Journal
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1432
Keywords
nuclear motion computation; quasistructural molecules; molecular-symmetry groups; quantum dynamics; internal motions
Funding
- NKFIH [K119658, PD124699]
- European Regional Development Fund [VEKOP-2.3.2-16-2017-00014]
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The concept of quasistructural molecules is introduced. For quasistructural molecules (a) the notion of a static equilibrium structure, corresponding to a minimum on the potential energy surface of the molecule, loses its strict meaning, (b) internal nuclear motions (rotations and vibrations) become dominant, resulting in an effective molecular structure often even qualitatively different from the equilibrium one, (c) separation of the internal nuclear motions breaks down, rotational and vibrational degrees of freedom cannot be separated from each other when interpreting even the lowest rovibrational eigenstates of the molecule, often resulting in effective rotational constants drastically different from the equilibrium ones even for the ground vibrational eigenstate, (d) classification of the rovibrational states requires the use of permutation-inversion symmetry and molecular-symmetry groups, and (e) some of the rovibrational eigenenergies assigned to a vibrational parent state exhibit unconventional (in the most striking cases negative) rotational contributions. Molecules showing quasistructural behavior include neutral species, such as dimethyl acetylene, charged species, such as H5+ and CH5+, van der Waals complexes, such as CH4 center dot H2O, and molecular complexes held together by halogen bonds, like CF3Cl center dot CH3F. This article is categorized under: Structure and Mechanism > Molecular Structures Theoretical and Physical Chemistry > Spectroscopy Software > Quantum Chemistry
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