铁超氧化物歧化酶活性中心结构研究

对氧化型、还原型及非活性形式铁超氧化物歧化酶Fe-SOD活性中心进行了量子化学计算和比较。在HF方法及LANL2DZ基组水平上获得了分子轨道能量、电荷分布以及原子轨道对前沿分子轨道贡献的信息。结果表明, Fe-SOD酶的活性形式的活性中心易于接受超氧自由基(O2- )的进攻而完成其生理功能。     

Valency and molecular structure

Valency is defined for each molecular orbital. The molecular orbital valency values are shown to be a good measure of the bonding nature of the molecular orbital. Comparisons are made with photoelectron spectral studies and Mulliken overlap population analysis.The variation of molecular valency and molecular orbital valency with bond angle is studied. It is found that for all the molecules presently considered, energy is linearly related to valency and that the molecular valency reaches a maximum at the equilibrium bond angle. It is also shown that the molecular orbital valency can serve as a quantitatively reliable ordinate for Mulliken-Walsh diagrams.     

Bonding Energy of a Molecular Orbital(Ⅱ)——Ab initio Calculation

Calculation of the bonding energy of a molecular orbital for a series of small molecules has been carried out by using ab initio STO-3G method. The results obtained demonstrate that the concept of the molecular orbital bonding energy is applicable for judging whether a molecular orbital is bonding, nonbonding or antibonding besides Mulliken overlap criterion.     

Role of s-p orbital mixing in the bonding and properties of second-period diatomic molecules

Qualitative molecular orbital theory is widely used as a conceptual tool to understand chemical bonding. Symmetry-allowed orbital mixing between atomic or fragment orbitals of different energies can greatly complicate such qualitative interpretations of chemical bonding. We use high-level Amsterdam Density Functional calculations to examine the issue of whether orbital mixing for some familiar second-row homonuclear and heteronuclear diatomic molecules results in net bonding or antibonding character for a given molecular orbital. Our results support the use of slopes of molecular orbital energy versus bond distance plots (designated radial orbital-energy slope: ROS) as the most useful criterion for making this determination. Calculated atomic charges and frontier orbital properties of these molecules allow their acid-base chemistry, including their reactivities as ligands in coordination chemistry, to be better understood within the context of the Klopman interpretation of hard and soft acid-base theory. Such an approach can be extended to any molecular species.     

Molecular states of atoms. I. Orbital energy parameters

Atomic valence state energies are analyzed to obtain values of orbital energy parameters that may be used in semiempirical molecular orbital calculations. Difficulty in defining the interaction between orbitals with non-integer electron populations is systematically avoided by distinguishing between a valence state and a molecular state of an atom, only the latter state having non-integer spin paired orbital occupancy. Application of the virial theorem to the molecular state enables a value for the orbital kinetic energy to be obtained from the valence state orbital energy parameters once an arbitrary configuration is defined as reference. The orbitals then are eigenfunctions of the atomic Fock operator for that reference molecular state and, with their energy parameters, may be employed as a fixed basis set for molecular orbital calculations.     

Waugh-型镍钼杂多酸的量子化学计算

采用半经验INDO法，完成了Waugh-型镍钼杂多酸（NH44）6〔NIMO9O32〕·6H2O的量子化学计算，得到146个成键轨道和78个反键轨道，轨道能级，电荷和键序等数据。通过对这些数据的分析，表明杂多酸分子中端氧和Ni都可能为化学活性中心，各原子轨道在分子轨道中都占有一定比例，其HOMO和LUMO能级皆为负值，其体系具有进一步接受电子的能力。这些结论与实验事实一致。     

Theory of lone pairs. II. A moment analysis of localized molecular orbitals in ten-electron hydrides

Ab initio double-zeta quality molecular orbital calculations have been carried out on an extensive series of ten-electron hydrides. The Edmiston–Ruedenberg energy-localized molecular orbitals were calculated and the total molecular and localized orbital densities analyzed in terms of dipole moments, contour plots, and a simplified model for the orbital density involving analysis of the first and second moments. The simplified moment analysis model may be easily visualized in terms of threedimensional geometric objects, spheres, and ellipsoids. The model summarizes the information on the effective functional distribution inherent in the more detailed orbital contour plots in a clear and concise manner.     

Modified carbon pseudopotential for use in ONIOM calculations of alkyl-substituted metallocenes

Nonrelativistic carbon 1s core pseudopotentials are optimized for substituted cyclopentadienide ring carbons for use in integrated molecular orbital molecular orbital (IMOMO) and integrated molecular orbital molecular mechanics (IMOMM) calculations where the Cp ring substituents are not included in the high-level IMOMO or IMOMM subsystem. Use of the optimized pseudopotential within the IMOMO framework leads to significant improvements in predicted carbonyl stretching frequencies for a series of Cp-ring-methylated zirconocenes compared to using a standard carbon pseudopotential. The technology is less successful in the IMOMM implementation.     

