Ab initio study of C—H bond breaking in olefins. II. GVB computations on propene ↔ H + cis- or trans-propen-1-yl

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 1230-1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. De Maré ◽  
Earl M. Evleth ◽  
Raymond A. Poirier ◽  
Guy J. Collin

The Generalized-Valence-Bond-Perfect-Pairing (GVB-PP) method has been used to investigate the structural behaviour, energy, and dipole moment along the reaction coordinates for propene ↔ H + cis- or trans-propen-1-yl. Geometry optimizations were carried out at the GVB(9)/STO-3G level (complete valence shell) for the minimum energy propene structure (complete optimization) and for numerous structures up to r(C—H) = 10 Å (only the elongated C—H distance kept fixed). The dissociation curves are smooth, without a maximum, and yield predicted dissociation energies of propene to H + cis-propen-1-yl and H + trans-propen-1-yl of 555.8 and 554.8 kJ mol−1, respectively. These values are within several percent of those obtained for C—H bond rupture in ethylene using GVB and MCSCF methods with the same basis set. They are obviously too high but they confirm that removal of a hydrogen atom from the CH2 moiety in propene requires about the same energy as removal of a hydrogen atom from ethylene. GVB(7)/6-31G//GVB(9)/STO-3G computations lower the predicted dissociation energies of propene ↔ H + cis-propen-1-yl and H + trans-propen-1-yl to 448.2 and 448.6 kJ mol−1, respectively.The reduced energy concept (ER = (E∞ − Er)/De) is applied to the reaction coordinates. Linear behaviour for In ER versus bond length is observed at long bond distances. At r(C—H) = 3 Å, the values of the slopes, d(ln ER)/dr(C—H), which are related to the effective Morse constant B are −3.73 and −3.74 (GVB(9)/STO-3G) and −2.75 and −2.81 (GVB(7)/6-31 G//GVB(9)/STO-3G) for the H + cis- and H + tras-propen-1-yl reaction coordinates, respectively.

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Naskar ◽  
G. Nandi ◽  
T. K. Ghosh

Abstract. Ab initio investigation on the reaction mechanism of ClO + O --> Cl + O2 reaction has been performed using correlation consistent triple zeta basis set. The geometry and frequency of the reactants, products, minimum energy geometries and transition states are obtained using MP2 method and energetics are obtained at the QCISD(T)//MP2 level of theory. Primarily, a possible reaction mechanism is obtained on the basis on IRC calculations using MP2 level of theory. To obtain true picture of the reaction path, we performed IRC calculations using CASSCF method with a minimal basis set 6-31G**. Some new equilibrium geometries and transition states have been identified at the CASSCF level. Energetics are also obtained at the QCISD(T)//CASSCF method. Possible reaction paths have been discussed, which are new in literature. Heat of reaction is found to be consistent with the experimental data. Bond dissociation energies to various dissociation paths are also reported.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Carmona ◽  
Pablo Jaque ◽  
Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez

<div><div><div><p>Peroxides play a central role in many chemical and biological pro- cesses such as the Fenton reaction. The relevance of these compounds lies in the low stability of the O–O bond which upon dissociation results in radical species able to initiate various chemical or biological processes. In this work, a set of 64 DFT functional-basis set combinations has been validated in terms of their capability to describe bond dissociation energies (BDE) for the O–O bond in a database of 14 ROOH peroxides for which experimental values ofBDE are available. Moreover, the electronic contributions to the BDE were obtained for four of the peroxides and the anion H2O2− at the CBS limit at CCSD(T) level with Dunning’s basis sets up to triple–ζ quality provid- ing a reference value for the hydrogen peroxide anion as a model. Almost all the functionals considered here yielded mean absolute deviations around 5.0 kcal mol−1. The smallest values were observed for the ωB97 family and the Minnesota M11 functional with a marked basis set dependence. Despite the mean deviation, order relations among BDE experimental values of peroxides were also considered. The ωB97 family was able to reproduce the relations correctly whereas other functionals presented a marked dependence on the chemical nature of the R group. Interestingly, M11 functional did not show a very good agreement with the established order despite its good performance in the mean error. The obtained results support the use of similar validation strategies for proper prediction of BDE or other molecular properties by DF Tmethods in subsequent related studies.</p></div></div></div>


2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinghong Sheng ◽  
Jerzy Leszczynski

The equilibrium geometries, harmonic vibrational frenquencies, and the dissociation energies of the OCH+-Rg (Rg = He, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe) complexes were calculated at the DFT, MP2, MP4, CCSD, and CCSD(T) levels of theory. In the lighter OCH+-Rg (Rg = He, Ne, Ar) rare gas complexes, the DFT and MP4 methods tend to produce longer Rg-H+ distance than the CCSD(T) level value, and the CCSD-calculated Rg-H+ bond lengths are slightly shorter. DFT method is not reliable to study weak interaction in the OCH+-He and OCH+-Ne complexes. A qualitative result can be obtained for OCH+-Ar complex by using the DFT method; however, a higher-level method using a larger basis set is required for the quantitative predictions. For heavier atom (Kr, Xe)-containing complexes, only the CCSD method predicted longer Rg-H+ distance than that obtained at the CCSD(T) level. The DFT method can be applied to obtain the semiquantitative results. The relativistic effects are expected to have minor effect on the geometrical parameters, the H+-C stretching mode, and the dissociation energy. However, the dissociation energies are sensitive to the quality of the basis set. The nature of interaction between the OCH+ ion and Rg atoms was also analyzed in terms of the interaction energy components.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Shuang-Ling Tang ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
Qi-Ying Xia ◽  
Xue-Hai Ju

