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Ab Initio Computations (ab + initio_computation)
Selected AbstractsAb initio Computation of the Low-Temperature Phase Diagrams of the Alkali Metal Iodide,Bromides: MBrxI1-x (0 , x , 1), Where M: Li, Na, K, Rb, or Cs.CHEMINFORM, Issue 26 2007J. C. Schoen Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract, please click on HTML or PDF. [source] Theoretical studies on thiabenzene and its fused derivatives: DFT and ab initio computationsHETEROATOM CHEMISTRY, Issue 5 2006M. Z. Kassaee The molecular structures of thiabenzene (1), 1-thianaphthalene (2), 2-thianaphthalene (3), and 9-thiaanthracene (4) are studied using HF and DFT methods with 6-31+G* basis set. The nonplanar boat conformers of 1,4, with 6,-electrons in their heterocyclic ring, appear more stable than the corresponding planar conformers with 8,-electrons in the ring. This study focuses on the stability, the ylide character, the inversion barrier energy of sulfur atoms, and the conformational flexibility of the ring in 1,4. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 17:376,381, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/hc.20214 [source] A comparative study of some red- and blue-shifted linear H-bonded complexes of N2JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 2 2008Sean A. C. McDowell Abstract Bond length changes, harmonic vibrational frequency shifts, and changes in the proton magnetic shielding of HX and HKrX (X = F, Cl) on complexation with N2 to form the linear red-shifted N2 , HX and linear blue-shifted N2 , HKrX complexes were determined by ab initio computations, with and without counterpoise correction, at the SCF and MP2(full) levels of theory using a 6-311++G(2d,2p) basis set. The MP2 computations agree with predictions from a perturbation theory model involving the first and second derivatives of the interaction energy with respect to displacement of the HX and HKr bond lengths from their equilibrium values in the isolated monomers. The theoretical results agree qualitatively with the experimentally observed frequency shifts, with near quantitative agreement for N2 , HKrCl. The characteristic downfield shift of the isotropic proton magnetic resonance in the red-shifted complexes was obtained, but for the blue-shifted complexes, the proton NMR shifts to higher fields. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem, 2008 [source] A force-field description of short-range repulsions for high density alkane molecular dynamics simulationsJOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 16 2004Joseph M. Hayes Abstract The use of Buckingham (exp-6) van der Waals potentials in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can quite successfully reproduce experimental thermodynamic data at low densities. However, they are less successful in producing a description of the repulsive regions of the potential energy surface (PES) that is in accord with the results of high-level ab initio computations. We show that Morse potentials can be parameterized to give excellent fits to both the attractive and repulsive regions of the PES. The best set of alkane van der Waals Morse function parameters reported to date for the description of nonbond repulsive interactions is presented, as determined by comparison with both ab initio and experimental results. C,C, H,H and C,H atom-pair potentials employing parameter sets based on the use of the geometric mean in the fitting procedure are found to be portable from methane to n- butane. Fitting to a combination of methane dimer interaction energies and forces from ab initio calculations yields parameter sets whose performance is superior to those determined from the interaction energies alone. Used in MD simulations, our newly developed parameter sets predict thermodynamic functions that show better agreement with experiment than those based on parameter sets in common use. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 25: 1953,1966, 2004 [source] Preferred conformations in the solid state of some ,-(p -phenylsulfinyl)- p -substituted acetophenonesACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B, Issue 1 2000Paulo R. Olivato Information on the geometrical structures of ,-(p -phenylsulfinyl)- p -substituted acetophenones X,PhC(O)CH2S(O)Ph,Y [X = OMe, Y = H (1); X = NO2, Y = OMe (2); X = OMe, Y = NO2 (3); IUPAC names: (1) 4-methoxyphenyl phenylsulfinylmethyl ketone; (2) 4-nitrophenyl 4-methoxyphenylsulfinylmethyl ketone; (3) 4-methoxyphenyl 4-nitrophenylsulfinylmethyl ketone] have been obtained from X-ray diffraction analyses. A comparison of these results with those previously obtained from X-ray diffraction and ab initio computations of ,-methylsulfinylacetophenone, PhC(O)CH2S(O)Me, indicated that (1) and (2) adopt in the crystal a cis1 conformation and (3) assumes a quasi-gauche geometry. The stabilization of these conformations in the crystal is discussed in terms of the dipole moment coupling, Coulombic and intramolecular charge transfer interactions between the oppositely charged atoms of the C=O and S=O dipoles. The p -substituted benzene ring is quasi -coplanar with the sulfinyl group for (1) and (3), but is quasi -perpendicular for (2). Conjugation and repulsion between the sulfinyl sulfur lone pair and the ,-benzene ring seem to be responsible for the observed geometries. [source] | ||||||||||