Ab initio calculations on the molecular structure of fluorocyanopolyynes

The molecular structure of the first three members of the fluorocyanopolyynes was studied by ab initio Hartree-Fock calculations with a polarized double zeta basis set and at MP2 level with the same basis set. Alternating triple and single bonds were found; a theoretical estimate of rotational constants and dipole moments was performed and a comparison with the available experimental data was made. An analysis of the theoretical vibrational frequencies of the title compounds was carried out.     

Ab initio calculations of surface electronic states in indium oxide

A slab approach in the framework of ab initio calculations was applied to study surface electronic states in In₂O₃ crystal. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were carried out employing the WIEN 2k code and using the full potential method with Augmented Plane Waves + local orbitals (APW+lo) formalism. Total and partial DOS (Density of States) were calculated for In and O atoms in two upper (110) surface layers. Comparison of total and partial DOS allowed determining a contribution of electronic states of different In and O surface atoms into formation of surface electronic spectra and corresponding chemical bonds. A dominant ionic character of chemical bonds in In₂O₃ is found. Calculations were performed for three slab models with different geometry parameters. It was shown that an optimal ratio between the whole vertical size of a supercell and the vertical size of atomic cluster has to be chosen. The size of vacuum region in the slab model influences significantly on the reliability of calculated characteristics of the surface electronic structure. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2011     

Ab initio quantum chemical calculations of a cluster C8H12

Using unrestricted Hartree–Fock–Roothaan approximation and density functional theory on 6‐31G* basis, ab initio calculation cluster C₈H₁₂ has been carried out. It was shown as a result of calculations that a ground state for the conformation given is a septet state. This cluster can be used for investigation of the kinematic mechanism of magnetic exchange and magnetic ordering in polyradicals. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2002     

Ab initio compact group model potentials for describing environment effects in cluster calculations

A method for the determination of ab initio group model potentials within the Hartree–Fock framework is reported. Following the theory of separability of many electron systems, a new way to incorporate the effect of complete chemical entities by means of polycenter compact model potentials is presented. The interaction between active and frozen electrons is partitioned as a sum of long- and short-range terms. The long-range term is described as the effect of −2e charges placed in the center of the charge of the frozen group molecular orbitals; the short-range one, the exchange and Pauli repulsion, is developed as a spectral representation in a nonorthogonal basis set. An algorithm to solve the problem associated with the rotation of the polycenter model potential is presented and implemented in an all-purpose quantum chemical program. In order to check the method, a group model potential for H₂O was obtained and tested. ©1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Comput Chem 20: 1145–1152, 1999     

Annealing of silica to reduce the concentration of isolated silanols and peak tailing in reverse phase liquid chromatography

Non-porous, colloidal silica particles were annealed at three different temperatures, 800, 900 and 1050 °C. The adsorption of lysozyme, a probe of surface roughness, was consistent with progressively reduced surface roughness as temperature increased. The heat treated silica particles were rehydroxylated and then used to pack UHPLC columns. The cationic protein lysozyme was used to probe silanol activity, which exhibited progressively less tailing as the annealing temperature increased. FTIR spectroscopy confirmed that the abundance of isolated silanols on the surface was reduced by annealing at 900 °C or 1050 °C. FTIR also revealed that there was markedly increased hydrogen bonding of the isolated silanols to neighbors after rehydroxylation. These results combine to support the hypothesis that (a) isolated silanols on silica cause tailing in RP-LC and (b) nonplanar topography gives rise to isolated silanols.     

Semiempirical versusab initio calculations of molecular properties

A comparative study of the structural parameters in some strained spirohydrocarbons is presented. The theoretical values provided by the STO-3G, MINDO/3 and IMOA methods are in reasonable agreement with each other and with available experimental data offering thus a posteriori justification of the employed approximate schemes.     

Ab initio calculations of silicon-halogen-silicon double bridges

Summary Structure and stability of molecular clusters modelling halogen (F, Cl) double bridges between silicon atoms, H₃SiF₂SiH₃ (1), H₃SiF₂SiF₃ (2), H₃SiCl₂SiH₃ (3), and H₃SiCl₂ SiCl₃ (4), have been investigated by an ab initio pseudopotential method. Asymmetrical bridges Si-X...Si with one strong Si-X bond and one weak Si...X bonding interaction (X=F, Cl) result from the geometry optimization using the LP-31 G basis set. Dissociation energy calculations using the MP2/LP-31G*//LP-31G procedure and considering the basis set superposition error provide a decrease of stability of the structures in the order2>4>3>1. The results are discussed with respect to formation and decomposition of halogenated reaction overlayers formed during the etching of silicon by halogen atoms.

