Computational investigation of the heat of formation, detonation properties of furazan-based energetic materials

The heats of formation (HOFs) for a series of furazan-based energetic materials were calculated by density functional theory. The isodesmic reaction method was employed to estimate the HOFs. The result shows that the introductions of azo and azoxy groups can increase the HOF, but the introduction of azo group can increase the more HOF, when compared with azoxy group. The detonation velocities and detonation pressures of the furazan-based energetic materials are further evaluated at B3LYP/6-31G* level. Dioxoazotetrafurazan and azoxytetrafurazan may be regarded as the potential candidates of high-energy density materials because of good detonation performance. In addition, there are good linear correlations between OB and detonation velocities, and OB and detonation pressures. The energy gaps between the HOMO and LUMO of the studied compounds are also investigated. These results provide basic information for the molecular design of novel high-energy density materials.     

Theoretical investigation of some O-nitrosyl carboxylate biologic molecules �� A natural bond orbital study

Theoretical study of several O-nitrosyl carboxylate compounds have been performed using quantum computational ab initio RHF and density functional B3LYP and B3PW91 methods with 6-31G** basis set. Geometries obtained from DFT calculations were used to perform the natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis. It is noted that weakness in the O₃-N₂ bond is due to $ n_{O_1 } \to \sigma _{O_3 - N_2 }^* $ n_{O_1 } \to \sigma _{O_3 - N_2 }^* delocalization and is responsible for the longer O₃-N₂ bond lengths in O-nitrosyl carboxylate compounds. It is also noted that decreased occupancy of the localized $ \sigma _{O_3 - N_2 } $ \sigma _{O_3 - N_2 } orbital in the idealized Lewis structure, or increased occupancy of $ \sigma _{O_3 - N_2 }^* $ \sigma _{O_3 - N_2 }^* of the non-Lewis orbital, and their subsequent impact on molecular stability and geometry (bond lengths) are related with the resulting p character of the corresponding sulfur natural hybrid orbital (NHO) of $ \sigma _{O_3 - N_2 } $ \sigma _{O_3 - N_2 } bond orbital. In addition, the charge transfer energy decreases with the increase of the Hammett constants of subsitutent groups.     

Molecular structure and vibrational spectra of phenobaraitone by density functional theory and ab initio hartree-Fock calculations

Quantum chemistry calculations have been performed using Gaussian03 program to compute optimized geometry, harmonic vibrational frequency along with intensities in IR and Raman spectra at RHF/6-31++G** and B3LYP/6-31++G** levels for phenobarbitone (C₁₂H₁₂N₂O₃) in the ground state. The scaled harmonic vibrational frequencies have been compared with experimental FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra. Theoretical vibrational spectra of the title compound were interpreted by means of potential energy distributions (PEDs) using MOLVIB program. A detailed interpretation of the infrared spectra of the title compound is reported. On the basis of the agreement between the calculated and observed results, the assignments of fundamental vibrational modes of phenobarbitone were examined and some assignments were proposed. The theoretical spectrograms for FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra of the title compound have been constructed.     

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Study on the Electronic Excited State of Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters Formed by 2-Hydroxybenzonitrile (<Emphasis Type="Italic">o</Emphasis>-Cyanophenol) and Carbon Monoxide

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) method has been carried out to investigate excited-state hydrogen-bonding dynamics between 2-hydroxybenzonitrile (o-cyanophenol) and carbon monoxide. We have demonstrated that intermolecular hydrogen bond between 2-hydroxybenzonitrile (o-cyanophenol) and C=O group are significantly strengthened in the electronically excited state by theoretically monitoring the changes of the bond lengths of hydrogen bonds and hydrogen-bonding groups in different electronic states. In this study, we firstly analyze frontier molecular orbitals (MOs). Our results are consistent with the intermolecular hydrogen bond strengthening in the electronically excited state of Coumarin 102 in alcoholic solvents, which has been demonstrated for the first time by Zhao and Han. Moreover, the calculated electronic excitation energies of the hydrogen bonding C=O and O–H groups are markedly red-shifted upon photoexcitation, which illustrates the hydrogen bonds strengthen in the electronically excited state again. And the geometric structures in both ground state and the S₁ state of this hydrogen-bonded complex are calculated using the density functional theory (DFT) and TDDFT methods, respectively.