Intermolecular chalcogen...halogen interaction in organic molecular crystals

First-principles intermolecular binding energies in organic molecular crystals

The intermolecular binding (lattice) energies are calculated for the molecular crystals cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, pentaerythritol, and pentaerythritol tetranitrate using the CRYSTAL 98/03 and GAUSSIAN 98 programs, the DMOL program and the CASTEP program and compared with experiment. Calculating the theoretical intermolecular binding energy as a tool for testing the intrinsic quality of a ...

Intermolecular Interaction Energies in Molecular Crystals of 4-Formylcoumarin Derivatives

Most of the crystallographic analysis that follows from structure determination involves interpretation of the molecular geometry and a working knowledge of a variety of intraand intermolecular interactions based purely on geometrical considerations (distance and angle cut off criteria). The missing link is to explore the energetics associated with these interactions, particularly intermolecula...

Excitons in Organic Molecular Crystals

An optimized intermolecular force field for hydrogen-bonded organic molecular crystals using atomic multipole electrostatics

We present a re-parameterization of a popular intermolecular force field for describing intermolecular interactions in the organic solid state. Specifically we optimize the performance of the exp-6 force field when used in conjunction with atomic multipole electrostatics. We also parameterize force fields that are optimized for use with multipoles derived from polarized molecular electron densi...

Effect of dipolar interaction in molecular crystals.

In this paper we investigate the ground state and the nature of the transition from an orientational ordered phase at low temperature to the disordered state at high temperature in a molecular crystal. Our model is a Potts model which takes into account the exchange interaction J between nearest-neighbor molecules and a dipolar interaction between molecular axes in three dimensions. The dipolar...