scholarly journals A Comparison of Structure, Stability of Neutral and Cationic Vanadium-doped Germanium Clusters GenV0/+ (n = 2 - 8) by using Density Function Theorym clusters GenV0/+ (n = 2 - 8) by using density function theory

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.

2012 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiedeh Negar Mousavi ◽  
Davood Nori-Shargh ◽  
Hooriye Yahyaei ◽  
Kobra Mazrae Frahani

Complete basis set CBS-QB3, hybrid-density functional theory (B3LYP/Def2-TZVPP) based methods and NBO interpretation were used to investigate the impacts of the stereoelectronic effects and electrostatic and steric interactions on the conformational properties of halocarbonyl isocyanates (halo = F (1), Cl (2), and Br (3)), halothiocarbonyl isocyanates (halo = F (4), Cl (5), and Br (6)), and haloselenocarbonyl isocyanates(halo = F (7), Cl (8), and Br (9)). Both methods showed that the Z-conformations of compounds 1, 4, and 7 are more stable than their corresponding E conformations, but the stability of the E conformations, when compared with the corresponding Z conformations, increases from compound 1 to compound 3, compound 4 to compound 6, and also from compound 7 to compound 9. The NBO analysis showed that the generalized anomeric effect (GAE) is in favor of the Z conformations of compounds 1, 4, and 7. The GAE values calculated (i.e., GAEE–GAEZ) increase from compound 1 to compound 3, compound 4 to compound 6, and also from compound 7 to compound 9. On the other hand, there are none of the same trends between the calculated total dipole moment and the Gibbs free energy difference values between the E and Z conformations (i.e., ΔμE–Z and ΔGE–Z) of compounds 1–3, 4–6, and 7–9. Accordingly, the GAE succeeds in accounting for the increase of the E conformation stability from compound 1 to compound 3, compound 4 to compound 6, and also from compound 7 to compound 9. Therefore, the GAE associated with the electron delocalization, not the total dipole moment changes (i.e., ΔμE–Z), is a reasonable indicator of the total energy difference in compounds 1–3, 4–6, and 7–9. There is a direct correlation between the calculated GAE and Δ[r2–6(E) – r2–6(Z)] parameters. Importantly, there are interesting through-space electron delocalizations (LP2X6→π*C4–O5) that justify the increase of the E conformation stability from compound 1 to compound 3, compound 4 to compound 6, and also from compound 7 to compound 9, when compared with their corresponding Z conformations. The correlations between the GAE, bond orders, total steric exchange energies (TSEE), ΔGZ–E, ΔμE–Z, structural parameters, and conformational behaviors of compounds 1–9 were investigated.


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.


2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (9) ◽  
pp. 1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Azizi ◽  
Mehdi Ghambarian ◽  
Mohammad A. Rezaei ◽  
Mohammad Ghashghaee

Various saturated five-membered N,X-heterocyclic carbenes (X = N, O, S, P, Si, C, and B) have been studied by ab initio and density functional theory (DFT) methods. The substitutions alter the properties of the reference carbene from the viewpoint of electronic structure, stability, nucleophilicity, and basicity. Our study shows that the oxygen containing carbene (X = O) induces the highest HOMO–LUMO energy gap (ΔEHOMO–LUMO), while carbene with X = N has the widest singlet–triplet energy difference (ΔEs–t). The nucleophilicity of the carbene derivatives increased upon replacement of C, Si, and B, with the effect of the boron substituent being more pronounced. In addition, the basicity of the structure increased for the carbene derivatives with X = C and B with the latter substitution imposing a remarkably higher effect. Moreover, the substitution of boron at the α-position of the carbene increased the nucleophilicity and basicity, while inducing a reduction in the values of ΔEs–t and ΔEHOMO–LUMO.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 778-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben-Chao Zhu ◽  
Zhang Yu ◽  
Wang Ping ◽  
Lu Zeng ◽  
Shuai Zhang

