Ab Initio Energy Landscape of GeF_2: A System Featuring Lone Pair Structure Candidates

摘要

Each already known chemical configuration, as well as those that are stable but are still waiting to be experimentally discovered, corresponds to a minimum on the hyperspace of potential energy associated with the (chemical) configuration space. At finite temperatures, the configurations around such minimum structures are populated, constituting a "locally ergodic" region, corresponding to a macroscopic thermodynamic state, which can be addressed by the thermodynamic state functions G, H, and S. Since the structure of the potential energy landscape, and the locally ergodic regions present, are determined by natural laws, all chemical compounds and their structures are also predetermined. It follows that neither the composition, nor the structure, nor the properties of a specific chemical configuration is subject to external intervention, for example, by the synthetic chemist.