Influence of basis sets and electron correlation on theoretically predicted infrared intensities

1989 ◽  
Vol 93 (11) ◽  
pp. 4495-4502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Miller ◽  
Frank Jensen ◽  
O. L. Chapman ◽  
K. N. Houk
2009 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Pratt ◽  
Darrel Jones ◽  
Andrea Sease ◽  
Donta Busch ◽  
Emmanuel Faluade ◽  
...  

1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (7) ◽  
pp. 996-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Xiang Wang ◽  
Ming-Bao Huang. ◽  
Ruo-Zhuang Liu

The CH + CH4 reaction has been studied by means of ab initio molecular orbital calculations incorporating electron correlation with Møller–Plesset perturbation theory up to second and fourth orders with the 6-31G(d,p) and 6-311++G(2d,p) basis sets. An energetically feasible insertion reaction path has been found in the potential energy surface that confirms the experimental proposal for the mechanism of the CH + CH4 reaction. The feature of the mechanism for the CH + CH4 insertion reaction is found to be different from the feature of the mechanisms for the CH + NH3, CH + H2O, and CH + HF insertion reactions, but somewhat similar to that for the CH2 + CH4 insertion reaction. Energetic results for the CH + CH4 reactions are in agreement with experiment. Keywords: CH radical, methane, reaction mechanism.


2011 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 645-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
János Sarka ◽  
Attila G. Császár ◽  
Peter R. Schreiner

The principal purpose of this investigation is the determination of the tunneling half-lives of the trans-HCSH → H2CS and the trans-HCSeH → H2CSe unimolecular isomerization reactions at temperatures close to 0 K. To aid these determinations, accurate electronic structure computations were performed, with electron correlation treatments as extensive as CCSDT(Q) and basis sets as large as aug-cc-pCV5Z, for the isomers of [H,H,C,S] and [H,H,C,Se] on their lowest singlet surfaces and for the appropriate transition states yielding structural data for key stationary points characterizing the isomerization reactions. The computational results were subjected to a focal-point analysis (FPA) that yields accurate relative energies with uncertainty estimates. The tunneling half-lives were determined by a simple Eckart-barrier approach and via the more sophisticated though still one-dimensional Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin (WKB) approximation. Only stationary-point information is needed for the former while an intrinsic reaction path (IRP) is necessary for the latter approach. Both protocols suggest that, unlike for the parent hydroxymethylene (HCOH), at the low temperatures of matrix isolation experiments no tunneling will be observable for the trans-HCSH and trans-HCSeH systems.


1987 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 862-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily A. Carter ◽  
William A. Goddard

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