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Ab-Initio-Berechnungen von Silizium-Halogen-Silizium-Doppelbrücken

Zusammenfassung Struktur und Stabilität von molekularen Clustern, die Halogen(F, Cl)-Doppelbrücken zwischen Siliziumatomen modellieren, H₃SiF₂SiH₃ (1), H₃SiF₂SiF₃ (2), H₃SiCl₂SiH₃ (3) und H₃SiCl₂SiCl₃ (4), werden mittels eines Ab-Initio-Pseudopotentialverfahrens untersucht. Bei der Geometrieoptimierung unter Verwendung des LP-31 G-Basissatzes ergeben sich asymmetrische Brücken Si-X...Si mit einer starken Si-X-Bindung und einer schwachen bindenden Si...X-Wechselwirkung (X=F, Cl). Dissoziationsenergieberechnungen durch das MP2/LP-31 G*//LP-31 G-Verfahren unter Berücksichtigung des Basissatzüberlagerungsfehlers liefert eine abnehmende Stabilität der Cluster in der Reihenfolge2>4>3>1. Die Resultate werden im Zusammenhang mit der Bildung und dem Zerfall von halogenierten Reaktionsschichen, welche während des reaktiven Ätzens von Silizium mit Halogenatomen gebildet werden, diskutiert.

     

Trace metal impurities in silica as a cause of strongly interacting silanols

Summary The paper describes nuclear activation analysis of several chromatographic grade silicas for the determination of trace metals. The effect of acid washing is described and the effect of trace metals on the acidity of surface silanols is discussed. A correlation has been found between the concentration of metal traces in the layer of silica adjacent to the surface and the concentration of strongly interacting sites.     

Ab initio molecular orbital calculations on large lattice cluster models: Use of translational symmetry

Summary Translational symmetry has been shown to be useful in the calculation of electronic structures of large lattice models. The number of unique integrals has been derived for cases of different dimensionality. For the unique integrals zero screening and approximation methods are described. The method has been applied to arrays of hydrogen atoms and to a zincblende surface model. When the size of the system is increased the translationally unique integrals are shown to become either zero or they can be calculated by simple coulombic approximations.     

AlCB原子簇的从头算研究

用ab initio能量解析梯度法, 有UHF(RHF)/6-31G^*水平上优化得到AlCB的11个电子态, 并从CISD能量、振动分析、原子平均结合能以及原子簇的碎片化和碎片化能等四方面研究了AlCB的稳定性。     

Ab initio calculations of vibronic activity in phosphorescence microwave double resonance spectra of p-dichlorobenzene

The phosphorescence spectrum of p-dichlorobenzene has been calculated using multiconfiguration self-consistent-field wave functions and the quadratic response technique. Attention has been paid to the intensity distribution of the singlet–triplet (³B_1u¹A_g) transition through a number of vibronic subbands. The second order spin–orbit coupling (SOC) contribution to the spin splitting of the ³B_1u (^3*) state is found to be almost negligible, and the calculations therefore provide a good estimate for the zero-field splitting (ZFS) parameters based only on the electron spin–spin coupling expectation values. Nuclear quadrupole resonance constants for the different Cl isotopes are also calculated to accomplish the ZFS assignment. The electric dipole activity of the spin sublevels in the triplet–singlet transitions to the ground-state vibrational levels is estimated by calculations of derivatives using distorted geometries which are shifted from the equilibrium position along different vibrational modes. A vibrational analysis of the phosphorescence spectrum, based on the SOC-induced mixing of the singlet and triplet states calculated along different vibrational modes, provides reasonable agreement with experimental data.Acknowledgment O. R.-P. would like to thank the European MOLPROP network for support. The authors thank Alexander Baev for fruitful discussions. This work was supported by the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (KVA).     

Characterization of Lewis acid sites on the (100) surface of beta-AlF3: Ab initio calculations of NH3 adsorption

The current study employs hybrid-exchange density functional theory to show that the Lewis base, NH(3), binds to the beta-AlF(3) (100) surface with a binding energy (BE) of up to -1.96 eV per molecule. This is characteristic of a strong Lewis acid. The binding of NH(3) to the surface is predominately due to electrostatic interactions. There is only a small charge transfer from the NH(3) molecule to the surface. The BE as a function of coverage is computed and used to develop a lattice Monte Carlo model which is used to predict the temperature programed desorption (TPD) spectrum. Comparison with experimental TPD studies of NH(3) from beta-AlF(3) strongly suggests that these structural models and binding mechanisms are good approximations to those that occur on real AlF(3) surfaces.     

Ab initio calculations of methionines and their protonated forms

Ab initio calculations of molecular and electronic structures of neutral molecules and protonated forms of methionine and its derivatives in the gaseous phase were carried out by the Hartree-Fock method using the 6–31G^* basis set with full geometry optimization. Proton affinities of methionine (1), methionine sulfoxide (2), and methionine sulfone (3) were calculated for different modes of coordination of the proton. The results of calculations demonstrated that in protonated forms of 1 and 3, bonding between the proton and the N atom is most favorable, while in protonated form of 2, bonding between the proton and the O atom of the SO group is most favorable. The proton affinities of the amino acids are as follows: 223.2 (1), 241.2 (2), and 221.5 (3) kcal mol⁻¹,i.e., methionine sulfoxide 2 exhibits the highest proton affinity in the series of the amino acids under consideration. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1487–1490, August, 1998.     

