An ab Initio Study of Tetrathiosquaric Acid

Inthepastfewdecades,sincetheoxocarbonanionsC.O.'-wererecognizedasmembersofanewclassofstabilizedcarbocyclicnonbenzenoidaromaticcompounds"',theknowledgeoftheirchemicalandphysicalpropertieshasbeendevelopingrapidly'Theiruniqueelectronicstructures,highdegreeofsymmetry,andestheticallybeauti-fulgeometrygeneratedafreshimpetustostudytheeffectofreplacingtheoxygensbyvariousfunctionalgroups,suchassulfur',andselenium[11.Analogoustotheoxocar-bondianions,thethioxocarbondianionscanbecharacterizedbythegeneralf…     

氮的四原子簇合物的从头算研究

在4－31G基组水平上，对氮的四原子簇合物：N42+，N4和N24-做了从头算研究．几何优化和振动分析表明：N24+，N4能量最低的构型分别为直线的D∞h结构和平面的D2h结构，N24-则为D4h结构，并将氮与磷的四原子簇合物做了比较．     

ab Initio Calculation on Tautomerism of Pyrazolin—5—ones

ａｂＩｎｉｔｉｏＣａｌｃｕｌａｔｉｏｎｏｎＴａｕｔｏｍｅｒｉｓｍｏｆＰｙｒａｚｏｌｉｎ－５－ｏｎｅｓ￥ＳｕｎＲｅｎ－Ａｎ；ＷａｎｇＣｈａｎｇ－Ｓｈｅｎｇ；ＹａｎｇＺｈｏｎｇ－Ｚｈｉ（ＤｅｐａｒｔｍｅｎｔｏｆＣｈｅｍｉｓｔｒｙ，ＬｉａｏｎｉｎｇＮｏｒｍ...     

The Challenge of ab Initio Calculations in Small Neon Clusters

Weakly bound neon dimer, trimer and tetramers are studied at HF and CCSD(T) levels using Dunning, ANO and SIGMA-s basis sets. Their ground-state binding energies are studied along with some structural properties. SIGMA-s basis sets have been developed explicitly for this issue but in a manner that can be readily applied to other atoms for the study of larger weakly bound systems. The difficulties for attaining accurate results on these systems are assessed by the computation of total, atomization and correlation energies, as well as equilibrium distances, with several basis sets of increasing size, ranging from non-augmented to double-augmented versions. Extrapolations are proposed to predict stabilization energies and the results are compared with previously published data.     

Comparison between ab Initio and Modified INDO-MO Calculations of N20

Both STO-3G ab initio and s-p separation-type-modified INDO semiempirical methods were applied to molecular-orbital calculation of the N₂₀ molecule. From these two methods, the optimized bond distances between the nearest N atoms (d_n-n) and the most calculated thermodynamic data are close to each other. The positive values of ΔH_a° and ΔG_a° for the atomization reaction in this work prove that N₂₀ is stable. In contrast to conventional INDO and MINDO/3, but similar to former AMI and MNDO calculations, both ΔH_r° and ΔG_r° are positive in the formation reaction, which indicates that N₂₀ belongs to the category of high-energy molecules.     

化学反应的高精度从头算势能面

势能面是化学反应动力学研究的基础。近年来随着理论方法的发展与计算技术的进步,不但含三、四个原子反应体系的电子基态势能面的构建精度进一步提高,一些反应体系的多电子态耦合势能面的构建和含六个原子以上反应体系的高维从头算势能面的构建也取得了重要进展。本文结合若干典型体系势能面的构建工作,主要介绍了高精度电子基态势能面,包括Renner-Teller、旋轨耦合等非绝热效应的耦合势能面以及高维势能面方面的研究进展。     

亚硝酸异构体振动光谱的从头计算研究

自由基HOx和NOx结合形成的各种化合物是大气光化学研究的重要内容之一．其中亚硝酸是比较重要的一种．前人已对气相和固相中亚硝酸cis和trans两种结构的红外光谱和微波港进行了测定[1-4]．最近Koch等人[5]用真空紫外光源（184．9nm)辐照低温基质隔离下的硝酸，测得了一组前人尚     

Imidoylketene: An ab Initio Study of Its Conformations and Reactions

MP4(SDQ)/6-31G//MP2/6-31G calculations on the conformations of imidoylketene (1) as well as transition structures for several of its reactions are reported. Anti-Z-1 and anti-E-1 are of equal energy, while syn-Z-1 and syn-E-1 are respectively 2.0 and 0.5 kcal/mol higher. As the nitrogen analog of formylketene (2), the reactivity of 1 is modified from that of 2. While the nitrogen in 1 is more basic and nucleophilic than the oxygen in 2, greater resonance donation from the nitrogen decreases the electrophilicity of the ketene carbon in 1 relative to 2. Thus the barriers for the addition of water (6.3 kcal/mol) and of formaldehyde (10.6 kcal/mol) to 1 are very similar to those previously calculated for their respective additions to 2. Transition structures for the 1,3-hydrogen shifts of 3-amino-1,2-propadien-1-one (5a) and formylketene imine (6a) to give 1 were also located. The barriers to these reactions, (41.0 and 48.6 kcal/mol, respectively) are higher than those of the analogous reactions to form 2; reasons for these trends are discussed. The transition structures for these reactions are all planar or nearly so, reflecting the pseudopericyclic orbital topology which makes all the reactions allowed.     

