Prediction of the bond lengths, vibrational frequencies, and bond dissociation energy of octahedral seaborgium hexacarbonyl, Sg(CO){sub 6}

The recent syntheses of several new elements (including the recent reports of elements 116 and 118), coupled with the controversy surrounding the naming of elements 104--109, have stimulated a great interest in the chemistry of the transactinide elements. This contribution addresses hypothetical hexacarbonyl complex of seaborgium (Sg, element 106), which is predicted to be a 6d-block transition element with six valence electrons, analogous to Cr, Mo, and W. The authors have previously predicted that, if it were to exist, Sg(CO){sub 6} would exhibit metal-carbonyl bonding that is very similar to that in Cr(CO){sub 6}, Mo(CO){sub 6}, and W(CO){sub 6}, and quite unlike that of the unknown valence isoelectronic actinide complex U(CO){sub 6}. This finding is in accord with the scant experimental data available for Sg. The relativistic DV-X{alpha} method used in the earlier paper facilitated the analysis of the molecular orbitals of Sg(CO){sub 6}, but did not allow for the calculation of total-energy properties, such as bond lengths and vibrational frequencies. Here the authors will use the superior methodology they have applied to other transactinide molecules to compare the bond lengths, vibrational frequencies, and CO dissociation energy of hypothetical Sg(CO){sub 6} to those of Mo(CO){sub 6} and W(CO){sub 6}.