C70, C82, etc. has generated great interest for theoretical research and experimental in discover its chemical and physical properties, including the ability of encapsulation of different chemicals species. These searches resulted in the development and possible production by synthesis of new buckyballs, but also with homologous series of C70 molecules with encapsulated metal ions that can be used as superconducting, photoluminescent materials, ferromagnetic materials and also in developing new systems of accumulation and storage of hydrogen gas. This study aims to examine the relative stability of C60 and its derivatives, through a theoretical and computational approach in DFT level with B3LYP hybrid functional using bases 3-21G and 6-31 G++. The results showed that buckyballs and their derivatives are stable against the fragmentation structural, changes were observed only from the C20, C18 and C16, and the latter buckyball does not support encapsulated hydrogen. The characterization of systems C60@(2, 5, 8, 11 and 15)H2 shows a large transfer of charge between hydrogens and carbons in all systems studied which suggests a high probability of acceptance of electrons and limited capacity of the containment least 15 molecules of H2 of encapsulated C60, at the same time demonstrates the great capacity of encapsulation of H2. Other relevant results showed high reactivity to only two molecular systems C60@11H2 and C60@15H2, demonstrating that the C60 is more reactive with high index of H2 encapsulated.