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Jones DB, Mendes M, Limão-Vieira P, Ferreira da Silva F, Jones NC, Hoffmann SV, Brunger MJ. Electronic structure and VUV photoabsorption measurements of thiophene. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:064303. [PMID: 30769978 DOI: 10.1063/1.5089505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The absolute photoabsorption cross sections for thiophene in the 5.0-10.7 eV range were measured using synchrotron radiation. New theoretical calculations performed at the time-dependent density functional theory level were used to qualitatively interpret the recorded photoabsorption spectrum. The calculations facilitated a re-analysis of the observed vibronic and Rydberg structures in the photoabsorption spectrum. Here a number of features have been re-assigned, while a number of other features have been assigned for the first time. This represents the most comprehensive and self-consistent assignment of the thiophene high-resolution photoabsorption spectrum to date.
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- D B Jones
- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
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- Atomic and Molecular Collisions Laboratory, CEFITEC, Department of Physics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Atomic and Molecular Collisions Laboratory, CEFITEC, Department of Physics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Atomic and Molecular Collisions Laboratory, CEFITEC, Department of Physics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- ISA, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- ISA, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
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A comprehensive theoretical study of electron scattering with thiophene over a wide impact energy range is reported in this article.
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- Department of Physics
- Sardar Patel University
- Vallabh Vidyanagar – 388120
- India
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- Department of Physics
- Sardar Patel University
- Vallabh Vidyanagar – 388120
- India
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Chong DP. Density functional theory study of the vertical ionization energies of the valence and core electrons of cyclopentadiene, pyrrole, furan, and thiophene. CAN J CHEM 2011. [DOI: 10.1139/v11-121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The procedure abbreviated as ΔPBE0(SAOP)/et-pVQZ, based on density functional theory, was developed recently for the calculation of vertical ionization energies of the valence electrons of organic and other small molecules and succeeded in giving results with an average absolute deviation of 0.21 eV from experiment for a collection of 115 reliable test cases of nonperhalo molecules. The objective of this work is to add a number of test cases to the benchmark database. We chose the set of molecules cyclo-C4H4X, with X = CH2, NH, O, and S, previously studied by many workers both experimentally and theoretically. The results show that the ΔPBE0(SAOP)/et-pVQZ procedure is not only as good as ab initio methods such as SAC-CI, OVGF, and ADC(3) in performance, but also handles inner valence ionized cations more efficiently. Although the core-electron binding energies of the titled molecules have not been as well investigated theoretically, we apply the methods we developed in recent years to calculate the binding energies of C1s, N1s, O1s, S1s, and S2p, which compare well with available experimental data.
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- Delano P. Chong
- Department of Chemistry, 2036 Main Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Huang YR, Hajgató B, Ning CG, Zhang SF, Liu K, Luo ZH, Deng JK, Deleuze MS. Study of the Valence Wave Function of Thiophene with High Resolution Electron Momentum Spectroscopy and Advanced Dyson Orbital Theories. J Phys Chem A 2008; 112:2339-54. [DOI: 10.1021/jp710845n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Y. R. Huang
- Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular NanoSciences of MOE, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China, and Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry, Department SBG, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular NanoSciences of MOE, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China, and Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry, Department SBG, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular NanoSciences of MOE, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China, and Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry, Department SBG, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular NanoSciences of MOE, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China, and Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry, Department SBG, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular NanoSciences of MOE, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China, and Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry, Department SBG, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular NanoSciences of MOE, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China, and Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry, Department SBG, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular NanoSciences of MOE, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China, and Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry, Department SBG, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular NanoSciences of MOE, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China, and Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry, Department SBG, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Huang YR, Knippenberg S, Hajgató B, François JP, Deng JK, Deleuze MS. Imaging Momentum Orbital Densities of Conformationally Versatile Molecules: A Benchmark Theoretical Study of the Molecular and Electronic Structures of Dimethoxymethane. J Phys Chem A 2007; 111:5879-97. [PMID: 17566995 DOI: 10.1021/jp0719964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The main purpose of the present work is to predict from benchmark many-body quantum mechanical calculations the results of experimental studies of the valence electronic structure of dimethoxymethane employing electron momentum spectroscopy, and to establish once and for all the guidelines that should systematically be followed in order to reliably interpret the results of such experiments on conformationally versatile molecules. In a first step, accurate calculations of the energy differences between stationary points on the potential energy surface of this molecule are performed using Hartree-Fock (HF) theory and post-HF treatments of improving quality (MP2, MP3, CCSD, CCSD(T), along with basis sets of increasing size. This study focuses on the four conformers of this molecule, namely the trans-trans (TT), trans-gauche (TG), gauche-gauche (G+G+), and gauche-gauche (G+G-) structures, belonging to the C2v, C1, C2, and Cs symmetry point groups, respectively. A focal point analysis supplemented by suited extrapolations to the limit of asymptotically complete basis sets is carried out to determine how the conformational energy differences at 0 K approach the full CI limit. In a second step, statistical thermodynamics accounting for hindered rotations is used to calculate Gibbs free energy corrections to the above energy differences, and to evaluate the abundance of each conformer in the gas phase. It is found that, at room temperature, the G+G+ species accounts for 96% of the conformational mixture characterizing dimethoxymethane. In a third step, the valence one-electron and shake-up ionization spectrum of dimethoxymethane is analyzed according to calculations on the G+G+ conformer alone by means of one-particle Green's function [1p-GF] theory along with the benchmark third-order algebraic diagrammatic construction [ADC(3)] scheme. A complete breakdown of the orbital picture of ionization is noted at electron binding energies above 22 eV. A comparison with available (e,2e) ionization spectra enables us to identify specific fingerprints of through-space orbital interactions associated with the anomeric effect. At last, based on our 1p-GF/ADC(3) assignment of spectral bands, accurate and spherically averaged (e,2e) electron momentum distributions at an electron impact energy of 1200 eV are computed from the related Dyson orbitals. Very significant discrepancies are observed with momentum distributions obtained for several outer-valence levels using standard Kohn-Sham orbitals.
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- Y R Huang
- Research group of Theoretical Chemistry, Department SBG, University of Hasselt, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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