Density functional theory predictions of anharmonicity and spectroscopic constants for diatomic molecules
- 8 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 115 (6), 2439-2448
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1386412
Abstract
The reliability of density functional theory and other electronic structure methods is examined for anharmonicities and spectroscopic constants of the ground electronic states of several diatomic molecules. The equilibrium bond length re, harmonic vibrational frequency ωe, vibrational anharmonicity ωexe, rotational constant Be, centrifugal distortion constant D̄e, and vibration-rotation interaction constant αe have been obtained theoretically for BF, CO, N2, CH+, and H2. Predictions using Hartree–Fock, coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD), coupled cluster singles and doubles with perturbative triples [CCSD(T)], and various density functional methods (S-VWN, BLYP, and B3LYP) have been made using the 6-31G*, aug-cc-pVDZ, and aug-cc-pVTZ basis sets and compared to experimental values. Density functional theory predictions of the spectroscopic constants are reliable (particularly for B3LYP) and often perform as well as the more expensive CCSD and CCSD(T) estimates.Keywords
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