FHF– Isotopologues: Highly Anharmonic Hydrogen-Bonded Systems with Strong Coriolis Interaction

Symmetry and dynamics of FHF− anion in vacuum, in CD2Cl2 and in CCl4. Ab initio MD study of fluctuating solvent–solute hydrogen and halogen bonds

Asymmetric solvation of FHF⁻ by halogen- and hydrogen-bonding solvents breaks the symmetry of the anion.

High-level theoretical rovibrational spectroscopy beyond fc-CCSD(T): The C3 molecule

An accurate local (near-equilibrium) potential energy surface (PES) is reported for the C3 molecule in its electronic ground state (X̃(1)Σg (+)). Special care has been taken in the convergence of the potential relative to high-order correlation effects, core-valence correlation, basis set size, and scalar relativity. Based on the aforementioned PES, several rovibrational states of all (12)C and (13)C substituted isotopologues have been investigated, and spectroscopic parameters based on term energies up to J = 30 have been calculated. Available experimental vibrational term energies are reproduced to better than 1 cm(-1) and rotational constants show relative errors of not more than 0.01%. The equilibrium bond length has been determined in a mixed experimental/theoretical approach to be 1.294 07(10) Å in excellent agreement with the ab initio composite value of 1.293 97 Å. Theoretical band intensities based on a newly developed electric dipole moment function also suggest that the infrared active (1, 1(1), 0)←(0, 0(0), 0) combination band might be observable by high-resolution spectroscopy.

Intrinsic Atomic Orbitals: An Unbiased Bridge between Quantum Theory and Chemical Concepts

Modern quantum chemistry can make quantitative predictions on an immense array of chemical systems. However, the interpretation of those predictions is often complicated by the complex wave function expansions used. Here we show that an exceptionally simple algebraic construction allows for defining atomic core and valence orbitals, polarized by the molecular environment, which can exactly represent self-consistent field wave functions. This construction provides an unbiased and direct connection between quantum chemistry and empirical chemical concepts, and can be used, for example, to calculate the nature of bonding in molecules, in chemical terms, from first principles. In particular, we find consistency with electronegativities (χ), C 1s core-level shifts, resonance substituent parameters (σR), Lewis structures, and oxidation states of transition-metal complexes.