Quantum chemical study of neutral and single charged palladium clusters

The extended Hückel (EH) method with an electrostatic two-body correction, has been used in order to determine the structures of small single charged Pd_n clusters with n=2–13 and to compare them with the neutral ones. The results for Pd₂ and Pd₃ are compared with density functional (DFT) calculations. Both cation and anion formations were found to strengthen the clusters due to the bonding character of their HOMO and antibonding nature of LUMO. The twin formation with bond lengths significantly smaller than those in the bulk palladium and in the corresponding neutral particles was found to be the preferential way of growth for anionic clusters; cationic clusters show a more complicated behavior. The promotion of occupation of Pd 5s AOs is suggested to be responsible for the formation of 3D structures, whereas the stability of the planar configurations is attributed to the appearance of the vacancy in the valence 4d-shell. As a result of stronger intermetallic interaction in charged clusters, both excess and deficit of electron density were found to cause the significant broadness of the d-zone.     

Quantum chemical study of butane isomerization on clusters of aluminum and cobalt chlorides. Mixed complexes

Activated complexes and routes of the model catalytic process, viz., butane isomerization by the aluminum and cobalt chloride complexes, were calculated by the DFT/PBE/TZ2p quantum chemical method. Alkanes are activated via the alkyl mechanism to form binuclear bimetallic alkyl clusters, where the Co atoms are linked by the metal-metal bonds. The revealed binuclear complexes can transform into bimetallic alkyl clusters with similar energy in which the transition metal atoms are linked by bridges of the Cl atoms. The full model of the catalytic cycle was developed for the maximum multiplicity (7), and particular key regions related to the cleavage and formation of the C-C bonds were calculated with a lowered multiplicity (5 and 3). The sequence of mutual rearrangements of the polynuclear complexes provides the possibility of C-C bond cleavage in alkanes and formation of the metal-carbon bonds. The calculated energy barriers of particular stages of the cyclic catalytic process of butane isomerization are not higher than 29 kcal mol^?1 for multiplicity 7 and by ～10 kcal mol^?1 lower for a lower multiplicity.     

硅-硫团(SiS_2)_n~+(n=4,5)的结构和振动光谱的量子化学研究

用密度泛函（ＤＦＴ） 方法研究了硅硫团簇（ＳｉＳ２） ｎ＋（ ｎ ＝ ４ ,５） 的各种可能几何构型和电子结构,并计算了相应的振动光谱,得到了（ＳｉＳ２）ｎ＋ 的形成规律,即（ＳｉＳ２）ｎ ＋ 以硅、硫交错形成四元环链的形式增长．     

Quantum chemical study of cyclic dipeptides

The preferred conformations of cyclic dipeptides were first studied systemically using the density functional theory (DFT) B3LYP method at the 6‐31G(d) level. The structural characteristics of cyclic dipeptides were revealed, most of which have not been confirmed until now. Our studies showed that the six‐member main circles of cyclic dipeptides composed of natural L ‐amino acid residues appeared as boat conformations. The important factors that influence conformations of cyclic dipeptides, such as molecular total energy, nuclear repulsion energy, molecular orbit, spatial effects, and reactive mechanism, are discussed in detail. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2007     

Quantum chemical study of allyl halides

Using the MNDO method we have shown that the bathochromic shift of the longwavelength region of absorption in the electronic spectrum of allyl bromide and allyl iodide on going to nonplanar conformers is due to the fact that, in this case, the transition ^* to the low-lying ^* orbital appears, which is forbidden in planar forms. In allyl fluoride and allyl chloride, , and the transition ^*, which depends little on conformation, is long-wavelength. In the gauche conformers of allyl halides, the frontier MOs are appreciably delocalized as a result of - interaction; in the s-trans conformer, the unshared pair of the heteroatom makes an insignificant contribution to the orbital only in allyl iodide.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2552–2557, November, 1989.     

