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Lemos Silva RA, Barbosa MR, Martins CR, Scalabrini Machado DF, Ribeiro L, de Oliveira HCB, da Silva Filho DA. (Ro)vibrational Spectroscopic Constants, Lifetime and QTAIM Evaluation of Fullerene Dimers Stability. Molecules 2023; 28:5023. [PMID: 37446684 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28135023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 05/25/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
Abstract
The iconic caged shape of fullerenes gives rise to a series of unique chemical and physical properties; hence a deeper understanding of the attractive and repulsive forces between two buckyballs can bring detrimental information about the structural stability of such complexes, providing significant data applicable for several studies. The potential energy curves for the interaction of multiple van der Waals buckyball complexes with increasing mass were theoretically obtained within the DFT framework at ωB97xD/6-31G(d) compound model. These potential energy curves were employed to estimate the spectroscopic constants and the lifetime of the fullerene complexes with the Discrete Variable Representation and with the Dunham approaches. It was revealed that both methods are compatible in determining the rovibrational structure of the dimers and that they are genuinely stable, i.e., long-lived complexes. To further inquire into the nature of such interaction, Bader's QTAIM approach was applied. QTAIM descriptors indicate that the interactions of these closed-shell systems are dominated by weak van der Waals forces. This non-covalent interaction character was confirmed by the RDG analysis scheme. Indirectly, QTAIM also allowed us to confirm the stability of the non-covalent bonded fullerene dimers. Our lifetime calculations have shown that the studied dimers are stable for more than 1 ps, which increases accordingly with the number of carbon atoms.
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- Rodrigo A Lemos Silva
- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Goiás (IFG), Câmpus Jataí, Jataí 75804-714, GO, Brazil
- Grupo de Química Teórica e Estrutural de Anápolis (GQTEA), Campus Central Anápolis de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas Henrique Santillo, Universidade Estadual de Goiás, CP 459, Anápolis 75132-903, GO, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estrutura Eletrônica e Dinâmica Molecular (LEEDMOL), Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, Goiânia 74001-970, GO, Brazil
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- Grupo de Química Teórica e Estrutural de Anápolis (GQTEA), Campus Central Anápolis de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas Henrique Santillo, Universidade Estadual de Goiás, CP 459, Anápolis 75132-903, GO, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Modelagem Molecular de Sistemas Complexos (LMSC), Instituto de Química, Universidade de Brasília, CP 4478, Brasília 70919-970, DF, Brazil
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- Grupo de Química Teórica e Estrutural de Anápolis (GQTEA), Campus Central Anápolis de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas Henrique Santillo, Universidade Estadual de Goiás, CP 459, Anápolis 75132-903, GO, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estrutura Eletrônica e Dinâmica Molecular (LEEDMOL), Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, Goiânia 74001-970, GO, Brazil
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- Grupo de Semicondutores Orgânicos, Instituto de Física, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Universidade de Brasília, CP 4478, Brasília 70919-970, DF, Brazil
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Carvalho FM, Kiametis AS, de Araújo Oliveira AL, Pirani F, Gargano R. Spectroscopy, lifetime, and charge-displacement of the methanol-noble gas complexes: An integrated experimental-theoretical investigation. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2021; 246:119049. [PMID: 33080517 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.119049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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An integrated experimental-theoretical investigation was employed to determine rovibrational energies, spectroscopic constants, lifetime as a function of temperature in gas phase complexes of methanol with noble gas (NgHe, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, and Rn). Beside that, a parallel effort has been addressed to theoretically characterize the nature of intermolecular interactions determining the dissociation energy and equilibrium distance of the formed adducts. Dynamics and lifetime results reveal that, except for the CH3OH-He aggregate, all other methanol-Ng compounds are sufficiently stable under thermal conditions. Their lifetimes are larger than 1 ps for the temperature of the bulk in the range between 200 and 500 K. In addition, the current lifetime results suggest that the aggregates formed by methanol and Ng are globally more stable than corresponding complexes formed by water with Ng. From the point of view of the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ level calculation, in all compounds, the electron densities of Ng partners are weakly polarized in the presence of CH3OH molecule. The charge-displacement curves and NBO analysis indicate that the charge transfer from Ng to methanol molecule, in general, plays a minor role, being appreciable only in the aggregate involving Ar. Finally, it was verified from the SAPT2 + (CCD)-δMP2/aug-cc-pVTZ calculations and NCI analysis that the dispersion is the essential long-range attractive contribution to the interaction energy for all studied complexes. This feature strongly suggests that these compounds are held bonded substantially by van der Waals forces. Then non-covalent intermolecular bonds are effectively formed in the gas phase, which is disturbed by small stabilizing charge-transfer contributions.
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- Fernando M Carvalho
- Institute of Physics, University of Braslia, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Braslia, DF, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Universitá degli studi di Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 8, Perugia, Italy; Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche (CNR-SCITEC), via Elce di Sotto 8, Perugia, Italy
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- Institute of Physics, University of Braslia, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Braslia, DF, Brazil.
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Martins JBL, Quintino RP, Politi JRDS, Sethio D, Gargano R, Kraka E. Computational analysis of vibrational frequencies and rovibrational spectroscopic constants of hydrogen sulfide dimer using MP2 and CCSD(T). SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 239:118540. [PMID: 32502813 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.118540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Previous studies have shown that the weakly bonded H2S dimer demands high level quantum chemical calculations to reproduce experimental values. We investigated the hydrogen bonding of H2S dimer using MP2 and CCSD(T) levels of theory in combination with aug-cc-pV(D,T,Q)Z basis sets. More precisely, the binding energies, potential energy curves, rovibrational spectroscopic constants, decomposition lifetime, and normal vibrational frequencies were calculated. In addition, we introduced the local mode analysis of Konkoli-Cremer to quantify the hydrogen bonding in the H2S dimer as well as providing for the first time the comprehensive decomposition of normal vibrational modes into local modes contributions, and a decomposition lifetime based on rate constant. The local mode force constant of the H2S dimer hydrogen bond is smaller than that of the water dimer, in accordance with the weaker hydrogen bonding in the H2S dimer.
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- João B L Martins
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF 70910-900, Brazil.
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF 70910-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF 70910-900, Brazil
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- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, TX 75275-0314, United States
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- Institute of Physics, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF 70910-900, Brazil
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- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, TX 75275-0314, United States
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Vieira LR, de Brito SF, Barbosa MR, Lopes TO, Machado DFS, de Oliveira HCB. Non-covalent interactions and their impact on the complexation thermodynamics of noble gases with methanol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:17171-17180. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01416h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Accurate ab initio calculations provide the reliable information needed to study the potential energy surfaces that control the non-covalent interactions (NCIs) responsible for the formation of weak van der Waals complexes.
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- Lúcio Renan Vieira
- Laboratório de Modelagem de Sistemas Complexos (LMSC)
- Instituto de Química
- Universidade de Brasília
- Brasília
- Brazil
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- Laboratório de Modelagem de Sistemas Complexos (LMSC)
- Instituto de Química
- Universidade de Brasília
- Brasília
- Brazil
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- Laboratório de Modelagem de Sistemas Complexos (LMSC)
- Instituto de Química
- Universidade de Brasília
- Brasília
- Brazil
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- Laboratório de Modelagem de Sistemas Complexos (LMSC)
- Instituto de Química
- Universidade de Brasília
- Brasília
- Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estrutura Eletrônica e Dinâmica Molecular (LEEDMOL)
- Instituto de Química
- Universidade Federal de Goiás
- Goiânia
- Brazil
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