Fragmentation Position Dependency of the Total Energy and Atomic Charge Difference between the Fragment MO Method and Conventional Ab Initio SCF-MO Method. A Case of (−)-Epicatechin Gallate with STO-3G Basis Set

2007 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuhiro Tamura ◽  
Yuichi Inadomi ◽  
Umpei Nagashima
2008 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuhiro Tamura ◽  
Toshio Watanabe ◽  
Takayoshi Ishimoto ◽  
Umpei Nagashima

1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 883-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Král ◽  
Zdeněk Arnold ◽  
Zdeněk Havlas

The importance of d-orbitals for the interpretation of properties of sulfonium ylides is demonstrated on the basis of semiempirical and ab initio calculations. The calculated C-S bond length values are sensitive to inclusion of d-orbitals into the AO basis set. Even a high quality basis (4-31 G) without d-orbitals leads to C-S bond lengths which are significantly larger than the experimental ones whereas bases including d-orbitals afford satisfactory agreement. Inclusion of d-orbitals results in charge reduction on the atoms C and S and in a substantially increased order of the bond between these atoms. The decrease of total energy which results from inclusion of d-orbitals is related to (d-p)π bonding overlap between the atoms S and C.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Carmona ◽  
David Contreras ◽  
Oscar A. Douglas-Gallardo ◽  
Stefan Vogt-Geisse ◽  
Pablo Jaque ◽  
...  

The Fenton reaction plays a central role in many chemical and biological processes and has various applications as e.g. water remediation. The reaction consists of the iron-catalyzed homolytic cleavage of the oxygen-oxygen bond in the hydrogen peroxide molecule and the reduction of the hydroxyl radical. Here, we study these two elementary steps with high-level ab-initio calculations at the complete basis set limit and address the performance of different DFT methods following a specific classification based on the Jacob´s ladder in combination with various Pople's basis sets. Ab-initio calculations at the complete basis set limit are in agreement to experimental reference data and identified a significant contribution of the electron correlation energy to the bond dissociation energy (BDE) of the oxygen-oxygen bond in hydrogen peroxide and the electron affinity (EA) of the hydroxyl radical. The studied DFT methods were able to reproduce the ab-initio reference values, although no functional was particularly better for both reactions. The inclusion of HF exchange in the DFT functionals lead in most cases to larger deviations, which might be related to the poor description of the two reactions by the HF method. Considering the computational cost, DFT methods provide better BDE and EA values than HF and post--HF methods with an almost MP2 or CCSD level of accuracy. However, no systematic general prediction of the error based on the employed functional could be established and no systematic improvement with increasing the size in the Pople's basis set was found, although for BDE values certain systematic basis set dependence was observed. Moreover, the quality of the hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radical and hydroxyl anion structures obtained from these functionals was compared to experimental reference data. In general, bond lengths were well reproduced and the error in the angles were between one and two degrees with some systematic trend with the basis sets. From our results we conclude that DFT methods present a computationally less expensive alternative to describe the two elementary steps of the Fenton reaction. However, choice of approximated functionals and basis sets must be carefully done and the provided benchmark allows a systematic validation of the electronic structure method to be employed


2020 ◽  
Vol 494 (4) ◽  
pp. 5675-5681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanchit Chhabra ◽  
T J Dhilip Kumar

ABSTRACT Molecular ions play an important role in the astrochemistry of interstellar and circumstellar media. C3H+ has been identified in the interstellar medium recently. A new potential energy surface of the C3H+–He van der Waals complex is computed using the ab initio explicitly correlated coupled cluster with the single, double and perturbative triple excitation [CCSD(T)-F12] method and the augmented correlation consistent polarized valence triple zeta (aug-cc-pVTZ) basis set. The potential presents a well of 174.6 cm−1 in linear geometry towards the H end. Calculations of pure rotational excitation cross-sections of C3H+ by He are carried out using the exact quantum mechanical close-coupling approach. Cross-sections for transitions among the rotational levels of C3H+ are computed for energies up to 600 cm−1. The cross-sections are used to obtain the collisional rate coefficients for temperatures T ≤ 100 K. Along with laboratory experiments, the results obtained in this work may be very useful for astrophysical applications to understand hydrocarbon chemistry.


1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 502-503
Author(s):  
Branko S. Jursic

High level ab initio and density functional theory studies are performed on highly protonated methane species.


2009 ◽  
Vol 609 ◽  
pp. 239-242
Author(s):  
A.E. Merad ◽  
M.B. Kanoun

The Cr2AlC and V2AlC nanolayered ternary carbides are studied by performing APW-lo ab initio total energy calculations within the recent Wu-Cohen generalized gradient approximation GGA. Using full relaxation procedure of the volume and the atomic positions we obtained the structural parameters and electronic structure of the optimization hexagonal. Results were compared with the experimental ones. Interesting features are deduced. In fact, we have shown why these materials are conductors.


1993 ◽  
Vol 206 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 253-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús San-Fabián ◽  
Joaquín Guilleme ◽  
Ernesto Díez ◽  
Paolo Lazzeretti ◽  
Massimo Malagoli ◽  
...  

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