斑蝥素衍生物的量子化学研究

在112种合成的斑蝥素衍生物中,N-羟基斑蝥胺(2)、N-甲基斑蝥胺(3)、N-乙基斑蝥胺(4)、N-烯丙基斑蝥胺(5)具有抗肝癌活性,且毒副作用很小。其中N-羟基斑蝥胺和N-甲基斑蝥胺已用于临床试验,疗效较好。关于斑蝥素衍生物化学结构与抗肝癌活性之间的关系,已有报道,但尚未从电子结构方面系统考察构效因素。本文用CNDO/2法对五个活性和三个非活性斑蝥素衍生物分子,进行了量子化学计算,以探讨药物的构效关系。     

Quantum chemical study of carbohydrate-phospholipid interactions

Carbohydrates on host membranes are fundamental to many important biological processes. Here, we seek a basic understanding of the nature of the interactions between carbohydrates and phospholipids to dissect their roles in molecular recognition. A hybrid quantum mechanics/quantum mechanics (QM/QM) scheme with two different levels of treatment was used to explore the conformations and energetics of carbohydrate-phospholipid complexes. We investigate the interactions of two phospholipids (POPC and DOPC) with mannose using density functional theory. Carbohydrate-phospholipid interactions are probed with respect to competing interactions with water. Our hybrid QM/QM approach demonstrates that mannose interactions with phospholipids can result in alterations in charge distributions and conformations of phospholipids. The results clearly reveal the interplay between conventional and nonconventional hydrogen bonding; moreover, nonpolar interactions are shown to be crucial in the recognition and further stabilization of carbohydrate-phospholipid complexes. The influence of the acyl chain on phospholipid headgroup orientation is clearly evident in our investigation. The significance of the conventional OH···O and nonconventional CH···O and CH···C interactions in the stabilization of the intermolecular complexes is deduced from the molecular electron density topology using Bader's atoms-in-molecules theory. Finally, we have compared the QM energies with molecular mechanics energies for the same interactions to aid in the refinement of the all-atom lipid-carbohydrate force fields.     

平面五元水分子簇的量子化学研究

选用Gaussian03的B3LYP/6-31G(d,p)、DMol3的BLYP/DNP和deMon的BLYP/TZVP等方法计算了甲烷水合物(结构-1)中平面五元水分子簇的结合能和氢键能,作了基组重叠误差(BSSE)和色散能(dispersion)的修正,估算了次级相互作用的贡献.在DMol3程序中使用了大型数值基组DNP,将基组重叠误差降至最低.在Gaussi-an03的B3LYP/6-31G(d,p)计算中,采用平衡法(Counterpoise)校正基组重叠误差.两种计算方法给出了一致的结果,证实了在使用6-31G(d,p)基组时,一对水分子在平衡距离的基组重叠误差高达8 kJ/mol.为估算色散能的贡献,使用了新近发展的包含色散能的密度泛函的DFT程序deMon计算了五元水分子簇.用多种方法计算出了经基组重叠误差和色散能修正的五元水分子簇的分子间结合能和氢键能的较为精确的势能超曲面,为甲烷和其他气体水合物的分子动力学模拟提供了依据.     

Quantum chemical study of allyl mercury compounds

Conclusions The appearance of a long-wavelength absorption band in nonplanar allyl mercury compounds is due to the , -conjugation effect. In planar compounds, this electronic transition lies in the far UV region.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2493–2496, November, 1987.     

Quantum chemical study of self-organized water fractals

The energetically possible ways of water condensation at the molecular level were considered. The quantum chemical calculations of the relative stability of elementary modules of the fractal structure without external fields using AM 1, CNDO /2, and MNDO methods were done. It was shown that CNDO /2 gives the most adequate results for simple water clusters. Condensation energy per molecule was chosen as a criterion of the cluster stability. It was shown that the twisted modules are the stable structures with respect to the water dissociation. In comparing the energies of the icelike and twisted structures, we conclude that the latter may exist under certain conditions. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Structure reorganization dynamics of water clusters upon vertical ionization: Quantum chemical investigation

Quantum dynamics simulations of (H₂O) _n ⁺ water cluster cations comprising up to six molecules with the initial configurations of stable neutral isomers are combined with stationary calculations of the same cations in order to get nonempirical information about water cluster relaxation after the absorption of energy in a range of from 11.0 to 12.0 eV. The electronic problem was solved and the potential energy of the system was estimated in terms of the restricted or unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation with the 6–31++G** atomic basis set taking into account second-order Möller-Plesset perturbation theory corrections. Calculations of dynamic trajectories were based on the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The formation of stable water cluster cations is shown to be a multistage process, the principal stages of which are qualitatively correctly reflected by the sequence of steps in cation geometry optimization runs.     

