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Reactivity of haloethanes with hydroxyl radicals: Effects of basis set and correlation energy on reaction energetics
Authors:Sanja Seku&#x;ak  Aleksandar Sabljic
Abstract:Ab initio calculations on fluoroethane reactions with the hydroxyl radical have been carried out at different levels of theory. The convergence of reaction barriers and reaction enthalpies has been systematically investigated with respect to the size and quality of the basis set and the treatment of correlation energy. The G2 and MP2 barrier heights and reaction enthalpies show the best agreement with the experimental data. The split valence basis sets of triple-zeta quality supplemented by diffuse and polarization functions are necessary to reproduce experimental values for barrier heights and reaction enthalpies at the MP2 level of theory. The full counterpoise correction was used to calculate the basis set superposition error for several standard basis sets, including polarization and diffuse functions. The smallest counterpoise corrections are associated with basis sets that contain polarization and diffuse functions, the diffuse functions being the most effective in reducing BSSE. However, in our case, the uncorrected barrier heights are in better agreement with experimental results than the counterpoise-corrected data. Thus, at the MP2 level of theory, which seems to be dictated for larger electronic systems of chemical interest, the optimal approach is to increase the basis set to the maximum size affordable and to use results without counterpoise corrections for the calculation of reaction barriers. A viable alternative is the use of G2 theory because its results for the barrier heights and reaction enthalpies are in excellent agreement with the experimental data. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Comput Chem 18: 1190–1199
Keywords:ab initio calculations  basis set superposition error  correlation energy  halogenated alkanes  hydrogen abstraction by hydroxyl radical  reaction barriers and reaction enthalpies
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