A DFT STUDY OF MOLYBDATE-PHOSPHONIC ACID COMPLEX

2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 765-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. AGHAIE ◽  
M. H. GHORBANI ◽  
R. FAZAELI ◽  
H. AGHAIE

The relative stability of Molybdate-Phosphonic Acid (MPA) Complex in gas phase has been carried out using Density Functional Theory (DFT) methods. The methods used for calculations are B3LYP, BP86 and B3PW91, with three series of basis sets: D95**, 6-31+G (d,p) and 6-31++G (d,p) for hydrogen and oxygen atoms; LANL2DZ for Mo and Phosphorus. Predicted geometry and relative stability are discussed. Equilibrium geometry in the ground electronic state energy has been calculated for 1:1 complex. The best result for energetic and geometrical ground state was obtained with Becke3LYP calculations. The Basis Set Superposition Error (BSSE) begins to converge for all methods/basis sets. For this complex, most levels of theory seem to give reasonable estimates of the known binding energies, but here, too, the BSSE overwhelms the reliability of the binding energies for these basis sets.

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Ghiasi ◽  
Morteza Zaman Fashami ◽  
Amir Hossein Hakimioun

In this work, the interaction of C 20 with N 2 X 2 ( X = H , F , Cl , Br , Me ) molecules has been explored using the B3LYP, M062x methods and 6-311G(d,p) and 6-311+G(d,p) basis sets. The interaction energies (IEs) obtained with standard method were corrected by basis set superposition error (BSSE) during the geometry optimization for all molecules at the same levels of theory. It was found C 20… N 2 H 2 interaction is stronger than the interaction of other N 2 X 2 ( X = F , Cl , Br , Me ) with C 20. Highest occupied and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (HOMO and LUMO, respectively) levels are illustrated by density of states spectra (DOS). The nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICSs) confirm that C 20… N 2 X 2 molecules exhibit aromatic characteristics. Geometries obtained from DFT calculations were used to perform NBO analysis. Also, 14 N NQR parameters of the C 20… N 2 X 2 molecules are predicted.


Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (21) ◽  
pp. 5174
Author(s):  
Frederick Stein ◽  
Jürg Hutter ◽  
Vladimir V. Rybkin

Intermolecular interactions play an important role for the understanding of catalysis, biochemistry and pharmacy. Double-hybrid density functionals (DHDFs) combine the proper treatment of short-range interactions of common density functionals with the correct description of long-range interactions of wave-function correlation methods. Up to now, there are only a few benchmark studies available examining the performance of DHDFs in condensed phase. We studied the performance of a small but diverse selection of DHDFs implemented within Gaussian and plane waves formalism on cohesive energies of four representative dispersion interaction dominated crystal structures. We found that the PWRB95 and ωB97X-2 functionals provide an excellent description of long-ranged interactions in solids. In addition, we identified numerical issues due to the extreme grid dependence of the underlying density functional for PWRB95. The basis set superposition error (BSSE) and convergence with respect to the super cell size are discussed for two different large basis sets.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Irving ◽  
Martina Kieninger ◽  
Oscar N. Ventura

The performance of a group of density functional methods of progressive complexity for the description of the ClO bond in a series of chlorine oxides was investigated. The simplest ClO radical species and the two isomeric structures XClO/ClOX for each X = H, Cl, and O were studied using the PW91, TPSS, B3LYP, PBE0, M06, M06-2X, BMK, and B2PLYP functionals. Geometry optimizations and reaction enthalpies and enthalpies of formation for each species were calculated using Pople basis sets and the (aug)-cc-pVnZ Dunning sets, with n = D, T, Q, 5, and 6. For the calculation of enthalpies of formation, atomization and isodesmic reactions were employed. Both the precision of the methods with respect to the increase of the basis sets, as well as their accuracy, were gauged by comparing the results with the more accurate CCSD(T) calculations, performed using the same basis sets as for the DFT methods. The results obtained employing composite chemical methods (G4, CBS-QB3, and W1BD) were also used for the comparisons, as well as the experimental results when they are available. The results obtained show that error compensation is the key for successful description of molecular properties (geometries and energies) by carefully selecting the method and basis sets. In general, expansion of the one-electron basis set to the limit of completeness does not improve results at the DFT level, but just the opposite. The enthalpies of formation calculated at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pV6Z for the species considered are generally in agreement with experimental determinations and the most accurate theoretical values. Different sources of error in the calculations are discussed in detail.


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.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Ventura ◽  
Kenneth Irving ◽  
Martina Kieninger

<p>The performance of a group of density functional methods of progressive complexity for the description of the ClO bond in a series of chlorine oxides was investigated. The simplest ClO radical species as well as the two isomeric structures XClO/ClOX for each X=H, Cl and O were studied using the PW91, TPSS, B3LYP, PBE0, M06, M06-2X, BMK and B2PLYP functionals. Geometry optimizations as well as reaction enthalpies and enthalpies of formation for each species were calculated using Pople basis sets and the (aug)-cc-pVnZ Dunning sets, with n=2-6. For the calculation of enthalpies of formation, atomization as well as isodesmic reactions were employed. Both the precision of the methods with respect to the increase of the basis sets, as well as their accuracy, were gauged by comparing the results with the more accurate CCSD(T) calculations, performed using the same basis sets as for the DFT methods. The results obtained employing composite chemical methods (G4, CBS-QB3 and W1BD) were also used for the comparisons, as well as the experimental results when they are available. The results obtained show that error compensation is the key for successful description of molecular properties (geometries and energies) by carefully selecting method and basis sets. In general, expansion of the one-electron basis set to the limit of completeness does not improve results at the DFT level, but just the opposite. The enthalpies of formation calculated at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pV6Z for the species considered are generally in agreement with experimental determinations, and the most accurate derived theoretically up to present. Different sources of error in the calculations are discussed in detail.</p>


