The Response of Electronic And Energetic Properties of Two Types of The Sp-hybridised Carbon-Carbon Bonds To An External Uniform Electric Field
Abstract The susceptibility of electronic and energetic properties of two sets of molecules to perturbation in a uniform electric field was investigated. The molecules of one set were (10)cumulenes terminated with two functional groups, R1 and R2; those of the second set were (10)polyyenes substituted with the same R1 and R2 groups. The cumulene and polyyne molecules had similar lengths of the system of conjugated bonds between the two most extreme carbon atoms. Dipole moments and polarizabilities of the molecules were used as determinants of the overall charge transfer between polar groups and their modifications due to the application of an external electric field. The field was directed along the main (longest) axis of the molecules from the negative to the positive pole. Comparison of the polarizability values revealed that they were higher in the (10)cumulenes than in the (10)polyynes. Parabolic dependence of the molecular energy as function of field strength can be interpreted in terms of the response of electron density to an electric field.