DFT study and vibrational spectra of the phoshorus-containing G0 generation dendrimer

The Raman (10-3500 cm(-1)) and infrared (150-3500 cm(-1)) spectra have been recorded for tris(4-oxibenzaldehyde)thiophosphate. This compound includes structural parts of elementoorganic dendrimers: a core and terminal aldehyde groups. The structural optimization and normal mode analysis are performed for elementoorganic dendrimer on the basis of the ab initio density functional theory. It is found that the dendrimer exist in a single stable conformation with planar -C6H4-CH=O fragments. Our calculations show that conformer with one trans and two gauche 4-oxibenzaldehyde groups is realized. All these observations suggest that steric congestion does not disturb the construction of dendrimers even for the highest generations, and that terminal groups are readily available for further reactions. Relying on DFT calculations a complete vibrational assignment is proposed for different parts of the studied dendrimers. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.