Photophysical and ab Initio Studies of Mononuclear Copper(I) Complexes

Described are the photophysical properties of the mononuclear copper(I) complexes CuL(4)(+) (L = pyridine (py), 4-methylpyridine, 4-phenylpyridine, or acetonitrile), Cu(lut)(3)(+) (lut = 2,6-lutidine), and Cu(lut)(2)(+). Each of these compounds as their solid PF(6)(-) salts display a relatively long-lived (>1 &mgr;s), visible range emission at both ambient temperature and at 77 K but not in fluid solutions. Also reported are the results for ab initio calculations at the restricted Hartree-Fock self-consistent field level to probe the natures of lower energy excited states of the hypothetical species CuL(n)()(+) (L = NH(3), CH(3)CN, or py; n = 1-4). These results point to an assignment of the lowest energy, luminactive excited states as being largely metal centered, d --> s in character for each of the above complexes with the possible exception of the CuL(4)(+) species where L is py or a substituted analogue. In the case of Cu(py)(4)(+) the ab initiocalculations indicate a metal-to-ligand charge transfer to be the lowest energy Franck-Condon state, although the similarities of emission band shapes, energies, and lifetimes among the various complexes suggest a common d --> s assignment.     

Comprehensive and Accurate Ab Initio Energy Surface of Simple Alanine Peptides

Secondary structures for AcAla_nNH₂ (n=2–4) peptides have been analyzed by means of ab initio MP2, CCSD(T), and DFT‐B3PW91 methods using large basis sets and including implicit hydration effects and thermal corrections. In addition to the classical “pure” right‐handed 3₁₀‐ and α‐helices, left‐handed polyproline II, inverse γ‐turn, and fully extended conformations, a large number of “mixed” structures obtained by combining characteristic φ/ψ angles of each residue in every way have been found. All mixed structures are energetically accessible and can be present at significant levels in aqueous solution. Furthermore, they represent the way through which hierarchical unfolding of 3₁₀‐ and α‐helices or nonhierarchical polyproline II to fully extended transitions occur. Computational results are in qualitative agreement with the large amount of experimental data for simpler polyalanines and provide significant insight into their thermodynamic properties and how these can be modulated by interactions with solvent.     

Rg-HX分子间势的精确从头计算研究

在用非迭代的三重激发项来校正CCSD的CCSD(T)理论水平下,采用aug cc pVQZ基函数对He HF的分子间势进行了系统的研究.结果表明：He HF以线型结构存在.在极限基的情况下,复合物两种线型极小点结构He H F和He F H势阱深分别为46.614 cm－1和25.026 cm－1,对应He原子到HF分子质心的距离Rm分别为0.3149 nm和0.3012 nm.讨论了不同的基函数和理论方法在研究此类弱束缚态复合物的分子间势时的可靠性及其对结果的影响,并研究了HF分子中H－F键长的改变对势能的影响,同时也给出了势函数的解析形式.     

从头计算理论再研究HIV-1 PR的水解机理

采用从头计算方法再次研究了HIV-1PR的催化水解机理.结果显示反应生成了双醇结构的以碳为中心的四面体的中间体;碳氮键的断裂是速率限制一步,需要较少的活化能,支持该水解反应可能在生命过程中出现.     

The Fascinating World of Low-Dimensional Quantum Spin Systems: Ab Initio Modeling

In recent times, ab initio density functional theory has emerged as a powerful tool for making the connection between models and materials. Insulating transition metal oxides with a small spin forms a fascinating class of strongly correlated systems that exhibit spin-gap states, spin–charge separation, quantum criticality, superconductivity, etc. The coupling between spin, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom makes the chemical insights equally important to the strong correlation effects. In this review, we establish the usefulness of ab initio tools within the framework of the N-th order muffin orbital (NMTO)-downfolding technique in the identification of a spin model of insulating oxides with small spins. The applicability of the method has been demonstrated by drawing on examples from a large number of cases from the cuprate, vanadate, and nickelate families. The method was found to be efficient in terms of the characterization of underlying spin models that account for the measured magnetic data and provide predictions for future experiments.     

