Computation of Electron Affinities of O and F Atoms, and Energy Profile of F-H2 Reaction by Density Functional Theory and Ab Initio Methods

  • Jursic, Branko S.
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Publication date
March 1996
Publisher
ScholarWorks@UNO
Language
English

Abstract

The validity of hybrid and nonlocal DFT methods are tested on examples of systems which are difficult to model by way of quantum chemistry techniques. The electron affinities for the oxygen and fluorine atoms were calculated. The exothermicity, the barrier for the fluorine atom reaction with the hydrogen molecule, and the energy of the H–F bond and its distance were computed with DFT methods, as well as, with ROHF, MPn, and QCISD ~T! ab initio methods. The computations were performed by using various basis sets, with 6-311 11G(3d f ,3pd as the largest. The obtained results are compared with the experimental values. The results of the Becke3LYP hybrid method is in qualitative agreement with experimental results and in the majority of the c...

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