本文结合分子力学、半经验PM3和密度泛函(DFT)B3LYP方法对C80-C90的非分离五元环异构体和所有分离五元环异构体进行了理论研究。计算得到的B3LYP/6-31G’的最低能量结构与文献报道一致。而且,对于C80-C90,并不存在一个特别稳定的非分离五元环异构体,分离五元环规则仍适用于富勒烯C80-C90。
All the isomers of fullerenes C80-C90 were generated and minimized using the second-generation reactive empirical bond order (REBO) potential to select 1000 low-energy candidate isomers. Then, these selected candidates were optimized with the semi-empiri- cal PM3 method to find the top 20 low-energy non-IPR ( isolated pentagon rule) isomers. Furthermore, these low-energy non-IPR isomers and all the IPR isomers of C80-C90 were optimized by density functional theory (DFT) method B3LYP with basis set 3-21G, and calculated energy at the B3LYP/6-31G * level. It was found that the calculated lowest energy isomers of C80-C90 are in good agreement with the published results, and the IPR isomers are more stable than the non-IPR ones with large relative energies, which means that the IPR is still satisfied for C80-C90.