title: The body-centered cubic structure of methyllithium tetramer crystal: staggered methyl conformation by electrostatic stabilization via intratetramer multipolarization.
abstract: The methyllithium tetramer (CH3Li)4 structure in the bcc crystal has been theoretically optimized with the use of density functional theory calculations under the periodic boundary condition. The X-ray structure shows that the methyl-group conformation in tetramer in crystal takes the staggered form rather than the eclipsed form that is taken in the isolated tetramer, i.e., the crystal packing effect, and this has been reproduced for the first time. It is concluded that the staggered form is advantageous in crystal, as a whole, due to the larger electrostatic stabilization via the induced intratetramer multipolarization, although it should cause, simultaneously, smaller destabilization in intratetramer electronic energy.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohta
authors.forename: Akimitsu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demura
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Haruko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hitomi
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagaoka