scholarly journals DFT CALCULATION AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY STUDIES OF α-LINOLENIC ACID

Química Nova ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heng Peng ◽  
Hua-Yi Hou ◽  
Xiang-Bai Chena

Density functional theory (DFT) calculation and Raman scattering experiment have been applied to investigate an important essential fatty acid, α-linolenic acid (ALA). The DFT calculation was performed with geometry optimization and harmonic vibration using B3LYP functions with polarized 6-311+G(d,p) basis. The DFT calculated vibrational modes of ALA molecule are in excellent agreement with the Raman experimental results. A complete vibrational modes assignment is provided on the basis of potential energy distribution calculation. In addition, the DFT calculation and Raman experiment indicate that the relative intensity ratio of two characteristic modes at 1660 cm-1 and 1440 cm-1 is correlated with the number of C=C double bond in the acid chain, which may provide a simple and convenient method to differentiate ALA with other types of unsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the Mulliken atomic charge distribution and frontier molecular orbitals of ALA molecule were calculated.

Author(s):  
Alexander E. Pogonin ◽  
Oleg A. Pimenov ◽  
Yuriy A. Zhabanov

The metal carboxylates such as metal pivalates (salts of the pivalic acid (CH3)3CCOOH) attract a great interest as most promising precursors for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology. The possibility to use these substances in the CVD technology is specified by their good thermal stability and high volatility. For modeling of chemical reactions with metal pivalates in the gas-phase and the data on molecular structure will be very useful, in particularly information about effect of central metal ion to geometry of pivalic ligands. In the frame of this task the structures of metal pivalate molecules and pivalic acid (H(piv)) in a gas phase should be finding. The aim of present work is theoretical investigation of the geometry and IR-spectrum of H(piv) using density functional theory (DFT) methods. All calculations were performed using the Gaussian 03 program. The optimization of geometry and quadratic force field calculations were carried out using DFT functionals B3LYP, PBE, PBE0 and BP86 with correlation-consistent triple-ζ valence cc-pVTZ basis sets for O, C, and H. Appropriate assignment of vibrational modes was carried out by the potential energy distribution (PED) analysis among internal coordinates using the SHRINK program. According to DFT computations, the H(piv) molecule has an equilibrium structure of Cs symmetry with Гvib=26A'+19A''. The theoretical and experimental IR-spectra are satisfactorily agreed. The comparison of the ten intensities of highest bands in spectra allowed determining linear correlation between peaks position in experimental and modeling IR-spectra. It should be note the complicated composition of vibrational modes.


BIBECHANA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Bhawani Datt Joshi ◽  
Poonam Tandon ◽  
Sudha Jain

In this communication, we have presented the geometry optimization, complete vibrational study with potential energy distribution (PED) and frontier orbital energy gap for the 10-Acetyl-10H-phenothiazine 5-oxide (APTZ) molecule using ab initio Hartree-Fock (HF) and density functional theory (DFT/B3LYP) method employing 6-311++G(d,p) basis set. The calculated IR and Raman spectra with their intensities, molecular electrostatic potential (MESP) surface and highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) - lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) plot have been given. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bibechana.v9i0.7151 BIBECHANA 9 (2013) 38-49


2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (05) ◽  
pp. 1350039 ◽  
Author(s):  
ÖMER TAMER ◽  
DAVUT AVCI ◽  
YUSUF ATALAY

The molecular geometry optimization, vibrational frequencies and gauge including atomic orbital (GIAO) 1H and 13C chemical shift values of thiazolylazopyrimidine chromophores have been investigated by using density functional theories (DFT/B3LYP, PBE1PBE and BHand-HLYP) and Hartree–Fock (HF) methods with 6–31++G(d,p) basis set. The computed IR and NMR spectra are used to determine the types of the experimental bands observed. Also, the vibrational frequencies are supported on the basis of the potential energy distribution (PED) analysis calculated by using PBE1PBE method. The UV-vis spectrum has been obtained by TD-DFT and TD-HF methods. Total static dipole moment (μ), the mean polarizability (〈α〉), the anisotropy of the polarizability (Δα), the mean first-order hyperpolarizability (〈β〉), highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO), and lowest occupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies of thiazolylazopyrimidine chromophores also have been investigated with quantum chemical calculations. Obtained nonlinear optical (NLO) parameters are compared with experimental ones. Additionally, the molecular hardness (η) and electronegativity (χ) parameters have been obtained by using the frontier molecular orbital energies. Obtained data from thiazolylazopyrimidine chromophores are important for associating the experimental and theoretical spectra with molecular structure and their properties.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambrish K. Srivastava ◽  
Anoop K. Pandey ◽  
B. Narayana ◽  
B. K. Sarojini ◽  
Prakash S. Nayak ◽  
...  

A detailed spectroscopic analysis of two dichloro substituted phenyl-N-(1,3-thiazol-2-yl)acetamides at 2,4 and 3,4 positions of the phenyl ring has been carried out by using B3LYP method with 6-31+G(d, p) basis set within density functional scheme. The scaled theoretical wave numbers are in perfect agreement with the experimental values and the vibrational modes are interpreted in terms of potential energy distribution (PED). The internal coordinates are optimized repeatedly to maximize the PED contributions. The molecular HOMO-LUMO surfaces, their respective energy gaps, and MESP surfaces have also been drawn to explain the chemical activity of both molecules. Various thermodynamic parameters are presented at the same level of theory.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aysen E. Ozel ◽  
Serda Kecel Gunduz ◽  
Sefa Celik ◽  
Sevim Akyuz

Experimental IR and Raman spectra of solid acetazolamide have been analysed by computing the molecular structures and vibrational spectra of monomer and dimer forms and water clusters of acetazolamide. The possible stable conformers of free acetazolamide molecule in the ground state were obtained by scanning the potential energy surface through the dihedral angles, D1(1S-2C-6S-9N), D2(4N-5C-12N-14C), and D3(5C-12N-14C-16C). The final geometry parameters for the obtained stable conformers were determined by means of geometry optimization, carried out at DFT/B3LYP/6-31G++(d,p) theory level. Afterwards the possible dimer forms of the molecule and acetazolamide-H2O clusters were formed and their energetically preferred conformations were investigated using the same method and the same level of theory. The effect of BSSE on the structure and energy of acetazolamide dimer has been investigated. The assignment of the vibrational modes was performed based on the potential energy distribution of the vibrational modes, calculated by using GAR2PED program. The experimental vibrational wavenumbers of solid acetazolamide are found to be in better agreement with the calculated wavenumbers of dimer form of acetazolamide than those of its monomeric form. NBO analysis has been performed on both monomer and dimer geometries.


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2197-2221
Author(s):  
Theraviyum Chithambarathanu ◽  
M. Darathi ◽  
J. DaisyMagdaline ◽  
S. Gunasekaran

The molecular vibrations of Trichloro isocyanuric acid (C3Cl3N3O3) and Trithio cyanuric acid (C3H3N3S3) have been investigated in polycrystalline sample at room temperature by Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) and FT-Raman spectroscopies in the region 4000-450 cm-1 and 4000-50 cm-1 respectively, which provide a wealth of structural information about the molecules. The spectra are interpreted with the aid of normal co-ordinate analysis following full structure optimization and force field calculations based on density functional theory   (DFT) using standard B3LYP / 6-311++ G (d, p) basis set for investigating the structural and spectroscopic properties. The vibrational frequencies are calculated and the scaled values are compared with experimental FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra. The scaled theoretical wave numbers shows very good agreement with experimental ones. The complete vibrational assignments are performed on the basis of potential energy distribution (PED) of vibrational modes, calculated with scaled quantum (SQM) method. Stability of the molecule arising from hyper conjugative interactions, charge delocalization has been analyzed using natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis. The results show that change in electron density (ED) in σ* and π* anti-bonding orbitals and second order delocalization   energy (E2) confirm the occurrence of Intra molecular Charge Transfer (ICT) within the molecule. The thermodynamic properties like heat capacity, entropy, enthalpy and zero point energy have been calculated for the molecule. The frontier molecular orbitals have been visualized and the HOMO-LUMO energy gap has been calculated. The Molecular Electrostatic Potential (MEP) analysis reveals the sites for electrophilic attack and nucleophilic reactions in the molecule.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddhartha Laghuvarapu ◽  
Yashaswi Pathak ◽  
U. Deva Priyakumar