Quantum chemical study of the autoxidation of ascorbate

Reactions involved in the autoxidation of ascorbate have been investigated with quantum chemical first‐principles and ab initio methods. Reaction energies and Gibbs energies of the reactions were calculated at the density functional theory level applying the gradient‐corrected BP86 and the hybrid B3LYP functionals together with def2‐TZVP basis sets. Results of single‐point CC2, CCSD, and CCSD(T) calculations were used for calibration of the density functional theory data and show excellent agreement with the B3LYP values. Based on the Gibbs energy ascorbic acid AscH₂ is found to be the energetically lowest species in aqueous solution, whereas the monoanion ascorbate AscH is the most abundant one near pH = 7. Asc was found to be the preferred reducing agent for autoxidation and oxidation processes. The results also support a metal‐catalyzed synthesis of the reactive oxygen species H₂O₂ according to a redox cycling mechanism proposed in literature. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Quantum chemical study of the reactivity of adamantanylidene

The specific features of inclusion of a carbenium center in the polycyclic system of adamantanylidene was investigated by the semiempirical MNDO method. The calculated characteristics of the adamantylcarbeneproton system are in agreement with the experimentally postulated nucleophilicity of singlet adamantanylidene.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 116–121, March–April, 1993.     

Quantum chemical study of oxidation processes in Cu-phthalocyanine

Quantum chemical calculations reproduced quite well the experimental infrared spectra of CuPc and CuNO₃Pc · HNO₃. The agreement in the changes of line intensities during the oxidation supports the idea of ligand oxidation. This result is in agreement with the Mulliken population analysis.     

Quantum chemical study of trivalent group 12 fluorides

In view of the recent experimental observation of the existence of tetravalent Hg (IV) in HgF 4, a quantum chemical study of various trivalent group 12 M(III) fluoride complexes has been carried out. The M-F bonds in neutral MF 3 are relatively weak, making these species unlikely targets. Some additional stability can be obtained by dimerizing HgF3 to Hg2F6, which has a doubly fluorine-bridged triplet ground state. Anionic [MF4]- and [MF5]2- species are found to be more stable toward F2 elimination and M-F bond breaking than neutral MF 3.     

Quantum mechanical study on plasmon resonances in small ring clusters

The collectivity of the electronic motion in small sodium clusters with ring structure is studied by time‐dependent density functional theory. The formation and development of collective resonances in the absorption spectra were obtained as a function of the ring radius. In small ring clusters, besides the lower‐energy mode and the higher‐energy mode, there is another plasmon resonance mode, that is, the reverse two‐dipole mode. For the reverse two‐dipole mode, the formations of these two dipoles are due to the external field inducement and the shielding effect, although the resonant excitation is mainly due to the coupling effect of the electrons of these two dipoles. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Hydrogen storage in magnesium clusters: quantum chemical study

Magnesium hydride is cheap and contains 7.7 wt % hydrogen, making it one of the most attractive hydrogen storage materials. However, thermodynamics dictate that hydrogen desorption from bulk magnesium hydride only takes place at or above 300 degrees C, which is a major impediment for practical application. A few results in the literature, related to disordered materials and very thin layers, indicate that lower desorption temperatures are possible. We systematically investigated the effect of crystal grain size on the thermodynamic stability of magnesium and magnesium hydride, using ab initio Hartree-Fock and density functional theory calculations. Also, the stepwise desorption of hydrogen was followed in detail. As expected, both magnesium and magnesium hydride become less stable with decreasing cluster size, notably for clusters smaller than 20 magnesium atoms. However, magnesium hydride destabilizes more strongly than magnesium. As a result, the hydrogen desorption energy decreases significantly when the crystal grain size becomes smaller than approximately 1.3 nm. For instance, an MgH2 crystallite size of 0.9 nm corresponds to a desorption temperature of only 200 degrees C. This predicted decrease of the hydrogen desorption temperature is an important step toward the application of Mg as a hydrogen storage material.