DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES OF SPECTROSCOPIC CONSTANTS AND ANHARMONIC FORCE FIELD OF O35ClO

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 1250117 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZILIANG ZHU ◽  
MEISHAN WANG ◽  
CHUANLU YANG ◽  
MEIZHONG MA ◽  
WENWANG LIU

The equilibrium structure, spectroscopy constants and anharmonic force field of O35ClO have been calculated at B3PW91 and B3LYP levels of theory with two basis sets 6-311++G(2df,2pd) and 6-311++G(3df,3pd) , respectively. The computed geometries, dipole moment, rotational constants, vibration–rotation interaction constants, vibrational band origins, anharmonic constants, quartic, and sextic centrifugal distortion constants are compared with the available experimental data. The cubic and quartic force constants are predicted. The calculated results show that the B3PW91 results are in excellent agreement with experiment and represent a substantial improvement over the results obtained from B3LYP.

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (06) ◽  
pp. 849-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
YURONG GUO ◽  
MEISHAN WANG ◽  
CHUANLU YANG ◽  
YUTING SUN ◽  
ZILIANG ZHU

The equilibrium structure, spectroscopic constants and anharmonic force field of AsH2 have been investigated at B3LYP, B3PW91 and MP2 methods employing the basis sets of cc-pVNZ and aug-cc-pVNZ (N ∈ { T , Q }), respectively. The computed geometries, rotational constants, part of vibrational frequencies, quartic and sextic centrifugal distortion constants are compared with the available experimental data or theoretical results. The other vibrational frequencies, equilibrium rotational constants, anharmonic constants, vibration–rotation interaction constants, cubic and quartic force constants of AsH2 are also predicted for the first time. Furthermore, the calculated results show that the DFT method is superior to MP2 at the calculations of geometries, spectroscopic constants and force constants. The B3PW91/aug-cc-pVQZ results are more reliable. Our predictions can provide useful data for the experimental studies of the corresponding spectroscopic constants of AsH2 .


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weixiu Pang ◽  
Xiaomin Song ◽  
Yunbin Sun ◽  
Meishan Wang

Abstract The potential astronomical interest dithioformic acid (trans-HC(=S)SH) exists five isomers and has received considerable attention of astronomical observation in recent years. The different positions of H atoms of five isomers lead to diverse point groups, dipole moments, and spectroscopic constants. The anharmonic force field and spectroscopic constants of them are calculated using CCSD(T) and B3LYP employing correlation consistent basis sets. Molecular structures, dipole moments, rotational constants, and fundamental frequencies of trans-HC(=S)SH are compared with the available experimental data. The B3LYP/Gen=5 and CCSD(T)/Gen=Q results can reproduce them well. Molecular structures, dipole moments, relative energies, spectroscopic constants of cis-HC(=S)SH and dithiohydroxy carbene (DTHC) are also calculated. The new data obtained in this study are expected to guide the future high resolution experimental work and to assist astronomical search for CH2S2.


2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 220-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy A. Zhabanov ◽  
Alexander V. Zakharov ◽  
Sergei A. Shlykov ◽  
Olga N. Trukhina ◽  
Elena A. Danilova ◽  
...  

The gas-phase molecular structure of the unsubstituted [30]trithia-2,3,5,10,12,13,15,20,22,23,25,30-dodecaazahexaphyrin (C30H15N15S3) has been studied by a synchronous gas electron diffraction and mass spectrometric experiment and density functional theory calculations using the B3LYP hybrid method and cc-pVTZ basis sets. The molecule has an equilibrium structure of D 3h symmetry with a planar macrocycle and the thiadiazole rings oriented in such a way that the sulfur atoms point outwards from the inner cavity. Tautomers of this compound have been studied by DFT computations.


2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (06) ◽  
pp. 1450049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuejun Wang ◽  
Meishan Wang ◽  
Chuanlu Yang ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Dianmin Tong

The equilibrium geometries of formaldehyde are optimized with B3LYP, B3PW91 and MP2 methods employing three basis sets 6-311++G(2d,2p), aug-cc-pVTZ and cc-pVTZ, respectively, which agree well with the corresponding experimental and previous theoretical data. The best optimized geometries are obtained at the theoretical level B3LYP/6-311++G(2d,2p) basis set. Basing on the calculated equilibrium geometries, the spectroscopic constants and anharmonic force field of H 2 CO are investigated. The results show that DFT method is superior to MP2 method at the calculation of spectroscopic constants and force constants of H 2 CO . The vibration–rotation interaction constants and fundamental vibrational wave numbers of H 2 CO are firstly theoretically calculated. The Coriolis coupling constants, cubic force constants and most of quartic force constants are firstly theoretically predicted.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Batra ◽  
Stefan Zahn ◽  
Thomas Heine

