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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 121, Issue 31, Pages 5940-5946Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b06108
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- National Science Foundation [CHE1464450]
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Methyl halides have been used to test basis set effects on simulations of strong field ionization using time dependent configuration interaction with an absorbing potential. Standard atom centered basis sets need to be augmented by several sets of diffuse functions on each atom so that the wave function in the strong field can interact with the absorbing potential used to model ionization. An absorbing basis of 3 s functions, 2 p functions, 3 d functions, and 1 f function is sufficient for CH3F. Large absorbing basis sets with 4 s functions, 3 or 4 p functions, 4 or 5 d functions, and 2 f functions are recommended for the heavier halogens. The simulations used static fields in the 0.035-0.07 au range to explore the angular dependence of ionization of methyl halides. CH3F ionizes mainly from the methyl group; CH3Cl and CH3Br show ionization from both the methyl group and ionizes almost exclusively from the p orbitals of the iodine. the halogen, and CH3I ionizes almost exclusively from the p(pi) orbitals of the iodine.
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