By using Density Functional Theory (DFT) method at the B3LYP/6-311G level, the structures, stabilities, and electronic properties of cationic Be2Mg+ n (n = 1–11) clusters have been systematically studied. The optimized geometry show that the ground state structures of cationic Be2Mg+ n (n = 1–11) clusters favor 3D structures except n = 1, 2. Furthermore, the average binding energy E b, the second-order energy differences Δ2E, the fragmentation energy Ef and the HOMO-LUMO energy Egap of the ground state of cationic Be2Mg– n (n = 1–11) clusters are calculated, the final results indicate that Be2Mg+6 and Be2Mg+9 clusters have a higher stability than other clusters. Additionally, the NCP, NEC and Mulliken population analysis reveal that the charges in cationic Be2Mg+ n (n = 1–11) clusters transfer from Mg atom to Be atoms, and strong sp hybridizations are presented in Be atoms of Be2Mg+ n clusters. Finally, the polarizability analysis indicates that the nuclei and electronic clouds of clusters are affected by external field with the increase of cluster size.


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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850024
Author(s):  
Rengi̇n Peköz ◽  
Şaki̇r Erkoç

The structural and electronic properties of neutral ternary PbxSbySez clusters (x + y + z = 2, 3) in their ground states have been explored by means of density functional theory calculations. The geometric structures and binding energies are systematically explored and for the most stable configurations of each cluster type vibrational frequencies, charges on atoms, energy difference between highest occupied and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals, and the possible dissociations channels have been analyzed. Depending on being binary or ternary cluster and composition, the most energetic structures have singlet, doublet or triplet ground states, and trimers prefer to form isosceles, equilateral or scalene triangle structure.


2013 ◽  
Vol 750-752 ◽  
pp. 1848-1851
Author(s):  
Xiu Lin Zeng ◽  
Xue Hai Ju

The density functional method of wB97xD in combination of 6-31+G** basis set was applied to the study of the heterodimers between hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine and water. Three stable dimers were located. The binding energies have been corrected for the zero-point vibrational and basis set superposition errors. The largest corrected binding energy is 26.21 kJ/mol. Natural bond orbital analyses and frequency calculations were performed on each optimized structure. The thermodynamic properties of enthalpies, entropies and Gibbs free energies in the dimerization process were presented.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 67-77
Author(s):  
Ravi Karki

Photochromism in some diarylethene molecules have been studied by using hybrid density functional theory using the ground state energy consideration. In particular, B3LYP functional and all electron basis set 6-311G (2d,2p) as implemented in Gaussian09 suites of program has been used to investigate the energy difference of two stable isomers of stilbene, azobenzene, cyclooctane, and 1,2, dimethylcyclohexane molecules. The energy difference is corroborated to calculate the frequencies of photons that are required to induce photochromism in these molecules in vacuum and in solvation state. The study found that the molecules exhibit photochromism at various frequency range from infra-red to ultraviolet. The binding energy per atom, charge distribution, HOMO-LUMO (Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital and Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital) gap are also calculated for all the molecules in vacuum, water and ethanol solvent. The results obtained are in accordance with the experimental observations.


2013 ◽  
Vol 634-638 ◽  
pp. 2537-2540
Author(s):  
Xiao Jun Li

Structure, electronic property, aromaticity and vibrational frequency of medium-sized Au-doped germanium clusters were systematically explored using the density-functional theory (DFT) in conjunction with the LanL2DZ basis set. Our results show that the endohedrally Au-doped cagelike structures are energetically preferred. The p- and d-states in endohedral Au atom mainly contribute to the chemical bonding at around −6.5 and −10.6 eV for the AuGe10 and AuGe12 clusters. Moreover, the cage aromaticity appears to be an important determination of the electronic stability of the two clusters, reflected by negative nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) values. The theoretical work will be useful and helpful for the understanding in the further application, i.e., cluster-assembled optoelectronic nanomaterials.


2005 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 377-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. NIRMALA ◽  
P. KOLANDAIVEL

Density functional theory and Møller–Plesset perturbation theory methods have been used to study the ring clusters of ( BN )n=1–10 employing 6-311++G** basis set. The binding energies have been corrected for the basis set superposition error (BSSE). Static polarizability of these ring clusters has been investigated. A simple expression for the size dependence of polarizability has been invoked, so that the same relation can be useful for predicting the polarizability of larger clusters. The topological properties were analyzed employing the Bader's atoms in molecules theory. A good correlation between the structural parameters and the properties of electron density is found. Localization and delocalization indices were also used for the analysis of molecular electronic structure by an electron pair perspective. The contribution of stereo electronic interactions to the molecular properties as a function of ring size is analyzed based on the natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis.


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