Accurate ab initio binding energies of the benzene dimer

Accurate binding energies of the benzene dimer at the T and parallel displaced (PD) configurations were determined using the single- and double-coupled cluster method with perturbative triple correction (CCSD(T)) with correlation-consistent basis sets and an effective basis set extrapolation scheme recently devised. The difference between the estimated CCSD(T) basis set limit electronic binding energies for the T and PD shapes appears to amount to more than 0.3 kcal/mol, indicating the PD shape is a more stable configuration than the T shape for this dimer in the gas phase. This conclusion is further strengthened when a vibrational zero-point correction to the electronic binding energies of this dimer is made, which increases the difference between the two configurations to 0.4-0.5 kcal/mol. The binding energies of 2.4 and 2.8 kcal/mol for the T and PD configurations are in good accord with the previous experimental result from ionization potential measurement.     

An ab Initio Study of Some Phenyl- and (Halophenyl)alkali Compounds

Ab initio calculations are presented for alkali metal derivatives of fluoro- and chlorobenzenes for comparison with previously determined experimental substitutent effects. Calculated substituent effects for one alkali metal are linearly related to those of another. (Difluorophenyl)lithiums show additivity of substituent effects calculated from (monofluorophenyl)lithiums but dichloro derivatives do not, an effect attributed to the higher polarizability of chlorine. meta- and para-fluoro substituents show excellent agreement with experiment. ortho-fluoro and chlorine substituents do not. These differences are rationalized.     

Quantum Chemical Spin Densities for Radical Cations of Photosynthetic Pigment Models

The spin densities of radical cations of magnesium porphyrin, magnesium chlorine and a truncated chlorophyll a model are calculated with density‐functional theory and multiconfigurational quantum chemical methods. The latter serve as a reference for approximate density‐functional theory which yields spin densities that may suffer from the self‐interaction error. We carried out complete active space self‐consistent field calculations with increasing active orbital spaces to systematically converge qualitatively correct spin densities. In particular, for the magnesium chlorine and chlorophyll a model radical cations, this is not easy to achieve because of the lower symmetry compared to magnesium porphyrin. Strategies had to be employed which allowed us to consider very large active orbital spaces. We explored restricted active space self‐consistent field and density‐matrix renormalization group calculations. Based on these reference data, we assessed the accuracy of different density‐functional approximations. We show that in particular, exchange–correlation model potentials with correct asymptotic behavior yield good spin densities, and we find, in agreement with previous studies on different classes of compounds, that hybrid functionals systematically increase spin‐polarization effects with increasing amounts of exact exchange. Our results provide a starting point for investigations of spin densities of more complex systems such as the hinge model for the primary electron donor in photosystem II.     

Equilibrium Structure and Fundamental Vibrational Wavenumbers in Difluorosilanone: An ab Initio Study

High‐level ab initio calculations with large basis sets have been performed for difluorosilanone, F₂SiO. Based on these calculations, an empirically corrected theoretical equilibrium structure is derived: r_e(SiO) = 149.8(1) pm, r_e(SiF) = 155.5(1) pm, α_e(FSiF) = 104.7(3)°. Furthermore, these calculations confirm the experimental assignments of the observed infrared bands to the fundamentals in F₂SiO, except for ν₃. The previous assignment of ν₃ appears to be incorrect and should be reinvestigated.     

Accurate ab initio binding energies of alkaline earth metal clusters

The effects of basis set superposition error (BSSE) and core-correlation on the electronic binding energies of alkaline earth metal clusters Y(n) (Y = Be, Mg, Ca; n = 2-4) at the Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory (MP2) and the single and double coupled cluster method with perturbative triples correction (CCSD(T)) levels are examined using the correlation consistent basis sets cc-pVXZ and cc-pCVXZ (X = D, T, Q, 5). It is found that, while BSSE has a negligible effect for valence-electron-only-correlated calculations for most basis sets, its magnitude becomes more pronounced for all-electron-correlated calculations, including core electrons. By utilizing the negligible effect of BSSE on the binding energies for valence-electron-only-correlated calculations, in combination with the negligible core-correlation effect at the CCSD(T) level, accurate binding energies of these clusters up to pentamers (octamers in the case of the Be clusters) are estimated via the basis set extrapolation of ab initio CCSD(T) correlation energies of the monomer and cluster with only the cc-pVDZ and cc-pVTZ sets, using the basis set and correlation-dependent extrapolation formula recently devised. A comparison between the CCSD(T) and density functional theory (DFT) binding energies is made to identify the most appropriate DFT method for the study of these clusters.     

Accurate ab initio density fitting for multiconfigurational self-consistent field methods

Using Cholesky decomposition and density fitting to approximate the electron repulsion integrals, an implementation of the complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) method suitable for large-scale applications is presented. Sample calculations on benzene, diaquo-tetra-mu-acetato-dicopper(II), and diuraniumendofullerene demonstrate that the Cholesky and density fitting approximations allow larger basis sets and larger systems to be treated at the CASSCF level of theory with controllable accuracy. While strict error control is an inherent property of the Cholesky approximation, errors arising from the density fitting approach are managed by using a recently proposed class of auxiliary basis sets constructed from Cholesky decomposition of the atomic electron repulsion integrals.