Author: Wim Klopper

Accurate molecular geometries of the protonated water dimer

The equilibrium geometry of the protonated water dimer, H5O2+, was studied using Moller–Plesset perturbation theory and coupled-cluster theory. Constrained geometry optimizations were carried out for the C2 and Cs symmetric structures within the counterpoise framework and near the limit of a complete basis set. In the constrained optimization, the degrees of freedom of the complex are reduced to an intrafragmental distortion and an interfragmental coordinate, making the procedure tractable for large basis sets and explicitly correlated linear r12 methods. The energy of the stationary point of C2 symmetry was found to be 1.2 kJ mol−1 below the energy of the Cs structure.

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Basis-set extrapolation techniques for the accurate calculation of molecular equilibrium geometries using coupled-cluster theory

To reduce remaining basis-set errors in the determination of molecular equilibrium geometries, a basis-set extrapolation (BSE) scheme is suggested for the forces used in geometry optimizations. The proposed BSE scheme is based on separating the Hartree-Fock and electron-correlation contributions and uses expressions obtained by straightforward differentiation of well established extrapolation formulas for energies when using basis sets from Dunning's hierarchy of correlation-consistent basis sets. Comparison with reference data obtained at the R12 coupled-cluster level [CCSD(T)-R12] demonstrates that BSE significantly accelerates the convergence to the basis-set limit, thus leading to impro…

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The Dalton quantum chemistry program system

Dalton is a powerful general-purpose program system for the study of molecular electronic structure at the Hartree-Fock, Kohn-Sham, multiconfigurational self-consistent-field, MOller-Plesset, confi ...

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Single and Multiple Additions of Dibenzoylmethane onto Buckminsterfullerene

A novel dibenzoylmethane-fullerene e,e,e-tris adduct was synthesized by the application of a variation of the Bingel–Hirsch conditions and characterized among others by X-ray crystallography. In addition, the corresponding hexakis adduct was detected by MALDI-TOF-MS analysis. Its existence was supported by density-functional-theory (DFT) computations. Furthermore a new synthesis of bis(benzoyl)methanofullerene was established, and its molecular structure was elucidated by X-ray crystallography. DFT computations reproduced the experimentally determined conformation and predict a low energy barrier for the rotation of the two benzoyl moieties.

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Basis-set completeness profiles in two dimensions

A two-electron basis-set completeness profile is proposed by analogy with the one-electron profile introduced by D. P. Chong (Can J Chem 1995, 73, 79). It is defined as Y(alpha, beta) = sigmam sigman (Galpha(1)Gbeta(2)/(1/r12)/ psim(1)psin(2)) (psim(1)psin(2)/r12/Galpha(1)Gp(2)) and motivated by the expression for the basis-set truncation correction that occurs in the framework of explicitly correlated methods (Galpha is a scanning Gaussian-type orbital of exponent alpha and [psim] is the orthonormalized one-electron basis under study). The two-electron basis-set profiles provide a visual assessment of the suitability of basis sets to describe electron-correlation effects. Furthermore, they…

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Erratum: “GW quasiparticle energies of atoms in strong magnetic fields” [J. Chem. Phys. 150, 214112 (2019)]

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GW quasiparticle energies of atoms in strong magnetic fields

Quasiparticle energies of the atoms H–Ne have been computed in the GW approximation in the presence of strong magnetic fields with field strengths varying from 0 to 0.25 atomic units (0.25 B 0 =0.25 ℏe −1 a −2 0 ≈58 763 0.25 B0=0.25 ℏe−1a0−2≈58 763 T). The GW quasiparticle energies are compared with equation-of-motion ionization-potential (EOM-IP) coupled-cluster singles-and-doubles (CCSD) calculations of the first ionization energies. The best results are obtained with the evGW@PBE0 method, which agrees with the EOM-IP-CCSD model to within about 0.20 eV. Ionization potentials have been calculated for all atoms in the series, representing the first systematic study of ionization potentials …

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Single and Multiple Additions of Dibenzoylmethane onto Buckminsterfullerene (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 35/2013)

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