Pure and Hybrid SCAN, rSCAN, and r2SCAN: Which One Is Preferred in KS- and HF-DFT Calculations, and How Does D4 Dispersion Correction Affect This Ranking?

Using the large and chemically diverse GMTKN55 dataset, we have tested the performance of pure and hybrid KS-DFT and HF-DFT functionals constructed from three variants of the SCAN meta-GGA exchange-correlation functional: original SCAN, rSCAN, and r2SCAN. Without any dispersion correction involved, HF-SCANn outperforms the two other HF-DFT functionals. In contrast, among the self-consistent variants, SCANn and r2SCANn offer essentially the same performance at lower percentages of HF-exchange, while at higher percentages, SCANn marginally outperforms r2SCANn and rSCANn. However, with D4 dispersion correction included, all three HF-DFT-D4 variants perform similarly, and among the self-consistent counterparts, r2SCANn-D4 outperforms the other two variants across the board. In view of the much milder grid dependence of r2SCAN vs. SCAN, r2SCAN is to be preferred across the board, also in HF-DFT and hybrid KS-DFT contexts.

Impact of doping on the optoelectronic, electronic and nonlinear optical properties and on the reactivity of photochromic polymers containing styrylquinoline fragments: Hartree-Fock and DFT study.

Hartree-Fock (HF) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) studies were conducted to assess the impact of potassium doping on the thermodynamic, optoelectronic, electronic and nonlinear optical properties and on the reactivity of photochromic polymers containing styrylquinoline fragments. Doping was carried out on the virgin monomer (M1) and on the derivative monomer (M2) with the nitro group NO2. Three doped monomers were investigated including, the monomer M3 obtained from M1 by substituting the H atom with a potassium, the monomer M4 by substituting two H atoms and the monomer M5 obtained from M2 by substituting the H atom. Findings proved that the use of potassium and the nitro group is an excellent process to improve the electronics properties of styrylquinoline virgin monomers. In fact, the energy gap decreases from 3.82 eV for M1 to 3.02 eV and to 2.92 eV for M3 and M4, respectively; while the decrease from 3.43 eV for M2 to 2.52 eV for M5 was observed, thus demonstrating the good semiconductor character of the obtained compounds with relevant applications in the manufacture of solar cells. Likewise, the fundamental gap decreases from 6.50 eV for M1 to 5.34 eV and to 4.62 eV for M3 and M4, respectively; while the decrease from 6.11 eV for M2 to 5.21 eV for M5 was observed; thus demonstrating an improvement in the reactivity of our doped monomers. In addition, potassium doping is an appropriate method to enhance optoelectronic properties of styrylquinoline virgin monomers. Thus, the refractive index of our doped monomers is greater than that of glass, which is a reference in optic and can be used under high electric fields of the order of 1.90 × 10 9 Vm-1 for monomer M4 up to 7.01 × 10 9 Vm-1 for M3 and to 10.89 × 10 9 Vm-1 for M5. Finally, the strong enhancement of the linear and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties that we observed leads us to conclude that these doped monomers can be appropriate candidates in devices requiring good NLO properties.

Vibrational analysis using FT-IR, FT-Raman spectra and HF-DFT methods and NBO, NLO, NMR, HOMO-LUMO, UV and electronic transitions studies on 2,2,4-trimethyl pentane.

In this work, the vibrational spectral analysis was carried out by using Raman and infrared spectroscopy in the range 100-4000cm(-1)and 50-4000cm(-1), respectively, for 2,2,4-Trimethyl Pentane, TMP (C8H18) molecule. The molecular structure, fundamental vibrational frequencies and intensity of the vibrational bands are interpreted with the aid of structure optimizations and geometrical parameter calculations based on Hartree Fock (HF) and density functional theory (DFT) method with 6-311++G(d,p) basis set. The scaled B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) results shows the best agreement with the experimental values over the other method. The calculated HOMO and LUMO energies shows that charge transfer within the molecule. The physical reactions of single bond hydrocarbon TMP were investigated. The results of the calculations were applied to simulate spectra of the title compound, which shows the excellent agreement with observed spectra. Besides, Mulliken atomic charges, UV, frontier molecular orbital (FMO), MEP, NLO activity, Natural Bond-Orbital (NBO) analysis, NMR and thermodynamic properties of title molecule were also performed.

NBO, HOMO, LUMO analysis and vibrational spectra (FTIR and FT Raman) of 1-Amino 4-methylpiperazine using ab initio HF and DFT methods.

Experimental FTIR and FT-Raman spectroscopic analysis of 1-Amino-4-methylpiperazine (1A4MP) have been performed. A detailed quantum chemical calculations have been carried out using ab initio HF and density functional theory calculations (B3LYP) with 6-311+G(d,p) basis set. The atomic charges, electronic exchange interaction and charge delocalization of the molecule have been performed by natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis. Electron density distribution and frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs) have been constructed at B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) level to understand the electronic properties. The charge density distribution and site of chemical reactivity of the molecule have been obtained by mapping electron density isosurface with electrostatic potential surfaces (ESP). The electronic properties, HOMO and LUMO energies were measured by time-dependent TD-DFT approach. The dipole moment (µ), polarizability (α), anisotropy polarizability (Δα) and hyperpolarizability (ß) of the molecule have been reported.