A linear combination of molecular orbital formalism

The assignment of the alternancy quantum number to the N-electron states of neutral alternant hydrocarbons is discussed within the spin-free unitary group formulation. Alternancy is defined with respect to both molecular graphs and molecular orbital eigenvalues. The properties of the molecular orbitals of alternant hydrocarbons result from requiring the assignments in terms of atomic orbital and molecular orbital Gel'fand states to be consistent. State correlation arguments are used to remove the arbitrary phase factor present in previous treatments.     

Orbital views of molecular conductance perturbed by anchor units

Site-specific electron transport phenomena through benzene and benzenedithiol derivatives are discussed on the basis of a qualitative Hu?ckel molecular orbital analysis for better understanding of the effect of anchoring sulfur atoms. A recent work for the orbital control of electron transport through aromatic hydrocarbons provided an important concept for the design of high-conductance connections of a molecule with anchoring atoms. In this work the origin of the frontier orbitals of benzenedithiol derivatives, the effect of the sulfur atoms on the orbitals and on the electron transport properties, and the applicability of the theoretical concept on aromatic hydrocarbons with the anchoring units are studied. The results demonstrate that the orbital view predictions are applicable to molecules perturbed by the anchoring units. The electron transport properties of benzene are found to be qualitatively consistent with those of benzenedithiol with respect to the site dependence. To verify the result of the Hu?ckel molecular orbital calculations, fragment molecular orbital analyses with the extended Hu?ckel molecular orbital theory and electron transport calculations with density functional theory are performed. Calculated results are in good agreement with the orbital interaction analysis. The phase, amplitude, and spatial distribution of the frontier orbitals play an essential role in the design of the electron transport properties through aromatic hydrocarbons.     

Radial dependence of exterior electron distributions of molecular orbitals

A molecular surface is introduced to divide interior electron densities from exterior electron densities (EED). The radial distribution of EED (RADEED) is defined for each molecular orbital as a function of the distance from the molecular surface. Logarithmic plots of RADEED for NH₃ using various basis sets in ab initio MO calculations revealed some important features: (i) the Hartree-Fock limit for the orbital function tail may be suggested and thus qualities of basis sets can be discussed, and (ii) the slope of the curve shows the decay rate of the orbital which can be compared with the curve derived from the theoretical behavior of the long-range asymptotic form involving either the lowest ionization potential or the orbital energy of the highest occupied orbital.Dedicated to Professor J. Koutecký on the occasion of his 65th birthday     

Molecular Design Approach Managing Molecular Orbital Superposition for High Efficiency without Color Shift in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Molecular design principles of thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitters having a high quantum efficiency and a color tuning capability was investigated by synthesizing three TADF emitters with donors at different positions of a benzonitrile acceptor. The position rendering a large overlap between the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) enhances the quantum efficiency of the TADF emitter. Regarding the orbital overlap, donor attachments at 2- and 6-positions of the benzonitrile were more beneficial than 3- and 5-substitutions. Moreover, an additional attachment of a weak donor at the 4-position further increased the quantum efficiency without decreasing the emission energy. Therefore, the molecular design strategy of substituting strong donors at the positions allowing a large molecular orbital overlap and an extra weak donor is a good approach to achieve both high quantum efficiency and a slightly increased emission energy.     

Studies on molecular interactions of β-cyclodextrin and antiulcer agent

The search for the lowest energy conformation of complex {β-cyclodextrin (β-CD)+chlorambucil} were carried out by molecular mechanics method. Theoretical calculations of molecular interactions of complex were carried out using the molecular orbital method. The correlation between energy changes and molecular structures are discussed. The large interaction energies calculated by the molecular orbital method bears out the inclusion phenomenon.     

Continuous symmetry measures of irreducible representations: application to molecular orbitals

The formalism of continuous symmetry measures is extended to describe the extent to which a function, such as a molecular orbital, transforms under the symmetry operations of a given point group according to each irreducible representation of this group. For distorted molecules we are able to calculate the degree to which any molecular orbital transforms with respect to the irreducible representations of the pseudosymmetry group that is valid for a higher symmetry, idealized geometry, showing which irreducible representations participate in each molecular orbital upon symmetry loss in the geometry of the nuclear framework.     

An excited state paired interacting orbital method

A new method for analyzing and visualizing the molecular excited states, named "excited state paired interacting orbital (EPIO)," is proposed. The method is based both on the paired interacting orbital (PIO) proposed by Fujimoto and Fukui [J. Chem. Phys. 60, 572 (1974)] and the natural transition orbital (NTO) by Martin [J. Chem. Phys. 118, 4775 (2003)]. Within the PIO method, orbital interactions between the two fragmented molecules are represented practically only by a few pairs of fragment orbitals. The NTO method is a means of finding a compact orbital representation for the electronic transitions in the excited states. With the method, electronic transitions are expressed by a few particle-hole orbital pairs and a clear picture on the electronic transitions is obtained. EPIO method is designed to have both properties of the preceding two methods: electronic transitions in composite molecular systems can be expressed with a few pairs of EPIOs which are constructed with fragmented molecular orbitals (MOs). Excited state characters, such as charge transfer and local excitations, are analyzed by using EPIOs with their generation probabilities. Thus, the present method gives us clear information on the composition of MOs which play an important role in the molecular excitation processes, e.g., optical processes.     