Ab initio calculations of small hydrides including electron correlation

Five different structures of CH₅ ⁺ and one structure of CH₅ ^– are calculated using a gaussian basis both in the SCF approximation and with the inclusion of electron correlation in the independent electron pair approximation (IEPA). While on SCF level the C _sstructure of CH₅ ⁺ has to lowest energy, the energy difference between the C _sand C _2vstructures becomes negligible if correlation is included. In contrast to this the approach of a proton to CH₄ at large and intermediate distances is most favorable towards a corner of the CH₄ tetrahedron which means a structure. The decomposition of CH₅ ⁺ into CH₃ ⁺ and H₂ requires 20kcal/mol on SCF level and 40 kcal/mol if correlation is included.     

Ab initio calculations on low-lying electronic states of PdH

Potential energy curves for the low-lying electronic states of PdH have been calculated using the MRCI method with scalar relativistic and spin-orbit corrections, and all electronic states correlating to the 4d¹⁰ (¹S), 4d⁹ 5s¹ (³D), 4d⁹ 5s¹ (¹D) and 4d⁸ 5s² (³F) states of Pd were included. Potential energy curves for the individual Ω states have been obtained, and the experimentally observed spectra of both PdH and PdD isotopologues have been assigned appropriately based on the ab initio results. Einstein A coefficients were calculated for other possible transitions from the low-lying electronic states to the X²Σ⁺ ground state. Diagonal and off-diagonal matrix elements of the spin-orbit Hamiltonian were calculated for all vibrational levels of the X²Σ⁺, 1²Δ, 1²Π, 2²Σ⁺ and 3²Σ⁺ states, and it was found from the eigenvectors that the vibrational wavefunctions of the 1²Δ_3/2 and 1²Π_3/2 states are mixed significantly in both PdH and PdD isotopologues.     

Ab initio cluster calculations for the absorption energies of F and F+ centers in bulk ZnO

We present the results of a series of ab initio calculations on the ground states and the low lying excited states of the F and F+ centers in bulk ZnO. Both types of F centers are oxygen vacancies, causing rather strong distortions of the local geometries. The calculations were performed by means of wave function based methods, mostly at the CASSCF level. Dynamic correlation was included for the first two coordination shells of the F centers. The calculated absorption energy for the F+ center (3.19 eV) is in excellent agreement with the experimental value of 3.03 eV. For the emission from the 3T2 state of the F center to the 1A1 ground state we obtained a transition energy of 2.73 eV. Experimentally, a green photoluminescence is observed at 2.38-2.45 eV. We estimated that the errors in our calculation should be even smaller in the latter case than for the F+ state, where the calculated transition energy differs by less than 0.2 eV from the experimental value. Therefore, we assume that the 3T2 to 1A1 transition is not the origin of the green luminescence.     

Vibrational and electronic spectra of benzophenone in different phase states: Ab initio calculations and experiment

An ab initio method has been used to perform quantum mechanical calculations of the formation energy of different conformers of benzophenone: planar molecule, twisted molecule, planar molecule dimer, twisted molecule dimer; electronic and vibrational spectra of these conformers were also obtained. An assessment of the medium (solvent) influence on the optimal geometry, dipole moment and stability of different forms of benzophenone was performed in the self-consistent reaction field approximation. It is shown that the twisted conformer is more stable than the planar one (the difference of free energies is 32 kJ/mol for free molecules) and it becomes even more stable with the increase in solvent polarity. The calculated electronic and vibrational spectra agree well with the experimental data and properly reflect the complication of the vibrational spectrum when passing from the gaseous phase to the condensed state of benzophenone. The difference between spectral properties of the two dimer forms allows their identification from the spectra and qualitative explanation of the observed peculiarities of phosphorescence of the amorphous phase of benzophenone by the stabilization of different conformers.     

Ab initio molecular orbital calculations of the infrared spectra of hydrogen-bonded complexes of water,ammonia and hydroxylamine

Summary The geometries of three hydrogen-bonded dimers of hydroxylamine have been optimized, at the MP2 level of theory, using the 6-31G** basis set. These calculations yielded three separate local minima on the dimer potential energy surface. The interaction energies of these three species have been calculated, and corrected for basis set superposition error. The infrared band wavenumbers and intensities have been computed, and the monomer-dimer wavenumber shifts and intensity enhancements rationalized in terms of the types and strengths of hydrogen bonds present. The predicted wavenumbers have been correlated with those measured in a recent matrix isolation spectroscopic study, and an argument for the structure of the preferred dimer has been presented.