Recent advances in artificial intelligence along with development of large datasets of energies calculated using quantum mechanical (QM)/density functional theory (DFT) methods have enabled prediction of accurate molecular energies at reasonably low computational cost. However, machine learning models that have been reported so far requires the atomic positions obtained from geometry optimizations using high level QM/DFT methods as input in order to predict the energies, and do not allow for geometry optimization. In this paper, a transferable and molecule-size independent machine learning model (BAND NN) based on a chemically intuitive representation inspired by molecular mechanics force fields is presented. The model predicts the atomization energies of equilibrium and non-equilibrium structures as sum of energy contributions from bonds (B), angles (A), nonbonds (N) and dihedrals (D) at remarkable accuracy. The robustness of the proposed model is further validated by calculations that span over the conformational, configurational and reaction space. The transferability of this model on systems larger than the ones in the dataset is demonstrated by performing calculations on select large molecules. Importantly, employing the BAND NN model, it is possible to perform geometry optimizations starting from non-equilibrium structures along with predicting their energies.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Valery Davydov ◽  
Evgenii Roginskii ◽  
Yuri Kitaev ◽  
Alexander Smirnov ◽  
Ilya Eliseyev ◽  
...  

We report the results of experimental and theoretical studies of phonon modes in GaN/AlN superlattices (SLs) with a period of several atomic layers, grown by submonolayer digital plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy, which have a great potential for use in quantum and stress engineering. Using detailed group-theoretical analysis, the genesis of the SL vibrational modes from the modes of bulk AlN and GaN crystals is established. Ab initio calculations in the framework of the density functional theory, aimed at studying the phonon states, are performed for SLs with both equal and unequal layer thicknesses. The frequencies of the vibrational modes are calculated, and atomic displacement patterns are obtained. Raman spectra are calculated and compared with the experimental ones. The results of the ab initio calculations are in good agreement with the experimental Raman spectra and the results of the group-theoretical analysis. As a result of comprehensive studies, the correlations between the parameters of acoustic and optical phonons and the structure of SLs are obtained. This opens up new possibilities for the analysis of the structural characteristics of short-period GaN/AlN SLs using Raman spectroscopy. The results obtained can be used to optimize the growth technologies aimed to form structurally perfect short-period GaN/AlN SLs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihong Ma ◽  
Xinqi Cheng ◽  
Chuan Wang ◽  
Xinyu Zhang ◽  
Fei Xue ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Cottonseed is one of the major sources of vegetable oil. Analysis of the dynamic changes of fatty acid components and the genes regulating the composition of fatty acids of cottonseed oil is of great significance for understanding the biological processes underlying biosynthesis of fatty acids and for genetic improving the oil nutritional qualities. Results In this study, we investigated the dynamic relationship of 13 fatty acid components at 12 developmental time points of cottonseed (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and generated cottonseed transcriptome of the 12 time points. At 5–15 day post anthesis (DPA), the contents of polyunsaturated linolenic acid (C18:3n-3) and saturated stearic acid (C18:0) were higher, while linoleic acid (C18:2n-6) was mainly synthesized after 15 DPA. Using 5 DPA as a reference, 15,647 non-redundant differentially expressed genes were identified in 10–60 DPA cottonseed. Co-expression gene network analysis identified six modules containing 3275 genes significantly associated with middle-late seed developmental stages and enriched with genes related to the linoleic acid metabolic pathway and α-linolenic acid metabolism. Genes (Gh_D03G0588 and Gh_A02G1788) encoding stearoyl-ACP desaturase were identified as hub genes and significantly up-regulated at 25 DPA. They seemed to play a decisive role in determining the ratio of saturated fatty acids to unsaturated fatty acids. FAD2 genes (Gh_A13G1850 and Gh_D13G2238) were highly expressed at 25–50 DPA, eventually leading to the high content of C18:2n-6 in cottonseed. The content of C18:3n-3 was significantly decreased from 5 DPA (7.44%) to 25 DPA (0.11%) and correlated with the expression characteristics of Gh_A09G0848 and Gh_D09G0870. Conclusions These results contribute to our understanding on the relationship between the accumulation pattern of fatty acid components and the expression characteristics of key genes involved in fatty acid biosynthesis during the entire period of cottonseed development.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1947
Author(s):  
Delano P. Chong

After geometry optimization, the electron spectra of indole and four azaindoles are calculated by density functional theory. Available experimental photoemission and excitation data for indole and 7-azaindole are used to compare with the theoretical values. The results for the other azaindoles are presented as predictions to help the interpretation of experimental spectra when they become available.


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