Using of quantum-chemical calculations to molecular crystals studying

Structural Chemistry - A brief enough survey on the approaches to molecular crystal structure analysis development is presented in this review. The main focus is on the development and application...     

Program for carrying out calculations by the CNDO method for molecular systems including up to 232 orbitals

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Structure and magnetic properties of nitroxide molecular crystals by density functional calculations employing periodic boundary conditions.

The structure and magnetic properties of one-dimensional chains of representative nitroxides have been studied by a density functional model employing periodic boundary conditions. The optimized geometries are in better agreement with experiments than those obtained from optimizations of model dimeric systems. The spin populations and isotropic hyperfine couplings compare well with the values measured by polarized neutron and electron spin resonance experiments. Magnetic couplings computed by the broken symmetry approach reproduce the ferro- or antiferromagnetic behavior of different nitroxides derived from experiments. These results point out the reliability of the computational model and the significant tuning of all the magnetic properties by intermolecular hydrogen bridges.     

Electronic and spatial structure of five-membered oxygen-or sulfur-containing cyclic phosphorus and arsenic compounds based on quantum-chemical calculations

We have carried out nonempirical quantum-chemical calculations for five-membered heterocyclic molecules containing O or S atoms and also P or As atoms in the ring, using RHF/6-31G(d) and MP2/6-31G(d) methods with full optimization of their geometry. We have studied their electronic and spatial structure and the characteristics of the interaction between atoms in the molecules. __________ Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 629–634 April, 2006.     

Possible criterion for the balance of basis sets in quantum-chemical calculations

We propose to characterize the width of a basis set (BS) by the number of basis functions falling within one electron of the considered atomic or molecular systems. It is established that for atoms, this value (the electron function endowment, or EFE) undergoes drastic changes as the atomic number of a periodic system element increases. It is shown that widening the BS through the addition of valence and polarizational functions increases the imbalance of the basis sets of various atoms in terms of EFE. A scheme of construction is proposed and an example of a BS balanced according to the EFE value is given. The properties of LiH and HF molecules are calculated by the density functional UB3LYP method with the use of standard and molecular-optimized (relaxed) BSes with segmented and general contraction of the Gaussian functions. It is established that there are uniform dependences for the error of calculating the properties of both molecules from the EFE. We conclude that the accuracy of calculating the equilibrium distance, ionization energy, electron affinity, atomization energy, dipole moment, and frequency of normal vibration increases steadily as the EFE value of a molecule rises.     

Efficient calculations of coulombic interactions in biomolecular simulations with periodic boundary conditions

To make improved treatments of electrostatic interactions in biomacromolecular simulations, two possibilities are considered. The first is the famous particle–particle and particle–mesh (PPPM) method developed by Hockney and Eastwood, and the second is a new one developed here in their spirit but by the use of the multipole expansion technique suggested by Ladd. It is then numerically found that the new PPPM method gives more accurate results for a two-particle system at small separation of particles. Preliminary numerical examination of the various computational methods for a single configuration of a model BPTI–water system containing about 24,000 particles indicates that both of the PPPM methods give far more accurate values with reasonable computational cost than do the conventional truncation methods. It is concluded the two PPPM methods are nearly comparable in overall performance for the many-particle systems, although the first method has the drawback that the accuracy in the total electrostatic energy is not high for configurations of charged particles randomly generated. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Photolysis and quantum-chemical calculations of the nalidixic acid radical states

The nalidixic acid transient spectra were analyzed and the scheme of photo-conversion of the acid was suggested. At a large delay of laser pulses the transient absorption spectra contain the bands due to the dissociation of the products of the cation- and anion-radical photodecomposition in the micro- and millisecond range. By quantum-chemical calculations we revealed that at the transition to the ion-radical state a proton migration occurs subsequent to the movement of the center of gravity of the negative charge. The phototransformation of nalidixic was found to proceed with a TICT-effect.     

Vibrational anharmonicity and harmonic force fields for dichloromethane from quantum-chemical calculations

Anharmonic and related constants have been calculated for CH2Cl2, CD2Cl2, and CHDCl2 by using the program Gaussian03 and B3LYP and MP2 models. Bases used were 6-311++G** and cc-pVTZ. The size of grid used in the B3LYP/6-311++G** model had a noticeable effect on resulting data. Features of the MP2/6-311++G** calculations suggested a deleterious effect of the absence of f functions in this basis set. The need for the replacement of second-order terms in the perturbation theory formulas for the vibrational anharmonic constants x ij in the presence of Fermi resonance was explored, and minor resonances were found associated with the cubic constants varphi 122 and varphi 299 (d 0 isotopomer), phi122 and phi849 (d2), and phi278 (d1). Computed xij values for nuCH and nuCD motions agree quite well with earlier experimental data. Observed anharmonic frequencies, nu obsd, were corrected to "observed" harmonic frequencies, omega obsd, by using computed differences Delta = omegaQC-nuQC. These differences Delta are larger for the antisymmetric nuasCH2 mode than for symmetric nusCH2 motion. This fact made it necessary to use differing scale factors for the two kinds of CH stretching force constants in a subsequent scaling of the harmonic force field to nuobsd. Force field scaling was also carried out by refining to omega obsd. In both approaches, the B3LYP models required differing scale factors for symmetric and antisymmetric CCl stretching force constants, indicating a failure to compute an accurate C-Cl stretch-stretch interaction force constant. The MP2/cc-pVTZ force field was preferred. Both scaled and unscaled harmonic force fields were used to calculate centrifugal distortion constants (CDCs) and contributions to the vibrational dependence of the rotational constants (alphas). Variations in the CDCs can, in part, be explained by the magnitudes of the frequencies used in the scaling process.     

Doping of polyaniline by acid-base chemistry: density functional calculations with periodic boundary conditions

Calculations with Gaussian orbitals and periodic boundary conditions using several density functionals are carried out to study the proton-doping of polyaniline. We explore previously proposed mechanisms to explain the spectacular increase of the electrical conductivity of polyaniline upon protonation. The structural and spectroscopic theoretical predictions for both polaron and bipolaron lattices agree quite well with the experimental data, and we find that the bipolaron structure is lower in energy.     

Asymptotic boundary conditions in cluster simulation of electronic structures for infinite and semi-infinite crystals. 1. infinite crystals

A new method is proposed for determining the local electronic structure of an infinite or a semi-infinite crystal using asymptotically accurate boundary conditions imposed on the matrix elements of Green's functions in the lattice point representation for the boundary atoms of the cluster. The boundary conditions are determined in a self-consistent manner from cluster calculations. Introduction of these conditions is equivalent to the calculation of the out-of-cluster region of the crystal; this gives a continuous spectrum of electronic states, which is in good agreement with the crystal spectrum. Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated fromZhurmal Struktumoi Khimii, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 3–13, January–February, 1996. Translated by I. Izvekova