1998 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 1223-1235
Author(s):  
Inge Warttmann ◽  
Günter Häfelinger

AbstractAb initio Hartree-Fock (HF) and density functional (DFT) optimizations on the test m olecule osmiumtetracarbonyldihydride (13) with various basis sets show that the lanl2mb pseudopotential basis set for osmium leads in the HF approximation to more reliable molecular geometries than the DFT calculations. This HF procedure was used for the optimizations of molecular geometries of three isomeric 4,4,4,4,17,17,17,17-octacarbonyl-4,17-diosma[7.7]ortho-, meta- and paracyclophanes 1 to 3, of which 3 was found to be predestined for formation of various host-guest complexes with possible guests benzene (4), fluorobenzene (5), 1,3,5- trifluorobenzene (6), 1,2,4,5-tetrafluorobenzene (7), hexafluorobenzene (8), fluoroanil (9), tetrafluoroethene (10), tetracyanoethene (11) and aniline (12). Results of optimized hostguest geometries are presented graphically for inclusions and associations of guest 4 to 12 with 3. Calculated lanl2mb interaction energies, after correction for basis set superposition error (BSSE), remain favourable only for inclusion of 5 and associations of 5, 10, 11 and 12. Additionally lanl2dz single point calculations for inclusion, which may not need BSSE correction because of the improved basis set, are favourable for 6 and 12. According to lanl2mb HOMO and LUMO energies, 3 may as well easily donate or accept electrons. This may be an interpretation to the surprising effect, that Mulliken total charges are positive on the electron accepting guest molecules 4 to 11. There are geometrical peculiarities in the optimized host-guest complexes for inclusion and association. Fluorine atoms of 5 to 10 and nitrogen atoms of a cyano group of 11 and the amino group of 12 like to come close to one or two carbonyl groups. Similar distances of 2.70 Å to 3.57 Å between the O atom of the carbonyl group and the F atom or N atom appear in all optimizations of inclusion and association of 5 to 12 except in the case of association of tetrafluoroethene (10).


2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 325-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA IGNACZAK

Detailed comparative analysis of properties of the tert-butyl radical and cation is performed using 14 density functional (DFT) methods combined with double-zeta and triple-zeta quality Gaussian basis sets with polarization and diffuse functions. Stability of different conformers is discussed. Structural parameters, dipole moment, adiabatic ionization potential (IP), inversion barrier and isotropic hyperfine coupling constants are examined and compared to values obtained at the standard MP2 level and to experimental data available. All methods indicate that that the CC bond in the radical is longer than in the cation by about 0.033 Å. The IP values are found to be very sensitive to the method used and range from 612 to 709 kJ/mol, but majority oscillate around 646÷656 kJ/mol. Calculated inversion barrier for the radical is higher than the experimental estimate of 2.68 kJ/mol; with the 6-311++G** basis set and most DFT methods it is predicted in the range 3.86÷4.82 kJ/mol. All DFT methods predict for the out-of-plane CC3 bending mode of the radical the frequency around 260 cm-1, while in the cation the corresponding frequency is higher by about 180 cm-1.


2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350022 ◽  
Author(s):  
MEHDI D. ESRAFILI ◽  
NAFISEH MOHAMMADIRAD

A systematic theoretical study on various maleic acid (MA) clusters has been carried out employing density functional theory (DFT) methods. The performance of two different functionals namely B3LYP and M06 in the prediction of geometries, 17 O and 2 H nuclei quadrupole coupling constant (CQ) values of the MA clusters has been assessed comparing the results to those experimental data. For DFT calculations, several basis sets have been used, including the recently developed Jensen's polarization-consistent basis set families, pcJ-n and pcS-n (n = 0,1,2,3). Calculations at the basis set limit indicate that the value of CQ(2 H ) in monomer MA, changes by 0.01–0.04 kHz for each of the final two basis set increments, and seems reasonable to conclusion that the pcJ-3 result is within a few kHz of the basis set limit. Convergence with respect to basis set size was found to be very good, and the pcJ-1 and pcS-1 basis sets provided a good compromise between the basis set limit and computational expense. In most cases, the differences between B3LYP and M06 results for a given basis set are in a range of 1–2%. On the other hand, no systematic changes in the CQ(17 O ) or CQ(2 H ) were found for basis sets larger than double-ζ. Thus, the usual assumption that double-ζ basis set (pcJ-1 and pcS-1) results in the acceptable CQ values, seems to be valid in the case of 17 O and 2 H nuclei.


2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (6A) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Pham Le Nhan ◽  
Nguyen Tien Trung

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations using numerical basis sets were employed to predict the solvation energies, Gibbs free energies and pKa values of a series of 5-substituted uracil derivatives. Obtained results show that solvation energies are not significantly different between DFT methods using the numerical (DNP) and Gaussian basis set (aug-cc-pVTZ). It is noteworthy that the independent and suitable solvation energy of proton of -258.6 kcal/mol has been proposed for the evaluation of pKa values in conjunction with the numerical basis set. In addition, the calculated pKa values suggest that the anti-conformation of 5-formyluracil is the most stable form in the aqueous solution. 


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