Abstract
Chemical bonding nature of rare gases with various elements has been
attracting permanent attention of chemical researchers. Interactions
between transition metals and rare gases have special characters and
should be an important subject of research. Here we theoretically
studied the interacting properties of rare gas atoms with iron by
inspecting the diatomic molecules FeRg (Rg = He~Rn) and
the Rg-inserting compounds FeRgF-/+ and
HRgFe-/+ (Rg= Kr, Xe, Rn). Quantum chemistry methods
DFT (B3LYP), MP2 and MP4(SDQ) with the basis sets aug-cc-pVTZ were
employed to calculate the structure, frequencies and the thermodynamic
properties of a series of the dissociation processes. These
Rg-containing compounds are found to be thermodynamically stable. The
NBO and AIM analyses and the electron localization function (ELF) were
employed to study the bonding nature of rare gases with iron. These
compounds are linear structures, the Laplacian distribution of electron
density and ELF distribution are not axial symmetry at the part of Fe.
The electron density distribution does not always show a BCP between Rg
and Fe. These phenomena are a result of the incompletely filled
3d shell of Fe. There are many new special characters of chemical
bonding between Rg and transition metals.