1. © Theoretical Study Of Bipolaron Dynamics In Polyparaphenylene: II. Density Functional Theory (DFT) Calculations On Neutral Dimers And Semiempirical Huckel-Type Calculations On Neutral And Charged Model Chains Forner, W INST ORGANIC CHEM AND BIOCHEM, COLLECTION OF CZECHOSLOVAK CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS; pp: 689-730; Vol: 70 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals http://www.kfupm.edu.sa Summary We have derived earlier the rather lengthy formalism for time simulations in poly(p- phenylene), treating the rings as semirigid rotors. To this end the Euler - Lagrange formalism had to be used. As a first step we intended to parametrize the simplified Huckel-type hamiltonian on the basis of density functional theory (DFT) calculations on some dimeric model systems. The results of this attempt are reported here. However, calculations on much longer chains, containing up to 200 rings, show a clear tendency of our model to favor the quinoid B-phase structure over the aromatic one. Further, in doubly charged chains, the charge tends to remain unseparated and to be completely delocalized over virtually the complete part of the chain, that is in B- phase conformation. The bipolaron width turns out to be extremely small, of about 10 rings in a chain having 200 rings. This is rather unexpected and interpreted as a shortcoming of the Huckel-type nature of the hamiltonian. The reason is that in the Huckel-type model the two electrons, taken away to charge the chain, are from the same orbital, and thus charge separation is more difficult, leading, in this case, only to a delocalization, keeping the bipolaron small. We assume, that in line with Prof. Copyright: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; http://www.kfupm.edu.sa

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