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Vindel-Zandbergen P, Kȩdziera D, Żółtowski M, Kłos J, Żuchowski P, Felker PM, Lique F, Bačić Z. H2O-HCN complex: A new potential energy surface and intermolecular rovibrational states from rigorous quantum calculations. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:174302. [PMID: 37909452 DOI: 10.1063/5.0173751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023] Open
Abstract
In this work the H2O-HCN complex is quantitatively characterized in two ways. First, we report a new rigid-monomer 5D intermolecular potential energy surface (PES) for this complex, calculated using the symmetry-adapted perturbation theory based on density functional theory method. The PES is based on 2833 ab initio points computed employing the aug-cc-pVQZ basis set, utilizing the autoPES code, which provides a site-site analytical fit with the long-range region given by perturbation theory. Next, we present the results of the quantum 5D calculations of the fully coupled intermolecular rovibrational states of the H2O-HCN complex for the total angular momentum J values of 0, 1, and 2, performed on the new PES. These calculations rely on the quantum bound-state methodology developed by us recently and applied to a variety of noncovalently bound binary molecular complexes. The vibrationally averaged ground-state geometry of H2O-HCN determined from the quantum 5D calculations agrees very well with that from the microwave spectroscopic measurements. In addition, the computed ground-state rotational transition frequencies, as well as the B and C rotational constants calculated for the ground state of the complex, are in excellent agreement with the experimental values. The assignment of the calculated intermolecular vibrational states of the H2O-HCN complex is surprisingly challenging. It turns out that only the excitations of the intermolecular stretch mode can be assigned with confidence. The coupling among the angular degrees of freedom (DOFs) of the complex is unusually strong, and as a result most of the excited intermolecular states are unassigned. On the other hand, the coupling of the radial, intermolecular stretch mode and the angular DOFs is weak, allowing straightforward assignment of the excitation of the former.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, ul. Gagarina 7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- University of Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
- LOMC - UMR 6294, CNRS-Université du Havre, 25 rue Philippe Lebon, BP1123, 76 063 Le Havre cedex, France
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- Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Grudziądzka 5, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA
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- University of Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
- Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry at New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai 200062, China
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Wang XG, Carrington T. Computing excited OH stretch states of water dimer in 12D using contracted intermolecular and intramolecular basis functions. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:084107. [PMID: 36859104 DOI: 10.1063/5.0139586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Due to the ubiquity and importance of water, water dimer has been intensively studied. Computing the (ro-)vibrational spectrum of water dimer is challenging. The potential has eight wells separated by low barriers, which makes harmonic approximations of limited utility. A variational approach is imperative, but difficult because there are 12 coupled vibrational coordinates. In this paper, we use a product contracted basis whose functions are products of intramolecular and intermolecular functions computed using an iterative eigensolver. An intermediate matrix F facilitates calculating matrix elements. Using F, it is possible to do calculations on a general potential without storing the potential on the full quadrature grid. We find that surprisingly many intermolecular functions are required. This is due to the importance of coupling between inter- and intra-molecular coordinates. The full G16 symmetry of water dimer is exploited. We calculate, for the first time, monomer excited stretch states and compare P(1) transition frequencies with their experimental counterparts. We also compare with experimental vibrational shifts and tunneling splittings. Surprisingly, we find that the largest tunneling splitting, which does not involve the interchange of the two monomers, is smaller in the asymmetric stretch excited state than in the ground state. Differences between levels we compute and those obtained with a [6+6]D adiabatic approximation [Leforestier et al. J. Chem. Phys. 137 014305 (2012)] are ∼0.6 cm-1 for states without monomer excitation, ∼4 cm-1 for monomer excited bend states, and as large as ∼10 cm-1 for monomer excited stretch states.
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- Xiao-Gang Wang
- Chemistry Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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Mátyus E, Martín Santa Daría A, Avila G. Exact quantum dynamics developments for floppy molecular systems and complexes. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:366-381. [PMID: 36519578 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc05123k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Molecular rotation, vibration, internal rotation, isomerization, tunneling, intermolecular dynamics of weakly and strongly interacting systems, intra-to-inter-molecular energy transfer, hindered rotation and hindered translation over surfaces are important types of molecular motions. Their fundamentally correct and detailed description can be obtained by solving the nuclear Schrödinger equation on a potential energy surface. Many of the chemically interesting processes involve quantum nuclear motions which are 'delocalized' over multiple potential energy wells. These 'large-amplitude' motions in addition to the high dimensionality of the vibrational problem represent challenges to the current (ro)vibrational methodology. A review of the quantum nuclear motion methodology is provided, current bottlenecks of solving the nuclear Schrödinger equation are identified, and solution strategies are reviewed. Technical details, computational results, and analysis of these results in terms of limiting models and spectroscopically relevant concepts are highlighted for selected numerical examples.
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- Edit Mátyus
- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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Felker PM, Bačić Z. Noncovalently bound molecular complexes beyond diatom–diatom systems: full-dimensional, fully coupled quantum calculations of rovibrational states. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:24655-24676. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04005k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The methodological advances made in recent years have significantly extended the range and dimensionality of noncovalently bound molecular complexes for which full-dimensional quantum calculations of their rovibrational states are feasible.
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- Peter M. Felker
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA
- Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry at New York University, USA
- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai, 200062, China
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Zhang XL, Li H. Three-dimensional ab initio potential energy surface and predicted spectra for the CH4-Ne complex. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2021. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2110205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Xiao-Long Zhang
- The Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, China
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
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Guo H, Worth G, Domcke W. Quantum dynamics with ab initio potentials. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:080401. [PMID: 34470339 DOI: 10.1063/5.0066234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Hua Guo
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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Martín Santa Daría A, Avila G, Mátyus E. Performance of a black-box-type rovibrational method in comparison with a tailor-made approach: Case study for the methane-water dimer. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:224302. [PMID: 34241197 DOI: 10.1063/5.0054512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The present work intends to join and respond to the excellent and thoroughly documented rovibrational study of X. G. Wang and T. Carrington, Jr. [J. Chem. Phys. 154, 124112 (2021)] that used an approach tailored for floppy dimers with an analytic dimer Hamiltonian and a non-product basis set including Wigner D functions. It is shown in the present work that the GENIUSH black-box-type rovibrational method can approach the performance of the tailor-made computation for the example of the floppy methane-water dimer. Rovibrational transition energies and intensities are obtained in the black-box-type computation with a twice as large basis set and in excellent numerical agreement in comparison with the more efficient tailor-made approach.
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- Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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