Structural, electronic, vibrational and optical properties of Bin clusters

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (28) ◽  
pp. 1750260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Liang ◽  
Wanting Shen ◽  
Chunfang Zhang ◽  
Pengfei Lu ◽  
Shumin Wang

The neutral, anionic and cationic bismuth clusters with the size n up to 14 are investigated by using B3LYP functional within the regime of density functional theory and the LAN2DZ basis set. By analysis of the geometries of the Bi[Formula: see text] (n = 2–14) clusters, where cationic and anionic bismuth clusters are largely similar to those of neutral ones, a periodic effect by adding units with one to four atoms into smaller cluster to form larger cluster is drawn for the stable structures of bismuth clusters. An even–odd alteration is shown for the properties of the clusters, such as the calculated binding energies and dissociation energies, as well as frontier orbital energies, electron affinities, ionization energies. All the properties indicate that the Bi4 cluster is the most possible existence in bismuth-containing materials, which supports the most recent experiment. The orbital compositions, infrared and Raman activities and the ultraviolet absorption of the most possible tetramer bismuth cluster are given in detail to reveal the periodic tendency of adding bismuth atoms and the stability of tetramer bismuth cluster.

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 359-362
Author(s):  
Ming Xun Yan ◽  
Jin Dong Gong ◽  
Ping Shen ◽  
Chang Ying Yang

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations, based on B3LYP/6-311G (d, p) basis set, were performed to evaluate the OH bond dissociation energies (BDEs) for phloretin, compared with naringenin, in order to assess the contribution of hydroxyl groups at different position to the radical-scavenging properties. It is indicated clearly that A6 OH is determined as the weakest O-H bond, give rise to the smallest BDE, 73.98 kcal/mol. BDE of B4 OH decreases 2.5 kcal/mol in benzene, very close to that of A6OH, indicated that B4 OH group is also mainly contributed to the reaction with free radicals, especially in non-polar environments.


2008 ◽  
Vol 07 (05) ◽  
pp. 943-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIAO-HONG LI ◽  
ZHENG-XIN TANG ◽  
ABRAHAM F. JALBOUT ◽  
XIAN-ZHOU ZHANG ◽  
XIN-LU CHENG

Quantum chemical calculations are used to estimate the bond dissociation energies (BDEs) for 15 thiol compounds. These compounds are studied by employing the hybrid density functional theory (B3LYP, B3PW91, B3P86, PBE0) methods and the complete basis set (CBS-Q) method together with 6-311G** basis set. It is demonstrated that B3P86 and CBS-Q methods are accurate for computing the reliable BDEs for thiol compounds. In order to test whether the non-local BLYP method suggested by Fu et al.19 is general for our study and whether B3P86 method has a low basis set sensitivity, the BDEs for seven thiol compounds are also calculated using BLYP/6-31+G* and B3P86 method with 6-31+G*, 6-31+G**, and 6-311+G** basis sets for comparison. The obtained results are compared with the available experimental results. It is noted that B3P86 method is not sensitive to the basis set. Considering the inevitable computational cost of CBS-Q method and the reliability of the B3P86 calculations, B3P86 method with a moderate or a larger basis set may be more suitable to calculate the BDEs of the C–SH bond for thiol compounds.


1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 1223-1244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cordula Rauwolf ◽  
Achim Mehlhorn ◽  
Jürgen Fabian

Weak interactions between organic donor and acceptor molecules resulting in cofacially-stacked aggregates ("CT complexes") were studied by second-order many-body perturbation theory (MP2) and by gradient-corrected hybrid Hartree-Fock/density functional theory (B3LYP exchange-correlation functional). The complexes consist of tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) and related compounds and tetracyanoethylene (TCNE). Density functional theory (DFT) and MP2 molecular equilibrium geometries of the component structures are calculated by means of 6-31G*, 6-31G*(0.25), 6-31++G**, 6-31++G(3df,2p) and 6-311G** basis sets. Reliable molecular geometries are obtained for the donor and acceptor compounds considered. The geometries of the compounds were kept frozen in optimizing aggregate structures with respect to the intermolecular distance. The basis set superposition error (BSSE) was considered (counterpoise correction). According to the DFT and MP2 calculations laterally-displaced stacks are more stable than vertical stacks. The charge transfer from the donor to the acceptor is small in the ground state of the isolated complexes. The cp-corrected binding energies of TTF/TCNE amount to -1.7 and -6.3 kcal/mol at the DFT(B3LYP) and MP2(frozen) level of theory, respectively (6-31G* basis set). Larger binding energies were obtained by Hobza's 6-31G*(0.25) basis set. The larger MP2 binding energies suggest that the dispersion energy is underestimated or not considered by the B3LYP functional. The energy increases when S in TTF/TCNE is replaced by O or NH but decreases with substitution by Se. The charge-transferred complexes in the triplet state are favored in the vertical arrangement. Self-consistent-reaction-field (SCRF) calculations predicted a gain in binding energy with solvation for the ground-state complex. The ground-state charge transfer between the components is increased up to 0.8 e in polar solvents.


