期刊
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 132, 期 23, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3445266
关键词
bonds (chemical); coupled cluster calculations; density functional theory; electron correlations; ground states; HMO calculations; isomerism; organic compounds
资金
- National Science Foundation
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0911119] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The ground state structure of C4N+2 rings is believed to exhibit a geometric transition from angle alternation (N <= 2) to bond alternation (N>2). All previous density functional theory (DFT) studies on these molecules have failed to reproduce this behavior by predicting either that the transition occurs at too large a ring size, or that the transition leads to a higher symmetry cumulene. Employing the recently proposed perspective of delocalization error within DFT we rationalize this failure of common density functional approximations (DFAs) and present calculations with the rCAM-B3LYP exchange-correlation functional that show an angle-to-bond-alternation transition between C-10 and C-14. The behavior exemplified here manifests itself more generally as the well known tendency of DFAs to bias toward delocalized electron distributions as favored by Huumlckel aromaticity, of which the C4N+2 rings provide a quintessential example. Additional examples are the relative energies of the C-20 bowl, cage, and ring isomers; we show that the results from functionals with minimal delocalization error are in good agreement with CCSD(T) results, in contrast to other commonly used DFAs. An unbiased DFT treatment of electron delocalization is a key for reliable prediction of relative stability and hence the structures of complex molecules where many structure stabilization mecahnisms exist. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3445266]
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