Ab Initio Vibrational State Calculations with a Quartic Force Field: Applications to H2CO, C2H4, CH3OH, CH3CCH, and C6H6

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2004-07-01
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Yagi, Kiyoshi
Hirao, Kimihiko
Taketsugu, Tetsuya
Schmidt, Michael
Gordon, Mark
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For polyatomic molecules, n-mode coupling representations of the quartic force field (nMR-QFF) are presented, which include terms up to n normal coordinate couplings in a fourth-order polynomial potential energy function. The computational scheme to evaluate third-and fourth-order derivatives by finite differentiations of the energy is fully described. The code to generate the nMR-QFF has been implemented into GAMESS program package and interfaced with the vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF) and correlation corrected VSCF (cc-VSCF) methods. As a demonstration, fundamental frequencies have been calculated by the cc-VSCF method based on 2MR-QFF for formaldehyde, ethylene, methanol, propyne, and benzene. The applications show that 2MR-QFF is a highly accurate potential energy function, with errors of 1.0–1.9% relative to the experimental value in fundamental frequencies. This approach will help quantitative evaluations of vibrational energies of a general molecule with a reasonable computational cost.

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The following article appeared in Journal of Chemical Physics 121 (2004): 1383, and may be found at doi:10.1063/1.1764501.

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