Potential energy surface scanning for UC, UN, and UH was performed by configuration interaction (CI), coupled cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) excitation, quadratic configuration interaction (QCISD (T)), and density functional theory PBE1 (DFT-PBE1) methods in coupling with the ECP80MWB_AVQZ + 2f basis set for uranium and 6 − 311 + G∗ for carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. The dissociation energies of UC, UN, and UH are 5.7960, 4.5077, and 2.6999 eV at the QCISD (T) levels, respectively. The calculated energy was fitted to the potential functions of Morse, Lennard-Jones, and Rydberg by using the least square method. The anharmonicity constant of UC is 0.0047160. The anharmonic frequency of UC is 780.27 cm−1 which was obtained based on the PBE1 results. For UN, the anharmonicity constant is 0.0049827. The anharmonic frequency is 812.65 cm−1 which was obtained through the PBE1 results. For UH, the anharmonicity constant is 0.017300. The anharmonic frequency obtained via the QCISD (T) results is 1449.8 cm−1. The heat capacity and entropy in different temperatures were calculated using anharmonic frequencies. These properties are in good accordance with the direct DFT-UPBE1 results (for UC and UN) and QCISD (T) results (for UH). The relationship of entropy with temperature was established.


Plasma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-308
Author(s):  
William A. Angermeier ◽  
Thomas G. White

Wave packet molecular dynamics (WPMD) has recently received a lot of attention as a computationally fast tool with which to study dynamical processes in warm dense matter beyond the Born–Oppenheimer approximation. These techniques, typically, employ many approximations to achieve computational efficiency while implementing semi-empirical scaling parameters to retain accuracy. We investigated three of the main approximations ubiquitous to WPMD: a restricted basis set, approximations to exchange, and the lack of correlation. We examined each of these approximations in regard to atomic and molecular hydrogen in addition to a dense hydrogen plasma. We found that the biggest improvement to WPMD comes from combining a two-Gaussian basis with a semi-empirical correction based on the valence-bond wave function. A single parameter scales this correction to match experimental pressures of dense hydrogen. Ultimately, we found that semi-empirical scaling parameters are necessary to correct for the main approximations in WPMD. However, reducing the scaling parameters for more ab-initio terms gives more accurate results and displays the underlying physics more readily.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Zahra Sayyed-Alangi ◽  
Mohammad T. Baei

Minimum-energy and transition state geometries of 3-thioxoprop-2-enethial, 3-thioxoacrylaldehyde, 3-oxoprop-2-enethial, 3-selenoxoprop-2-enethial, 3-thioxoprop-2-eneselenal, 3-selenoxoprop-2-eneselenal, 3-oxoacrylaldehyde, 3-selenoxoacrylaldehyde and 3-oxoprop-2-eneselenal were calculated using HF, B3LYP and MP2 levels of theory and 6-31+G*basis set by rotation around the related -C-C- single bonds. In all of the above mentioned molecules, the s-trans conformation was obtained as the most stable conformer with the 180°dihedral angle, apart from 3-oxoprop-2-enethial and 3-thioxoprop-2-eneselenal which theirs-cisconformers were appeared more stability than related tos-transforms. Their perpendicular geometries, with torsional angles approximately 90°, were as transition state for conformational interconversion between the two global minima forms. Cyclic structures all of the above mentioned molecules were unstable than their linear forms.


1994 ◽  
Vol 101 (7) ◽  
pp. 5969-5976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe C. Hiberty ◽  
Stéphane Humbel ◽  
Carsten P. Byrman ◽  
Joop H. van Lenthe

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 863-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Colin Baird ◽  
Harish B. Kathpal

The important geometrical variables in the structures of the lowest 2A′ and 2A′′ states of the free radicals HCO, CH3CO, NH2CO, HNN, and CH3NN have been determined by ab initio MO calculations using the STO-3G basis set. The energy differences between the states, and the energies of the radicals relative to their decomposition products and relative to their hydrogen atom addition products, are reported using both STO-3G and 4-31G basis sets in the restricted open-shell calculations. The trends in these results and their relation to available experimental data are discussed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 359-362
Author(s):  
Ming Xun Yan ◽  
Jin Dong Gong ◽  
Ping Shen ◽  
Chang Ying Yang

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations, based on B3LYP/6-311G (d, p) basis set, were performed to evaluate the OH bond dissociation energies (BDEs) for phloretin, compared with naringenin, in order to assess the contribution of hydroxyl groups at different position to the radical-scavenging properties. It is indicated clearly that A6 OH is determined as the weakest O-H bond, give rise to the smallest BDE, 73.98 kcal/mol. BDE of B4 OH decreases 2.5 kcal/mol in benzene, very close to that of A6OH, indicated that B4 OH group is also mainly contributed to the reaction with free radicals, especially in non-polar environments.


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