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ChemInform Abstract: Weak Interactions Between Trivalent Pnictogen Centers: Computational Analysis of Bonding in Dimers X3E···EX3(E: Pnictogen, X: Ha…
2009
The nature of weak interactions in dimers X3E···EX3 (E = N−Bi, X = F−I) was investigated by wave function and density functional theory (DFT)-based methods. Out of the 20 systems studied, 10 are found to be bound at the CP-MP2 and LMP2 levels of theory. Detailed partition of the interaction energy into different components revealed that dispersion is the primary force holding the dimers together but there also exists an important ionic component whose contribution increases with increasing halogen size. As expected, standard density functionals fail to describe bonding in the studied systems. However, the performance of DFT methods can be easily improved via empirical dispersion correction …
Electron Energy Loss and DFT/SCI Study of the Singlet and Triplet Excited States of Aminobenzonitriles and Benzoquinuclidines: Role of the Amino Gro…
1999
Spectroscopic consequences of varying the twist angle of the amino group in aminobenzonitrile systems in the electronic ground state are investigated by applying electron energy loss (EEL) spectroscopy and density functional theory to 4-N,N-dimethylaminobenzonitrile (DMABN), 4-N,N-dimethylamino-3,5-dimethylbenzonitrile (MMD), benzoquinuclidine (BQ), and 6-cyanobenzoquinuclidine (CBQ). A number of singlet and triplet excited states was observed and assigned with the help of DFT/SCI theory. The results characterize the gas-phase spectroscopy of the molecules and verify to within 0.3 eV the predictive power of DFT/SCI theory for vertical states over a wide range of twist and pyramidalization a…
Oxide/water interfaces: how the surface chemistry modifies interfacial water properties
2012
The organization of water at the interface with silica and alumina oxides is analysed using density functional theory-based molecular dynamics simulation (DFT-MD). The interfacial hydrogen bonding is investigated in detail and related to the chemistry of the oxide surfaces by computing the surface charge density and acidity. We find that water molecules hydrogen-bonded to the surface have different orientations depending on the strength of the hydrogen bonds and use this observation to explain the features in the surface vibrational spectra measured by sum frequency generation spectroscopy. In particular, 'ice-like' and 'liquid-like' features in these spectra are interpreted as the result o…
Effect of hydrogen bonds on polarizability of a water molecule in (H2O)(N) (N = 6, 10, 20) isomers.
2010
Abstract: Polarizabilities of the low-lying isomers of (H2O)N (N = 6, 10, 20) clusters were computed by using Density Functional Theory. The global polarizabilities of the water isomers were found to depend mainly on the total number of water molecules rather than their cluster structures. We show that this result hides in fact a strong heterogeneity of the molecular polarizability within the different isomers. The global polarizability of a cluster was divided into a sum of molecular contributions by using the Hirshfeld partitioning scheme. We reveal that the value of the local polarizability of a molecule in the cluster is correlated with the number and type of the hydrogen bonds (HB) the…
Vibrational spectra and DFT calculations of PPV-oligomers
2003
The first two members of the p-phenylenevinylene- oligomer family (i. e. 1, 4-distyrylbenzene [DSB] and 4, 4'-distyrylstilbene [DSS]) were synthesized and their infrared and Raman spectra recorded and empirically assigned. Molecular geometries were optimized for the planar point group (C2h) by the density functional theory (DFT) method using the B3LYP functional and 6-31G* basis set. Calculations of vibrational spectra, including intensities, were carried out subsequently using the DFT method with the same basis set and linear scaling was applied. Calculated vibrational wavenumbers are in a fair agreement with our own experimental spectra. In order to explore changes in vibrational dynamics…
Intrinsic Metal Size Effect on Adsorption of Organic Molecules on Platinum
2008
Di-σ adsorbed ethene, bridge(30) adsorbed benzene (with four di-σ-type and two π-type interactions), and η1 and η2 adsorbed acetone on nanosized platinum clusters consisting of 19 to 38 Pt atoms were studied theoretically by density functional theory (DFT) calculations with general gradient approximation (GGA) utilizing plane wave and local basis sets. The cluster results were compared to plane wave calculations employed with periodic boundary conditions. It was found that the geometries obtained with different methods are very similar but the adsorption energy depends prominently on the cluster size. Adsorption was strongest on the 22- and 26-atom clusters and weakest on the 35- and 38-ato…
Density Functional Theory Study on Propane and Propene Adsorption on Pt(111) and PtSn Alloy Surfaces
2011
Density functional theory calculations were performed to investigate the adsorption of propane, propene, and C and H atoms on Pt and PtSn surfaces employing the revised Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof (RPBE) and vdW-DF functionals. Propane adsorption was found to be mediated by van der Waals interactions without significant site preference on any of the studied surfaces. The adsorption characteristics of propene are different: On the Pt(111) and Pt3Sn(111) surfaces, propene adsorption is covalent, and the molecule prefers a di-σ site to a π site. Alloying Pt(111) with Sn leads to weaker adsorption owing to geometric and relaxation effects, whereas electronic effects are found to be small. On the PtS…
DFT study of polarizabilities and dipole moments of water clusters
2005
Density functional theory (DFT) calculations with different exchange- correlation functionals, Becke's three-parameter exchange functional and the gradient- corrected functional of Lee, Yang, and Paar (B3LYP) and Becke's three-parameter functional with Perdew-Wang correlational functional (B3PW91), are performed to study the dielectric properties of small and medium-sized water clusters. For these H- bonded systems, we optimize the geometries and compute the dipole moments and polarizabilities using a supermolecule approach. The corresponding properties of the individual water molecules in the clusters are extracted from the molecular properties using the Hirshfeld expansion of the electron…
Designing Solid Solutions of Enantiomers: Lack of Enantioselectivity of Chiral Naphthalimide Derivatives in the Solid State
2017
The enantiomers of a previously reported naphthalimide derivative are shown in this study to form a solid solution; furthermore, on the basis of the knowledge of solid solution structural aspects other naphthalimide derivatives have been synthesized and shown to lack the enantioselectivity in the solid state. The structural origin of solid solution formation is the same as observed in most of the cases in the literaturequasi-centrosymmetric structures form at nonracemic compositions where the most abundant enantiomer adjusts its conformation to mimic the absent one. Such solid solutions belong to the type showing some enantioselectivity. An extended single crystal X-ray diffraction study o…
Electronic nature of the emitting triplet in SF 5 -substituted cationic Ir(III) complexes
2018
Abstract A theoretical density functional theory study has been performed on a family of cationic iridium(III) complexes of the form [Ir(C^N)2(dtBubpy)]+ (dtBubpy = 4,4′-di-tert-butyl-2,2′-bipyridine), that incorporate 2-phenylpyridine (1, 2) and 1-phenylpyrazole (3, 4) cyclometallating C^N ligands functionalized with SF5 groups. The goal is to investigate the effect that the inclusion of SF5 groups in meta (1, 3) and para position (2, 4) with respect to the Ir–C bond has on the electronic nature of the emitting triplet state and the emission wavelength. The attachment of the electron-withdrawing groups induces the stabilization of the molecular orbitals localized on the C^N ligands and, in…