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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 127, Issue 17, Pages 3743-3756Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c07743
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Vacuum UV absorption spectroscopy is widely used for identification, structure analysis, and quantitative measurement of species. This study compared the performance of EOM-CCSD and 10 TD-DFT functionals in producing reliable vacuum UV absorption spectra. The results showed that M06-2X was consistently the top performing TD-DFT method, with BMK, CAM-B3LYP, and omega B97X-D also producing reliable spectra for these small combustion species.
Vacuum UV absorption spectroscopy is regularly used to provide unambiguous identification of a target species, insight into the electronic structure of molecules, and quantitative species concentrations. As molecules of interest have become more complex, theoretical spectra have been used in tandem with laboratory spectroscopic analysis or as a replacement when experimental data is unavailable. However, it is difficult to determine which theoretical methodologies can best simulate experiment. This study examined the performance of EOM-CCSD and 10 TD-DFT functionals (B3LYP, BH&HLYP, BMK, CAM-B3LYP, HSE, M06-2X, M11, PBE0, omega B97X-D, and X3LYP) to produce reliable vacuum UV absorption spectra for 19 small oxygenates and hydrocarbons using vertical excitation energies. The simulated spectra were analyzed against experiment using both a qualitative analysis and quantitative metrics, including cosine similarity, relative integral change, mean signed error, and mean absolute error. Based on our ranking system, it was determined that M06-2X was consistently the top performing TD-DFT method with BMK, CAM-B3LYP, and omega B97X-D also producing reliable spectra for these small combustion species.
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