单、 双及双混氮杂卟啉的结构和电子吸收光谱

利用密度泛函和含时密度泛函理论对卟啉(FBP)、 单氮杂卟啉(N/Neo-CPs)、 双氮杂卟啉(DNCPs)及双混氮杂卟啉(Neo-C-NCPs)的结构与电子吸收光谱进行了研究. 结果表明, 由于N/C位置改变, 分子对称性和轨道组成发生改变, 氮杂卟啉中2-NCP-2H, 2,18-DNCP-2H 和1,17-Neo-C-NCP的各前线和近前线轨道能级发生较大变化, 光谱峰红移较显著; 电子-空穴分布图表明3类氮杂卟啉电子跃迁途径更丰富. 进一步探讨了水、 氯仿和苯3种溶剂对4类卟啉分子的影响. 结果表明, 随着溶剂极性减小, FBP, N-/Neo-CPs, DNCPs和Neo-C-NCPs的Q带吸收峰红移越明显, 吸收略有增强.     

Maximum overlap symmetry molecular orbitals in conjugated systems

The application of the maximum overlap symmetry orbital (MOSO) method to conjugated systems is discussed briefly. The MOSO method can be employed to construct not only the symmetry orbitals and the molecular orbitais in alternant conjugated systems, but also the symmetry orbitais in non-alternant systems. It is shown that under the Hückel approximation the matrix MM⁺ can be written out directly from the molecular skeleton and may be treated by using chemical graph theory. Because the matrix MM⁺ of a system can be regarded as the Huckel matrix of a smaller system, the maximum overlap symmetry molecular orbital (MOSMO) calculation results can be easily obtained from those of the smaller systems. For homonuclear conjugated systems and for systems in which two kinds of atom appear altemantly, the MOSMOs and the corresponding molecular orbital (MO) energies obtained by the MOSMO calculation are the same as the MOs and the MO energies calculated by the Hückel molecular orbital method.     

Core molecular orbital contribution to N2O isomerization as studied using theoretical electron momentum spectroscopy

Core molecular orbital contribution to the electronic structure of N2O isomers has been studied using quantum mechanical density functional theory combined with a plane wave impulse approximation method. Momentum distributions of wave functions for inner shell molecular orbitals of the linear NNO, cyclic and linear NON isomers of N2O are calculated through the (e, 2e) differential cross sections in momentum space. This is possible because this momentum distribution is directly proportional to the modulus squared of the momentum space wave function for the molecular orbital in question. While the momentum distributions of the NNO and cyclic N2O isomers demonstrate strong atomic orbital characteristics in their core space, the outer core molecular orbitals of the linear NON isomer exhibit configuration interactions between them and the valence molecular orbitals. It is suggested that the frozen core approximation breaks down in the prediction of the electronic structure of such an isomer. Core molecular orbital contributions to the electronic structure can alter the order of total energies of the isomers and lead to incorrect conclusions of the stability among the isomers. As a result, full electron calculations should be employed in the study of N2O isomerization.     

Implications of molecular orbital symmetries and energies for the electron delocalization of inorganic clusters.

Isostructural clusters exhibit contrasting magnetic properties when the number of electrons differs. Surprisingly, the same is true even for isoelectronic cages (e.g. O(h) B6H6(2-) is diatropic, whereas O(h) Si6(2-) is paratropic) or for those with different substitutents (e.g. T(d) B4H4 is paratropic, whereas T(d) B4F4 is diatropic). Indeed, the total nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS) values, based on shieldings computed at cluster centers, may range considerably in magnitude and even change from diatropic (up-field shifted) to paratropic (down-field shifted). Similarly, individual dissected canonical molecular orbital contributions to the total NICS values computed at the "gauge-including atomic orbitals" (GIAO) level vary greatly. This contrasting behavior arises from molecular orbital energy differences, from the extent of orbital overlap, as well as from symmetry-based selection rules derived from group theory. Differences in magnetic properties may originate from the symmetry of the orbitals; specifically from the forbidden nature of the highest occupied molecular orbital --> lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (HOMO --> LUMO) electronic excitation weighted by the occupied-unoccupied orbital energy difference. Thus, HOMO-NICS values are generally highly paratropic if the HOMO --> LUMO rotational transition is allowed by symmetry selection rules.     

A reassignment of molecular orbital configurations of the electronic states of ScF

Ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been performed on low-lying electronic states of ScF. The calculations suggest a reassignment of the molecular orbital configurations of the lowest lying Φ states, and suggest also that some of the low-lying Π states may not be well described by single configuration wavefunctions.