Showing papers by "Ernest R. Davidson published in 2007"

Large ground-state entropy changes for hydrogen atom transfer reactions of iron complexes.

Abstract: Reported herein are the hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions of two closely related dicationic iron tris(α-diimine) complexes. FeII(H2bip) (iron(II) tris[2,2‘-bi-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidine]diperchlorate) and FeII(H2bim) (iron(II) tris[2,2‘-bi-2-imidazoline]diperchlorate) both transfer H• to TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinoxyl) to yield the hydroxylamine, TEMPO-H, and the respective deprotonated iron(III) species, FeIII(Hbip) or FeIII(Hbim). The ground-state thermodynamic parameters in MeCN were determined for both systems using both static and kinetic measurements. For FeII(H2bip) + TEMPO, ΔG° = −0.3 ± 0.2 kcal mol-1, ΔH° = −9.4 ± 0.6 kcal mol-1, and ΔS° = −30 ± 2 cal mol-1 K-1. For FeII(H2bim) + TEMPO, ΔG° = 5.0 ± 0.2 kcal mol-1, ΔH° = −4.1 ± 0.9 kcal mol-1, and ΔS° = −30 ± 3 cal mol-1 K-1. The large entropy changes for these reactions, |TΔS°| = 9 kcal mol-1 at 298 K, are exceptions to the traditional assumption that ΔS° ≈ 0 for simple HAT reactions. Various studies indicate that hydrogen bond...

Analysis of wave functions for open-shell molecules

Abstract: During the past decade we have looked at several ways to track the distribution of unpaired electrons during chemical reactions and in different spin states. These methods were inspired by our previous work on singlet diradicals where the spin density is zero yet there are clearly singly occupied orbitals. More recently we have been concerned with analysis of wave functions for single molecule magnets. This review discusses the mathematical framework by which open-shell systems can be described, in addition to methods that extract the effectively unpaired electron density, the spin state of atoms in a molecule, and other useful properties from a molecular wave function. Some of the difficulties associated with using broken spin Slater determinants to evaluate the exchange coupling parameters in the Heisenberg Hamiltonian are also mentioned.

The effective local potential method: implementation for molecules and relation to approximate optimized effective potential techniques.

Abstract: We have recently formulated a new approach, named the effective local potential (ELP) method, for calculating local exchange-correlation potentials for orbital-dependent functionals based on minimizing the variance of the difference between a given nonlocal potential and its desired local counterpart [V. N. Staroverov et al., J. Chem. Phys. 125, 081104 (2006)]. Here we show that under a mildly simplifying assumption of frozen molecular orbitals, the equation defining the ELP has a unique analytic solution which is identical with the expression arising in the localized Hartree-Fock (LHF) and common energy denominator approximations (CEDA) to the optimized effective potential. The ELP procedure differs from the CEDA and LHF in that it yields the target potential as an expansion in auxiliary basis functions. We report extensive calculations of atomic and molecular properties using the frozen-orbital ELP method and its iterative generalization to prove that ELP results agree with the corresponding LHF and CEDA values, as they should. Finally, we make the case for extending the iterative frozen-orbital ELP method to full orbital relaxation.

Self-consistent effective local potentials.

Abstract: An effective local potential (ELP) is a multiplicative operator whose deviation from a given nonlocal potential has the smallest variance evaluated with a prescribed single-determinant wave function. ELPs are useful in density functional theory as alternatives to optimized effective potentials (OEPs) because they do not require special treatment in finite basis set calculations as OEPs do. We generalize the idea of variance-minimizing potentials by introducing the concept of a self-consistent ELP (SCELP), a local potential whose deviation from its nonlocal counterpart has the smallest variance in terms of its own Kohn-Sham orbitals. A semi-analytical method for computing SCELPs is presented. The OEP, ELP, and SCELP techniques are applied to the exact-exchange-only Kohn-Sham problem and are found to produce similar results for many-electron atoms.

Local Exchange Potentials for Electronic Structure Calculations

Abstract: The Hartree-Fock exchange operator is an integral operator arising in the Hartree-Fock method and replaced by a multiplicative operator (a local potential) in Kohn-Sham density functional theory. This article presents a detailed analysis of the mathematical properties of various local approximations to the nonlocal Hartree-Fock exchange operator, including the Slater potential, the optimized effective potential (OEP), the Krieger-Li-Iafrate (KLI) and common energy-denominator approximations (CEDA) to the OEP, and the effective local potential (ELP). In particular, we show that the Slater, KLI, CEDA potentials and the ELP can all be defined as solutions to certain variational problems. We also provide a rigorous derivation of the integral OEP equation and establish the existence of a solution to a system of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations defining the Slater approximation to the Hartree-Fock equations.