Initio Potential Energy Surface (initio + potential_energy_surface)

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Kinds of Initio Potential Energy Surface

  • ab initio potential energy surface


  • Selected Abstracts


    ChemInform Abstract: An ab initio Potential Energy Surface and Vibrational Energy Levels of HXeBr.

    CHEMINFORM, Issue 38 2008
    Zheng Guo Huang
    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 of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a "Full Text" option. The original article is trackable via the "References" option. [source]


    ChemInform Abstract: Microsolvation of Hydrogen Sulfide: Exploration of H2S×(H2O)n and SH - ×H3O+× (H2O)n-1 (n = 5,7) Cluster Structures on ab initio Potential Energy Surfaces by the Scaled Hypersphere Search Method.

    CHEMINFORM, Issue 27 2008
    Satoshi Maeda
    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 of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a "Full Text" option. The original article is trackable via the "References" option. [source]


    An ab initio potential energy surface and vibrational energy levels of ZnH2

    JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 5 2010
    Zheng Guo Huang
    Abstract A three-dimensional potential energy surface of the electronic ground state of ZnH2 () molecule is constructed from more than 7500 ab initio points calculated at the internally contracted multireference configuration interaction with the Davidson correction (icMRCI+Q) level employing large basis sets. The calculated relative energies of various dissociation reactions are in good agreement with the previous theoretical/experimental values. Low-lying vibrational energy levels of ZnH2, ZnD2, and HZnD are calculated on the three-dimensional potential energy surface using the Lanczos algorithm, and found to be in good agreement with the available experimental band origins and the previous theoretical values. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem, 2010 [source]


    Molecular dynamics simulations of fluid methane properties using ab initio intermolecular interaction potentials

    JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 12 2009
    Shih-Wei Chao
    Abstract Intermolecular interaction energy data for the methane dimer have been calculated at a spectroscopic accuracy and employed to construct an ab initio potential energy surface (PES) for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of fluid methane properties. The full potential curves of the methane dimer at 12 symmetric conformations were calculated by the supermolecule counterpoise-corrected second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory. Single-point coupled cluster with single and double and perturbative triple excitations [CCSD(T)] calculations were also carried out to calibrate the MP2 potentials. We employed Pople's medium size basis sets [up to 6-311++G(3df, 3pd)] and Dunning's correlation consistent basis sets (cc-pVXZ and aug-cc-pVXZ, X = D, T, Q). For each conformer, the intermolecular carbon,carbon separation was sampled in a step 0.1 Å for a range of 3,9 Å, resulting in a total of 732 configuration points calculated. The MP2 binding curves display significant anisotropy with respect to the relative orientations of the dimer. The potential curves at the complete basis set (CBS) limit were estimated using well-established analytical extrapolation schemes. A 4-site potential model with sites located at the hydrogen atoms was used to fit the ab initio potential data. This model stems from a hydrogen,hydrogen repulsion mechanism to explain the stability of the dimer structure. MD simulations using the ab initio PES show quantitative agreements on both the atom-wise radial distribution functions and the self-diffusion coefficients over a wide range of experimental conditions. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 2009 [source]


    Quantum dynamics simulations of photodissociation reactions

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, Issue 3 2006
    B. Lasorne
    Abstract Wave packet simulations using ab initio potential energy surfaces (PES) have been developed within the framework of the constrained Hamiltonian methodology. The approach is presented with the example of bromoacetyl chloride photodissociation. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2006 [source]


    Reaction mechanisms between methylamine and a few Schiff bases: Ab initio potential energy surfaces of a catalytic step in semicarbazide sensitive amino oxidases (SSAO)

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, Issue 6 2001
    Giuliano Alagona
    Abstract The potential energy surfaces for the transamination reaction catalyzed by SSAO were explored for some of the possible reactants considered in a preliminary investigation (Comput Chem 2000, 24, 311). The proton transfer to methylamine (as a model of the catalytic base belonging to the enzyme active site),either from the keto or enol form of the reactant Schiff bases with one of the possible cofactors, pyridoxal phosphate, PLP (using as a model the pyridoxal ring protonated at N),was investigated. The enol form seems to be preferred in the region of the neutral intermediate, because even the keto form undergoes a spontaneous rearrangement to the enol form once the C, proton is delivered to methylamine, producing methylammonium. When the proton is returned back to the Schiff base (on C1), the adduct is about 1.4 kcal/mol more stable than the reactants, while a canonical electron distribution is obtainable only for the enol form. The proton transfer to methylamine was also studied in the presence of the other possible cofactor (para or ortho) topaquinone, TQ. A steep uphill pathway, similar to the keto-pyridoxal Schiff base one, is obtained using the Schiff base with pTQ, which requires a rearrangement to the final intermediate. On the contrary, using the oTQ structures with the quinonoid O on the same side of methylamine, the proton abstracted from the Schiff base goes spontaneously onto the other quinonoid oxygen. The effect on the barrier heights produced by the presence of a variety of functional groups in the vicinity of the pyridoxal ring nitrogen was also examined. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Quant Chem, 2001 [source]