A PPP-investigation of Structural Isomerism in Infinite Polyenes
Abstract It is shown on the grounds of a semiempirical PPP-treatment that for the equidistant eistrans infinite polyene two types of Hartree-Fock solutions are possible-one yielding a cis-transoid and the other a trans-cisoid distribution of nearest-neighbour bond-orders. Relaxing the nuclear framework according to bond-order magnitudes for the bond-alternation wave (BAW) in the equidistant all-trans polyene, resp. for the two solutions for the equidistant cis-trans polyene mentioned above and using repeatedly the Coulson-Golebiewski formula, realistic self-consistent values of bond lengths have been obtained. The calculated energy differences between the investigated isomers are small, predicting almost equal probabilities. The expressions for the PPPwavefunctions are presented in analytical form suitable for further applications. Long-range Coulomb interactions have been accounted for up to convergence of the groundstate energies.