<p>We thoroughly benchmark time-dependent density- functional theory for the predictive calculation of UV/Vis spectra of porphyrin derivatives. With the aim to provide an approach that is computationally feasible for large-scale applications such as biological systems or molecular framework materials, albeit performing with high accuracy for the Q-bands, we compare the results given by various computational protocols, including basis sets, density-functionals (including gradient corrected local functionals, hybrids, double hybrids and range-separated functionals), and various variants of time-dependent density-functional theory, including the simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximation. An excellent choice for these calculations is the range-separated functional CAM-B3LYP in combination with the simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximation and a basis set of double-ζ quality def2-SVP (mean absolute error [MAE] of ~0.05 eV). This is not surpassed by more expensive approaches, not even by double hybrid functionals, and solely systematic excitation energy scaling slightly improves the results (MAE ~0.04 eV). </p>


Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bley ◽  
Joachim Dzubiella ◽  
Arturo Moncho Jorda

We employ reactive dynamical density functional theory (R-DDFT) and reactive Brownian dynamics (R-BD) simulations to study the non-equilibrium structure and phase behavior of an active dispersion of soft Gaussian colloids...


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 3244
Author(s):  
Charuvaka Muvva ◽  
Natarajan Arul Murugan ◽  
Venkatesan Subramanian

A wide variety of neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of protein aggregates in intraneuronal or extraneuronal brain regions. In Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the extracellular aggregates originate from amyloid-β proteins, while the intracellular aggregates are formed from microtubule-binding tau proteins. The amyloid forming peptide sequences in the amyloid-β peptides and tau proteins are responsible for aggregate formation. Experimental studies have until the date reported many of such amyloid forming peptide sequences in different proteins, however, there is still limited molecular level understanding about their tendency to form aggregates. In this study, we employed umbrella sampling simulations and subsequent electronic structure theory calculations in order to estimate the energy profiles for interconversion of the helix to β-sheet like secondary structures of sequences from amyloid-β protein (KLVFFA) and tau protein (QVEVKSEKLD and VQIVYKPVD). The study also included a poly-alanine sequence as a reference system. The calculated force-field based free energy profiles predicted a flat minimum for monomers of sequences from amyloid and tau proteins corresponding to an α-helix like secondary structure. For the parallel and anti-parallel dimer of KLVFFA, double well potentials were obtained with the minima corresponding to α-helix and β-sheet like secondary structures. A similar double well-like potential has been found for dimeric forms for the sequences from tau fibril. Complementary semi-empirical and density functional theory calculations displayed similar trends, validating the force-field based free energy profiles obtained for these systems.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 1390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya G. Shenderovich

Due to the rigid structure of 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTA), its 31P chemical shift solely depends on non-covalent interactions in which the molecule is involved. The maximum range of change caused by the most common of these, hydrogen bonding, is only 6 ppm, because the active site is one of the PTA nitrogen atoms. In contrast, when the PTA phosphorus atom is coordinated to a metal, the range of change exceeds 100 ppm. This feature can be used to support or reject specific structural models of organometallic transition metal complexes in solution by comparing the experimental and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculated values of this 31P chemical shift. This approach has been tested on a variety of the metals of groups 8–12 and molecular structures. General recommendations for appropriate basis sets are reported.


2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zerong Daniel Wang ◽  
Meagan Hysmith ◽  
Perla Cristina Quintana

The formation of carbon disulfide ( CS 2) and ammonia ( NH 3) from the thermal decomposition products of thiourea has been studied with MP2, and hybrid module-based density functional theory methods (B3LYP, MPW1PW91 and PBE1PBE), each in conjunction with five different basis sets (6-31+G(2d,2p), 6-311++G(2d,2p), DGDZVP, DGDZVP2 and DGTZVP). The free energy changes and activation energies for all the five primitive reactions involved in the formation of CS 2 and NH 3 have been compared and discussed. The results indicate that CS 2 is most likely formed in a consecutive reaction path that consists of the addition of hydrogen sulfide ( H 2 S ) to isothiocyanic acid (HNCS) to generate carbamodithioic acid and subsequent decomposition of carbamodithioic acid. By contrast, thiocyanic acid (HSCN) as the structural isomer of isothiocyanic acid is not likely the source of CS 2.


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