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Computational study of polarizability anisotropies
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The dipole polarizabilities (α) and polarizability anisotropies (Δα) of over twenty molecules are calculated in order to search for negative Δα. The geometry of each molecule is first optimized at the level of CCSD(T)/cc-pVQZ. Then, the α tensors are computed both with CCSD(T)/daug-cc-pVTZ in Gaussian09 and with the exchange-correlation potential Vxc known as SAOP in the Amsterdam density functional theory program called ADF and a large basis set called QZ3P-3DIFFUSE. In addition to the popular formula of the ΔαRaman connected with Raman spectroscopy, we also present values of an alternative definition of the polarizability anisotropy ΔαKerr connected with Kerr spectroscopy, recently proposed by Kampfrath and colleagues.1 On one hand, the signs of many ΔαRaman are undetermined, while, on the other hand, we obtain negative ΔαKerr for more than half of the small molecules studied. Of the 24 molecules studied, 18 have negative ΔαKerr.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Calculation of reliable non-resonant Kα X-ray emission spectra of organic molecules and other small molecules
No full textFor reliable calculation of vertical ionization energies (VIEs) of both core and valence electrons of gas-phase organic molecules and other small molecules, we developed DFT procedures in 1999 and 2009. The difference between core and valence VIEs give the energies for X-ray emission spectra (XES). The dipole matrix elements between core and valence electrons required for calculation of the XES intensities are now easily available. The simple procedure for calculation of reliable XES is demonstrated by comparison with known XES for H2O(g), NH3(g), CO(g), CO2(g), N2(g), and NNO(g). Consequently, the XES of H2CO(g), formamide(g), 1-nitrosamine(g), N-methylformamide(g), 1-nitrosoaziridine(g), and oxirane(g) are predicted with confidence.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
Computational study of the anticancer drug cisplatin
No full textSystems containing platinum are more challenging for reliable computations, since Pt has 78 electrons and requires relativistic treatment. However, to reduce computational demands, most previous workers used effective core potentials. In this investigation, we perform numerous computations on the cisplatin molecule with ab initio methods and density functional theory, some of which involve all electron and zero-order relativistic approximation. Tentative conclusions on the reliability of various methods are drawn from comparison of our results with previous calculations and available experimental data. Vibrational and electronic spectra are calculated and compared with previous studies and available experimental data.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Computational Study of the Electron Spectra of Acetamide and N-methylformamide
No full textThe molecular structures of the three conformers of acetamide are first studied by ab initio method of CCSD/cc-pVTZ. Using the optimized geometry of each species, we apply established and/or developing methods to compute several physical properties of acetamide and compare them with available experimental data. The properties include dipole moments, polarizabilities, ionization energies of both valence and core electrons, and absorption spectra of both valence and core electrons. Similar results for N-methylformamide are included for comparison.
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DFT Computation of the Electron Spectra of Thiophene
No full textRecent experiments on thiophene using synchrotron radiation stimulated the present DFT study of the various types of electron spectroscopy using the DFT methods we developed in our laboratory. Besides the confirmation of the experimental interpretations, the results of the present study strongly validate the methods used for the various types of electron spectroscopy. The average absolute deviations of the DFT results for thiophene from experiment are 0.22 eV for vertical ionization energies of outer valence electrons, 0.10 eV for carbon 1s binding energies, 0.19 eV for vertical valence excitation energies, and 0.18 eV for X-ray absorption energies. The calculated carbon 1s binding energies for bithiophene and terthiophene are also within 0.1 eV of synchrotron experiment. We conclude that workers using synchrotron radiation to study electronic processes of gas-phase molecules can apple our DFT methods for the interpretation of their experimental results.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
MP2 or B3LYP: computed bond distances compared with CCSD(T)/cc-pVQZ
No full text The equilibrium bond lengths of 41 small molecules are calculated by Gaussian09 and ADF2013 programs. We use five different basis sets: 6-31G*, cc-pVDZ, 6-311G+(2d,p), cc-pVTZ, and cc-pVQZ, for six different methods: Hartree-Fock, MP2, MP3, CCSD, CCSD(T), and B3LYP. The reliability of each level of theory on 89 bond lengths compared with CCSD(T)/cc-pVQZ is examined in terms of the mean absolute deviation. In particular, basis set dependence of the relative reliability of the two popular methods MP2 versus B3LYP is important to computational chemists. In addition, the efficient even-tempered basis set of Slater-type orbital called et-pVQZ, available in the ADF2013 program, is tested with the popular density functional B3LYP. </jats:p
Calculation of Vertical Ionization Potentials of Oxygen Difluoride, Difluoramine, and Difluoromethane by Local Density Approximation
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