2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boleslaw Karwowski

AbstractOxidatively generated damage to DNA frequently appears in the human genome as an effect of aerobic metabolism or as the result of exposure to exogenous oxidizing agents. Due to these facts it has been decided to calculate the stability of 5′,8-cyclo-2′-deoxyadenosine/guanosine (cdA, cdG) in their 5′R and 5′S diastereomeric forms. For all points of quantum mechanics studies presented, the density functional theory (DFT) with B3LYP parameters on 6-311++G** basis set level was used. The calculations showed a significant negative enthalpy for glycosidic bond cleavage reaction for cationic forms and slightly negative for neutral ones. The preliminary study of the discussed process has shown the nature of stepwise nucleophilic substitution DN*AD type mechanism. Surprisingly, the different values in free energy, between short-lived oxacarbenium ion intermediates, have been found to lie over a relatively small range, around 1 and 2.8 kcal mol−1. For anions, the decomposition enthalpies were found as positive in aqueous phases. These theoretical results are supported by the formic acid hydrolysis experiments of both diastereomers of cdA, for the first time. (5′S)cdA exhibited higher stability than (5′R)cdA.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1041-1049
Author(s):  
Baghdad Science Journal

Density Functional Theory (DFT) with B3LYP hybrid exchange-correlation functional and 3-21G basis set and semi-empirical methods (PM3) were used to calculate the energies (total energy, binding energy (Eb), molecular orbital energy (EHOMO-ELUMO), heat of formation (?Hf)) and vibrational spectra for some Tellurium (IV) compounds containing cycloctadienyl group which can use as ligands with some transition metals or essential metals of periodic table at optimized geometrical structures.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero Ferrari ◽  
Ewald Janssens

The stability patterns of single silver, platinum, and palladium atom doped gold cluster cations, MAuN−1+ (M = Ag, Pt, Pd; N = 3–6), are investigated by a combination of photofragmentation experiments and density functional theory calculations. The mass spectra of the photofragmented clusters reveal an odd-even pattern in the abundances of AgAuN−1+, with local maxima for clusters containing an even number of valence electrons, similarly to pure AuN+. The odd-even pattern, however, disappears upon Pt and Pd doping. Computed dissociation energies agree well with the experimental findings for the different doped clusters. The effect of Ag, Pt, and Pd doping is discussed on the basis of an analysis of the density of states of the N = 3–5 clusters. Whereas Ag delocalizes its 5s valence electron in all sizes, this process is size-specific for Pt and Pd.


1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 1005-1007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delano P. Chong

Our recent procedure of computing accurate core-electron binding energies (CEBEs) with density-functional theory is applied to glycine conformers in this work. The procedure uses the unrestricted generalized transition-state model and a combined functional of Becke's 1988 exchange with Perdew's 1986 correlation. When a large basis set such as Dunning's correlation-consistent polarized valence quadruple zeta set is used, the average absolute deviation from experiment for the CEBEs of the most stable conformer of glycine is only 0.2 eV, compared with 18 eV for Koopmans' theorem. Key words: core-electron binding energies, density-functional theory, glycine.


Author(s):  
Nguyen Huu Tho ◽  
Pham Hong Cam

The geometries, stabilities and electronic properties of vanadium-doped germanium clusters GenV0/+ (n=2-8) were systematically investigated by using density functional theory (DFT) at the PBE level and the 6-311+G(d) basis set. The results show that the geometries of lowest-energy structures of the cationic clusters are only significant different from those of the neutral at n = 6 or 7. The ground state of neutral clusters is a doublet, except Ge2V which is a quartet while that of cationic clusters is a triplet, except Ge8V+, which is a singlet. The average binding energy values generally increase with increasing cluster size. The results from average binding energies showed that it is more stable for the cationic than neutral clusters at the same size. Furthermore, the calculated values of fragmentation energy, second-order energy difference, HOMO-LUMO gap and adiabatic ionization potential suggest that the neutral clusters possess higher stability when n = 2, 5, 8 and the cations are more stable when n = 2, 3, 5 and 6.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmaa Mahmoud Fahim ◽  
Ahmad Mahmoud Farag ◽  
Mohamed Rabie Shaaban ◽  
Eman Ali Ragab

Regioselective facile synthesis of innovative heterocycles from the reaction of 2-cyano-N-cyclohexylacetamide (3) with hydrazonoyl chloride (4) in basic condition afforded amino pyrazole derivative 6. The behavior of acetamide 3 with phenylisothiocyanate in DMF/KOH surveyed by addition of the α-halo ketones to yeild the corresponding thiophene derivative 13a, 13b, 16, 18 and 1,3-thiazoles 21. Reaction of intermediate potassium salt 9 with hydrazonoyl chloride 22a-e furnished the corresponding 1,2,4-thiadiazoles 24a-e. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP and HF techniques combined with 6-31G(d) basis set to investigate the equilibrium geometry of the innovative compound pyrazoles 6 and the stability affording of HOMO/LUMO molecular orbitals.


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